Thread by @gowkinkara

KATHA SRAVANTHI ( BEDTIME STORY 2/2/22):
Once Krishna and Arjuna were walking, when they come across a poor Brahmin begging for alms. Feeling sad for him, Arjuna gives a bag od gold coins to him. Very happy, the Brahmin, planning what to do with the money, walks home. Just as he

Was reaching home, a thief grabs the bag of gold coins from him and runs away. Crying and wailing , he reaches home cursing his fate. The next day when Arjuna sees him begging again, and knowing his story, gives a huge diamond out of pity. He safely takes the diamond home, and

Safely keeps it in a pot in the kitchen, and happily sleeps while planning what he would do with the money after selling the diamond. In the morning he finds the pot missing and frantically searching for it,sees his wife carrying water in that pot from the nearby river and coming

Home. He runs to her,empties the water and after finding the diamond missing realises that it must have dropped from the pot while his wife was filling water. Cursing his wife and his fate, he again goes to beg. Arjuna again comes across him begging, and knowing the story,remains

Silent, and walks back to Krishna saying that may be it isn't in the Brahmin's fortune to get money. Krishna smiles and gives a copper coin to the Brahmin. Disappointed the Brahmin walks away bowing to Krishna. On the way he comes across a fisherman who has just caught a big fish

And who was wriggling for life. He felt pity on the fish, and thinking the copper coin would not be of much use to him, he buys the fish from the fisherman, and when he was about to release it into the water, he sees something glowing in the fish's mouth and recognises as the

Diamond lost by his wife, and takes the diamond and releases the fish into the river, screaming "I found it ". The thief who stole his purse of gold coins heard this, and thinking the Brahmin from whom he stole recognised him, and scared that he would report him to the king,gives

Back the purse of gold coins to him, and begs for his forgiveness and runs away. Extremely happy of getting back what he lost, he thanks God, and leaves with a determination to do more work of Dharma. Arjuna who along with Krishna, who were following him asks Krishna surprised

How it happened.Krishna smiles and says that the moment the Brahmin thought about another's life with compassion,all his Papa karma got destroyed,and he got fortune. As it is said
"Paropakaram idham shareeram,
Dharmo rakshati rakshitaha",
When he stuck to Dharma, Dharma saved him