Read the story to know
your wealth, number of children
and age .
By
P.R.Ramachander
(I read it in Tamil in a face book message .It is told by
THiru Muruga Krupaanda Variaar , who
lived all his life teaching religion
and way to live,)
There was a great
sage who only told truth,
And ate only
in a home where truth is told.
One day when he went
to a village and wanted to eat,
And told about this, they showed the home of a rich ,
AS well as old
merchant, who had four sons.”
As soon as the
sage went there the merchant ,
Came running to
hospitably receive him and give him
food,
But the sage told
him , “I only eat in a home where
truth is told”,
And the merchant
assured him that he only told the truth.
The sage wanted
to test the merchant about that
and,
He asked ”How much wealth you have?” and he told “Twenty two thousand rupees”
Saint again asked “How many children you have.” And he
said , only one sir”.
And saint asked “How
old are you?” and he said ,”three years
Five months, seven hours and sixteen and a half hours”
The sage got livid with rage and when he was about to walk out,
The merchant told him
that he had only said the truth and nothing but truth,
And the saint asked him, “Others say you have one lakh rupees wealth”,
And the merchant told, “Yes, that is the money in my box , but,
I have given only twenty two thousand as charity so far ,
And that is the only wealth that
would be mine even when I die.”
The sage asked “People say you have four sons” and the merchant said,
“Four were born to me
and I will summon them before
you now and he called,
“Hey Nataraj” and he replied , “Father I am playing cards and cannot come now”
Then he called “Hey Velu” and he said “Why are you shouting, shut up”
Then he called “Hey Siva” and he said, “Hey fool, why don’t
you die”
And then he called “Hey Muruga” and the boy came running
to help him:,
And then the merchant told , “Do you now agree
that I have only one son.”
The sage then
asked, “You look about 70 years old and
what about ,
The non sense you
told ?” and then the merchant told him,
“Every day I worship God
only for one and half hours,
After the age of attaining ten years
of age and I believe,
That this is my age and multiplied by sixty I told you my total age,”
The sage was convinced that it was truth and ate in his home.
This story tells
us all that what money we gave in
charity only is ours,
The son who
respects us and obeys us is our only son,
And the ime we
spend in worship is the time we have
really lived.,
This was a great story
by the great Thiru Muruga
Kripananda Varriaar.
