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Good Deeds PUNYA
Story of SHALIBHADRA
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long time ago, a poor widow had a young son. She had to work hard to provide for herself and her son. Once, there was a day of a great festival and neighboring families prepared a tasteful pudding of milk and rice called kheer. The neighborhood kids were enjoying the kheer, and seeing this the poor boy went to his mother and asked her
to make kheer for him too. He did not realize that, his mother did not have enough money to buy the milk, rice, and sugar needed for making kheer. The mother tried to explain the situation, but the boy started crying for kheer. The mother could not tolerate his crying, so she said, 'Don't cry, my son, I will make kheer for you." She went to the neighbors and borrowed milk, sugar and rice and made kheer. She served the kheer in an earthen plate, and told him to wait until it had cooled down a little. Then she left to get the water from the well. While the boy waited for kheer to cool, a monk came to the boy's
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