Thursday, October 27, 2011


One day Mulla Nasruddin saw the village
schoolmaster leading a group of children towards the mosque.
“What are you taking them there for?” he asked.
“There is a drought in the land,” said the
teacher, “and we trust that the cries of the innocent will move the heart of
the Almighty.”
“It isn’t the cries, whether innocent or
criminal, that count,” said the Mulla, “but wisdom and awareness.”
“How dare you make such a blasphemous statement
in the presence of these children!” cried the teacher.
“Prove what you have said, or you shall be
denounced as a heretic.”
“Easy enough,” said Nasruddin. “If the prayers
of children counted for anything there wouldn’t be a school teacher in all the
land, for there is nothing they so detest as going to school. The reason you
have sur­vived those prayers is that we, who know better than the children,
have kept you where you are?”
Prayer of the Frog Vol. I. Anthony deMello SJ.
Publisher: Gujarat Sahitya Prakash. Anand, India.

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