The moral of the story is—

The moral   of the story   is—

By

P.R.Ramachander

(read   this old meaningful  story  in tamil   from a facebook post  by Rajagopal Sreenivasan. Thanks to  him,)

There   was a  very honest cutter 

who had great  devotion to God,

And one  day , he went to the  forest ,

And saw  a fox without  front  legs  there

The wood cutter  became    very sad  .

That God has left   this poor fox to starve,

And suddenly    a tiger   came to that  spot ,

And wood cutter  rushed  and hid himself well.

The tiger   killed   a big deer   and ate  its flesh,

And whatever  was, he was  not able to eat ,

He left there  and went away   and the fox,

Slowly  moved near the  deer and ate  to his fill

Woodcutter   jumped   with a   great joy and said,

“The moral of   the story is  “God will  never  allow,

Any one to starve  “ and  from that  stopped   working,

And sat  starving  in the   corner   of his home , for some time

No food came  and the wood cutter   went  to the temple ,

And cried   before God and said ,”What mistake  have I committed,

By which you are  making   me starve  to death  without food”

And God told “The moral of the story that  you said was wrong”

“You should have  learnt  on that   that  , the being,

Who has strength  should work hard , eat  whatever it needs,

And then leave   the remaining  to beings which cannot work”

The wood cutter understood    and  started   working forthwith.