అనగా అనగా ..........
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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అనగా అనగా ..........
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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అనగా అనగా ..........
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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అనగా అనగా ..........
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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అనగా అనగా ..........
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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