Contd.....
“Instead of
looking at it as ‘who is right’ situation, let’s see it as ‘how it happened’
crisis. Ok?” that did it. This was a totally different take on this issue. Our
interest and curiosity overtook our heated arguments to give room to silence.
“In a certain
city lived a just and kind king who rules his subjects well. He would go around
the town periodically. Once as he was in one such procession, he passed a
‘sandal wood’ shop. Few minutes later, he told his minister “Strange! For no
reason what so ever I felt like hanging that shop-keeper of sandalwood shop”.
Minister just nodded his head and took note of that shop and that shop keeper. Later
in the evening when his work was don while returning to his house, he visited
that ‘sandalwood shop’. In the course of his discussion he was shocked when he
heard that shop-keeper say “There is hardly any business in this king’s rule.
At times, out of frustrations I pray that our king dies soon. Atleast then,
people would buy my sandalwood to light his pyre”.
Minister smart
that he was, realized where the problem was and said “actually the king had
sent this bag of gold coins to give to you. He said “When I passed that shop,
the smell of sandalwood was so relaxing and pure that all my tiredness was
gone. I appreciate him on stocking such good quality wood”.
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