OUR SWORDS AND SPEARS






Pic.: Chetna Shetty

How to use our knowledge is, in deed, more important than how to gain it!

Once, Mulla Nasrudin had proceeded on a long journey to another town. As advised, he had carried with him a fine sword and a spear for his safety. When it was dark, a robber, armed barely with a stick in his hand, attacked Mulla and sped away, robbing him of all his belongings, including his fine sword and spear!

On reaching the town he had journeyed to, Mulla began to narrate to everyone his misfortune. But, whoever heard Mulla’s tragic story, were left amused. “Mulla, how in the world could a thief, with just a stick in his hand, rob you off when your hands were armed with such a fine sword and a spear?”

“That’s exactly the problem... and, I am trying to explain it to each one of you,” Nasrudin said vehemently, “Tell me, how could I fight that thief when my hands already had so much to carry?”

“You don’t understand,” Mulla justified!

Well, as it is said, our justifications don’t change our realities! Like Mulla, we are on our respective journeys, armed with our swords and spears. Someone has cautioned us, “Please carry them for your safety... Who knows?”

And, like our Mulla, when we reach the other town, robbed off our swords and spears by a silly thief, with just a stick in his hand, the people out there will ask us this: “Friend, of what use are those swords and spears?”

Do we hear our own justifications?

GERALD D’CUNHA


Comments

Mishra Rajesh said…
Liked the post with subtle message hidden in it. Mishra Rajesh
Anonymous said…
Beautiful post! Kushi

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