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Articles: Moral Stories | Panchatantra stories
- Mr. Siri Siri
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THE KING AND THE FOOLISH MONKEY
There was a king who had a pet monkey. The monkey did all kinds of work for the king. When the king would go to sleep, it would fan him. Once when the king was sleeping, the monkey saw a fly sitting on the king’s chest. The monkey drove it away. But the fly came back and sat on the nose of the king. The monkey drove it away again. When this continued for several times, the monkey got very irritated. He decided to kill the fly with a sword and get rid of this problem for all.
The next time as soon as the monkey saw the fly sitting on the king’s chest, he hit it with a powerful blow of the sword. The sword could not even touch the fly, which flew away, but the king was killed in the melee.
THE BRAHMIN AND A THIEF
There used to live a learned Brahmin in a city. But because of his bad deeds committed in his previous birth, he became a thief. One day, he saw four Brahmins, who had come to trade goods. The thief decided to steal their belongings.
He went to them and impressed them with his knowledge. The Brahmins were pleased with him. They appointed him as their attendant.
One day, the Brahmins decided to return back to their native place. They sold whatever they had with them and purchased precious jewels. The thief had not been successful so far in his attempt to rob them, so he grew anxious when he learnt about their plan to wind-up their business. He was not ready to let them go till his objective was fulfilled. He requested -
'O learned Brahmins! Living in your company, I have developed an attachment towards you all. I cannot bear your separation. I want to go along with you all'.
The Brahmins agreed to take him along with them. The Brahmins concealed the jewels under their dhotis. While they were passing by a village named Pallipur, the crows saw them. The crows were in fact the accomplices of the Bheels who used to rob the passers-by. They started cawing -
'O Bheels! Run, run! Come soon! There are four Brahmins carrying one-lakh twenty-five thousand rupees with them! Snatch their wealth!'
The Bheels came running towards the Brahmins and beat them with sticks and disrobed them. When they did not find anything, they became puzzled. But they had full faith in the crows. So the Bheels warned the Brahmins to disclose all their possession otherwise they would kill them.
The thief got scared as he thought that he would be killed after the Brahmins. He thought- ‘If this happens, I will not get the wealth! Moreover, these poor Brahmins would be killed. If I save their lives by sacrificing my own then I would attain heaven’.
The thief said to the Bheels -
'If you do not believe the Brahmins’ words, you can testify the truth by killing me first'.
The Bheels killed the thief but did not find any wealth, so they spared the Brahmins’ lives. While Kartak was narrating this story to Damanak, Sanjeevak who was seriously injured by the assault of Pingalak, fell flat on the ground.Suspecting him to be dead, Pingalak was dejected. He started cursing himself -
'I have committed a unpardonable sin by killing Sanjeevak. I have committed treachery against him'.
Damanak was very happy that Sanjeevak was dead and now the path was clear for him to become the minister. He consoled Pingalak -
'Is it justifiable for a king to mourn the death of a mean creature like a bird or an ox, who had been harboring malice and enemity towards him? It has been said in the scriptures that one should even not hesitate to kill one’s wife, son, father or friend if there is a threat to his life from any of them'.
Pingalak became satisfied with Damanak’s explanations. He appointed him as his minister, the designation which Damanak aspired for.
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