అనగా అనగా ..........
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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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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