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