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Main Section => Spiritual influence on Lifestyle => Topic started by: GaneshHariharan on May 31, 2009, 11:47:53 AM
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ONCE WHEN I WAS YOUNG , I HEARD THIS TRUE STORY FROM AN UNCLE OF MINE .
AT THAT TIME JRD TATA , THE FOUNDER OF THE TATA EMPIRE WAS ALIVE AND WANKHEDE STADIUM IN MUMBAI WAS UNDER HIS OWNERSHIP.
ONCE ON A WEEKEND , THERE WAS A CRICKET MATCH GOING ON IN THE STADIUM AND JRD (AS HE WAS AFFECTIONATELY CALLED BY PEOPLE CLOSE TO HIM)
WALKED UP TO THE GATE AND WANTED TO ENTER THE STADIUM AND SEE THE MATCH. HE WAS IN A SIMPLE SHORT SLEEVED SHIRT , TROUSERS AND SLIPPERS.
THE GUARD DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM AND ASKED HIM TO GET LOST SINCE HE DID NOT HAVE A TICKET.
JRD DID NOT MAKE A FUSS OF IT AND WENT AROUND , STOOD AT THE FENCE AND FROM THERE WATCHED THE MATCH. AS THIS HAPPEND ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS
HAPPEND TO NOTICE JRD AND RUSHED OUT AND REALIZING WHAT HAD HAPPEND , WANTED TO FIRE THE GUARD AND APOLOGIZED PROFUSELY TO JRD TO WHICH JRD
ASKED HIM NOT TO MAKE A FUSS AND NOT FIRE THE POOR GUARD BCOS HE WAS JUST DOING HIS DUTY.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE KIND OF HUMILITY , IN A MAN WHO REIGNED OVER THE TATA EMPIRE. AND ALSO CAN YOU THINK WHAT ANY OF US WOULD HAVE DONE
IN HIS POSITION ?. MORE PROBABLY THAN NOT, WE WOULD HAVE HAD NOT ONLY THE GUARD BUT THE WHOLE MANAGING TEAM FIRED AND MADE A BIG FUSS OF THINGS.
I TRY TO REMEMBER THIS STORY WHENEVER THE FEELING OF "SUPERIORITY" OVER SOMEONE ELSE COMES INTO MY MIND.
A LOT OF US HAVE A LESSON TO BE LEARNT FROM THIS TRUE STORY.
OM SHRI SAINATHAYA NAMAHA.
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:) True...