Points to Ponder — Page 42
— 42 servants had bought for me just then such and such large building in so and so neighborhood, and that their servants would take all that to that building right then. I am counted among the rich since that day. These couplets are quite beloved to me because they changed my condition and took me out of poverty and introduced me to affluence. ” The servant said, “Do you know that I am the son for whom the couplets were written, which has raised your status to this height? When I heard these couplets from your tongue, I remembered the occasion about which I had heard from my caretakers, that on my birth a poet was given so much reward. I thought, that child on whose birth this reward was given and for the couplets that award was given, a stranger is reciting those couplets today in the bath with comfort and peace, and that boy for whom those couplets were recited is massaging him as a servant. ” The poet was affected so much by this that he hug him and started crying and said, “All my wealth has been given to me by your grandfather and it actually is yours. Come to my home and I will serve you as a servant and will not let you experience any inconvenience. ” That boy replied, “ The humiliation we have seen already is quite overwhelming. I do not want to face more humiliation by using the award which was given away by my forefathers. As my secret is now out, I cannot live here either. I will go away to some other land where no one knows me and would not remember the humiliation of my ancestors. ” Saying this, he left that place and no one knows where he disappeared.