Triple Filter Test - Too true
for today's world....
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One day an acquaintance
came to meet Chanakya and said to him excitedly “do you know what I just
heard about your friend?”
“Just wait a while”, Chanakya replied. “Before you tell me anything I would
like you to go through a little test which I call the triple filter test”.
“What’s that?” asked the acquaintance.
“I will tell you”, Chanakya said. “Before you talk to me about my friend,
it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you are going to
say. That is why I call it the Triple filter test. The first filter is
‘Truth’. Are you sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“No”, the man said. “Actually, I just heard about it.”
“All right”, said Chanakya. “So you don’t really know if it is true or not.
Now lets us try the second Filter, the filter of ‘Goodness’. Is what you
are about to tell me about my friend something good?”
“No, on the contrary..”
“So”, Chanakya continued, “You wanted to tell me something bad about him
but you are not certain it is true. You may still pass the test because
there is one filter left; the filter of ‘Usefulness’. Is what you want to
tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really...”
“Well”, Continued Chanakya, “If you want to tell me what may not be true
and is neither good nor useful, why tell it to me at all?”
MORAL OF THE STORY: He who repeats the ill he hears of another is
the true slanderer.
Let us not be the rumour
mongers to tarnish the image of others; wherever possible, let us avoid
projecting the wrong image of others! All the human beings have plus and
minues, let us concentrate on our minus points and try to improve
ourselves.
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