Once upon a time, there was a shopkeeper who lived in a village far away from the city. Every day, he bought one kilogram of butter from a villager.
Shopkeeper had been buying butter from that man for many years.
One day, the shopkeeper thought to himself, “I have been buying butter from this man for so long, but I haven’t checked its weight in ages. I should check tomorrow to make sure he’s not giving me less than a kilo.”
Next day, when the villager brought the butter, the shopkeeper weighed it and found that it was only 900 grams. He became very angry and went straight to the village council (panchayat) to complain.
Council gathered and told the villager, “This shopkeeper has accused you of cheating him. He says you’ve been giving him only 900 grams of butter instead of a full kilogram. Do you have anything to say in your defense?”
Villager replied, “Respected Sarpanch ji, I am a poor man and don’t have proper weights for my scale. Every day, I buy one kilogram of wheat from this very shopkeeper, and the next day, I use that same wheat as a weight to measure the butter I sell to him. So if the weight is wrong, you should ask the shopkeeper about it.”
Everyone in the council immediately understood the truth. They realized who was at fault and expelled the dishonest shopkeeper from the village.
Just like the shopkeeper suffered because of his own deceit, in life too, we eventually face the consequences of our own actions. We may get away with doing wrong once, twice, or even several times, but one day or another, we must pay for our deeds.
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