Inspirational English Story : The Sage and Disciple
The
great sage once had a group of disciples. They were all very bright and eager students and the sage
had all the reasons to proud of them. One day the sage realized that he has
imparted enough knowledge to his disciples. Now they were all very learned.
There was only one thing the sage had not taught them, and that was the special
verse that could bring the dead back to life. The sage knew that such knowledge
was too wonderful and could prove to be a dangerous thing in hands of someone
who was not very wise. The sage pondered
over this for a long time. But he also knew that if he did not pass on the
secret verse, it could be die with him. So, at last he called his cleverest
disciple aside and said “I am going to teach you a very special verse. If you
chant this you can bring to life a dead person or animal .Use only when you
need it and never misuse or test your powers in vainly.” He then called all the
disciples together and said “I am sending you all into the forest for forty
days. Go together and come together. Each one you have to guide one another and
do good things.”
So
the disciples started out together into the forest. They were all united. But
the clever disciple who knew the verse wanted to show he was better than the
others. As they walked into the forest, they came across a dead tiger on the
way. It was huge and looked wickedly fierce
even when dead. The clever disciple stopped and said to the other, “Now I am
going to show you what our teacher has taught me alone. He has taught me how to
bring life back into the dead.” The others would not believe him and he said, “I
will prove it to you by bringing this tiger back to life.” But other disciples
said “do not do anything to prove your knowledge vainly. Moreover, if you put
life into this tiger, it will only turn on us and kill us all. This will not be
a wise thing to do.”
But
the clever disciple had decided to prove himself and prepared to recite the
verse. But before he died so, the other disciples scrambled up to the topmost
branches of a big tree nearby. The disciple then recited the magical verse. The
tiger slowly began to breath. “It’s working” cried the disciple in excitement and joy. The tiger opened its eyes
and saw him jumping and shouting in front of him. Roaring loudly, the tiger pounced on the poor disciple and killed
that disciple.
The
other disciples on the tree watched helplessly as the tiger threw down the dead
body of the disciple and went away into the forest. After some time the
disciples came down, took the body and went to the sage. The sage looked at
them and said, “Now you see what can happen if you don’t use your learning
wisely. Let this be a lesson for you.” With that, the sage uttered the magic
verse and brought the dead disciple back to life. The sage then taught the
verse to all his disciples and sent them into the world to do well. He was sure
that after such a lesson, they would be wiser and use their knowledge and
learning only for doing good things.
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