The Two Bags
Long long ago, when the world was young, gods lived in heaven and men lived on earth.
One day, Brahma, the greatest god of all, sait to Vishnu and Shiva, “Tomorrow I’ll go down to earth and look around.”
“What do you want to see?” Vishnu asked.
“I want to see if the people I created have become wise. I want to see whether they are ready to come to heaven,” Brahma answered.
So the next day the three gods rode down to earth on a ray of sunlight. And what they saw made them shake their heads and sigh. They saw people making mistakes and they saw people fighting. They saw people crying and they saw people laughing at others. But most of all they saw how people blamed each other for everything.
When it was time to go back to heaven, Brahma waved his hands. In them appeared two large bags tied to each other by a rope at the top. He called a man walking down the road.
“Here, my good man,” Brahma said, “take these two bags. They may teach you wisdom.”
The man was surprised, but he took the bags. After all, they were free. He walked a few steps and then stopped to look inside them.
In one bag he saw his all own faults. In the other bag he saw the faults of his neighbour. He didn’t like seeing his own faults, so he slung the bag over his shoulder behind him. He liked seeing the faults of his neighbour very much, so he slung that bag in front where he could see it all the time.
Brahma smiled when he saw what man had done.
“The day man puts his own faults in front and his neighbour’s faults behind will be the day man will become wise. That will be the day man can come to heaven and live with the gods.”
That was a long time ago. From that day to this, man has gone through the world with the bags slung in his shoulders the way the first man put them.
We can easily seen others fault, but it’s difficult to see ours
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