Once there was a sage living in a village, he was neither famous nor known. He used to live his simple life, offering his daily prayers and trying to cure people with his unseen miracles. He had one disciple who knew deeply about this magnificent personality much more than others and who was being once taught by this sage about the miraculous power of curing diseases.
The question posed by the student to him was “If you have so great a power with you, why don’t you cure the ill instant they come to you. Your patients always get cured days after they leave here and then someone else gets your credit and you are a simple failure in everyone eyes”
To this he smiled and said “the effect of medicine is as much in it as in it’s intend. The moment a medicine seeks fame and glory for itself the power of the intend dies. The people whom I cure should never know what cures them. This ensures my power stays with me and I don’t fail in my purpose”
Saying has it “Your left hand should never come to know what your right hand gives.” Only then you can retain the quality of humility.
The Slow Flow 