Chinna Katha - Sri Rama and the Dog

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Once a dog came to Sri Rama bleeding from blows. Lakshmana was sent to inquire

why it had to receive such blows. The dog said: "I was beaten by a brahmin with

a stick." The brahmin was questioned. He said that the dog always was annoying

him by coming across his path. Rama asked the dog: "Well, how do you want to

punish the brahmin?" The dog said: "Make him a manager of a temple." Rama

replied with wonder: "That would be a reward not a punishment." The dog said:

"No, I was a manager of a temple in my previous birth. It was impossible not to

mishandle or misuse or misappropriate some fraction of God's money. When he is

that manager, he too will get like me this canine birth and perhaps get beaten

too in his subsequent birth."

In fact not only the dog or the brahmin but every one of us are lining off the

property of God, for does not all this belong to Him? What do we do in return

for all benefits we derive from the property of the Lord? We should not simply

eat and sit quiet. We have to render service to the poor and the helpless in a

manner suitable to us.

Source: Chinna Katha II, 219

 

 

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