Forgetting our spiritual mother tongue - ??Happy Wednesday??

Once a great linguistic scholar came to the court of the great King Akbar.

He was very proficient in many languages in speaking, reading, and writing. He was also very good in the grammar of all the languages.

He challenged the court of Akbar to find out his mother tongue.

Many people in the court including Birbal were proficient in many languages and they debated with him, but they were unable to find his mother tongue as he was equally good in all languages.

Birbal then asked for one more day from Akbar to find this.

That night Birbal went to the palace where the person was sleeping and asked a servant to take a bucket full of cold water and splash on the person?s face in the early morning when it was very cold.

The scholar woke up suddenly in shock and shouted at the servant and scolded him.

Birbal who was standing near the person’s room heard the shouting and returned to his palace.

The next day morning in the court, Birbal told Akbar, “Majesty, this person’s mother tongue is Gujarati.”

The scholar agreed that Gujarati is his mother tongue.

Akbar was astonished and asked Birbal how he found that. Birbal explained that “Whatever language a person may learn, when he is in shock or when he’s in acute pain, falling or slipping he will use his mother tongue.

Though this scholar is learned in many languages, when cold water was suddenly splashed on his face, he shouted in Gujarati, his mother tongue. Nevertheless, his mastery of many languages is really commendable.”

Akbar was very pleased with Birbal’s answer and rewarded both Birbal and the scholar sufficiently.

Moral of the story: From the above story we can see that even in life’s trying and unexpected moments, we naturally speak in our mother tongue.

Since mother tongue is the language which we learn from the beginning of our lives and because we learned it from our childhood, we never forget it.

Also, it is said that mother tongue is an indispensable instrument for the development of the intellectual, moral and physical aspects of education. It is a subject thought and by which other subjects can be tackled, understood and communicated.

Weakness in any other subject means weakness in that particular subject only, but weakness in the mother tongue means the paralysis of all thought and the power of expression.

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