A teacher in my mother’s school
narrated this. One day she saw a rat in the house and she ran behind it and
killed it. The 4 year old son was terribly taken aback that the mother did such
a cruel thing. He went up to the mother and said “Mom you are so cruel you
killed the rat. Now wait and see God is going to punish you. “The 4 year old
was so sad and he went on around the place talking about this cruelty and how
God would punish her for the act.
The rat was thrown out of the
compound and the little boy was looking at it from the top of his compound
wall. He thought it should be given a ceremonial burial. He took some sand and
stooped on the boundary wall and with a lot of respect began putting it on the
dead rat. The poor little boy fell off the fence and was bruised very
badly. The little boy after all the
crying and sobbing late in the night asks his mom. “Mom you killed the rat but
why is it that God punished me?” What
answer would you give the little child?
What made me think was all of us
in our childhood were innocent and uncorrupted, compassionate and friendly. We
knew that being bad was wrong. But
gradually we changed and today we have become so corrupted. Today, for many of us
to be bad is no problem at all. Is it education that makes us too aware of the
world that makes us what we are today, or something else? Why do we lose that
love, compassion, true belief in God and unbiased love to every living being
over a period of time?
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