I once heard a story from a friend of an acquaintance (yes, long chain!). This guy used to sell software related to mobile phones. One day he went to a posh office in Gurgaon to meet the senior management. The office had a modern appearance, but the person he met gave him a shock. He was sitting in his chair with his legs propped up in the traditional village style. His take was that these were people who had come into money recently through selling their agricultural lands. The money changed their outer appearances but at heart they were what they were. My present narration is something on those lines and specifically has to do with the disgusting Indian habit of public spitting.
One case was of a person who I am assuming is an employee of a software company. I saw him in Salt Lake where a lot of software professionals stay, he was of the right age to fit the profile and had a bag which had the name of a software company on it. He had a polished appearance and had he put on any more deodorant I would probably have had breathing problems. Then he spit on the road from a moving auto. The other case was of a guy travelling by car. At a traffic signal he opened the door leaned out and spat onto the road. What is the use of external polish if the man does not change?
There is a sloka which goes like this(forgive me for any mistakes) -
कर्पूरधूली रचितालवालः कस्तूरिकापन्कनिमग्ननालः|
गङ्गाजलैः सिक्त समूलभालः स्वीयम् गुणं मुञ्चति किं पलाण्डुः ||
The meaning is something like this - Whether you use camphor, musk or water from the Ganges an onion will never change its true nature. Are some people like this only?
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2 comments:
it reminds me of our vemana satakalu.. :)
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