Just the other day, I got a call from a friend, early in the morning. She was extremely distraught and wanted to know if the books I bought many years ago has the same cantos or not.
I could only mention a few, to the best of what my memory could muster at that time.
This distraught lady then, went on to berate the organization for short selling her the books. She claimed they did not sent her the entire cantos and she felt they did great injustice to her.
I told her to check everything properly, lest she may have over looked something. But she was quite adamant, and her fury was quite inconsolable.
Not wanting to further the conversation, I excused myself by telling her I have other things to do. I honestly did not feel like hearing all this ranting, especially early in the morning.
Mornings for me is a time of calmness, quietness, meditation and peace. I must admit, it did give me a sense of uneasy queasiness .
Come noon time, I decided to give her a call. She was calmer and found out about the cantos from another friend of hers. Apparently, she mistook what was unboxed and felt apologetic. She did mention that her purchase was in complete order.
You see my friends, sometimes we are quick to assume something to be out of context without really checking. The mind is quick to respond only on the negative. Our inner voice may give us preconceived notions when there is no such thing at all. Worst, we say things, that we cannot take back and this is where we create offenses to people who have no fault at all. In the end, we are digging our own graves. All our spiritual practises will go spiralling downhill as well.
We can take lessons from the above incident to be very mindful and careful of what we let out from our mouths and accuse others unnecessarily, who maybe quite innocent in the whole affair.
And also from the lady herself, who is quick to be apologetic after knowing about her own faults. Not many would even do that.
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