Sunday, 10 November 2013
09. A DEAD BODY
On his return to the palace he was still dissatisfied and was now thinking more often. The king seeing him so changed become very sad. But once again the prince asked for his permission to go out of the palace to see more life in the city. The king agreed as it was of no use trying to stop his son.
This time, too, wearing the clothes of noblemen the prince and Channa went out from the palace walking in many parts of Kapilavattu. Then he saw a few people coming along the street crying while four men at the back were carrying a plank on which a very thin man lay flat and still. He was like a stone, never saying a word. Then the people went little farther, rested the person down on a pile of wood and set the wood on fire. The man did no move as the flames were burning the wood from the all sides.
"What is this, Channa? why does that man lie there so still allowing this people to burn him up?" "He does not know anything. He is dead." replied Channa.
"Dead! Channa, is this called death? and everyone has to be dead like that man?"
"Yes, my dear prince, all living things must die someday. No one can stop death from coming," replied Channa.
The prince was shocked and surprised and he could not say anything more. He thought that it was a terrible thing that such a thing called death should come to everyone, even kings, and sons of kings.Was there no way to stop it? He went home in silence and began to think in his own room in the palace whole day.
He was very sorry and sad and sad, "Everybody in the world must die; no one has found out how to stop it. O, there must be a way to stop it. I must find it out and help the whole world."
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This time, too, wearing the clothes of noblemen the prince and Channa went out from the palace walking in many parts of Kapilavattu. Then he saw a few people coming along the street crying while four men at the back were carrying a plank on which a very thin man lay flat and still. He was like a stone, never saying a word. Then the people went little farther, rested the person down on a pile of wood and set the wood on fire. The man did no move as the flames were burning the wood from the all sides.
"What is this, Channa? why does that man lie there so still allowing this people to burn him up?" "He does not know anything. He is dead." replied Channa.
"Dead! Channa, is this called death? and everyone has to be dead like that man?"
"Yes, my dear prince, all living things must die someday. No one can stop death from coming," replied Channa.
The prince was shocked and surprised and he could not say anything more. He thought that it was a terrible thing that such a thing called death should come to everyone, even kings, and sons of kings.Was there no way to stop it? He went home in silence and began to think in his own room in the palace whole day.
He was very sorry and sad and sad, "Everybody in the world must die; no one has found out how to stop it. O, there must be a way to stop it. I must find it out and help the whole world."
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Sunday, 1 September 2013
08. A SICK MAN
The king very unwillingly allowed the prince to visit the city, but he thought it would not do any good trying to stop him now since it would only make him unhappy. On this occasion the prince went with Channa, dressed up as young men from noble families, because he did not want the people to know them.
This time the city was quite different. no more joyous crowds of people hailed, the prince, no flags, bunting, flowers and well-dressed people, but simple people doing their daily work to earn a living. A black-smith was sweating and pounding to make knives. The jewelers and goldsmith were making necklaces, bangles earrings and rings out of diamonds, gold and silver, The cloth-dyers were dyeing clothes of lovely colour and hanging them up to dry. The bakers were busily baking bread, cakes and sweets and selling them to the customers who ate them still hot. The prince looked at these simple common people. Everyone was very busy, happy and pleased in his work.
He also saw a man on the ground, twisting his body, holding his stomach with both hands and crying out in pain at the top of his voice. All over his face and body were purple patches, his eyes were rolling and he was gasping for breath.
Once again for the second time in his life something made him very sad. At once the prince, very kind person, ran forward and carried the man and resting his head on his knee, patted the man and said, "what is wrong with you, what is wrong?" The sick man could not speak but only cry.
"Channa, tell me why this man is like this?" questioned the prince, "What is the matter with his breath? why does he not talk?"
"O! my prince," said Channa, "do not hold this man like that. This man is sick. His blood is poisoned. He has plague fever and it is burning all over the body and that is why he is crying loudly without being able to speak."
"But are there any other men like this?" asked the prince.
"Yes. you may be the next, if you hold the man so close as that. Please put him down and do not touch him or the plague will come out of him and go to you. you will become the same as he is."
"Are there any bad things, beside this plague, Channa?"
"Yes. my prince, there are hundreds of other kindnesses as painful as his." replied Channa.
"Can no one help it? Will everyone be sick? Can it happen at anytime by surprise?" asked the prince.
"Yes my dear prince." said Channa. "Everybody in this world . No one can stop it and can happen at anytime.One may fall ill and suffer much."
The prince was sadder this time and he returned to the palace and began to think.
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This time the city was quite different. no more joyous crowds of people hailed, the prince, no flags, bunting, flowers and well-dressed people, but simple people doing their daily work to earn a living. A black-smith was sweating and pounding to make knives. The jewelers and goldsmith were making necklaces, bangles earrings and rings out of diamonds, gold and silver, The cloth-dyers were dyeing clothes of lovely colour and hanging them up to dry. The bakers were busily baking bread, cakes and sweets and selling them to the customers who ate them still hot. The prince looked at these simple common people. Everyone was very busy, happy and pleased in his work.
He also saw a man on the ground, twisting his body, holding his stomach with both hands and crying out in pain at the top of his voice. All over his face and body were purple patches, his eyes were rolling and he was gasping for breath.
Once again for the second time in his life something made him very sad. At once the prince, very kind person, ran forward and carried the man and resting his head on his knee, patted the man and said, "what is wrong with you, what is wrong?" The sick man could not speak but only cry.
"Channa, tell me why this man is like this?" questioned the prince, "What is the matter with his breath? why does he not talk?"
"O! my prince," said Channa, "do not hold this man like that. This man is sick. His blood is poisoned. He has plague fever and it is burning all over the body and that is why he is crying loudly without being able to speak."
"But are there any other men like this?" asked the prince.
"Yes. you may be the next, if you hold the man so close as that. Please put him down and do not touch him or the plague will come out of him and go to you. you will become the same as he is."
"Are there any bad things, beside this plague, Channa?"
"Yes. my prince, there are hundreds of other kindnesses as painful as his." replied Channa.
"Can no one help it? Will everyone be sick? Can it happen at anytime by surprise?" asked the prince.
"Yes my dear prince." said Channa. "Everybody in this world . No one can stop it and can happen at anytime.One may fall ill and suffer much."
The prince was sadder this time and he returned to the palace and began to think.
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Wednesday, 3 July 2013
07. AN OLD BEGGAR
After what he had done for the prince the King was satisfied that his son would follow his footsteps and become a king later. He ordered a high wall to be built round the palace including the park. But the prince was not happy in this palace living like a prisoner. One day he told his father, "Father, I must go out of the palace gate and see how other people live."
"Very well, my son," said the king, You shall go outside the palace wall to see how people live in my city. But first I must prepare things,so that all would be good and proper for my noble son's visit."
When the people had decorated the city the king said, "Now you can go, my dear son, and see the city as you please."
As the young prince was going through the streets, all of a sudden, from a small old hut beside the road, out came an old man with long silver gray hair, wearing very old torn, dirty rags. The skin of his face was all dried up and wrinkled. His sunken eyes were dim and he was almost blind. There was no teeth in his mouth. he stood up trembling all over almost bent double holding a stick and he did this with two skinny hands to save himself from falling. The old beggar dragged himself along the street paying no attention to all the gay people around him. He was speaking very feebly, begging people around him to give him food as he would die the very day if he had nothing to eat. The prince saw the old man. He did not know what he was looking at as that was the first time in his life that he saw an old man of this type.
"What is that, Channa?" he asked his driver. "That really cannot be a man! Why is he all bent? What is he trembling for? Why is his hair silver gray, not black like mine? What is wrong with his eyes? Where are his teeth? Is this how some men are born? Tel me, O, good Channa, What does this mean?"
Channa told the prince, That it was an old man but he was not born like that. "When young he was like us and now due to his old age he has become like this." He told prince to forget this man. But the prince was not satisfied.
"Everyone in the world, if he lives long enough become like this man. It cannot be stopped," said Channa.
The prince ordered him to drive back home at once as he was very sad, and wanted to think carefully about that terrible thing called old age; as, a prince and other must one day grow old. weak and sad and none could stop old age, although one is rich, great and powerful.
That night there was a grand Royal treat for the prince.He was not interested or happy at all during the dinner and dance. He was thinking all the time, "Some day you will all grow old. Everyone of you. even the prettiest."
He could not sleep when the time came. He was in bed thinking that one day, everyone would grow old, grey, wrinkled, toothless and ugly like that old beggar. He wanted to know if anyone had found a way to stop this horrible thing - old age
The king, when he heard this story, was very sad and worried and thinking whether this would make his son leave the palace.So he told his attendants to put on more dances and dinners. But the prince begged his father to allow him to see Kapilavatthu on an ordinary day without the people being told of his visit.
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"Very well, my son," said the king, You shall go outside the palace wall to see how people live in my city. But first I must prepare things,so that all would be good and proper for my noble son's visit."
When the people had decorated the city the king said, "Now you can go, my dear son, and see the city as you please."
As the young prince was going through the streets, all of a sudden, from a small old hut beside the road, out came an old man with long silver gray hair, wearing very old torn, dirty rags. The skin of his face was all dried up and wrinkled. His sunken eyes were dim and he was almost blind. There was no teeth in his mouth. he stood up trembling all over almost bent double holding a stick and he did this with two skinny hands to save himself from falling. The old beggar dragged himself along the street paying no attention to all the gay people around him. He was speaking very feebly, begging people around him to give him food as he would die the very day if he had nothing to eat. The prince saw the old man. He did not know what he was looking at as that was the first time in his life that he saw an old man of this type.
"What is that, Channa?" he asked his driver. "That really cannot be a man! Why is he all bent? What is he trembling for? Why is his hair silver gray, not black like mine? What is wrong with his eyes? Where are his teeth? Is this how some men are born? Tel me, O, good Channa, What does this mean?"
Channa told the prince, That it was an old man but he was not born like that. "When young he was like us and now due to his old age he has become like this." He told prince to forget this man. But the prince was not satisfied.
"Everyone in the world, if he lives long enough become like this man. It cannot be stopped," said Channa.
The prince ordered him to drive back home at once as he was very sad, and wanted to think carefully about that terrible thing called old age; as, a prince and other must one day grow old. weak and sad and none could stop old age, although one is rich, great and powerful.
That night there was a grand Royal treat for the prince.He was not interested or happy at all during the dinner and dance. He was thinking all the time, "Some day you will all grow old. Everyone of you. even the prettiest."
He could not sleep when the time came. He was in bed thinking that one day, everyone would grow old, grey, wrinkled, toothless and ugly like that old beggar. He wanted to know if anyone had found a way to stop this horrible thing - old age
The king, when he heard this story, was very sad and worried and thinking whether this would make his son leave the palace.So he told his attendants to put on more dances and dinners. But the prince begged his father to allow him to see Kapilavatthu on an ordinary day without the people being told of his visit.
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