There was a student who was very weak in academics. His struggle was particularly with Mathematics. He struggled to reach class tenth but failed to clear the final board examination, Mathematics being the bottleneck.
He was totally shattered for his poor show and decided to give it a best shot in the upcoming supplementary examinations to be held four months from then.
Being extremely god fearing in nature he prayed to god and promised god that he would donate food to twenty five people if he passed the exam.
The next few months he was extremely focused and invested his best efforts in cracking the examination.
The big day had arrived. He had prepared extremely well for the exam. The examination started, credit to his hard work, he was able to answer all the questions at lightning fast time and was left with two hours before he could submit his answer scripts. He was confident of a perfect 100.
With a decent two hours on hand, the student started calculating the cost of the committed donation that he promised to god when he would pass the examination.
His calculations started he calculated the expenses for donation to 25 people. At the end of it he thought that it was quite a significant amount that he should be spending from already a meager pocket money. He convinced himself that it was his hard work that helped him get through the trouble, divine element was very limited.
He kept on borrowing additional sheets for calculations, the number came down from 25..20..18..15..10..5… and then finally to just one, that too he decided that he would donate a very simple and a plain vegetarian meal with no sweets and starters.
By then he had exhausted almost equal number of answer sheets for calculating, meanwhile the time was up and the invigilator started snatching away papers in hurry with force, this student was the last one to have submitted his papers. With a great feel of achievement and content he tucked the bunch of papers in his bag and jumped out with a feel of achievement.
Results were declared and to his astonishment he had failed the exam yet again, he broke into tears and started cursing god for his yet another failure. Back home disgusted he wanted to tear all his calculation sheets to protest against god’s mercilessness and tore open his bag furiously, when he opened his bag he was shocked and just stood speechless. He submitted his calculation papers and brought home his answer sheets.
Lessons to Learn from This Story:
Be true to yourself and never try to cheat God!
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