Sunday Story: What Goes Around Comes Around

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Here is a story I read some time back:

Once upon a time there was a small time business man from a small village who used to sell butter in the nearby town. A big shop owner in the town was his regular customer.

The villager used to deliver every month the required butter in 1 Kg blocks to the shop owner and in turn he used to get grocery items like sugar, pulses etc.  from the  big  shop  owner.

Once, the shop owner decided to weigh the butter and to his surprise every block of butter weighed 900 gms.  instead of 1kg.

Next month when the villager came to supply butter, the shop owner was very angry at him and told him to leave the shop, to this the villager replied him courteously, "Sir, I am a very poor villager, I don’t have enough money to even buy the required weights for weighing the butter, I usually put the 1 kg sugar you give me on one side of weighing scale and weigh butter on another side"

This beautifully illustrates that what we give to others comes back to us.

The question you ask yourself is what you are giving out in each aspect of your life because what you are receiving back is an exact measure. 

Are you sending out thoughts of self-doubt and self-criticism? Or are you radiating self-love and acceptance? Are you radiating unspoken annoyance and pent up anger? Or do you exude peace and calm? Become aware that whatever you are giving back is coming back to you…..Simply because, as Neale Donald Walsch says, “There is no one else in the room”.


There is a wonderful principle operating in this beautiful story. The last line by Neale Walsch sums it up well, "There is no one else in the room". 

It is the same principle which Ramana Maharishi stated in his famous quote, "There are no others". See the picture below.

The Universe is ONE being. So there is no other. God did not create something out of nothing. He became everything. He is the ocean, he is the sky, the star, sun, moon, you, me, the dog, the tree, etc. Everything is one eternal being!

It follows that with this Oneness principle, what you give out in each aspect of your life, you receive in equal and exact measure. Because all the giving and receiving is happening in the field of the One being. There is no other!



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