In an Indian village,
a salesman of indigenous drugs was eloquently explaining the excellence and
effectiveness of his herbal remedies. He was wearing a huge hat and had several
bottles filled with his herbal drugs displayed all around him. Holding up a
bottle of a balm, he declared that it was a divine drug to cure baldness and
hair loss. He said that he received its secret recipe from a holy hermit
staying in a hermitage in the Himalayan mountain ranges. He claimed that the
rare ingredients of the miraculous
medicine were collected from the deep forests of the Himalayas. He promoted the
sale of his balm and several bald men listened to his lecture with rapt
attention.
Suddenly and unexpectedly a strong storm blew
around the area. It carried away a lot of dust and dry leaves and also the
large hat of the salesman. The crowd was surprised and soon roared with
laughter to see the bare head of the salesman. It was completely bald!
The
people asked the salesman, "Why didn't you apply it on your bald head
before supplying it to us?"
Let us be ready to practise
before preaching.
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© By Prof. Dr.
Babu Philip, Professor, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Fine
Arts Avenue, Kochi-682016, Kerala, India, Prof. Mrs. Rajamma Babu, Former
Professor, St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Leo. S. John, St. Antony's Public School, Anakkal, Kanjirappally
and Neil John, Maniparambil,
Ooriyakunnath, Kunnumbhagom, Kanjirappally, Kottayam-686507, Kerala, India.
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