SANSKAR

A very sensible and cultured woman lived in a village... Once she was going somewhere early in the morning with her son, then a mad woman came in the way of both the mother and son and the boy's mother felt very bad. She started saying well.

This mad woman said many abusive words to the boy's mother but still the words of that woman had no effect on the mother and she went ahead smiling.

When that mad woman saw that her words were not having any effect on this woman, she became even more angry and thought that I speak worse. Now that mad woman started saying good and bad things about that boy's mother, her husband and family. The boy's mother still kept moving forward without saying anything.

Even after saying good and bad for a long time, when there was no response from the front, the mad woman tiredly moved out of the way of the boy's mother and went on another way.

As soon as that woman left, the son asked his mother that mother, that woman said so bad things to you, said bad things to father and other people of the house, why did you not respond to the words of that wicked person? That woman kept on saying whatever came to mind and you kept on smiling, didn't you get hurt at all by her words?

At that time the mother did not give any answer to the son and asked him to go home quietly. When both of them reached inside their house, the mother said that you sit here, I will come.

After some time the mother brought some dirty clothes from her room and said to the son that take these, you take off your clothes and wear these clothes. On this the son said that these clothes are getting very dirty and a strong foul smell emanates from them. Has been As soon as the son took those dirty clothes in his hand, he threw them away.

Now the mother explained to the son that when someone quarrels with you unnecessarily and says bad things to you, then should you let his dirty words affect your clean mind? Damage ?

We should not spoil our mind by keeping dirty words thrown by someone in our mind, nor should we waste our time reacting to such things. Just like you cannot wear these dirty clothes instead of your clean clothes, in the same way how could I keep the dirty words thrown by that woman in my clean mind? This was the reason why I didn't mind his words.