Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Story on Krishna's pranks

Shravana month Ashtami thithi (Thursday, August 9th, 2012) marks the auspicious day of Krishna Janmashtami, the birth day of Lord Krishna. Krishna's life is a store house of stories. While some of them sends a message directly, some has many hidden messages. This short story about Krishna's prank is fun to hear and at the same time, has a beautiful message in it.

Krishna was playing with his friend Gopabalakaas. He went silently to one Gopika's cow yard and released the rope tied to a calf and took it near the cow and helped it to drank milk. Seeing this, the Gopika went to Yashoda (Krishna's mother) and complained, "Hey Yashoda, your son Krishna's pranks are growing more these days. He released the rope tied to calf and let it drink all milk from the cow. There is no milk for the babies at home now." Thus the affected mother gave a pity cry. When Yashoda enquired Krishna about it, he told a simple statement with profound meaning. "Like this mother who worries for her child being hungry without milk, will not the cow worry that it could not feed its own calf? That's why I released the calf."
Emotions are same for human beings and other living beings. Through this prank, Krishna laid the importance of taking care of animals in the same status as human beings.

Lets share these fun stories with kids and more importantly try to behold these values in our daily lives.

Story courtesy: www.moralstories.wordpress.com
 

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