Archive for June 28th, 2008
Posted by kathavarta on June 28, 2008
An Ass once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden Image, to be placed in one of its Temples.
As he passed along, the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image.
The Ass, thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect for himself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refused to move another step.
The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, “O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass.”
Moral:
They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.
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Posted by kathavarta on June 28, 2008
An Ass congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and carefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to eat and not even that without hard work.
But when war broke out, a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, and riding him to the charge, rushed into the very midst of the enemy.
The Horse was wounded and fell dead on the battlefield. Then the Ass, seeing all these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse.
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Posted by kathavarta on June 28, 2008
A Traveller hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place.
The day being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the Traveller stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the Ass.
As this afforded only protection for one, and as the Traveller and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them as to which of them had the right to the Shadow.
The owner maintained that he had let the Ass only, and not his Shadow. The Traveller asserted that he had, with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also.
The quarrel proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Ass galloped off.
Moral:
In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
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Posted by kathavarta on June 28, 2008
A man who wanted to buy an Ass went to market, and, coming acrossa likely-looking beast, arranged with the owner that he should be allowed to take him home on trial to see what he was like.
When hereached home, he put him into his stable along with the other asses.
The newcomer took a look round, and immediately went and chose a place next to the laziest and greediest beast in the stable.
When the master saw this he put a halter on him at once, and led him off and handed him over to his owner again.
The latter was a good deal surprised to seem him back so soon, and said, “Why, do you mean to say you havetested him already?”
“I don’t want to put him through any more tests,”replied the other. “I could see what sort of beast he is from the companion he chose for himself.”
Moral:
A man is known by the company he keeps.
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Posted by kathavarta on June 28, 2008
An Ass, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Lord Vishnu to be released from his present service and provided with another master.
Lord Vishnu, after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he had heavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, he petitioned for another change of master.
Lord Vishnu, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he be sold to a tanner.
The Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands, and noting his master’s occupation, said, groaning: “It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him.”
Moral:
He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.
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Posted by kathavarta on June 28, 2008
AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice.
While he was in the act of throwing himself over, his owner seized him by the tail,
endeavoring to pull him back.
When the Ass persisted in his effort, the man let him go and said, “Conquer, but conquer to your cost.”
Moral:
A willful beast must go his own way.
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