“False hands” the title of the story seemed to be very strange but the meaning is very deep. We also have tied false hands with us, false hands of anxiety, depression & pain with us. Read, the complete story & let us know your thoughts.
There is a story about a man who stole from the treasury of the king and was brought before the king. The man was a very strange fellow because he did not deny it, although there was no eyewitness. He was not caught red-handed; he could have denied it – it was almost impossible for the king to prove that he had stolen from his treasury.
But the man said, ”Yes, I have stolen from the treasury, and whatever punishment you want to give, you can give. But remember one thing – only my hands have been involved in the stealing – I was just standing there and watching. I am the only eyewitness.”
The king said, ”You seem to be a very strange fellow. Your hands were stealing, and you were standing there, just looking.”
The man said, ”That’s how I work. You can punish my hands, but you cannot punish me. That would be very unjust of you. And anyway, you don’t have any other witness except me.”
The king said, ”You are not only a thief, but you seem to be very logical, too. Okay, I sentence both your hands to be kept for thirty years in jail.”
The whole court laughed. The king said, ”Now the poor fellow will be in difficulty because if his hands are in jail, how can he avoid not being in jail?” But the man laughed with the laughing court.
Seeing that he was laughing, the court stopped, because the man took off both of his hands – which were false – threw them before the king and said, ”Goodbye. Thirty years, or three hundred years… as many years as you want to keep them, keep them.”
