Say No to Anger

Sham S.Misri

Long ago, a saint was once sitting quietly in the shade of a tree. One day a man came to him and started abusing him. The man spoke in a loud and vulgar voice for some time but the saint sat quietly without saying anything in reply.

Finally the man got irritated and said to the saint,”Don’t you have anything to say?”

“No,” said the saint.

“What do you mean?” asked the man angrily.

“If someone gives you a gift and you don’t want it, to whom will the gift belong?” the saint asked.

“To the person who gave it, of course.” Replied the man.

The saint smiled.

“I refuse to accept your anger,” he said. “So, you’ll have to keep it to yourself.”

The man understood, and from that day, he became a disciple of the saint.