Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 121

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 2 Curiosity About Action There used to live fifty-to-sixty cultured Kshatriya families in a village in Hamirpur district. But today they are all Muslims. Were they proselytized, we may ask, under threat of swords and guns? Not at all. What really happened was this – One night a couple of mullahs hid themselves near the only well of the village, knowing that the first bather to come to the well in the morning would be the karmkandi Brahmin of the village. When he came, the mullahs caught hold of him and gagged him. Then before his eyes they drew some water out of the well, drank some of it, and poured the rest back into the well; they also dropped a piece of partly-eaten bread into it. The Brahmin looked on dumbfounded at all this, but he was helpless. Finally, the mullahs left along with the Brahmin, whom they locked up in their house. The next day when the mullahs requested him with folded hands to eat something, the Brahmin flared up and said, “you are a Yavanand I am a Brahmin. How on earth can I eat your food?” The mullahs replied, “Revered sir, we sorely need wise men like you.’’ Thereafter the Brahmin was set free.