Coup On Literature – 3 [Gossips about the personal lives]

In Bhagavad Geetha, God Krishna tells us: - just like tortoise, in which manner it pulls its four legs and head in side, we should pull or control our Panchendriyams i.e. Eye, Ear, Nose, Tongue and Skin. Being matured living being, being civilized human being, is it not necessary to behave with balance?

Here an old fable, I explain to you.

అనగా అనగా ………..

Long long ago; there was a king. One day he was in his evening walk over the terrace of his palace. His chief minister approached him and informed him about a Sevier political problem. To inform such was his duty. There was nothing wrong in his performance. But king was helpless to find a solution to that problem. Due to his incapacity or disability to solve the problem, he got anger. On whom he had to express? On himself or on Minister, Other wise he should control his temper. If he could control his temper, he might find any solution. But he didn’t balance his temper, so that he had given a forceful slop on cheek of the Chief Minister. Being subordinate to king, the Minister kept silence, bared it, and left the place. The Army Chief met him on the way. Without giving any proper reason, by talking non-sense, he had given some more forceful slop on the cheek of Army chief. Some case with him. He done the same on the soldier and the soldier delivered it on a poor former who was going on the road. The farmer had beaten his goat with a stick.

That’s all!

The temper of king successfully travelled up to the innocent animal. If he could control it, how many lives could avoid violence? Same story we can apply to Boss, subordinate, his wife, his children etc. etc. How much easy to pollute the society, by making people to forget self-awareness such as self-control and self-decency?

Now-a-days, while compare with T.V. watching in common man’s life, readability had minimized like anything. In those T.V. serials, all most in all languages, stories are based up on, among coups & spying on the family members or among the business companies. Some characters scold the other characters in their obsense. No sense of control of tongue.

Actually, God had given us two eyes, two ears, two hands and two legs but only one mouth and only one tongue to see more, to hear more, to do more but to eat less and to talk less. This symbolic thought I read somewhere.

But now we are observing loose tongue in the most of the people.

In this context, I want to narrate you a beautiful story of Raja Vikramarka, which consist 365 stories. These stories provocateur the imagination power, logical sense and common sense in us. In that long story, one context is Raja Vikramadithya and Bhethala. To overpower Bhetala, the boss of Bhootha Ganas, who has superstiticial powers there was one condition. Bhethala was in the form of a corpse and hung from a banyan tree. When Raja Vikram lifted it, by keeping it on his shoulder and walking towards the burial ground to fulfill his promise to a saint, Bhethala in that corpse would tell a story to the King i.e. Raja Vikramadithya. Through out the story listening, the king should maintain silence. At the end of the story narration, Bethala would ask the king a connecting question to answer. If the king knew the answer, but not replying to keep his silence, the head of the king would break into thousand pieces. If the king talks i.e. giving reply, the silence could break, immediately Bhethala would disappear from his shoulder and reappear on the banyan tree. Again, he has to effort to overpower Bhethala. Again, the story, again replies. Again disappear. So that the king had only one alternative as he should not know the answer of that question. But king Vikramadithya was great scholar, talented and intelligent. He was known so many things so that he could answer Bhethala’s question. You see, knowledge is the disadvantage here. Any why let us enter into the story which was told by Bhethala to king Vikram.

అనగా అనగా ………..

Long long ago; there was a village. One day a young Brahmin approached a house and urged for food. The house wife had given him food in a bamboo basket. He took it and reached village tank. As per his custom, he wanted to have a bath before taking food. He kept his food basket under the shade of a big banyan tree, on a bank of the tank and he was taking bath in the water. At that moment, an eagle came on to the branch of that banyan tree. If caught hold of a poisonous snake in its paws. By sitting on the branch, it started to kill the snake to eat it. Under that branch only, our young man kept his food basket. When the eagle was tearing the snake, with death pain, the snake vomited poison. That poison had fallen on the food. After taking, both the young Brahmin ate that food, because he didn’t know what happened. Immediately he died. After telling this story Bhethala asked the king “Oh! King! Who is the cause of the death of the Brahmin young man? Who is responsible to the sin of assassination of the young man? The housewife, the eagle, the snake or Brahmin boy himself? If you break silence, I’ll disappear from here. If you don’t give reply by knowing the answer, your head break into thousand pieces.” Oh reader! Can you tell the answer? Please wait! Before you say the reply, I narrate the king’s answer to you.

The king replied “oh! Bhethal, when a hungry person ask for food, being host, by giving food to him, there was faith, but nothing sin with house wife. So she would not liable to that Brahmin hatya Patakam [In Indian believes, Brahma hatya patakam means killing of a ‘Sadhu’ i.e. Brahmin person i.e. not by birth but by nature, is greatest sin] for the eagle, snake was its food given by nature or by God. So eating a snake on the branch of the tree was not sin. So eagle was not liable to sin. Being killed by eagle, while experiencing the pain of death, spraying of poison by snake was natural phenomena. So snake was not liable to the sin. Being Brahmin, with good habits, before taking food, taking bath was good. With hunger also, the young man didn’t forget his good habit. Without knowing the poison mixing in food, he ate it. So he was not liable to the sin. It was only fate. But after hearing this story, if any listener say that some body like house wife or eagle or snake or young man himself is liable to this sin, without thinking properly such listener is liable to this sin.”

Because the answer was correct, Bethal disappeared from the shoulder of the king and appeared as corpse on the banyan tree.

That’s the entire story!

This type of stories instructs readers or listener to use tongue in proper way.

In such case, imagine about the pens of the journalists and inks of print. Media, which is propagating, gossips about the personal lives of cinema stars, crickets and other famous persons without thinking about the hurting of those persons.

If it is business or way to get popularity, people i.e. normal citizens can’t get lead to propagate gossips about their surrounding people? If so, human life is not filled with violence or tarchour? Then where is the address of peace?