అనగా అనగా ..........
Once, near a village, there was a forest. In that forest a small peaceful place. A small river was flowing through that place. On the bank of that river, there was a big tree whose shade was cool and pleasant, Under that tree there was a Saint named Kaushik living in meditation. He used to go to fetch food by begging in the nearby village.
Among those days, one day, when he was getting up from meditation to go to fetch food, a crane excreted on him by sitting on the branch of the tree. The Saint got angry and looked at it with red eyes. By that moment, the crane burnt out into ash.
First he felt wonder, later little bit proud by his power. He had gone to village, stood in front of a house, and demanded for food as “Bhavathi! Bhiksham Dehi!” means “Oh host! I urge for food.”
The host was ready to donate food to him. But by that time, her husband returned home after long journey. Immediately she attended her husband. She arranged bath for him, served lunch to him made bed for him and served him to sleep with hand fan. Her husband relaxed and slept. Then she came to give food to the Saint.
By watching all this, the Saint was angrily waiting for her. By offering food to him, she said “Swami! To burn out into ash by your anger, I’m not a crane. Being house wife it is my first duty to serve my husband. Later only I perform my remaining duties. Please take this food.”
He got shocked by it. His ego and proud regarding the power of holy life was disappeared. He had fallen on her feet and requested her as “Mother! How could you know about my story happened in the forest? Please teach me knowledge!”
She said “Oh, Saint! There is a town called Midhila Nagaram, at a little distance from here. There is a man, called Tharma Vyadha. If you approach him, he will guide you properly.”
By saying thanks to her, he started about Midhila Nagaram. By enquiring about Tharma vyadha, he reached a place in that town. It was a butcher’s shop. Dharma Vyadha was a meet vender. There was meet quantities of several animals.
By watching such scene, the Saint was surprised and stand at a certain distance from that shop. By watching the Saint, the butcher, Dharma Vyadha approached him, greeted him and said “Welcome Saint! Is the house wife who sent you here happy and safe?”
The Saint got severe shock with surprise. He thought “How that house wife could know the burning down of crane in forest because of my anger and how this butcher is able to enquire about her? How the both get such miraculary powers?
In spite of meditation, by leaving family life, I could not achieve such power. How these two common people, who are leading their family life but not Saint Life, could acquire such miraculary powers of knowing things, happened for away with mind?”
By observing him, Dharma Vyadha said “Swami! You please wait for few minutes. You can’t bear this smell of meet. I’ll finish my work and come. You are thinking that how I got the power of knowing things which are not visible to naked eye. I’ll explain you after going my home. Please wait.”
By saying this, Dharma Vyadha quickly finished his work and closed the shop. He asked the saint to follow him to his house. When they reached home, Dharma Vyadha’s wife attended them and served him as guest. Dharma Vyadha attended his parents, done physical service to them; he attended the needs of his family members.
While the Saint was taking rest, after having dinner, Dharma Vyadha said “Swami! I do this type of meditation only. Whatever the devotional programs we attend, or devotional activities we perform, they are not greater than the service to our parents.
By carrying us in her womb, by bearing pains and giving us birth, by taking care to protect us in childhood, how much sacrifice and effort that our mother had done for us?
How can we show our great fullness to her? How much service we should do for her? For our future, for our protection, for our education, for our life build up, how much hard work that our father had done for us.
By respecting them, by doing physical service to them in their late age, we can make them to feel happy, and satisfactory. This is my way of living to achieve ‘Mukti’ i.e. Freedom of soul.
I’m leading life by serving parents, protecting wife and children, respecting others, treating poor and guests with kind. Because of this life style only, I’m able to lead peaceful life.
You may have a doubt in your mind. I am a butcher and I’m selling the animal’s meat. Is it not violence and sin? But here, I have to tell a natural secret or Dharma to you. In this world, all the living beings depend upon other living beings for food.
Only flying birds, animals are not living beings. All the trees, plants, seeds, fruits, vegetables, all are living beings. Because they are not showing movement from place to place, we should not think that there is no life in them. To live, to grow for one life, another life is base. This is Nature law.
If you say ‘No. this is violence only’, my reply is – if I leave this profession and close my shop, all the non-vegetarians will change into vegetarians? That’s why you leave your doubt. To keep life in our body, i.e. for the sake of food, what we do is not violence. That to, somebody kills these animals and brings to me.
As per my duty I sell it and earn life food. In business I won’t cheat people. I won’t leave my duty and I won’t do other’s duty. I give food to hungered people. I take care of all my people who depended on me.
I share my neighbor’s problem, and help them. One more important issue-you see, human mind is very unstable. We have to keep it in balance. We should over power the Arishadwargams and emotions with peaceful, strong and stable mind.
We have to devote God in our work. We have to work with Trikarana Shuddi i.e. with mind, with word and with body. We have to work by leaving the tense of result and result to god. I do this much only. How much we useful to others, helpful to others, that much is our sacred life.”
By taking these words into mind, the Saint got peace and pleasure. With pleasant smile he took leave from Dharma Vyadha and left to his place.
This is the story!
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Once in a lake, there were three fish living together called Deergha Darshi, Prapthakalagnudu and Deergha suthrudu. Deergha Darshi means the person who is able to look far into future i.e. best forecaster.
Praptha Kalagnudu means the person who is able to understand suitable knowledge according to the particular time i.e. timely knowledgeous. Deargha suthrudu means the person who always postpones the work to do. These names represent their nature.
Some days passed. The summer was approaching. Deergha Darshi called it’s both friends i.e. Praptha Kalegnudu and Deergha Suthrudu and said “Look friends! The summer is approaching. Our lake will dry up slowly. When the lake gets up dry, we can’t go anywhere. That’s why, now let us go opposite to the flow of water into this lake and reach some other big water source.”
Praptha Kalagnudu paid little interest on it and said “Friend, Deergha Darshi. Who can say about the future? No parameter as this lake will get dry up. So the intellectuals will think about the present problems.
In future if problems arise, let us solve at that time itself. Why should we feel tense & worry unnecessary about the problem of future. At present, this lake is like sea. It won’t get dry up. If it happens, them we can think about the solution. Why should worry now?”
By saying like this the second fish Praptha Kalagnudu was enjoying in swimming. However, the third fish, Deergha Suthrudu did not pay any attention on this conversation and was so careless.
By watching all this, Deergha Darshi thought that it was better to prevent the problem than to find out timely solution. So it left that lake, and reached into another big water sources.
Some days passed. Summer approached. The water in the lake evaporated and it got dry up. One day some fisher men came with nets, needle sticks, fish-hooks and other threads. They fished in the lake.
Prapthakalagnudu felt tense for some time. Then thought for tricks to escape from the death. The fisher-men were catching the fish and pricking them into a thin rope. Praptha Kalagnudu had held the rope with mouth as if it was dead and pricked to the thin rope among the middle of other dead fish. The fishermen didn’t notice it.
But the Deergha Suthrudu without having prior, precaution or timely solution, was caught hold by fisher-men and died.
The fisher-men finished their fishing and they washed their bodies as well as the fish hunted by them in water. At that moment, Prathakalagnudu gently slipped into the water and escaped.
This is the story!
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Before taking birth of Bodhi Satwa, he had taken so many lives. Among them in one turn he had taken birth as a dog. He lived in a house of a Brahmin in Waranasi. He dedicated to serve to his master in watching the house.
One day his Mistress was taking milk from the udder of a cow. The dog was watching that beautiful scene. While calf was sucking milk from its mother cow’s udder, some cream of milk had raised in air from the mouth of the calf and flown in air. The dog jumped into air and caught it.
With such holy lead of life, in next birth, he got a life of cow in same Kasi city. As a cow, he served his master and led a hermit life. With such holy life, he had taken a birth of king to the Kasi city. As a human being, that to as a king, he became egoistic and lead sinful life. As a result, he had taken a pig life next.
This is the story!
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Once upon a time, there was a holy man i.e. Saint. He was nomad. One day he reached a village. There was a sex worker in that village. She was very beautiful and talented dancer. This Saint stayed under a tree opposite to her building.
Every day some gallants used to go to her residence to enjoy her company. The Saint used to watch all this. Gradually he had forgotten his meditation, devotion and totally his Saint life, and used to keep stones one another in a line as the symbol of number of gallants gone to her house.
On the other hand, the sex worker i.e. prostitute lady used to think about her sinful life and used to watch the saint under the tree apposite to her house. She desired to live such holy life, but physically she continued her earnings.
Days passed. Both of they died on same day. The angels came to take the soul of prostitute to heaven. The Yama Dootas i.e. soldiers to God Yama came to take the soul of saint to hell. The saint argued with Yama Kinkara as ‘Oh! Soldiers of God Yama! This lady had done sin though out her life as prostitution. I was a saint. How she was eligible to go to heaven and why I’m eligible to go to hell?”
The Yama Kinkara’s replied him “Look Son! She had done sin physically but she thought to lead holy life with mind. That’s why her soul is going to heaven where as her body is getting terrible treatment on the earth.
Everybody in the village is scolding her and throwing stones at her dead body. No cremation is taking place properly. The eagles and vultures are eating her body, as a punishment of her daily sin.
In your case, you were a Saint physically but you left holy thoughts and devotional thoughts. Always you thought about her sin, her gallant’s counts and about her jolly life. That’s why your soul deserves to go to hell.
But your body is getting grand treatment on the earth. Everybody in the village is praising you and throwing flowers at your dead body. Grand procession and rich cremation is taking place there. A granite tomb is constructing for your corpse. This scene you can watch on the earth from here, if you want.”
This is the story!
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Once, there were two friends in a village by names Ramanna ans Somanna. Both were good friends. One evening both the friends met on the road. Ramanna said “Friend Somanna! There is Hari Kadha [Epic story entertainment] in temple. Let us go.” But Somanna refused it and said “No friend Ramanna! There is a dance program in the Sani Vada i.e. prostitute area. Let us go there and enjoy it.” But Ramanna refused it.
Then Ramanna went to temple to hear and enjoy Hari Kadha. But his mind was with Somanna at Sani Wada. He was thinking about the joy which Somanna was experiencing at Sani Wada. He didn’t hear single word of epic story.
On the other hand, Somanna went to Sani Wada i.e. Sex workers place to enjoy the dance program. But his mind was with Ramanna at temple. He was thinking about the virtuous deed of Ramanna. He didn’t watch single movement of the dance.
Days passed like this. After some years both the friends died on one day coincidently. The angels came to take the soul of Somanna to heaven. The Yama Doothas i.e. soldiers of God Yama came to take the soul of Ramanna to hell. Then Ramanna’s soul asked the yama doothas why they were taking him to hell while Somanna was going to heaven.
They clarified his doubt as “Look Ramanna! You had gone to temple every day but your mind was at Sani Wada only, Such that you done sin and deserve the hell. Somanna had gone to Sani Wada every day but his mind was at temple only, Such that he done virtuous deed and deserve the heaven. What we do with our body is not important than what we feel with our mind.”
This is the story!
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Long long ago, there were two neighbors in a village. They were quite competitive and jealousies with each other. Whatever one purchase, the other purchases it immediately. Whatever one do, the other does it immediately.
Everybody in that village knew about them and tried to counsel them to drop their competition and jealousy, but in vain. Because of such competition, jealousy and imitation, their life became impeacefull.
One day one man had gone to forest to make penance for God. He was known that the other would follow him. As per his estimation, the other also approached the forest and started meditation about God.
After some days, God had appeared in front of one man. God asked him to express his desire to fulfill. He asked the God whether he had given any boon i.e. fulfilled any desire of his neighbor. God said “No.” Then he prayed God to fulfill the desire of his neighbor and then come to him. God asked him “My dear devotee! Why are you asking me to fulfill the desire of your neighbor before your self?”
He said “Swami. I want double to my neighbor.”
God said “My child. It is not good. Think about your desire. Why you feel such competition and jealousy with your neighbor?”
But he again requested God to fulfill his neighbor’s desire prier to him.
God said “Well”. And he appeared in front of the other man and asked him to express his desire. He asked “Swami! What my neighbor asked you.”
God smiled at him. “My child. Why are you enquiring about him? Think about yourself.”
But he refused, and repeated the same question. God told him about his neighbor desire.
This man thought for a moment; and asked God “Swami! Make my left eye blind.”
God pitied on both and rewarded them. As a result, one man loss one eye and become partial blind and the other man become complete blind by losing both eyes.
Both of the men got appearance of God who could give them wealth, health or anything they want. But because of their jealousy and competitiveness, they got self harm.
This story prevents us from thinking negative to others, feels jealousy, competitive to others and imitates others.
This is the story!
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Long long ago; there was a king. He was good and kind man. But he had short temper. He had a wise man as his minister.
One day, while practicing the war Arts, he lost his last finger [చిటికెన వ్రేలు] on left hand. Royal Doctors treated him and dressed his hand. He was sorrow for losing the finger. His minister was optimistic and spiritual thinking man. When the king was with grievance, to make him cheerful, the minister said, “Maharaja! Don’t feel sorry for what happened. Everything in our life is in God’s hands. That’s why think that everything happens in our life is only for the sake of our faith.”
The king felt angry. He thought what was the good and faith in losing finger on hand. He ordered his army chief to keep the Minister in prison and said to the Minister “Feel this as for sake of your faith.” Minister replied with sweet smile, “Why not my Lord! Definitely God is doing this for the sake of my faith.”
Some days passed away. The minister was in prison. The injure on the hand of the king were cured. One day the king had gone to forest to hunt the wild animals along with some solders. In those days, forest were thick, so that villagers would suffered from animals, so that there was a custom of hunting of animals by kings.
While hunting, the king rode the horse with great speed, so that he got departure from soldiers. He lost way in the forest. He got tired and thirsty. At that moment, he was captured by some tribal group. Those tribal had caught him with ropes and took him to their deity’s temple i.e. cave. The leader of those tribal has wanted him to offer as a sacrifice to their deity i.e. God.
They made him to bath, decorated him with a garland of forest flowers, and got ready to sacrifice him. They placed him on the altar. By the moment they wanted to cut his head in front of their deity’s idol, the tribal leader had observed his hand, shouted, “Leave him. He is a handicap. He has no five fingers on left hand. Leave him.” The king felt wonder to get a choice to live. He didn’t imagine that he could escape from death. He could recall his memory of his Minister who told him that all was for the sake of our faith.
The tribal group left him in the forest. By that time, his solders found him in the part of their search for him. At last they return palace.
Immediately after reaching the palace, the king approached the prison, released the Minister. He said apology to the Minister and narrated what happened.
With gentle smile the Minister said “Yes my Lord! Every event in our life is for the sake of our faith only. Though it seems too bad at that moment, definitely it might be good in long time. God do such only. That’s why we praise God. His love on us is that much. If I was with you, definitely I could fallow you. The tribal definitely sacrifice me to their deity because I have perfect body. God had saved me, done faith to me by keeping me in prison by you. That’s all.”
The king realized the truth. They lived happily for long time with positive thinking.
This is the story!
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I’ll tell you another story, which relates to our famous Hindu pilgrim place in Andhra Pradesh, Sri KalaHasthi. There is a river Suvarna mukhi. This story tells us why that river got such name.
At that time of temple construction, people, devotes and labor who ever interested to participate in the temple construction, were doing physical industry. By the evening, all of they used to wash themselves in the water of the river which was beside the temple place.
At that time, into their palms, they used to get appropriate gold coins to their physical industry as daily wages through the water of the river. If someone done much work, he used to get much gold coins and someone done less work, he got less coins.
So that the river got its name as ‘Suvarna Mukhi’ means ‘Golden face.’
This is the story!
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Once upon a time, there was a milk vender in a village. Every day he used to collect milk from villages and sell in the near by town. He used to mix water for the sake of more profit in the milk. He used to get money for milk monthly once in the town.
Like that, one day he got money from people to whom he sold milk in the town and returning to home. It was evening. He was so tired. On the way, he laid down to take rest on the bank of a river, under the shade of a big tree. Slowly he had fallen into deep sleep. He kept his money bag under his head.
Then a monkey came there. It had pulled the money bag and climbed up the tree. The milk vender had awoken and shouted at the monkey. It had a glance on him and opened his moneybag. With great anger, the milk vender was throwing stones onto the monkey.
But without getting disturbance, the money had taken money into its hand and throwing one coin on to the bank of river and one coin into the water. The milk vendor was crying and shouting at the monkey but it didn’t stopped dropping coins in water and on floor one in each: until the last coin in the bag. After completing the money distribution, the monkey left that place.
At that time, some of his villagers were passing that way. They enquired him why he was crying. He explained all. They laughed at him and said “Look man! You had done immoral business. You mixed water in milk and sold for unreasonable rate. So Anjaneya Swami [In Indian belief, Monkey is the form of God Hanuman in Ramayanam] had given appropriate profit to you.
He had given you money for milk and given money to the river for water. That’s all. At least, from now it self do business with sincerity. You are purchasing milk in the village for lesser price. The profit is reasonable to your service. Satisfy with it. Otherwise, in which easy manner you gather money, in same easy manner it will go from you. God had told you this. Be happy for it.”
After that he realized his mistake and done business in proper way.
This is the story!
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Long long ago; there was a village. One day a young Brahmin approached a house and urged for food. The house wife had given him food in a bamboo basket. He took it and reached village tank. As per his custom, he wanted to have a bath before taking food.
He kept his food basket under the shade of a big banyan tree, on a bank of the tank and he was taking bath in the water. At that moment, an eagle came on to the branch of that banyan tree. If caught hold of a poisonous snake in its paws. By sitting on the branch, it started to kill the snake to eat it.
Under that branch only, our young man kept his food basket. When the eagle was tearing the snake, with death pain, the snake vomited poison. That poison had fallen on the food. After taking, both the young Brahmin ate that food, because he didn’t know what happened. Immediately he died.
After telling this story Bhethala asked the king “Oh! King! Who is the cause of the death of the Brahmin young man? Who is responsible to the sin of assassination of the young man? The housewife, the eagle, the snake or Brahmin boy himself? If you break silence, I’ll disappear from here. If you don’t give reply by knowing the answer, your head break into thousand pieces.
” Oh reader! Can you tell the answer? Please wait! Before you say the reply, I narrate the king’s answer to you.
The king replied “oh! Bhethal, when a hungry person ask for food, being host, by giving food to him, there was faith, but nothing sin with house wife. So she would not liable to that Brahmin hatya Patakam [In Indian believes, Brahma hatya patakam means killing of a ‘Sadhu’ i.e. Brahmin person i.e. not by birth but by nature, is greatest sin] for the eagle, snake was its food given by nature or by God.
So eating a snake on the branch of the tree was not sin. So eagle was not liable to sin. Being killed by eagle, while experiencing the pain of death, spraying of poison by snake was natural phenomena. So snake was not liable to the sin. Being Brahmin, with good habits, before taking food, taking bath was good. With hunger also, the young man didn’t forget his good habit. Without knowing the poison mixing in food, he ate it.
So he was not liable to the sin. It was only fate. But after hearing this story, if any listener say that somebody like house wife or eagle or snake or young man himself is liable to this sin, without thinking properly such listener is liable to this sin.”
Because the answer was correct, Bethal disappeared from the shoulder of the king and appeared as corpse on the banyan tree.
This is the story!
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Long long ago; there was a king. One day he was in his evening walk over the terrace of his palace. His chief minister approached him and informed him about a Sevier political problem. To inform such was his duty. There was nothing wrong in his performance. But king was helpless to find a solution to that problem.
Due to his incapacity or disability to solve the problem, he got anger. On whom he had to express? On himself or on Minister, Otherwise he should control his temper. If he could control his temper, he might find any solution. But he didn’t balance his temper, so that he had given a forceful slop on cheek of the Chief Minister.
Being subordinate to king, the Minister kept silence, bared it, and left the place. The Army Chief met him on the way. Without giving any proper reason, by talking non-sense, he had given some more forceful slop on the cheek of Army chief.
There was same case with him. He done the same on the soldier and the soldier delivered it on a poor former who was going on the road. The farmer had beaten his goat with a stick.
This is the story!
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Long long ago, in a village there was an innocent young man named Ranganna. He was an orphan. One day, after dinner, he lay on small cot in the open air. That was full moon day. He was watching the beauty of stars, moon and clouds.
Suddenly he got an idea as the sky was a big pandal or tent. But nowhere its pillars were seen. Then why could not it fall down? Such that, innocent Ranganna doubted about the existence of sky. He felt fear that the sky fall on the earth by any moment.
Then he started running by shouting, “People all you run away! The sky is going to fall down on to the earth. Save yourself. Run! Run!”
By shouting like this he ran through the streets of the village and reached the end of the village. Nobody cared about his shouting’s and himself because villagers know about his innocence. He didn’t stop running. He departure the village and entered into the forest.
Where ever he gone, when he looked up he could see sky over his head. By that he increased his speed and ran in that night. By running like that, finally he reached a hut i.e. Ashram of a Saint who was in ‘Dhyanam.’
Ranganna fallen on the feet of the Saint, with grasping voice he said “Swamiji! The sky is falling down, onto the earth. Run from here. Save your life.”
With kind voice, the Saint asked him “My dear boy! Why are you feeling like that?”
Ranganna replied “Why not Swamiji! Won’t you see that the sky is like pandal; but having no pillars? At any moment, it can fall onto the earth.”
With pleasing voice the Saint said “No my child! There are pillars on the earth to bear sky and to prevent it from falling onto the earth.”
Ranganna immediately with wonder asked “Where?” The Saint replied him “I’ll show you. Now you sleep in my Ashram. In the morning I’ll show you the pillars of the sky.”
With peaceful mind, Ranganna slept there. In the morning, the Saint told him as “Look my boy! Go to nearby village and fetch food by begging. But while begging, you scold the host with harsh language. After your return, I’ll show you the pillars of the sky.”
Obediently Ranganna agreed for it. He had gone to nearby village and started begging. But whatever the door he touched to beg food, he scolded the host or house wife. Everybody got angry on him and tried to beat him and driven him out of their houses premieres. He didn’t get food any where till evening. He was tired and hungry. But he didn’t stop scolding the host while begging food because the Saint told him to do so.
At last, when he was begging food at one door with scolding, the house wife came out of the house with a plateful of food and said to him. ‘Take this food my child! How much hunger you are to scold the host with anger like this. Eat food and satisfy your hunger.”
By saying like this, the housewife i.e. host had given food to him. Ranganna got tears in his eyes that moment. By taking food in hand he approached the Saint in the forest and explained what happened.
The Saint asked him to eat food. He ate it. After relaxed, the Saint clarified his doubt as “Look my dear young boy! You had seen so many people who tried to beat you when you scold them while begging. But among such so many people, there is one lady i.e. one mother who has so much of patience & peace to satisfy your hunger, she didn’t get anger. Such people one among lakhs and crores, who get rid of anger, are the pillars to the sky. God had provided like that. So don’t bother about the sky falling onto the earth. No need to you to fear about it, understand!”
Ranganna the poor innocent guy, happily return to his place.
This is the story!
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One day, a saint was going beside a village tank. Some mischievous children had driven an animal i.e. cow or buffalo into a mud dig and harassing it. The animal was suffering from their violence; the naughty children were enjoying it. Some villagers were watching it.
But nobody could prevent the children beware of their violent nature. By watching all of that, the saint could not keep calm. He tried to prevent the children, from throwing stones towards the animal. He afforded to pull out the animal from mud dig and driven it from that place. While doing such, he fallen on the ground, in the mud, but he could save the animal. The villagers laughed at him.
While he was washing his body in the village tank, some of the villagers asked him, why he took such an effort to save the animal by taking risk of striking of stones.
He replied those “My little fathers! I didn’t save the animal for the sake of you, or for the sake of children or for the sake of good and evil. I saved it for the sake of myself. By watching such violence on the other living being, I was not comfortable. To make myself comfortable, to make my mind peaceful, I done such. That’s all!”
This is the story!
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In ancient time, there was one king by name Indra Dyumna. He done so many good things, donations and faithful things to others and public. He was famed, as no other man was as faithful as himself. He was called as Rajarshi. After the completion of his lifetime, he died and reached heaven. So long, time passed there. In the heaven, they told that his earned fruit of faith was end, so that he had to leave the heaven. By saying like this, the heaven deities sent him down.
While the king was coming down to earth. I saw him. He asked me “Maharishi! Do you know me?”
By that time, I was tired with pilgrimage, devotional activities. So that I said “Sorry my dear boy. I forgot.
Then he asked me “Father. Do you know any living being elder to you, which is alive on the earth?
I replied him “There is an owl by name Pravakarnam in the Himalayas. It is elder to me. If you effort some more, you can locate it”
He requested me to accompany him. Both of we approached the owl. He asked the owl “Do you know me?” The bird replied “No” He asked the bird “Do you know anybody elder to you?”
It replied as “Oh! My little father! There is a lake some distant to here. It is called as Indra Dyumna Lake. In that lake, there is a crane by name Nadi Jhangham. It is elder to me.”
Along with the bird, both of we approached the lake. The king asked previous questions. The Crane replied, as “There is a tortoise by name Aakuparam in this lake itself. It is born before to me. So it is elder to me.
When the king called on that tortoise and asked the same question to it, with sorrowful voice, and tears in eyes, it replied “Oh! My dear sons! What a great king was Indra Dyumna. He had done 1000 yagnams. This lake was formed by the sinking of ground here, due to the travelling of number of cows, which he donated, to poor people. This faith is his only! By the kindness of that king only, I am living here happily.”
Within that moment, the deities came and took him to heaven. That means as long as our fame of faith fullness is on the earth, we will be in heaven. Similarly, as long as our notoriousness of evil nature is on the earth, we will be in hell.
This is the story!
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అనగా అనగా ..........
Long long ago, there was a king. He had seven sons. Seven sons had gone to forest caught seven fish. They kept them in sun light to dry up. Six fishes were dried and seventh fish did not.
“Fish! Fish! Why didn’t you dry up?” They asked.
“Grass bundle came across me to sun light.”
“Grass bundle! Grass bundle! Why did you come across?”
“Horse didn’t eat the grass.”
“Horse! Horse! Why didn’t you eat the grass?”
“The little boy didn’t feed me.”
“Little boy! Little boy! Why didn’t you feed the horse?”
“Grandmother didn’t give food to me.”
“Grandmother! Grandmother! Why didn’t you give food to the little boy?”
“The kid had cried.”
“The kid! The kid! Why did you cry?”
“The ant bite me.”
“Ant! Ant! Why you bitten the kid?”
“When she put finger in my golden ant hill, why didn’t I bite her?”
This is the story!
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అనగా అనగా ..........
One day a hunter captured two baby parrots in a forest. He kept them in a small cage and moved towards his home. On the way one of baby parrot fallen from the cage. The hunter did not notice it and proceeded home.
At that moment a sage was coming in that way. He observed all. He took that baby parrot in to his hands and brought it to his ashram. Along with his disciples, he had taken care of it. It brought up there and learnt to speak. As well as the hunter brought up the other baby parrot in his home. Days were passed.
One day a rich man was travelling in the forest on his horse. He lost his way in the evening darkness. By observing light, he approached the hunters hut. There he heard a voice saying, “Some body came. Beat him. Hurt him with sword. Kill him.” The parrot in the cage was saying this, when it watched this unknown man. By hearing this, the rich man afraid and ran away from there.
After few minutes, he could approach the sage’s Ashram. There the parrot in the cage said when it watched his arrival as “some Athidhi Deva i.e. God in the form of guest came. Welcome him. Treat him with food and shelter. Serve him well”. By hearing this, the disciples and sage came out of the ashram and received him as their guest.
After having food and rest, the rich man explained his experiences to the sage. And asked why the two parrots said different words though both are same type of birds. To his surprise, the sage told him both the birds were born to one mother parrot.
The rich man enquired the reason. The sage counseled him as “Nayana that means oh, my little father like! Though the parrots belong to same mother, they brought up in different houses. Whatever they observed there, they are following the same, ‘Ye guti chilaka Aa Paluku palukunu’. That means “whatever the parrot speaks, it belongs to its nest.”
This is the story!
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అనగా అనగా ..........
Once there was a king. He saw a beautiful girl in his kingdom. She was daughter of a business man. The king called on her father and ordered him to send his daughter to the king’s palace. The helpless father requested the king to leave her and tried to convince the king to marry her at least, but not enjoy her beauty. The king refused it and stressed the businessman to send his daughter. The girl was informed about this. She asked the king to allow her one week time.
After one week, on the prescribed day the girl approached the king’s palace with a convoy of palanquins. Before her carriage, some gold and silver vessels were there in few palanquins. When the king approached her in order to welcome her, the king was shocked by watching her. Because she was not beautiful as she was, when he saw her. She was lean, pale and seemed to be very weak. Totally, she was not beautiful, not healthy, and not even attractive.
With such shock the king asked her “What happened to you my dear beauty.”
The girl replied “oh great king! I filled my beauty in those vessels & I brought them along with me. You go and watch them and enjoy them.”
With puzzled mind, he opened the vessels. Those were filled with bad smelling liquids.
Then the girl continued with the king “Oh! My dear great king! It was my beauty. Those liquid was my vomiting, urine etc. Every day, within this week, I used to consume Castrol oil and I draw that beauty from my body. When those liquid of blood, fuss urine etc are in my body, this body looks like beautiful young girl. Without those liquids, my body looking like this now. So the real beauty of my body is such only. That’s why I brought it along with me for your enjoyment. To enjoy such beauty only, you threw out the ethics. Now come and enjoy this. Otherwise, these bodies also will go to die and mingle with mud. So don’t waste your time. Enjoy it.”
The king realized the truth and left his ethic less and selfish life. Moreover, lived for the sake of faith.
This is the story!
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అనగా అనగా ..........
A washer man kept a donkey and a dog in his house as pet animals. As usual, by donkey, he was carrying luggage and by dog, he was guarding his house.
One night a thief entered into his house while he was sleeping. Both of the animals watched it. The donkey felt wonder when the dog was not barking at the thief. So that it questioned the dog “Friend! Thief entered into the house. If you won’t alert our master, he will loss his wealth. So bark”! But, the dog refused to do so and said “our master is so conjused towards me. He is not feeding me well. So he deserves the theft.”
But the donkey was not able to keep quite. So it brayed. Instead of getting alertness towards thief, the washer man felt disturbance of sleep and got angry. He had beaten the donkey with a strong stick. It stroked the donkey on sensitive part of body as a result it died.
This is the story!
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అనగా అనగా ..........
There was a Sanskrit Scholar cum Poet in Bhoja Raja’s court. He had big family. Unfortunately, he could not impress the king to get sufficient income, so that suffering from deficiency of money. He thought to theft from king’s palace. One night he could enter into the palace of king, with a big bag, to steal some valuables and hide them in the bag.
First he located a gold idol. He tried to keep it in the bag. But he could remember the slokam from his learnt books, which stated those 7 years of punishment in hell by God Yama against the crime of gold theft. With this memory he dropped that idea. Again, he provoked to steal diamond necklace due to his poverty. This time he recalled another slokam which stated that 12 years prolonged punishments in hell. Helplessly he dropped it where he found it. Like this picking up some valuable things, recalling the concern slokam, so that keeping it where he picked it up, he spent all the night. Early bells were ringed in the palace. With frightfulness, he had hidden himself under the bed of king. With morning praising from his subordinates, the king felt proud about his wealth, handsomeness, and greatness.
By observing that proud posture in the body language of king, the hidden poet recalled another slokam which stated that the life, beauty, wealth and health etc. every thing is temporary in this world, after death every thing depart from us. Only good and evil whatever we done in this world follow us, nothing else. The poet said this slokam with a loud and clear voice from the bottom of king’s bed.
Being scholar the king immediately caught the idealistic views of that slokam and realized his proud & ego. So that he could get rid of ego. After driving out the ego, naturally the king felt the joy of morning, the warmth of sunrise and the cool breeze of nature.
Then he felt wonder about the presence of poet in that odd time at that odd place i.e. under his bed. When he enquired into the matter, he felt sorry towards the scholar, fulfilled his needs and expressed his gratefulness towards the poet as the poet helped the king to drive out his ego in the early hours of the day itself. Such that this story leads us that education i.e. knowledgeous education [but not certified education] guide us in faithful way to live and it warn us to prevent evil thoughts and activities.
This is the story!
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అనగా అనగా ..........
Once upon a time.
There was a big forest.
So many cruel animals were in the forest. There was a fox. It was so clever. It used to make others to do work, whenever the result had to expected, by deceiving others, it used to enjoy the result.
This fox had four friends, Tiger, Wolf, Mongoose and a Rat. It was living happily by pretending that making friendship with them.
Then one day,
The fox had seen a fatty deer. When the deer watched these fox & friends party, it ran far away. The fox desired to eat it. In spite of great effort, it could not capture it.
The fox thought well.
It assembled the friends in a place and said “Look friends! How much the deer was beautiful, that much was the taste of its meat! But we are not capable to run as speed as the deer. That’s why we can’t kill it. Now we have to kill it by planning coup. Then we can enjoy its meat.” Such that it tempted the remaining animals with watering mouth.
All the friends tempted to eat the deer. With eagerity, they said “Friend! Please tell any idea.”
It pretended thinking and said.
“Ah! I got an idea! Listen carefully and tell me your opinion. We can’t capture the deer when it is active. That’s why please find out that when it will be in sound sleep with tiresome. Then without making noise, the rat has to crawl up to it and has to bite its legs. At the same time, the tiger has to jump on to it and has to bite its neck. That’s all.”
All the friends were happy with the fox’s wisdom. They waited until the deer sleep.
The deer ate up to belly full in the forest, drank water in the river, after tired it had taken rest and slept.
As per fox advice, the rat approached the deer silently and bitten its leg. At the moment it tried to get up but the tiger attacked it and killed it.
Joyfully all the animals were ready to eat the deer meat. Then the fox said “Friends! Let us enjoy the delicious meat. But your bodies were with dirt. All of you go to that valley river and have bath and then come! Then we can enjoy this meat.”
All the four animals had gone to have bath with excitement, the tiger return from river before all the other animals.
By that time, the fox was weeping. The tiger asked it “Friend! Why are you crying?”
The fox replied with tears in its eyes as “How can I say to you my dear friend. Do you know, what the rat said? What is the use of tiger, though it is big animal? It was not able to do anything until I bite the deer’s legs. The deer was killed by my intelligence. To eat that meat, how shameless the tiger is! By hearing such words, I’m sad!”
Tiger felt self-respect and ferociously said “Friends! The rat helped me to
Think well. From this day I earn my food. I won’t depend on others!”
By saying like this, the tiger left the place. Next rat come. The fox said “Do you hear, my dear friend rat! ‘The meat of deer got poisonaised because of Tiger’s bite. So I will eat rat. By saying like this the mongoose started for you”.
Immediately the rat ran in to its hole. After sometime the wolf comes. The fox said “Hear this, Tiger got angry with you. It wants to eat you along with its wife. It is on that trial!” The wolf escaped from there.
Then the mongoose came. The fox said “with the desire to eat this meat you came. But I killed all the three animals and throw away. Come to me! If you are able to defeat me, touch this deer’s meat.”
The mongoose ran away with fear. Later the fox enjoyed the deer’s meat happily.
Oh! King! Like this, with wisdom and cheatfulness, we have to fruitful our works – said Kanika.
This is Kanika Neethi. [Ism]
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అనగా అనగా..........
Long long ago, there were two friends as well as saints names Bharadwaja Maharishi and Raibhya Maharishi. Both of them used to wake up early in the morning, performing all their duties and keep themselves in Dyanam i.e. chanting God. To lead life, they used to depend on fruits & roots from forest.
After some time they got children. Bharadwaja got a son named Yava Kreethudu. Raibhyaya got two sons named Arya Vasuvu and Paravasuvu. Being busy with his devotionals activities, Bharadwaja neglected his son’s education. But Raibya afforded to make his sons as scholars. In the due course of time, Aryavasuvu and Paravasavu were famous for their knowledge. Their reputation spread all over that surrounding places. By watching all this, Yavakreeth felt jealous about the sons of Raibya. He thought that he might become a scholar instantly.
With this motive he started meditation regarding God “Indra”. God Indra pleased with him so that he tried to convince Yavakreeth and said “Dear Yavakreeth! Education must be learn, through teacher. Without that, you can’t shine with Veda Vedanta knowledge. That’s why stop this meditation and approach appropriate Teacher.”
But Yavakreeth didn’t satisfied. He wanted to become scholar immediately. He continued to meditate God. Indra took another trial to change his mind. This time God Indra came in the form of old Brahmin and stood on the bank of river. When Yavakreeth came to the river ghat for bath, God Indra pretended as pouring handful of sand in the river water continuously.
By watching the continuity, Yavakreeth asked the old Brahmin i.e. God Indra “Dear grandpa! Why are you pouring sand into the river water?”
The old man replied, “I’m trying to contruct a wall against the flow of water.”
With laugh Yavakreeth said “How it is possible to construct a wall against this river flow with handful of sand?”
The old man replied “My dear child, when compare to your trial to get Veda Vedanta Education without Teacher’s guidance & student hood, my trial to construct a wall against this river flow, may not be a foolish thing.”
Immediately Yavakreeth could recognize the God Indra, fallen on his feet and prayed to give him boon of education.
At last, God Indra could convince with his prayer and gave him the boon. God Indra gave a vessel containing sacred water i.e. Kamandalam, which could give him instant education. By using it, Yavakreeth became a scholar. It is just like the certificate of degree, P.G. and other ranks etc. by doing disputes.
After this, Yavakreeth approached Bharadwaja Maharshi, his father and told him everything. Bharadwaja said with his son “My dear son! Achieving education without hard working and student hood of proper time, will lead you to ego. Achieving education with boons will lead you to characterless & ego. Ego will lead you to self destruction. I warn you my child, don’t go to the surroundings of Raibhya’s Ashram. Don’t get rivalry with his sons.”
Yavakreeth paid careless towards his father. He toured surrounding areas exhibited his eticacy. Like this some days over. One day, it was the season of spring. Atmosphere was very pleasant. All the trees were green with fresh leaves. The forest bore with fruits & flowers. The breeze flourished by the sweet smells of flowers.
At that moment Yavakreeth went to the garden of Raibhya’s Ashram. By that time, Raibhya & his sons Aryavasuvu and Paravasuvu were not in the Ashram. The daughter-in-law of Raibhya was there lonely in the Ashram. By watching her beauty, Yavakreeth attempted rape on her and returned home.
When Raibhya came to Ashram, his daughter-in-law explained him about the event with sorrow. Raibhya Maharishi got anger with this; he created a beautiful woman & a giant by performing a Yagnam and ordered them to kill Yavakreeth.
The beautiful woman approached Yavakreeth and tempted him with her beauty and stolen his vessel countaining sacred water i.e. Kamandalam. By the way he lost all his eticacy, memory of mantras and power Yavakreeth was easily killed by the giant, exactly at that door of Bharadwaja’s Ashram.
By watching the death of his son, Bharadwaja Maharishi cried like anything and said “My child. I told you that the achieving education without effort will lead you self destruction. You didn’t pay attention towards it.”
With that great sorrow of son’s death, Bharadwaja cursed Raibhya, fell in fire and died. Because of Bharadwaja curse Raibhya lost life.
Then Aryavasuvu returned Ashram. By knowing all this, he devoted God Surya and got a boon to give life to his father Raibya, Bharadwaja & Yavakreeth. After getting life, Yavakreeth asked God “I also done meditation like this Raibhya & Aryavasuvu. Then how they became great than me.”
God said “Child! They learnt education by spending proper years of time in servicing Guru i.e. teacher and student hood. By the way they could learnt to control their emotions and desires i.e. arishadwargas. They learnt to overcome ego. Without all such effort, you got education. But you couldn’t get strength. Always education must be learn through serving to the teacher and by the student hood.
That’s the entire story.
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అనగా అనగా..........
Once upon a time, there was a king. He had a son. He noticed that his child became lazy because of over petting. That’s why only the boy didn’t learn single quality though he got 15 years age. The king felt so bad about it and was thoughtful to eliminate the laziness from the boy.
Then one day, he called on his son and asked him to earn two silver coins on his own industry before sunset. When he asked the boy to show his earnings at the time of dinner, the boy gave two silver coins to the king. The king threw them into fire. The boy kept calm and finished his dinner. The king knew through his spying agents that the boy requested the queen and taken two silver coins from her.
The king ordered him to continue the earning for next day also. Same incidents were repeated at the time of dinner. This time the boy got the coins from the Minister. Next day the boy collected them from royal employees. But the king didn’t stopped strategy. Days turn into months. By collecting money from employees, the prince got deglammoured and unpopular. In spite of this, the king didn’t stop to the prince to show his earning.
After getting disgust, the prince one day approached a brazier and asked him for a job work. By doing assistant work throughout the day to brazier, he earned two silver coins before sunset. With great self-satisfaction and joy the boy, i.e. prince approached his father and gave two silver coins to him. As usual the king threw them into fire. But this time, the boy had jumped to near fire and picked out the silver coins from fire with a stick and asked his father with angry as “Dad! Why you throw them into fire? Do you know, how much painful to earn them?”
By watching this, the king felt very happy and council the boy about the real joy of working, how much care should be take towards the result of industry. After noticing this with practical experience, the prince became a generous, sincere and good king as time passed.
This is the story!
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One day a student approached a Guru i.e. teacher who was famous for the art of sword using fight. When the student approached the Guru and prayed [i.e. requested] him to accept him as a disciple, the Guru didn’t express his acceptance or refusal. The student was waiting for Guru’s reply. Paying silence towards him, the Guru allowed him to reside in his Gurukulam. He was provided food and shelter.
But the Guru was beating him whenever he saw the student, whatever he was doing by that time. While he was cleaning the floor, bringing water with pots, preparing fire to cook food, watering plants, plucking the flowers and fruits in the garden, whatever he was performing the ashram’s duty, the Guru was beating him suddenly from possible ways and directions.
The student was puzzled, didn’t know, why Guru was beating him. If the Guru didn’t like his presence, he could call him and send him out by saying the same. If the Guru hates the student, directly he could say it. No need to beat like this without saying any reason. But the students didn’t give up the ashram duty. He didn’t turn to home. He didn’t give up his determination to learn sword-playing talent in the middle of trial. But to protect himself from the beating of Guru, he was more alert and active. Whatever he was doing he was very careful about the sounds in surroundings, watching actively all corners and very sharp in body movements.
Like this some months were passed. One day the Guru called him to near and said “My dear boy. I’m pleased with your determination. To learn sword playing talent, the soldier must be quite alert & active. Now you acquired it. So with in short period your course can be completed. You will become perfect warrior. Bring the sword. Now I’m starting your coaching to handle your sword, God bless you.”
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One day on old man was going to Market, called Santha to sell out his goat. It was black in color. He was walking through a forest to reach the market. He tied his goat with a small rope and driving it in his direction.
Four thieves had watched this. They wanted to steal this goat from that old man. They can beat him to steal the goat. But they didn’t like to do so as if might become a remarkable crime.
Hence they thought about a strategy. According to that, one of the thieves approached the old man and said “Hello! Grand father, why are you dragging this street dog, by tieing it with rope? Are you mad?” the old man got surprised and said “No child, you are mistaking. This is black goat, not a dog.” The thief argued, “No grand pa, your sight might become weak.” By saying this, he left the place.
The old man watched keenly his animal, by confirming it as goat, he continued his journey. But after some distance, the second thief approached him in opposite direction to the previous thief and repeated the same drama, but with prolonging script. He argued continuously with the old man and tried to convince him as his goat was black dog. The old man was reluctant to accept it.
While leaving the place, the second thief played a powerful strategy as “Okay grand father. As you believe, it is goat. But take care. It may be a dog and it can bite you if you stress it to move along with you. Okay. Bye.”
The old man got severe wonder and checked once again his animal. It was 100% goat but not dog. He continued his journey to market. But on the way, he was thinking why those two men, who were quite unknown to him as well as to each other, that to met him from opposite ways, argued with him like that? There was nothing benefit for them by saying his goat as dog at par his vision. Then, why they tried to convince him?
When he was in this dilemma, the third thief approached him with the same drama and added some essence to it as “May it is a mad dog, and it can bite you.” the old man bluntly opposed this and continued his journey. But the suspect in his brain was getting increase. He started to suspect his ability of sight and common sense.
At this juncture, the fourth thief met him and said “Hi old man! Why are you taking this black dog with you? Are you mad? Or did your old age get you blindness?”
By losing confidence on himself, the old man left the goat in forest and returned home with empty hands. The four thieves happily captured the goat and enjoyed its meat.
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