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By Kamlesh Tripathi
By Kamlesh Tripathi
Nausherwan the king
of Faras was famous for his judicial acumen. He was a big philanthropist too.
One day he set out with his ministers to go around the city to ascertain what
all was happening. While going around he saw an old gardener in an orchard busy
planting walnut saplings. The king entered the orchard and went up to him. He asked—‘are
you a servant here or this is your own orchard?’
The gardener
replied—‘My Lord I don’t serve anymore. This orchard was planted by my
forefathers, so it belongs to me.’
The king said—‘you
are planting these walnut saplings. But do you even know it takes twenty years for
it to flower and bear fruits. Do you think you’ll live for twenty years to eat
the fruits?’
The gardener heard
the king dutifully and then politely said--‘My Lord, till now I had so many
fruits from trees planted by others. Now it is my duty to plant trees for
others. It will be extremely selfish on my part if I plant trees that only bear
fruits for me.’
The king was
extremely happy with the reply the old gardener had given and as a reward he
gave him two asharfees (gold coins).
Moral of the story:
One must continuously think of others as others have thought about us.
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