Long Long Ago

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!

Note: To read the application of this story to our life, click here: Mother’s Lap