No work is inferior
This incident happened in the times of Acharya Vinoba Bhave. Vinoba Bhave was projecting his "Bhoodana" compaign. He was pursuading rich people to give away their extra agricultural field to needy who are poor. On one of his visits, he came to one village. Since it was late, he decided to spend the night in the village.
He chose the school of the village for his stay. But as soon as he arrived , he observed that school is not very tidy. All dust were visible on the benches. The plight of toilet of school is very worst. Children who used it, didnt put water also . So it was giving bad smell. Vinoba Bhave observed all these things and wanted to talk with Head Master of school.
He asked for the reason with the head master. Head master said the people who are supposed to clean the school didnt come to work for the past 2 days. He said nowadays it is very difficult to find people to do work. Vinoba Bhave listened to all the things silently.
After this, he removed his shirt. Everyone thought he is about to go to bed. But to everyone's surprise ,he was searching for a broomstick. As soon as he found one, he started sweeping the floor of the school. Everyone was aghast. He didnt stop at this. He went to toilet and began cleaning it. Now, everyone tried to stop him.
But , he didnt listen to anyone. He completed all the cleaning work. Then, while taking rest, he said "no work is inferior. If we do our work by ourselves, then there is no need for waiting for others to do the work for us." Everyone stood with ttheir head bent in shame infront of him.
This incident happened in the times of Acharya Vinoba Bhave. Vinoba Bhave was projecting his "Bhoodana" compaign. He was pursuading rich people to give away their extra agricultural field to needy who are poor. On one of his visits, he came to one village. Since it was late, he decided to spend the night in the village.
He chose the school of the village for his stay. But as soon as he arrived , he observed that school is not very tidy. All dust were visible on the benches. The plight of toilet of school is very worst. Children who used it, didnt put water also . So it was giving bad smell. Vinoba Bhave observed all these things and wanted to talk with Head Master of school.
He asked for the reason with the head master. Head master said the people who are supposed to clean the school didnt come to work for the past 2 days. He said nowadays it is very difficult to find people to do work. Vinoba Bhave listened to all the things silently.
After this, he removed his shirt. Everyone thought he is about to go to bed. But to everyone's surprise ,he was searching for a broomstick. As soon as he found one, he started sweeping the floor of the school. Everyone was aghast. He didnt stop at this. He went to toilet and began cleaning it. Now, everyone tried to stop him.
But , he didnt listen to anyone. He completed all the cleaning work. Then, while taking rest, he said "no work is inferior. If we do our work by ourselves, then there is no need for waiting for others to do the work for us." Everyone stood with ttheir head bent in shame infront of him.
Great, this certainly was the great VB - in janaseva he wrote new chapters and LIVED BY HIS WORDS and deeds. Another Mahatma produced by Ratnagarbhe Vasundhara-Bharathadesha.
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