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Once there lived a pious brahmin in a village. He used to perform religious rituals. On one occasion he was rewarded with a cow by a rich man for his service. The brahmin started to bring the cow to his home. On the way, three rogues saw the brahmin bringing the cow. They were lazy and wanted to cheat the brahmin so that they could take away the cow. They hatched a plan.

The first person approached the brahmin and said, “Are you a washer man that you’re pulling a donkey.” The brahmin was annoyed at being mistaken for a washer man. He went on. A little later he was met by the second of the rogues. The second person asked him why being a brahmin he needed to pull a pig. Now the brahmin was confused but he went on. Some distance later he was met by the third person who asked him why he was pulling along a wild animal. Now the brahmin was totally confused and also afraid. He thought that it was a devil animal which took different forms. He ran away leaving the cow behind. The three tricksters laughed at the brahmin at having cheated the cow from the brahmin.

Story moral: Believe your own eyes than what you hear.

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Panchatantra are a collection of five volumes of stories written by a guru or teacher to instruct the different aspects of kinghood for princes. The five volumes together serve as a guide for prospective kings, to help him on ruling, to choose fellow friends, fellow ministers, and to have good conduct in daily life etc. These collection of stories in Pancha tantra are a real boon for parents to help them guide their children towards values in human life. All stories of Pancha tantra are accompanied by a moral.

The background story of Panchatantra goes as follows:

Many ages ago in the kingdom of Mahilaropya, there lived a king who was ruling very ideally. He had three sons, who were not intelligent. The king was worried about the heir to the throne, as he knew that his sons were incapable of governing. He was desperate to find a good and knowledgable teacher for his sons who would teach them the scriptures and make them knowledgeable in a short span of time. His minister then pointed towards a skilled pundit, Vishnu sharman. Vishnu sharman was old and the king was worried as to how an old teacher could accomplish this as an intelligent man takes more than twelve years to grasp all the elements of scriptures. Then Vishnu sharman convinced the king that he would teach the princes about kingly conduct through a series of stories, which would be more effective than the scriptures. Thus Vishnu sharman compiled the collection in five volumes termed as Pancha tantra.

Panchatantra is written in five volumes:

• The Loss of friends
• The winning of friends
• Crows and Owls
• Loss of Gains
• Ill considered action

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Once, the people of The City invited Mulla Nasruddin to deliver a khutba.

When he got on the minbar (pulpit), he found the audience was not very enthusiastic, so he asked “Do you know what I am going to say?”

The audience replied “No”, so he announced “I have no desire to speak to people who don’t even know what I will be talking about” and he left.

The people felt embarrassed and called him back again the next day.

Once again he asked the same question – “Do you know what I am going to say?”

This time when he asked the same question, the people replied “Yes” So Mullah Nasruddin said, “Well, since you already know what I am going to say, I won’t waste any more of your time” and he left.

Now the people were really perplexed. They decided to try one more time and once again invited the Mullah to speak the following week.

Once again he asked the same question – “Do you know what I am going to say?”

Now the people were prepared and so half of them answered “Yes” while the other half replied “No”. So Mullah Nasruddin said “The half who know what I am going to say, tell it to the other half” and he left!

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Once the Wind and the Sun came to have a quarrel. Either of them claimed to be a stronger. At last they agreed to have a trial of strength.

“Here comes a traveller. Let us see who can strip him of his clock,” said the Sun.

The Wind agreed and chose to have the first turn. He blew in the hardest possible way. As a result , the traveller wrapped his cloak even more tightly around him.

the sun shining brighterThen it was the turn of the Sun. At first he shone very gently. So, the traveller loosened his cloak from his neck.

The sun went on shining brighter and brighter. The traveller felt hot. Before long he took off his cloak and put it in his bag. The Wind had to accept his defeat.

MORAL :

Fury or force cuts no ice where

gentleness does the job.

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A fox was once caught in a trap. It was only after a tough struggle that she could get free. But, to her sorrow, her beautiful tail had been cut off and left in the trap.

“How ugly I shall look!” moaned the fox, ” won’t the other foxes laugh at me ?”

Thinking hard, the fox hit upon a plan to save herself from being laughed at. The MeetingShe called a meeting of his friends and said, “Brothers! have you ever wondered why after all, we carry these long tails?” Let us cut them off and be free from their nuisance.”

But the other foxes had noticed her cut-off tail. They laughed aloud and replied, “You used to say that tails looked very fine when your own was all right. Now that you have lost yours, you want us to lose ours too.”

MORAL

Dirty tricks seldom work.

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A man hired an ass from another man. He paid him Rs.20/- to lend him the ass for the day.

It was a very hot day, and both men wanted to stand in the ass’s shadow, so that they might be cool. But there was only room for one of them.

Then they began to fight, and while they were fighting one of them happened to hit the ass. Then the ass ran away and it took its shadow with it !

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Emperor Akbar was highly impressed with the wisdom of Birbal and greatly enjoyed his quick wit. One day Emperor Akbar and Birbal were taking a walk in the palace gardens. It was a nice summer morning. There were plenty of crows happily playing around the pond. While watching the crows, a question came into Akbar’s mind. He wanted to know the number of crows in his kingdom.

As Birbal was accompanying the Empepror, he asked this question to Birbal. After a moment’s thought, Birbal replied, “There are ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine crows in the Kingdom”.

Amazed by his quick response, Akbar tried to test him again, “What if there are more crows than you answered?” Without hesitating Birbal replied, “If there are more crows than my answer, then some crows are visiting from other neighboring kingdoms”. “And what if there are less crows”, Akbar asked. “Then some crows from our kingdom have gone on holidays to other places”.

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विद्वता और तेजस्विता के लिए प्रसिद्ध अंगिरा ऋषि के मार्गदर्शन में उनके अनेक शिष्य ज्ञान प्राप्त कर अपना जीवन सफल बनाने की साधना करते थे। उनके एक अत्यंत प्रतिभावान शिष्य उदयन से ऋषि अत्यंत स्नेह रखते थे। एक बार ऋषि ने महसूस किया कि उदयन के व्यवहार में परिवर्तन आ रहा है। उसमें न सिर्फ अहंकार आने लगा था, बल्कि वह आलस्य का भी शिकार होता जा रहा था। ऋषि इससे दुखी थे और उन्होंने उदयन को इन दुष्प्रवृत्तियों से बाहर निकालने के लिये एक तरकीब सोची।

एक रात उदयन के साथ किसी विषय पर चर्चा करते समय अचानक चर्चा रोककर उन्होंने उदयन से कहा, ‘वत्स, सामने रखी अंगीठी में झांक कर देखो, कोयला दहकने के कारण कितना तेजस्वी लग रहा है। इसे निकालकर मेरे सामने रख दो जिससे मैं पास से इसकी तेजस्विता का अवलोकन कर सकूं।’ उदयन ने उनके आदेश का पालन करते हुए कोयले को अंगीठी से निकालकर उनके समीप रख दिया। कुछ ही क्षणों में दहकता हुआ कोयला अंगारे की जगह राख में परिवर्तित हो गया।

दहकते हुए अंगारे को राख में परिवर्तित होते देख ऋषि उदयन से बोले, ‘वत्स देखो, अंगीठी का सबसे चमकदार कोयला जिस प्रकार अग्नि के तेज से विमुख होते ही राख बन गया, उसी प्रकार सक्रिय और प्रतिभावान व्यक्ति भी अभ्यास, स्वाध्याय, विनम्रता, नेकी व सक्रियता से विमुख होते ही आलस्य तथा अहंकार का शिकार होकर निस्तेज व गुणविहीन हो जाता है। इसलिए प्रत्येक व्यक्ति को इस बात को अपने हृदय में बसा लेना चाहिए कि सफलता, अभ्यास, ज्ञान, सक्रियता व बुद्धिमत्ता ही किसी व्यक्ति के जीवन को सार्थक बनाती है। इन गुणों को अपनाकर ही उल्लेखनीय सफलता हासिल की जा सकती है। अहंकार व आलस के व्यक्ति पर हावी होते ही वह इन गुणों से युक्त होते हुए भी गुणरहित होता है और ऐसे व्यक्ति की छवि धीरे-धीरे धूमिल होती जाती है।’ उदयन अपने गुरु का आशय समझ कर तत्परता से विद्याध्ध्यन करने लगा।

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गांव के बाहर तालाब के किनारे बड के पेड़ के कोटर में एक सांप रहता था। वह बहुत जहरीला था और सबको काटता था। उसके डर से बच्चे वहां खेलते नहीं थे और बड़े-बूढ़े तक उस राह से नहीं गुजरते थे।

एक बार एक बौद्ध संन्यासी उस गांव में आए। लोगों ने उनसे अपना दुखड़ा रोया। संन्यासी ने सांप से मिलने का निश्चय किया। सांप के बिल के पास जाकर संन्यासी ने उसे आवाज लगाई और उसके दुष्ट आचरण के लिए उसे आगाह किया।

संन्यासी की बातों का सांप के दिल पर बहुत प्रभाव पड़ा। उसने काटना और फुंफकारना छोड़ दिया। सांप अब पूरी तरह से बदल चुका था। धीरे-धीरे लोगों और बच्चों को जब पता चला कि सांप काटता नहीं है तो वह उसे छेड़ने और पत्थर मारने लगे। कुछ दिनों बाद संन्यासी पुन: उस सांप से मिलने गए तो उसे घायल अवस्था में देखा। संन्यासी के पूछने पर सांप ने सारा हाल कह सुनाया।

वे बोले, ‘मैंने तुम्हें काटने के लिए मना किया था, फुंफकारने के लिए नहीं। इतने सीधे भी मत बन जाओ कि लोग तुम्हारा दुरुपयोग करने लगें।’ बात सांप के समझ में आ गई। उसके बाद से जब भी कोई उसके बिल के पास आता, वह फुंफकारकर उसे भगा देता। उसने काटा किसी को नहीं, लेकिन लोग फिर से उससे डरने लगे थे।

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जीवन दर्शन

प्रत्येक जीव के कर्म उसके मूल स्वभाव के अनुसार ही होते है। इस सत्य को हमेशा याद रख अपने व्यवहार की दिशा तय करनी चाहिये।

ऐसा कहा और माना जाता है कि मूल स्वभाव कभी नहीं बदलता। किसी भी हाल में रहे, मूल स्वभाव का पता चल ही जाता है।कई बार व्यक्ति अपने मूल स्वभाव को बदलकर वह व्यवहार करने लगता है जो उसके स्वभाव के विपरित होता है। इस तरह वह खुद और दूसरों को कुछ देर धोखा दे सकता है। ऐसे में न तो वह अपने मूल स्वभाव के अनुसार व्यवहार कर पाता है और न ही वह व्यवहार कर पाता है जो वह करना चाहता है। संगति और स्थितियां उसे प्रभावित अवश्य करती है, परन्तु इस विषय में सतर्कता बरतना बहुत जरुरी है अन्यथा विपरीत परिणाम भी आ सकते है जैसा कि वाराणसी के एक साधु के साथ हुआ।
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