Faith in God.

Once there was a notorious thief. He was living in a forest in India. He was extremely wicked by killing innocent family people who are going thro the forest and looting their costly jewels and money from them. After some years, when he become old he realized his sin and went to the Ashrama of a Great Vedic Pandit, to know what penance he must perform in order to be purified.

At the time he went to the Ashram, the Guru was not there and his Sishya (Student)
was only available. He told the Sishya about his Sin’s he had done for the last several years and asked him for the penance to be performed by him to be purified.

The Sishya told him, to repeat the name of the God he believes for three times and his all his sins will be expiated.

The next day, the Guru came back to the Ashram and heard of the penance prescribed by his Sishya to the thief. He immediately told him that Sin’s committed in great number are purged immediately by uttering the name of Lord with faith for only once itself. You are being my student; you have told the thief that the name of God to be repeated three times and this shows your weakness in faith in God.

Everybody must have faith in their God and without faith nothing can be achieved even repeating the name of Lord for several times. He ordered his Sishya to go out of his Ashram, since he is weakness of faith in God. It is a lesson for everybody that they must have faith in their daily duties and in the God they are worshipping.