Marble Statue and Sculptor

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No Pressure No Diamond 







Another interesting story from the stable of Gaur Gopal Das: In the middle of a beautiful city there was a Museum. 

The floor in the Museum was laid with marble tiles. Right in the centre of the foyer was a huge marble statue, as part of the display.


Many people from all over the world visited the Museum everyday and admired the beautifully crafted statue. One night, one of the marble tiles on the floor started talking to the marble statue… Hey statue, we are originally from the same mines, transported on the same lorry, brought to the same sculptor, why then do people from across the world come all the way here, step on me, stamp on me, but stand and admire you so much? This is so unfair. The marble statue replied, My dear friend, oh tile, do you remember how both of us sat there side by side in the sculptors workshop in our original forms as marble blocks? And do you recollect how the sculptor chose to work on you first? When he started using the tools on you simply to turn you into a masterpiece you resisted and started to fall apart.


Of course, I remember, said the marble tile. I hate that guy. How could he use those sharp tools on me? It hurt so badly.


The marble statue continued…That is right, then you could not take the pain of his tools, so he decided to give up on you and started to work on me instead.


I knew at once that if I had to be something different I would have to bear the pain. Thinking so, instead of resisting the pain, I bore all the pain of the sharp tools he used on me, my friend.


There is a price to everything in life. Since you decided to give up half way, you cannot blame anybody who steps on you now. The sculptor wanted to make a masterpiece of you but you resisted and became a floor tile.


The question is whether you are ready to handle every test, every hard knock, every trouble, every failure, all the pains that come from these cutting tools and become a masterpiece or do you grumble and crumble down to simply become a tile? That is what decides whether people step on you or admire you as a role model for some one to emulate. 

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