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Mokshmala - Lesson-32. Truth getting successfully by modesty
When our flesh is to be given while alive, we totally refuse to do so for fear of death because we want to remain alive then what to talk of other birds and
animals who also love to remain alive as much as you or I do. Every living being wants to continue his or its life; none wants to die. As we want to save our life by parting with invaluable wealth in exchange, similarly the life of birds and animals also must be saved. We men are speaking, walking, intelligent higher animals and other living beings cannot argue with us in a language we can understand and so when we give them pain by killing them, we should realise what great sins we commit for our food when we can easily feed ourselves without such flesh and keep away from flesh eating at all. We should therefore constantly remember this saying of chief minister Abhaykumar that every living being loves its life and so protection of the lives of all living beings becomes our highest fundamental religion. There is no religion higher than protection to all living beings. King Shrenik was much satisfied and pleased by this saying of Abhaykumar, besides all the advisers and officers of the king also learnt a very important lesson and all of them took a vow not to eat any flesh as their food since that time till the end of their life. Flesh eating is prohibited and also not hygienically good and besides we do not get it without killing a living being and so it is against good moral and religious life. So they all followed Abhaykumar's teaching and began to give protection to all living beings since then and thereby they brought much joy and happines to themselves.
LESSON-32. TRUTH GETTING SUCCESSFULLY BY MODESTY
EXAMPLE OF KING SHRENIK When King Shrenik was ruling on the throne of the city named Rajagrahi, there lived in it a Chandal a man selling flesh of live animals. Once this Chandal's wife conceived and during this period of conception she had a strong desire to eat mangoes and so she asked her husband to get them for her. Chandal said that it was not the season for mangoes and so he was helpless, otherwise if it were a mango season, he would get it for her even if it was very high on a mango tree by his special mystic power. Chandal's wife replied that she had heard of a mango tree in queen's garden in the city which was yielding mangoes in abundance even in out of the season and on that mango tree, mangoes would be bending down and so her husband should try to get for her mangoes from that mango tree. To satisfy this wish of his wife, he went to that garden and surreptitiously going near that mango tree, by his mystic power, the branches laden with mangoes were bent down and took a few mangoes and by another mystic power that branch returned to its original height. Then he returned home and satisfied his wife's strong wish of eating mangoes. The Chandal repeated this procedure regularly and once the gardener observed the lessening of mangoes and thought somebody must be stealing mangoes and so he reported it to King Shrenik with all humility. Hearing this, King Shrenik asked his very intelligent Cheif Minister to find out the thief of mangoes. Abhaykumar with a clever trick found out Chandal as a thief of mangoes and called him to his court and asked as to how could he get the mangoes from such a high mango tree hoodwinking the sight of so many watchmen of the garden ? Chandal admitted his theft and said, 'Pardon me! I tell the truth that I have mastered a mystic power by which I can bend down a high twig and to bring it to its original height, and it is by this mystic power that I stole away the mangoes of queen's garden regularly to satisfy my wife's desire to eat mangoes. Abhaykumar said he could not pardon him but he could persuade the king to pardon him if he taught him in return his mystic power as he would need it. Chandal agreed to do so. Then Abhaykumar brought this Chandal to the king
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| SR No. | 007663 |
| Book Title | Story Book |
| Original Sutra Author | Shrimad Rajchandra |
| Author | Dinubhai M Patel |
| Publisher | Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 67 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English & Rajchandra |
| File Size | 20 MB |