Once there lived a pair of sparrows on the top of a huge banyan tree in a jungle. They prepare a beautiful nest and lived their happily. After few days the female sparrow had laid down her eggs in their nest and they both were waiting for their newborns very soon. They both very happy and planning for their family after their newborns were reached in world.

It was the summer season and heat of the sun at its highest point. On that particular day an elephant was unable to bear the heat of the scorching sun. He became very wild and out of control. He began to destroy all the trees came into his way. In this way he also destroyed the tree where the couple of the sparrows lived in their nest. As he destroyed the tree the branches of the tree came down and so the nest also and all the newly hatched eggs smashed against the ground. Although the sparrows became able to escape from there by flying away but their dream broke down to see that they had lost their eggs. And then the female sparrow began to cry loudly.

After some time a woodpecker passing by there when he heard the cries of sparrow, he touched by her sorrow. He reached to her and said, “Dear sparrow, crying is not the solution of any problem. There is nothing can you do by crying. What is destined to be happening will happen surely. Please stop crying.”

 The female sparrow replied to him, “Dear, whatever you saying are indeed true. But all this happened by the wicked elephant. He killed all my children and we had done no harm to him. If you are my good friend then please suggest me a way to destroy this elephant to take the revenge of my children’s death.”

The woodpecker agreed and replied to her, “I have a fly as a good friend. We should take her help to destroy this wicked elephant.” Within few moments the woodpecker and the female sparrow reached the fly and then the woodpecker began to explained, “Dear, meet this sparrow. She is my good friend. A wicked elephant had destroyed all her eggs. Please help us and suggest a way to destroy the wicked elephant.”

After hearing all the matter fly agreed to help them. She said, “I will definitely help you. I am your friend and it’s my responsibility to help my friend in needs. I have a frog as my good friend, let us take his help to destroy the wicked elephant.” Thus, the fly, woodpecker and the female sparrow reached to the frog and explained all the matter. After hearing all the matter the old frog said, “Although the elephant is big, he is alone. If we work together to destroy him, he cannot do anything. I have a plan.” And he explained his plan to them.

 

 

 

 

 

He said, “Fly! When the sun at its extreme point, your work would to buzz in the ears of the elephant. And when he closes his eyes to protect them from the heat of the scorching sun, the woodpecker’s task to peck his eyes and make him blind. In this scorching summer, he will then definitely go to search for water, but being blinded already he will not be able to do so. Then I will sit on the side of the nearby pit and croak as loudly as I can do.”

He continued his plan and said, "When the thirsty elephant hears this voice, he will think that there is a pond or lake nearby to him and then follow my voice. And when he does so, he will fall into the pit and drop dead. In this way, we can take revenge of the death of the sparrow's children!"

All agreed to the plan, and managed to done according to the plan. They all done their tasks successfully, and the elephant fell into the muddy pit and finally died.

The wise indeed say:

Even the low and humble achieve results when they work together.

This is a story about three fishes which lived in a pond along with many other fishes and water creatures. There named were Anagatavidhata, Pratyutpannamati and Yadbhavishya. They all lived together happily in the pond. One day some fishermen were passing nearby the pond.

They examined the pond and came to a conclusion that this pond was full of fishes. Since, they were already returning to their home after catching many fishes. They decided to come back here the next morning to catching the fishes.
They all discussed, “There is a lot of fishes in this pond which are of different sizes. There are too many of big sizes also. We never came to this pond to caught fishes. So we came there next morning to caught fishes.” When they were discussing all the matters the three fishes swimming on the surface nearby them and heard all the plan of the fishermen. One of the fishes frightened and immediately informed all the fishes to get assembled. He told them whatever they had heard about the plans of fishermen. 

He said to them, “Next morning, the fishermen will reach there to catch us. I do not want to die in this way. So, I decided to leave with my family as soon as possible. You should all follow me to save our lives. It will be very dangerous to stay here any longer. We should leave this place now.”

The second fish agreed with him and said, “My friend, you are correct for whatever you said. We shall follow you. It will be foolish to remain here any longer. We should immediately move to some other place to save our life.”
But the third fishes disagreed with them.  He laughed at the two fishes and start insulting them. He said to the other fishes assembled there, “look dear, how timidly these both act! This pond belonged to our ancestors and we lived there for a long time. Now it is our home place. How can we leave this place? Up to there is no harm has ever come to anybody.” He continued himself, “It is not wise to leave this place just because some fishermen were discussing their plans. There is no need to be panic and to leave our home. Nothing will be happened, and those who agree with me, I suggest them to stay there and not to go to some other unknown place.”

Some of the fishes convinced, he continued explaining, “The holy books stat that when time for one’s death reaches, one should not afraid from this. If death has to come, he should die bravely in our home rather to escape from this cowardly.”

In this way the fishes of the pond divided into two groups. The group that convinced by the third fish and wanted to stay there insulted the other fishes and laughed at them. But the other fishes did not respond them and within the very evening, the families of these fishes started their journey to some other place. They reached to a different pond before the fishermen came there.
 

The next morning the fishermen reached there according to their plan. They started trapping all the fishes which remain in the pond by casting a net all over the pond. Within a moment all the fishes caught by the fishermen and they lost their lives. The fishermen were extremely happy with the trapping of all the fishes they had caught. 

The wise indeed say:

When you see a danger coming, act immediately.

 

Once there lived a group of monkeys on a mountain. They all lived happily there. One day during a winter season there were heavy rains in that region. There was no place for them to hide in the rain. They all were heavily drenched in the rain, due to which they begin to shiver in the cold. Their teethes started chattering in the cold. At that time some of the monkeys found some different type of fruit named Gunja fruits. They thought these are pieces of fire, which saved them from the cold. Hoping to make some fire for themselves they all started blowing them.

After some time a bird reached the nearby tree and watching them from the tree. He kept watching them and considering the waste attempts the monkeys were busy with, he thought of advising them to help them. He said to them, “What are you all doing? You all are big fools. You all are blowing the Gunja fruits not pieces of fire. Whatever you are doing is all vain and is a waste of time. You will never be able to make fire from these fruits. Instead it you should go in search of a place where you find shelter against the cold. You may be able to find a cave or some other place where you protected themselves from the rains and cold.”

The monkeys are not in the mood of taking any advice. One of the old monkey said to him, “why are you giving us advice? Don’t interfering in our task. Go away you fool.”

But the bird refused them and he did not pay any attention whatever the old monkey had said to him. He came down the tree nearby the monkeys and tried to stop them what they were doing. He continued advising them but the monkeys ignored him and stop him to advising. But the bird refused to stop himself. After some time the bird came very close to them for convincing them. He continued explaining that whatever they doing are all useless.

The monkeys were already frustrated by their vain attempts and due to heavy cold, one of them became very furious. He caught hold the neck of the bird and smashed him against a rock and killing him.

The wise indeed say:

Never give advice unless you are asked for it or you may pay for it.

 

 

This is a story about two friends who were lived together in a small village. There name were Dharmabuddhi (Right – mind) and Papabuddhi (Wrong- Mind).  Papabuddhi was an evil person and he also lacked the knowledge to how to earn his livelihood.

One day Papabuddhi thought to himself that he was a poor person and he did not know how to earn money. He thought if he will take the Dharmabuddhi to another town he will use his abilities to earn money for himself. After that if he takes away all the earnings earn by Dharmabuddhi then all the money belongs to him then he lived a happy life after that. So he made a plan.

After few days he met the Dharmabuddhi and said to him, “Oh my dear friend, I want to tell you something. We need to earn money for our future needs when we grow old, when we unable to earn money. So we will travel to some other town to earn much money. And if we will go for far off city we will have some stories to our children and grand children.”

Dharmabuddhi did not understand his motive behind this plan and agreed to him. They took the blessings of their parents and elders to travel to a distant town. After few days on a lucky day they started their journey.

They reached a distant town. They spread their business and earn a lot of money due to the skills, knowledge and abilities of Dharmabuddhi. After many days when they earn sufficient money, they decided to return to their home town. So they start their journey to their home. When they reached their village Papabuddhi said to Dharmabuddhi, “Dear, we earn a lot of money but it is not safe to take away all the money together to home. Our friends and relatives may request us for money and there is also a danger of theft.” He continued his plan, “We should hide our money at a safe place where nobody steal it. We keep some of money with our self for our needs. Whenever we need the money, we can together come to that place ant take away our money.”

As the Dharmabuddhi did not know the intentions of him behind this plan he agreed to him. They went to a jungle and buried most of the money under a tree and returned to their home with some of the money.

After few days Papabuddhi, the wrong minded person as he was, he decided to steal the money. So he went to the jungle alone in the night at the place where they hide the money under the tree. He dug out the pit and uncovered all the money. He closed the pit as before and returned home with all the money, and hid this money at some other place.

Days passes away and one day Papabuddhi went to the meet the Dharmabuddhi and pretending that nothing has happened. He said to Dharmabuddhi, “Dear, as I have a huge family the money which I have taken had been spent completely. So we should go together to the place where we hid the money to taken out some of the money.”

 

 

Dharmabuddhi agreed to him, they together reached the place they had buried their all the money in the jungle. They dug out the pit but there was no money there as the Papabuddhi already taken out the money before. Papabuddhi start pretending and started beating his head, shouted loudly on the Dharmabuddhi, “It is you who steal all the money. As nobody knew about this secret place that we hide the money here.  If you do not return me half of the money, I shall complain to the village elders for justice.” After listening this Dharmabuddhi get shocked and said, “What are you telling? I have not done such type of theft. Why are you blaming me for all this? I am a righteous man.”

Within few minutes they started quarrelling and reached the village elders for justice. The village elders asked them to promise in front of the Fire – God to reveal the truth.

Listening this Papabuddhi said that, “First we can request the soul of the tree to stand as a witness. Because it’s all happened in front of the tree where we buried all the money. It’s become easy for us to know the truth that who the thief is. After that we promise before the Fire- God.” The village elders were agreed and said, "We all go the jungle together, and request the soul of the tree to reveal the truth to us. If it’s fail then we will take promise in front of the Fire- God.”

Then Papabuddhi thought, “I might be getting caught for stealing the money.” So he immediately went to his home to his father and said, “I have stolen the money from Dharmabuddhi which we earn together. And we take this matter to the village elders. Now I feared to might be caught. Please help me, your help will save me from the punishment and we put the blame on Dharmabuddhi. If you do not help me I am not only lose the money but may also lose my life for stealing the money.”

His father agreed to help him and said, “Son, what should I do to help you to save you from all this.” Papabuddhi explained his plan to him, “we hide the money under the big tree so there is a big hole there now. You have to go inside the hollow before we all of us reached there. Then when we all reached there to request the soul of the tree to reveal the truth, you should take the name of Dharmabuddhi as a real thief. After that I can handle rest of the matter.”

As decided, his father went to the jungle and hid himself in the hollow near the tree. In the morning the Papabuddhi and Dharmabuddhi reached tree in the jungle with village elders where they buried the money. Immediately Papabuddhi started asking the spirit of the tree in a loud voice, “O spirit of the tree, please tell us who the real thief is, we steal the money from here. We all came here to seek the truth.”

As according to the plan Papabuddhi’s father replied from inside the hollow of the tree, “listen carefully, you all came here to reveal the truth. The truth is that Dharmabuddhi is the real culprit, he stolen all the money.”

The village elders were get stunned after listening this. They could not deny now because the spirit of the tree had indeed revealed the truth. Then they all immediately started discussing that how they should punish Dharmabuddhi for his crime.

 

When Dharmabuddhi heard this, he became sure that there was something wrong here. The spirit of the tree if it was so, is telling the untruth. How it can be possible. To know the truth he put a heap of dried leaves and grass at the hollow of tree and then set fire to it. When the fire started burning up, Papabuddhi’s father could not bear the heat inside the hollow any longer. He suddenly came out the hollow and crying for help.

The village elders were surprised to seeing him coming out from the hollow of the tree. The head asked him, “What were you doing here? And what has happened to you?  Papabuddhi’s father immediately confessed his mistake and revealed all the truth what his son had done.

The village elders now came to know the truth and they decided to punish Papabuddhi for his crime to theft, blaming Dharmabuddhi and misleading them. They decided to hang Papabuddhi on the same tree and appreciated Dharmabuddhi for his intelligence.

The wise indeed say:

 Avoid the company of the evil one or you will pay a heavy price for it.

 

 

Once upon a time there lived a merchant’s son in a town. His name was Jveernadhana. He done a lot to get success in his life but he failed to do so. He faced lot of difficulty in his business and lost all his money. So he decided to move to different place to seek other business. He got very costly iron rods from his ancestors. So he decided to keep these rods to a nearby merchant in exchange of some money for his travelling. Then he decided to take over his iron rods after returning from the journey by paying the money of the merchant. 
After some days he started his journey. He travelled all over the country and got success. He earned a lot of money. So he decided to return to his home to start a business in his home town. After returning to his home, first he went to the merchant to take over his iron balances. He said to him, “Dear, Please return my iron balances which I had kept with you before going to my journey.”
The merchant did not want to return it so he decided lying to him. He said, “Dear friend, I sorry but I do not have your iron rods anymore. There is a problem with rats here. The rats eating up the entire thing present here. They also have eaten up yours too. There is no iron balance anymore now.” The merchant’s son understood the whole matter. He told to him, “If the rats eaten up all the things, there is nothing that you can do. This is not your mistake. Anyway, nothing can last forever.” He continued, “I want to go for a bath to the nearby river. Please send your son with me to help me in carrying my belongings and to keep watch on them while I taking bath.”
The other merchant did not understand the motive of the merchant’s son so he agreed with him. He called his son and said to him, “Son, he is your uncle. Please help him to carrying his belongings to the nearby river and looked after them while he take his bath. So that no one can steal his belongings.” The boy agreed to went with the merchant’s son.
After sometime the merchant’s son and the boy went to the nearby river. He took bath there and after it the merchant’s son took the boy to a nearby cave in a jungle. He left the boy inside the dark cave alone and blocked the gate of the cave with a huge stone. After that he returned to the other merchant’s place. Seeing the merchant’s son alone the other merchant asked to him, “Where is my son dear? Why you returned alone? Is everything alright.” The merchant’s son replied to him and narrating a false story, “Dear I feel so sorry for you. “When I was taking my bath in the river your son standing near the river and kept watching my belongings. Suddenly there came a flamingo, which is flying there, near to him and took away your boy with him in its claws. I tried to rescue him from his claw but could not do anything.”

After hearing this the other merchant got very angry and shouted on him. He said to him, “Why are you lying to me? How can a flamingo carrying a boy in its claws. It’s impossible. You are a liar. I shall complain about you to the village elder person.”
The merchant’s son did not say anything to him and then the other merchant carried him to the village elders and started complaining. He said to them, “he is a shameful person, who kidnapped my son.” The village elders ordered him, “How can you do this?  Return his son to him immediately!" But the merchant’s son remained as it was. He said to them, “It’s not my fault. I have done nothing; a flamingo came down near to the boy at the bank of river and carried him in its claws.”
Hearing this all the village elders got very angry. The chief of them shouted on him, “How can a flamingo carried a child in its claw? You are lying!" The merchant’s son replied to them, “Sir! In a town where rats can eat iron, then why cannot a flamingo carry a child?" The village elders get shocked after hearing this. They asked to him, “What are you saying? Where do you see the rat eating the iron? What do you want to say? Please tell clearly.” 
The merchant’s son then narrated the entire story to them and told them how he had hidden the merchant’s boy in the cave to get his iron rods back from the merchant. When they all heard the entire story of the merchant’s son they understood the whole matter and all started laughing. The other merchant was ashamed on his doing. The village elders ordered the other merchant to apologise for his behaviour and to return all the iron balances to the merchant’s son immediately and recover his son from the cave.

The wise indeed say: 

“Tit for tat” is the best policy in life.

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Once there lived a Brahmin in certain town. He was a thief. It was believed that he became thief due to some reason. He had done some bad things in his previous life. After some days four Brahmins came into this town from a far- away place. They came here to sell some goods. Days after days they made his business very successful. They earned sufficient money. Days passed away the thief kept watch on them making money. Thief got jealous from them and wants to steal their money from them. So he made a plan.
The thief approached the Brahmins as a good fellow. He won their confidence very soon by reciting the holy books by his expressing style. He done his job as effectively that the Brahmins did not understand his plan. The thief requested them to allow him to work with them. The Brahmins were agreed for this. Days passed away and the thief won their confidence. 
One day the Brahmins sold all of their goods and earned a lot of money. They thought it would not be safe to take away all the money. It might be stolen during the journey. So they decided to purchase the jewels with all the money. They kept the jewels inside their thighs after making a cut in it. They hide all the money inside it and pasted their thigh with a special type of ointment to heal it. They did all this work at the time when the thief was with them. So he knew all about hiding the jewels. He thought, “I did not get a chance to steal the money till now. If they went away then how can I able to steal the jewels. So he decided to travel with them to get a chance to steal them on their way. I can give them poison on the way and steal the precious jewels.”
After some time when they all started to leave towards their home, the thief started to pretend to weep. He said to them, “Friends, you are leaving now. Our leaving makes me very sad. We were together from many days and it shared a bond of love between you and me. After your departure I will be left alone here. How I will live without you all. Please take me along with you.” After listening this Brahmins get emotional and decided to take the thief with them. Then they all together started their journey.
On their way, they were going through the jungle and after that they were crossing a village where a wild tribe lived. The chief of the tribe had a magical crow. Crow was his pet and he remains always with the chief. The crow has the power to foresee many things. As they all came near their place, the crow screamed loudly, these men have treasure with them! Kill them! Take away the treasure. Do fast!

 When the tribesmen heard this, they captured all the five friends. They start searching them and their belongings. They even removed their clothes. They searched all the things but found nothing. 
The chief said to them, “You definitely have something precious with you. The crow has magical power. He has never been wrong prediction before. Gave us all your treasure or we kill you all. Tell us the truth where you hide all the treasure. You may be eaten up the treasure, we can open up your stomach to recover the treasure. I warning you tell us the truth.”
The thief who also a Brahmin thought, “If they kill anyone of them and searched their bodies, they will get the jewels. They will not believe me, and kill me too to recover the treasure. Although they will not recover any jewels from my body, but I will die anyway.” He made a plan to get rid from all this and said to the chief, “My Highness, you think that we have hide the treasure in our bodies. But it will be your mistake to sacrifice all of us only to pay for the crow’s wrong prediction! I offer you myself. You can sacrifice me and open my body to recover the treasure if any.”
The chief get agreed from the thief sacrificed himself. The tribesmen killed the thief and looked every part of his body, but they found nothing. The chief was confused and thought for a while that it may be the crow misunderstanding. He humbly said to the remaining four Brahmins, “O Brahmins, it was the mistake of the crow to misunderstood you. We made a mistake to kill one of your friend, for he did not hiding the treasure. I will not want to do further mistake by killing any of you without any reason. I release you all and allow you all to continue your journey.” 
In this way the four Brahmins were saved with all their jewels and continued their journey.

The wise indeed say:

Better an intelligent enemy than a foolish friend.
 

 

Once there lived a pair of sparrows on a huge banyan tree in a jungle. They made a beautiful nest by their hard work. Nest was so beautiful and comfortable that kept protected them in all different seasons. They lived happily there.

One day during the winter season they were in their nest and enjoying the comforts of their nest, suddenly it started raining outside. After sometime there came a monkey on the same tree. He wants to take shelter of the tree as he feel much cold. He wet thoroughly in the rain and he got shivering due to cold. His teeth start chattering in the cold.

When the sparrows were in there nest the female sparrow saw the monkey, she felt pity on the monkey and said to him, “Dear, you have hands and feet as human then why don’t you make a protected home yourself? Why don’t you used his hand to made a shelter for himself?”

As the monkey was already suffering from the cold and the rain he was not in the mood to take any advice from anyone. He got angry after listening the female sparrow and shouted on her, “You stupid sparrow; Why are you advising me? Why can’t you make shut your mouth?”

     But the female sparrow continued her advice. She explained how they made their home and enjoy all the comforts of their home. They did not suffer from any problems either heat, or cold, or rain. This made the monkey very angry and aggressive. The monkey thought, “What a female sparrow! What she think about itself as she the master of all the sciences and philosophies. Why giving my advices without asking to give the same. She made me so angry that i might kill her now. I am already suffering from cold and rain i do not want to hear any advice anymore.” But the female sparrow did not stop herself and continued advising him. At one moment the monkey got as angry as he climbed up the tree and reached the nest of the sparrow. The monkey destroyed her nest completely and the sparrow could not do anything.

The wise indeed say:
 

Give your advice only to those who deserve it, else you will come to grief.

 

Once there lived a king. He had a monkey. The king loved the monkey very much. Although the monkey was a fool, but he was treated as king favourite pet animal. Monkey moved here and there in the palace without any restriction. He also allowed moving freely in the king’s room also. He was treated royally and even moved that places which were not allowed even for other personal servants.

Days passed away. One day when the king slept in his room the monkey kept watch on him so that no one can disturb the king. Suddenly a fly came in the king room and moving here and there in the room. Then fly sat on the chest of the king. The monkey shouted on the fly to go away but the fly would go only for a while and again sat on the king’s chest. This happen again and again, the monkey moved the fly and the fly sat again on the king’s chest. Monkey got very angry and excited, and wants to kill the fly. He starts chasing the fly with a sword. As the fly sat on the king’s chest, the monkey attacked on the fly with his full force. The fly flew away without any injury but the king got severely harm on his chest. King wounded very heavily and due to it he died after sometime.

 

The wise indeed say:

Beware of a foolish friend. He can cause you more harm than your enemy.

      This is story about a man who known for his kind, loving, generous and helping nature. He helps to others because he loves to do so. He does not want anything in returns for his deed.      

             One day when he was moving out of a dusty street he found a purse lying down on the earth and as he lift off the purse he found it empty. There was not a single penny in the purse. Suddenly a woman came there with a policeman as the purse belongs to that lady and she thought the man stole her money. The policeman arrested him without knowing the truth. The lady asked him again and again for the money but he denied. But when she told him that this money is for her son’s school fees the man’s heart got melts and he wanted to help the lady.  So he gave all his money to the lady. The lady left the after getting money and the policeman held the person for further queries.

     When the lady moves towards her home she counted the money and got shocked as the money got doubled. After few days the woman was going to school to pay her son’s school fees she found a man chasing her. As she got afraid she reached a policeman for complaining the man. He was the same policeman whom she met last time when her purse got stolen. The man was very ill so suddenly he got collapsing.  As they come closer to him they noticed that he was the same man whom they arrested the last time. The policeman narrated the whole story to the woman that how the man helped her after hearing about her son’s school fees. The man said to the woman that he chasing her because he want to be sure that nobody steal your son’s school fees .after knowing the truth the woman have nothing to speak. She apologised for her mistake.