Page 38 - Moral Stories Vol 1

The new bearer was looking down and hopping now and then, jerking and swaying. Now you see, Jadabharata was full of mercy for every living creature and could not bear to step on a worm or ant or a beetle and was avoiding all of them.
The king put his head out again, “hey, clumsy!” he said, “Are you already so tired that you cannot walk straight?” His new servant looked at the king in the face and smiled, and spoke for the first time in his life, in a very sweet voice.
“Whom are you calling clumsy? You know all are created by God and are essentially God in their true nature. How can God be clumsy?”
Startled the king got out of his palanquin, came to Jadabharata and bowed low before him. “Who are you, O sage? I see you are a knower of Truth, a knower of the nature of God. A thousand pardons. Kindly guide me”.
They talked for hours, about the highest truths declared in the scriptures. The king got transformed and became wiser. Jadabharata went back to his family. They now started treating him with respect and kindness.
Moral: Do not judge a person by his outward appearance or behaviour.
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