Chinna Katha : Jnana ratnapaharaya tasmath jagrata! jagrata!

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This is the story of a remote village. In that village there was only

one well for drinking water. People of the village go with their pails and fetch

water for drinking purpose. One day, suddenly for reasons not known the water

from the well started giving foul smell.

 

The villagers tumbled most of the well water and drained

it. The process continued for at least two to three times. But the

foul smell did not vanish. One day a wise man was passing through

that village. He was a stranger to that village. He found good number of

villagers tumbling water from the well and throwing it out. He inquired the

villagers the reason for their act. They told him about the foul smell.

Immediately the wise man said that there was no point removing water from the

well. First the source for the foul smell must be investigated. Let some

swimmers go to the bottom of the well and find out why that smell was coming.

 

Immediately one swimmer jumped in and brought out a dead dog from the

bottom of the well. Then they removed the residual water. Fresh water oozed from

the spring of the well. Water was as sweet as it was earlier.

 

Without driving away the bad like Kama, Krotha and Lobha

we cannot purify ourselves.

 

Kama krodascha Lobhascha dehe tishtanti taskarah

Jnana ratnapaharaya tasmath jagrata! jagrata!

 

Kama, Krotha and Lobha are residing in our body like

thieves. Be careful they want steal Jnana Ratna in you.