Angulimaan, the Saint
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Angulimaan, the Saint
See
it this way. Let’s assume the successful and good one is on a step one higher
than his envying counterparts. Even when he falls from that step, the others
are where they were previously. They haven’t gone one step up. So there is
actually no growth, success or reason to celebrate. But the mind is tampered
with to assume this illusion and hence people follow this ‘easy and degrading tradition’ of pulling the other
down to save one’s face.
What
were the steps taken by Ahimsaka’s classmates to
bring about his downfall?
Simple! They simply poisoned their Guru’s ears with a lie that Ahimsaka was
plotting against his Guru. Guru at first did not believe this as Ahimsaka was a
very sincere, intelligent, hardworking and a pleasing student ever ready to
please his Guru. But when repeatedly told the same by couple of other set
students too, the Guru started suspecting the intentions of Ahimsaka as he was
a very strong boy. Suspicion
if seeded in anybody’s mind can make them see what is not as is and what is as
is not. The same happened with the Guru too! To save
himself from Ahimsaka he thought "I must kill him or get him killed," But then he
considered:
"It will not be easy to kill such a strong man. Besides, if he is slain
while living here as my pupil, it will harm my reputation and students may no
longer come to me. I must think of some other device to get rid of him as well
as punish him." and hence when his education
was about to be completed sought ‘Guru Dakshina’ (fees paid by the students in
those days to Guru at the completion of one’s education in the form of kind or
cash) – that of getting him 1000 little fingers of right hand of humans. Ahimsaka
was taken aback but determined to fulfill his promise or duty towards his Guru.
How
could a staunch Brahmin boy whose entire family was non-violent agree to this
condition?
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