Welcome everyone to Thought of the week (TOTW). We decided to have this thread (hopefully) each week where a member will post an inspirational story, a story with a moral for us to learn something.
I'm starting the TOTW number 1 with the following story. Enjoy!
Shri Krishna used to play different kinds of games with his gopal-baals. "I am the ox. You are the cows", saying this He used to run behind them. "I am the King and you are the poeple", saying so He used to give orders and make them do many things. Together, they used to play hide and seek, swings and many kinds of ball-games. Aha! What tapas would the gopal-bals have done to play with the Yogeeshvareshvara, Shri Krishna!
One day Shri Krishna set out for playing with His friends and went into the house of a Gopika. Shri Krishna saw that the daughter-in-law of the house was sleeping. Seeing that, Shri Krishna ate away all the curd in her house. Not only that, He put little curd on the Gopika's mouth, who was sleeping, and ran away. Thinking that the daughter-in-law herself eat away all the curd, the mother-in-law punished her. Not able to understand the reason, a gopika complained this to Yashoda as an act of mischief.
Now, let us see what Lord Shri Krishna wanted to teach us through this story:
Note that, the time of the day when this episode happened was not a night. In fact, it must have been the ideal time of the day for work and satisfying one's duties. This is because it is mentioned that Shri Krishna was going to play with His friends. Shri Krishna did not like the daughter-in-law of the house sleeping at such useful hours of the day. Hence He punished her in that way.
Moral:
Through this story, Lord Shri Krishna thus taught us that one must never waste productive hours of the day by sleeping or keeping idle and utilize each and every moment of their human birth by performing satkarmas.
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