FROM PUTTAPARTHI...SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT - 31: THE BOOMERANG !!!

SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT – 31

 

THE BOOMERANG!!!

SCENE - 1

 

A woman baked 'Chappatis' for the members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chappati on the window-sill, for whosoever. There would be someone who would invariably take it away.

That someone turned out to be a dirty looking & smelling hunchback who came everyday and took away the chappati. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: "The good you do, comes back to you: The evil you do, would also come back to you!"

 

Everyday, as the woman placed the chappati 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.

 

This went on, day after day.  Everyday, the hunch-back came, picked up the chappati and uttered the words: " The good you do, comes back to you: The evil you do, would also come back to you!" He never thanked her for the chappati!!!

The woman felt very irritated. "Not a word of gratitude," she said to herself.  "Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle!   What does he mean? I must teach him a lesson!"

 

SCENE – 2

 

Just about a few miles away from this house there was a thin & lean man in tattered & torn garments. He suddenly came from nowhere, was hungry & starved & was begging for some food. He didn't have the strength to even walk properly.

 

At that time, as if God sent, this hunchback reached that place, took pity on him & shared with him half a chappati that he had taken from the window sill earlier. It was an amazing scene of a beggar helping another one!

 

This also continued for a few days & the thin man thanked the hunchback profusely & said, "I'm slowly getting back my strength now & so tomorrow I shall go to my house. Your half chappati has given me enough strength that I can attempt to walk!!!"

 

SCENE - 3

In the meanwhile the lady who was making chappatis was quite exasperated that the hunchback wasn't even thanking her & so decided to do away with him.  "I shall get rid of this hunchback since he's so ungrateful" she said.  And what did she do?  She added poison to the chappati she prepared for him & kept it on the window sill for the hunchback!

 

As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chappati and muttered the words: "The good you do, comes back to you: The evil you do, would also come back to you!" The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman due to which she had kept a poisoned chappati!

 

SCENE - 4

 

The hunchback as usual met his other 'beggar friend' & told him, "Today you're going to your house, isn't it? So today, I shall give you a full chappati which you can eat on your way when ever you feel hungry. Today your need is greater than mine!" The man took the chappati, thanked him again & started walking slowly.

 

He was nearing his house when he felt hungry & started eating the 'poisoned' chappati which the hunchback had given! He started feeling weaker but somehow managed to reach the house & knock on the door.

 

SCENE - 5

 

It turned out to be the same house where the lady was giving chappatis to the hunchback. As she opened it, she was shocked 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 feebly muttered, "Mom, it's a miracle I'm here. There was this dirty hunchback who used to give me half a chappati everyday & that used to give me enough strength. There was so much love & magic in the half chappati! Today he was kind enough to give me the whole chappati which I've eaten!"

As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale.  She trembled & leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chappati that she had made that morning. She screamed in agony but no words came out & just then the man, her son for whom she prayed every day as she kept the chappati on the window sill fell in her arms & died! It was too late!!!

 

The hunchback's words kept on echoing in her head: ""The good you do, comes back to you: The evil you do, would also come back to you!" Just like the 'boomerang'!!! The son had returned safely due to the chappati & died in her arms due to the chappati!!!

 

SAIRAM

Moderator,

http://groups.google.co.in/group/premasai_gurukulam

(Extracted, compiled & edited from RADIO SAI JOURNALS)

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