Always ask questions

I’ll begin this post with a story. Not mine. Just a story.

Long time back, there was an ashram where a Guruji would teach students. The students would get up early in the morning, freshen up, bathe, and gather under a tree at around 5:30 am for their lessons. The Guruji would come and start the day’s teachings.

The ashram also had a donkey. This donkey would start braying the moment the lesson would start, distracting everybody. This went on for a few days. Guruji asked one of the students to tie the donkey to a tree. The next day, he asked another student to do the same. On the fourth day, a student tied the donkey of his own volition, since that was what the teacher would have asked of him.

Now, every day, one student would tie the donkey to the tree without awaiting the teacher’s instructions. This went on for years. Batches of students came and went. The teacher passed away, and a new teacher took his place. One day, the donkey died.

The next day, everyone felt something missing.

The students went out, purchased another donkey, and tied him to the tree! No one knew why the donkey was being tied. They assumed it to be part of a great tradition.

Today, we are all following traditions blindly. We do not know their origins, and we do not know the reason behind them. Isn’t it time we started asking questions?

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