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By Kamlesh Tripathi
By Kamlesh Tripathi
INSPECT BEFORE YOU HELP SOMEONE
Mahatama Kautilya was a renowned scholar. He was a proficient preacher
of human relations. He had many shishyas
(pupils) out of which, one even became the king of erstwhile Bharat.
He often used to preach, ‘before you decide to help any anyone try and
know about the person in great detail,’ and then only offer him help, as that alone
will be beneficial in entirety for the person you’re trying to help. We should not
offer help for useless causes, as by doing that the noble gesture goes for a
complete waste. His shishyas, however
could not understand this advice of his, because in their childhood they had
heard that charity and help like rainfall should be showered on everyone
equally, otherwise it goes for a complete waste. Mahatma on this belief of
theirs often used to laugh.
One day a cheat from a nearby town came to him and said, ‘Rishivar (Sage) I have heard you are a great
repository of knowledge in the field of wealth and intelligence. My humble
request to you is to make me rich.’ Upon hearing this, the shishyas got angry and literally wanted to throw him out of the
ashram when Maharishi smiled and said, ‘wealth is of two kinds, one is materialistic
and the other is spiritiual. Whatever you are worth giving, I will definitely give
you that. But, before that you will have to undertake a small test. Out there
from the sand go and pick two stones, one black and one white and put them in
your bag. I will then ask one of my shishya
to put his hand in your bag and pull out a stone while you keep your eyes
closed. In case the stone happens to be white I’ll give you spiritual knowledge
and if the stone happens to be black then I’ll give you materialistic knowledge
that will help you in becoming rich. The cheat on prophetic advice of the
Mahatma closed his eyes for a while when
he heard the Mahatma saying,
‘My shishya has pulled out a
white stone that fell down. And that is why I feel you require spiritual knowledge
and I will provide you with that.’
When the cheat saw without even telling anyone that he is a cheat he has
been exposed, and thus, has received the punishment for his misdeeds he started
repenting. He then fell at the feet of the Maharishi and started pleading for pardon
for having kept his identity as a secret and for all the misdeeds he done in
the past. He decided to cleanse his soul when he earnestly started pleading
before the Maharishi to make his shishya.
All the shishyas were dazed at
this, is when the Mahatma said, ‘when this cheat came to ask for help, I found
an opportunity to present you all and him in front of a truth finding test so
that you all could see his misdeeds. But no one besides me and the moon tried
to inspect this test in detail. But we still wanted to help the cheat. So we
stayed quiet, researched on him and later on based on the necessity and
requirement we taught him the lesson of honesty, truthfulness, and seriousness.
As this he required even before he became rich.
This episode teaches us that before helping anyone you should try and
know the person in minute details, so that you can help the person in the best
possible manner and what he requires the most, he should get that only.
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