The SOUL is watching!!!
Someone was visiting a temple under construction. He saw a sculptor, who was making the idol of a goddess, which was later to be installed in the temple.
Looking around, he suddenly saw a similar statue nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you require two statues of the same goddess?"
"No." The sculptor replied while continuing his work. “We need only one statue, but the first statue got damaged in the final stages of making the statue.”
Then the gentleman went to the first statue and looked at it closely but he could not find any flaw in that statue. "What is the flaw in this statue?" he asked.
"There is a scratch near the nose of that statue." The sculptor, being busy with his work, replied in a very simple manner.
"Can I ask where this statue is going to be installed?" The gentleman asked the sculptor. The sculptor replied, "This statue will be installed on a pillar about twenty feet high."
"What?? If the idol is going to be kept so high how will anyone notice that there is a scratch near the idol's nose?" The gentleman asked with surprise.
The sculptor stopped his work, looked at the gentleman for the first time and said smilingly, "Who else, you don't know?."
The desire to achieve excellence in something is separate from the fact whether someone notices it or not, whether someone appreciates it or not.
Even when we feel that no one is watching us, there is a constant witness to all our actions, our thoughts and our intentions and that is, our soul! We can hide something from someone else but not from ourselves.
"Climb the mountain! Not with the intention that the world should see you, but with the intention that you can see the world."
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