Chinna Katha --- Buddha's Counsel

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Dear Lovers of Chinna Kathas in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone....

 

Here is a Chinna Katha taken from Vedanta Kesari of March issue.

Please enjoy it.

 

Buddha was often asked if there was a God, and he answered, he did

not know. When asked about right conduct, he would reply, " Do good

and be good " .

 

There came five Brahmins, who asked him to settle their discussion.

One said, 'Sir, my book says that God is such and such, and that

this is the way to come to God.' Another said, 'That is wrong, for

my book says such and such, and this is the way to come to God'; and

so the others.

 

He listened calmly to all of t hem, and then asked them one by

one, 'Does any one of your books say that God becomes angry, that He

ever injures anyone, that He is impure?' 'No, Sir, they all teach

that God is pure and good.' 'Then, my friends, why do you not become

pure and good first, that you may know that God is?'

 

Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna

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