"The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"
A woman baked chapatti for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the
extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day,
a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he
muttered the following words as he went his way: "The evil you do remains with you: The
good you do, comes back to you!" This
went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti
and uttered the words: "The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do,
comes back to you!" The woman felt irritated. "Not a word of gratitude," she
said to herself...
"Everyday this
hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?" One day, exasperated, she
decided to do away with him. "I shall get rid of this hunchback," she said. And
what did she do? She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him! As she
was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. "What is this I am
doing?" she said. Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared
another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked
up the chapatti and muttered the words: "The evil you do, remains with you: The
good you do, comes back to you!" The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully
unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman.
Every day, as
the woman placed the chapatti on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her
son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she
had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return. That evening, there was a
knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing
in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn.
He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, "Mom, it's a
miracle I'm here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I
collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged
of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti.
As he gave it to me, he said, "This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give
it to you, for your need is greater than mine!" " As the mother heard those
words, her face turned pale.
She leaned
against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had
made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by
her own son, and he would have lost his life! It was then that she realized the
significance of the words:
"The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"
Do good and Don't ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time.
"The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"
Do good and Don't ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time.
agree with the doing good part..
ReplyDeletebut...the evil you do also comes back to you!!
The evil you do remains with you
ReplyDeleteO' JP...What you are saying? just because Mala is not giving you Dinners, it's tooooooo cruel to say, she is Evil...
Mala, don't worry, i'll support you