It was a Saturday.She was sitting next to the Hanuman temple and selling oil in small glasses. Hordes of devotees came to her, picked the oil glass and went inside the temple to pour the oil on the deity. The payed for it and returned the glass only on their way back. There were approximately 200 devotees at any given instance, wanting to please the lord with the oil offering. She sat quietly, accepting the money; murmuring only occasionally when someone asked her the price of the oil filled glass. As I went to pay her I couldn't help but ask if people really paid her and returned her glasses. Her reply, "Do saal se yahan baithi hoon aaj tak kabhi gadbad nahin hui. Koi agar bhool gaya toh agle shaniwaar aakar paise de jaata hain" (Since past 2 years I have never had a problem with my accounts. Even if someone forgets on a Saturday they come back and pay the next time they come)
Ain't it cool in the era of 2G scams? Tightens your belief that everything is not yet wrong................
1 comment:
Why do people behave so? The same people may not maintain the same standard of morality in the real world. Maybe because there is inherent and latent desire to be ideal in people. The temple is one place where they look for the "true" and the "good" in themselves.
Or is it simply that they are afraid to incur the wrath of the Gods?
I would believe the first explanation :)
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