A nice story that I heard at the 250th Meeting of the Chennai Toastmasters Club. It was told by TM Nagaraja Rao:
Once upon a time there was king who used to oiccasionally go out into his kingdom. One day as the King was thus going around, he saw a beggar. The King approached the beggar. The beggar was happy as he thought he would get some alms.
But, the King on nearing him asked the beggar to give him something. The beggar was flabbergasted. But as the king was asking, he put his hands into his alms bag which had grain in it. He carefully took out a handful of rice grains and handed it over to the king, who took it and rode away.
The next day the beggar received a small bundle from the King’s palace. He opened it and therein found a grain of pure gold for every grain of rice he had given. Now, he regretted that he had not given more!
Nagaraja Rao compared this to Toastmasters and said that whatever one gave to Toastmasters we would get back manifold!
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