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Dedication

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By Sabiu TobiPublished about a year ago 4 min read
Dedication
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A disciple lived with his master in a Hermitage
The disciple was very lazy
He would always postpone today’s work For tomorrow
And tomorrow’s work on the day after Tomorrow
Because of his this habit all his work
Would get delayed
And then later he would repent
Due to laziness in studies also
He was lagged behind all the other
Students of the gurukul
Master was aware of this habit of his
Disciple
And was concerned about it
One day he found a way to teach a lesson
To his disciple
He went to his disciple
Gave him a black stone and said Son
Take the stone
This is not an ordinary Stone
This is a philosopher’s stone
The specialty of the stone is that
If you rub any iron with the stone
That iron will turn into gold
I am giving this black stone to you
With the help of the stone you can turn
Iron into gold and get as much as gold
As you want
I am going out for a day
And I will come back by tomorrow evening
Till then you keep it
When I will come back I will take it
Back from you
Saying this the master turned back to
Leave
He passed for a moment and again said to
His disciple
Remember you have time till tomorrow
Evening
Then Master turned and left from there
Now that lazy disciple kept thinking
Wow I have a close first on
Now I can make as much as gold I want
I have a lot of time and I will make a
Lot of gold
Then he thought where from Willy range
So much iron
Then he thought I will go to market
By a lot of scrap iron from the market
And then we’ll turn that iron into gold
With the help of the Stone
Then he thought now it is evening time
And night is about to fall
So I should have food now and go to
Sleep
Tomorrow morning I will go to market
Bye a lot of iron scrap
And then make gold of it
The lazy disciple ate food and went to
Sleep
While sleeping he made many dreams of
Becoming rich tomorrow
Next morning when he woke up he thought
I have time till evening
I will have breakfast now
And then I will go out to the market to
Buy Aaron to make gold
After some time when he finished his
Food he started feeling sleepy
Then he thought Master will come back in
Evening
So I have time till evening
What is the need of such a Hari
I should take rest for some time now and
Then after that I will go out to Market
And buy Aaron
Thinking this he laid down to take test
While resting he fell asleep
When he woke up he saw that the sun was
About to set
And evening time was approaching
Now he had to go and buy iron from
Market to make gold
He got up quickly and as soon as he came
Out of the Hermitage to live for the
Market
He found his master
At the doorstep
The master had come back
Master took that stone back from him and
Said your time is up
The disciple begged a lot and started
Bleeding to the master to let him alone
To keep stone for some time more
But Master did not listen to him and
Said
A lazy person like you cannot do
Anything in his life
You had 24 hours
In which you could make as much as gold
As you wanted
But because of your laziness you could
Not do anything
I will not give you the stone even for a
Second
And this is the punishment for your
Laziness
The man who does not value time
Cannot do anything in his life
The disciple was standing embarrassed he
Could not do anything now
He had missed a golden opportunity to
Get rich because of his laziness
But he had now understood the lesson
Which his master wanted to teach him
In front of his master
He walked never to be lazy and always
Make good use of his time
If we see in our lives
We will find that it happens with all of
Us sometimes
Sometimes we become lazy and start to
Delay our work for tomorrow
But Tomorrow Never Comes
And whenever it comes it comes in the
Form of present
If you want to do something then do it
Now because the wheel of time is never
Going to stop
It will always keep moving
And if we could not complete our work on
Time
Then our condition will also be like
The disciple who could not use his
Time well due to his laziness and missed
A great opportunity
Therefore always remember that you can
Get everything by giving your time but
You cannot get time back by giving your
Everything
Therefore never put off till tomorrow
What you can do today
Because you may delay but time will not.
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