Bedtime story:
Sage Kaushika, was a great scholar, and he was always busy learning and studying. One day, he was irritated by his aged parents, who were dependent on him, and thought them as a disturbance to his quest for knowledge, and left home to a forest, to do tapasya.+
Sage Kaushika, was a great scholar, and he was always busy learning and studying. One day, he was irritated by his aged parents, who were dependent on him, and thought them as a disturbance to his quest for knowledge, and left home to a forest, to do tapasya.+
One day while he was doing his Sandhya Vandana, a bird dropped it's excreta on him, and he angrily looked at the bird, which immediately burnt to ashes. Took over by pride that he attained powers by his tapasya, he leaves the forest , and reaches a village. He stops at a house +
And asks for bhiksha. The lady of the house without coming out tells that her husband is in middle of the meal and she would come immediately after he's done. Kaushika gets very angry, and when she comes out with bhiksha, duly apologising for the delay, screams at her and +
Threatens to curse her. The lady remains cool and explains she is following her dharma, and she is not a bird to be burnt to ashes with his remorseless anger. Astonished, kaushika asks her what penance she did. She replies, she only follows her dharma staunchly. He pleads with+
Her to teach her Dharma, to which she asks him to learn it from Dharmavyadha, in the nearby village. Thanking her, he leaves . On reaching the village, he asks for dharmavyadha and to his shock, he finds out that he is a butcher. He nevertheless waits for him to finish his job+
With various thoughts in his mind.
Dharmavyadha, once done with his work, comes and greets kaushika, for which kaushika replies that he has been sent to learn dharma from him, and what can he, a butcher, teach him dharma. Dharmavyadha smiles and says, I do my duties which I am +
Dharmavyadha, once done with his work, comes and greets kaushika, for which kaushika replies that he has been sent to learn dharma from him, and what can he, a butcher, teach him dharma. Dharmavyadha smiles and says, I do my duties which I am +
Entitled to as inheritance. That is my dharma. I neither have the attachment or disgust of my duty. I don't neglect or leave my parents in selfish pursuit of knowledge and I follow the doctrines of the scriptures. Kaushika realises his mistake and understands that there is no +
Penance or learning than following one's Dharma, and leaves to his home to take care of his parents and duties.
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