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A sculptor loves to carve beautiful statues. He loves his art and is totally committed to it regardless of the financial difficulties he faces in doing his work.
Let us enter into the small world of an old artist and see what his son has to say to his father.
The young man threw the hammer and the chisel to the ground and cried: "I'm leaving you, father, I'm leaving you and your work. Look what it has brought us".
He spread out his arms, looked at the small congested dark room, the slabs of stone and marble stacked up in one corner, the cot covered with heaps of used clothes. The paint on whitewashed walls has come off. "Look what it has brought us - nothing, nothing!" the young man repeated in anger. "This kind of work just doesn't pay."
The old man stared at his son. His voice, though trembling, had not lost its usual gentleness.
"It is not the money alone that matters, son. It is the service, our service to God.
"Father, times have changed, and so has the stone mason's work. You cannot live carving sculptures for temples only. Come on, father! You have to mass-produce like all the other people in Agra."
The lines around the old man's mouth tightened. He said, "No, my son. This is the work I have learned from my father and he had learned from his father. We have kept up this tradition for hundreds of years. And I hoped you would continue our work."
"No, father, there is so much more money in candle stands, paperweights, ashtrays, and plates for tourists". The young man walked out of the room angrily.
The old man sat before the half-finished marble statues of Radha and Krishna.
He dropped his hands into his lap and closed his eyes. He was praying. He did not seem to listen to the hesitant, "goodbye", the son called out from the door. He sat still.
"Masterjee. Masterjee” Salim, the servant boy entered the workshop. His voice was filled with concern. He held a cup of tea in his hand. The old man lifted his head. He had a pale face and looked old and tired. He said, "Salim, soon I'll be the last stonemason here, as everyone has gone to Agra. Look, Gopal, my son has gone too. Now I'll have to finish this sculpture all by myself". The old man looked at the orphaned boy Salim and said, "I have very little strength. I can't work with the chisel the way I used to. Carving takes too long a time. I have to finish the work and I will."
The boy offered tea to the man and said, "Please drink this. It will do you good. Yes, I know you will finish this work."
The old man sighed and picked up the chisel and the hammer. He loved his work and didn't want to change it for any other work in the world. For days together the man worked continuously without taking any rest. His one desire was to finish the sculpture, which would be his last. He worked till his hands began to tremble and his shoulders started to ache. His arms grew heavy and his eyes grew tired. And then he couldn't see anymore.
At that moment Salim returned. He saw the old man and asked him to eat some food. The old man whispered, "I am not going to finish it. I will not complete it. If Gopal was here, it would have been different, although he was not a good sculptor. He had difficulty in carving the face and hands properly. There was something missing in his fingers, and that something can't be taught."
Salim whispered, “Because it comes from somewhere deep inside you." "You are right Salim." And then the old man added, "And if you don't have it inside you, then you'd better go to Agra and mass-produce ashtrays for the tourists."
The boy asked Masterjee to eat, and after feeling a little better the old man picked up his hammer and chisels again and worked till late in the night. In those days he prayed a lot.
Now he prayed for help and strength and he prayed for his son. In the early hours of the morning the chisel fell from the old man's hand, the hammer dropped to the ground and he fainted.
When the old man opened his eyes he found himself on the cot in his bedroom covered by a light cotton blanket. From the workshop, the chipping around of the chisel reached his ears. He listened. Had he heard correctly? He could hear it again, the strong blow of the hammer on the top of a chisel. Gopal! He was back. Gopal had returned. He should help him. They would finish the statue together. Weakly he walked to the door. Gopal! He was about to say, but the words froze on his lips. "No!" he wanted to cry out.
"Stop the Work!" But he couldn't move and stood staring at the young stone carver working at the face of the statue. It wasn't his son Gopal, but Salim, his servant. The old man watched stunned, unable to speak. Anger gave way to a feeling of admiration, "Hai Ram," the old man whispered. Finally, when the weakness had left him, he walked over to the boy, put his hand on his shoulder. "Salim." The boy started. He turned to look up at his master
"I...I....only want to help," whispered the boy. I.... "I'll learn if you teach me, Masterjee!
I have been practicing secretly. For almost two years, in the quarry. I know. I should not have done this. But isn't this different, Masterjee? This is sculpture, isn't it?"
The old man pulled the boy's head against his shoulder and whispered, "There is nothing I can teach you, my son. Go ahead; you have it in your heart. I know you will be one of the best stonemasons India will ever have."

The young man threw his hammer and chisel because ________.

1
he was angry with his work as it did not pay much
2
he wanted to hurt his father
3
he wanted to register his anger
4
he was dissatisfied with the hard work

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