Once there lived an old man in a town. A couple came into his neighborhood and sought a flat. The old man was a naughty one. He spread a rumor that the newcomers were thieves. As he had been living in the place for several years, people preferred believing in him. Whenever any sensitive event happened in their locality, people always suspected the couple. The innocent couple was quite thoughtful.
One day, a grand robbery happened in the locality. People complained to the police about the couple as they were preferably robbers. Police officials arrested the couple and locked them in a cell. The officials summoned them before the judge the next morning. They interrogated about the event. The couple said that they were asleep in their home and were unaware of the robbery. They asked for receiving a solicitor for presenting their case before the jury. They felt that someone was spreading false rumors about them. They explained the scenario to the advocate and asked them to sue the person responsible for the false unrest. The solicitor asked them to let the officials catch the true thief in the first step, and then they could present the person.
The agile officials caught the thief red-handed. The jury called for the old man. Judge asked him if he had spread the wrong rumors. The man nodded generously. He accepted his mistake and asked for forgiveness. The judge was generous. He said that he would not punish him. But, he asked him to write a sentence on a piece of paper that he had committed the mistake of spreading the wrong rumors about innocent people. Then, the judge asked him to fold the people and tear them into hundred bits. The judge asked the man to make a trail of paper from the court to his house. The man did the same, and the jury suspended the decision for a day.
The next day, all assembled in the court. The judge asked the man to collect the bits of paper and bring them to the court. The man was puzzled but went to collect some. He returned with a heavy heart as all the bits were under the forces of nature and were lost. The judge replied that as he could not find the bits similarly, he could not re-establish the couple’s dignity back to normal. It was a grave task.
Moral:
If we see this scene through spiritual lenses, we will conceive a magnificent bouncing theory of virtues and vices. The people who spread wrong rumors about others or do back-biting empty their pot of merits (Punya) and fill it with vices of other people. And, the people who face dishonor in society gain the merits of others and lose their vices.
Thus, we should stop consuming a non-vegetarian diet of falsehood and judgments and relish the pure and fresh fruits of bliss in the Lord’s Name.