# 055 Quality is not for someone else to notice but for one’s own satisfaction.

A visitor to a temple under construction saw a sculptor making an idol of God and noticed a similar idol lying nearby.

Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?"

"No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage."

The visitor examined the idol and unable to find any damage asked, “Where is the damage?"

"There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still

busy with his work.

"Where are you going to install the idol?"

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.

"If the idol is that far who is going to know that there is this minute scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.

The sculptor stopped work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."

Quality & the desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Quality" is a drive from inside; it is not for someone else to notice but for one’s own satisfaction.

आत्मनस्तु कामाय सर्वं प्रियं भवति

Atmanastu kamaya sarvam priyam bhavati

It is for one’s own sake everything else is loved.

Climb a Mountain with an intention to see the World, not for World to see you.