Story of Brahmin ad Untrustworthy
wife
Once upon a time, a
Brahmin named Yagnadatta lived in a city. He had a wife who was not
trustworthy. She had a lover to whom she would secretly send every day
delicious food she made. One day, her husband found out what she was doing.
He asked her, “My dear,
you are making every day some special dish or the other and taking it out of
the house. Tell me, what is the truth.”
With great presence of
mind, she told Yagnadatta, “Every day I am fasting and taking this food to
offer to the Goddess.” To allay suspicion, she collected food and telling
her husband that she was leaving for the temple, left home. The husband
began following her secretly and when she went to the tank to bathe, he went
to the temple of the Goddess and hid behind the idol.
After taking bath in
the tank, the Brahmin’s wife came to the temple from the tank and began
praying the Goddess, “O mother, tell me how can I render my husband blind?”
The Brahmin, hiding
behind the idol, changed his voice and said, “O great devotee, you feed your
husband daily with good and delicious food. Very soon he will become blind.”
From then onwards, the
wife began feeding her husband with delicacies. Soon, the Brahmin complained
to the wife that he was not able to see clearly. The wife thought that the
Goddess had at last fulfilled her desire.
Encouraged by the
Brahmin’s blindness, his wife’s lover began visiting her without any fear.
One day, Yagnadatta saw him and his wife together. The lover ignored him
thinking the Brahmin was blind. Yagnadatta then thrashed the lover so hard
that he died. The Brahmin then cut the nose of his wife.
Moral of the Story :
He survives who anticipates a danger and acts to avert it, He who does not
comes to grief. |