The Liar
Bhallu was a liar. He could not sleep if he had not fooled at least two people. One day, as Bhallu stepped out of his house, he saw a man from a neighbouring village. "Hey, I heard the king is giving a grand lunch for everyone. Aren't you going?"
On hearing the word "lunch", the man dashed off to the palace. The people on the road were surprised. He shouted to all he met along the way, "Grand lunch at the palace, Grand lunch at the palace."
Who would forsake a grand lunch? And that too at the palace?
Soon a crowd gathered at the palace.
"What's the problem? There's a crowd out there," the king asked his minister. The minister came out of the palace to find out. "We're all hungry. Isn't the lunch ready? We have come for the grand lunch."
The minister knew that someone had fooled these people. "Okay, stay a while. The lunch is getting ready," he told them.
The crowd waited. The minister asked the royal cooks to get everything ready for a grand lunch.
Soon, he came to the king, "Sir, someone has fooled these people. We should find out who played this joke on them. So we will send our spies, and find out who starte this story."
The spies set out in search of the liar. The search finally led them to Bhallu.
"How come you've not gone for the lunch at the palace?" the spies asked Bhallu.
"Lunch? What a joke! I fooled a fellow saying there is a grand lunch at the palace. He, in turn, told the whole world about it. Now they must all have gathered at the palace. Stupid fellows," Bhallu laughed.
"So you are the culprit," the spies seized Bhallu and brought him before the king.
"Your Majesty, this is the person who fooled all these people."
"For having told lies and fooled my people you will be punished. Guards, whip him a hundred times and send him to prison."
And so, Bhallu got a hundred lashes and is now serving his term in prison, for telling lies and fooling others.
story-2
Disciple duo
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There once lived a pundit, named Poornananda. He had two disciples Nagendra and Krishnendra. One day while the two were on their way to the village Nagendra picked a fight with a horse cart driver and unable to contain himself, he slapped the horsecart driver. The driver fell down. Poornananda who happened to witness the incident, came to the horse driver's rescue, "What have you done, Nagendra? Is this what I taught you?"
Ashamed of his behaviour, Nagendra fell at his guru's feet and begged forgiveness. But Krishnendra, watching all this gleefully said, "Nagendra is a big bully. It's good that you came along, guru. This incident is a shame even to me."
On hearing this, Poornananda was annoyed. "One is a bully. What about the other? Watching the fight with glee. So you too are equally guilty".
Krishnendra too hung his head in shame.
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