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Rays of Dharma
hours a day, we spend seven hours in sleep, eight to nine hours in earning, two hours in eating and two hours in cleaning etc. If remaining four hours are spent in finding the drawbacks of others or in purposeless talks, how can we find time to look for the well-bei the soul? Our mind remains so full with gossip etc. that there remains hardly any scope for entry of useful matters, which could be truly beneficial to us. .
The way out is to forget unnecessary or superfluous aspects, notice the wholesome attributes of others and adore the same. As a bee sucks honey from the flowers without causing hurt, so should we look at the attributes of others and assimilate them in our life. We should adore others' good attributes and try to adopt the same. As a trader remains busy in conducting his business, so should we remain inclined towards those holding wholesome attributes and adopt the same to the extent possible.
Two scholars once went to Käshi for studies and became pundits. One of them specialized in grammar and the other in logic. Each of them felt proud of his achievement and looked down upon the other. One gentleman invited them for dinner. As they came, he seated them in different rooms. He first went to the logician, who described at length how deep he had gone into his subject and said, 'the other knows nothing of it; he is as good as a bullock'. When the gentleman went to the other room, the grammarian related how deep he had gone into his subject and said, 'the other knows nothing of it; he is as good as a donkey'.
The gentleman could make out the vanity of both and decided to bring them on the right path. At the time of dinner, he placed silver plates before them and served husk to one pundit and grass to the other. Both of them got irritated and shouted out that they were being insulted. The gentleman calmly said that he had served husk to the grammarian because according to the logician he was a bullock and grass to the logician because according to the grammarian he was a donkey. 102
