Wednesday, April 10, 2013

A BALM TO CURE BALDNESS



                          In an Indian village, a salesman of indigenous drugs was eloquently explaining the excellence and effectiveness of his herbal remedies. He was wearing a huge hat and had several bottles filled with his herbal drugs displayed all around him. Holding up a bottle of a balm, he declared that it was a divine drug to cure baldness and hair loss. He said that he received its secret recipe from a holy hermit staying in a hermitage in the Himalayan mountain ranges. He claimed that the rare ingredients of the  miraculous medicine were collected from the deep forests of the Himalayas. He promoted the sale of his balm and several bald men listened to his lecture with rapt attention.
                          Suddenly and unexpectedly a strong storm blew around the area. It carried away a lot of dust and dry leaves and also the large hat of the salesman. The crowd was surprised and soon roared with laughter to see the bare head of the salesman. It was completely bald! 
                          The people asked the salesman, "Why didn't you apply it on your bald head before supplying it to us?"
                          Let us be ready to practise before preaching.


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© By Prof. Dr. Babu Philip, Professor, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Fine Arts Avenue, Kochi-682016, Kerala, India, Prof. Mrs. Rajamma Babu, Former Professor, St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Leo. S. John, St. Antony's Public School, Anakkal, Kanjirappally and Neil John, Maniparambil, Ooriyakunnath, Kunnumbhagom, Kanjirappally, Kottayam-686507, Kerala, India.
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