Moral Stories Club

King Punishes Ramakrishna

The king of golconda wanted to kill King Krishnadevaraya and sent a spy to Vijaynagar. The spy entered raman’s house and introduced himself as Lakshmi’s long-lost brother “Trilok”, who was lost at the age of eight.

The Spy: Sister, I travelled very far and earn lot of money. I bought you saris and jewels.

Lakshmi:  Is it, we miss you a lot trilok.

Raman enters inside.

Lakshmi: Dear, he is my lost brother Trilok. He has come back after 15 years.

Raman: Is it welcome Trilok, nice to meet you please stay with us.

The spy had written a letter to the king in raman’s handwriting insisting, that the king had to come to his home alone to discuss a secret. When the king came, the spy tried to kill him but the king escaped. Raman came to know about the trick of the spy and he felt very bad. He went to the king and said.

Raman: I feel ashamed of myself for trusting that spy; please punish me for my mistake.

King: No Raman, it was not your fault, I trust you the enemies try many ways to kill me.

Raman: It was my mistake. I was careless, I deserve a punishment.

King: Okay, if that is your wish, death is the punishment but I leave you the choice of how to die.

Raman: Thank you for the choice my lord. I would like to die of old age.

King: I knew you would escape from this punishment, I’m proud of your Raman.

Moral: As a minister it was duty of Raman to be alert for any unforeseen trouble. Unfortunately Raman failed and King himself came into trouble but Raman accepted his mistake and asked for punishment. Of course no one likes to be punished by asking punishment he fulfilled his duty and by his intelligence he escaped from it.

Hungry Horse

One krishnadevaraya had brought a lot of horses from Arabia. He decided to give one horse to each family in his kingdom to take care of the horse. He gave three gold coins for the maintenance of the horse.

King: Raman, here is your horse, take the three gold coins and grow the horse healthy and strong.

All the people including raman were not interested to take the horses. As it was an extra burden on them. Raman wanted to teach the King a lesson. Immediately an idea struck raman’s mind.

Raman: Yes my lord, I will take care of the horse very well.

Raman put the Horse in a small room leaving just a hole in the wall to feed the horse. Once a day he fed the horse only with hay though the hole. The hungry horse got accustomed to grab whatever was let through the hole. After a few months the king ask all his people to bring the horses to the palace. The king became very happy seeing the horses.

King: Very good! All the horses are looking healthy and strong. Where’s your horse raman? Haven’t you brought it?

Raman: I’m sorry Your Majesty, I could not bring the horse here. It cannot be easily controlled.

King: What! Has the horse grown so strong under your care!

Raman: Yes your majesty, could you please send the headman of the royal stable to my house so that we can bring the house here.

King: Of course! I am really eager to feeding to see the horse. You can take more strongmen to bring the horse.

Raman took the men to his house. The headman having a long beard peeped through the hole of the shed. The horse tugged violently at the beard thinking that, it was his hay. The headman cried loudly with pain. Then somehow they managed to bring the horse to the palace. The horse was actually thin and very weak.

King: How did the horse become so weak raman? Haven’t you been feeding it properly? It seems as if you have been spending the 3 gold coin on your family.

Raman: I’m sorry your majesty! You had placed a great burden on the people by giving those horses to rear. Many of our people do not have food to eat but you wanted them to spend money on growing a horse. This horse is a sample to show, how many other people are under nourished due to lack of food.

King: I realized my mistake now Raman. I won’t burden the people anymore.

The king took back the horses. He gave gold coins the people and appreciated Raman’s kindness towards people.

Moral: Krishnadevaraya had put burden on the people without thinking the capacity or liking. People were poor but did not have the courage to offend the king. Raman taught a lesson to the king and made him realize his duty towards his citizens.

Raman Steals Brinjal

Krishnadevaraya ordered his garden to grow a special variety of brinjal, which was seedless; raman tasted the brinjal when he had dinner with the king. He liked it very much.

Raman: You know what, today I had lunch with the king a special dish made of seedless brinjal was served, and it was very tasty.

Lakshmi: Seedless brinjal! I also want to taste it, can you please get it for me?

Raman: But the king is growing them in his garden, the gardener would not allow anyone to take them.

Raman wanted to make his wife happy so he stole a few brinjals from the garden and lakshmi cooked it.

Lakshmi: Here, the delicious dishes ready. Our son is sleeping outside, please wake him up to have dinner. I’m sure he too would like it very much.

Raman sprinkled some water on his son

Raman’s Son: Oh! Oh! It’s raining!

The next morning when the king came to know of the theft, he doubted on raman. He brought raman’s son to the court, thinking that children would not lie.

King: Dear son, did you eat brinjal yesterday?

Raman’s Son: Yes your majesty, it was very tasty.

King: When did you eat it?

Raman’s Son: Yesterday night, I was sleeping in my house and I woke up when it rained and I ate the tasty brinjal.

As there wasn’t any rain on the previous day the king did not have any doubt on raman.

Moral: Stealing something is not a good quality. Ramans wife was the citizen of Vijayanagar and she had all the rights to enjoy any wonder that belonged to Vijay Nagar. When the royal gardener denied to give brinjals raman stole it but later he confessed to the king.

Sharing The Reward

One King Krishnadevaraya arranged for a dance program in his court. He thought Raman would create confusion and spoil the evening by acting smart. So he ordered his guard not to allow raman inside.

Raman: There is a dance program in the court but why did the king now invite me? He would have forgotten, let me go and watch the dance.

Raman tried to enter the court but the guard stopped him.

Guard: Sir! you cannot enter the court.

Raman: Hey, don’t you know me I’m Raman the court jester why should I not enter the court?

Guard: But, Sorry sir! The King has ordered not to let you in.

Raman thought for a while.

Raman: Is it, The King has asked me to come to get some gifts actually he would be waiting for me. If you let me in, I would give you the remaining half for whatever the king gives me.

The guard knew that the king gives gift to raman. So he became greedy.

Guard: All right, you can do it but remember to give me half of what the King gives you.

Second Guard: What do I get for letting you in?

Raman: If you let me in, I would give you the remaining half of whatever the king gives me.

The Guard agreed at once and allowed raman to go in. When the performance is going on raman picked up a stick and began to beat the main dancer.

King: Raman! how dare you enter and spoil the dancer! Guards!  Give him hundred lashes for entering the court uninvited and spoiling the show.

Raman: Thank you for the gift my lord, but I would like to share it with to Guard at the gate. I promised him to share whatever I received from you.

Krishnadevaraya came to know what had happened and punished the god for asking brakes.

Moral: Greedy people are everywhere, Raman taught a good lesson to the guards. Also he made him realize the quality of his soldiers.

Art Sends Our Common Sense

One day, a painter from Raj Nagar came to the vijaynagar court. He was showing his paintings to the king.

King: Wow! The paintings are so good. Raman are you admiring the beauty of the deer?

Raman: Yes majesty, but did you notice that the deer has only one ear.

The king could not say anything, but the painter did not want to accept his mistake.

Painter: This deer is looking at something to its right, that’s why the left ear is not visible.

Raman: But the ear is totally not visible.

The painter got angry.

Painter: An ordinary man like you cannot judge my great works only an admirer understands the beauty of the picture.

Raman wanted to prove, that the painter had committed a mistake.

Raman: Your highness, I would like to show your paintings.

The King understood, there must be a trick behind this and waited eagerly to see what Raman was to do.

King: Sure raman, I shall come with a guest to see your paintings tomorrow.

Next day the king and the painter went to ramans place to see his painting. There are two black canvases kept, one named Horse and the other named grass.

Raman: How are my paintings?

Painter: Your painting just reads horse and grass there is no horse for grass either.

Raman: Oh! The horse, it has gone to eat the grass so you cannot see it.

Painter: Then where is the grass? The horse is eaten all the grass, so you cannot see them too.

Painter: Then what happened to the horse?

Raman: The horse finished eating the grass and she has left. You see, we need to be an admirer to understand the art of painting.

The painter felt ashamed for his mistake.

Moral: Even a great person can commit mistake. It’s not shame making a mistake but person must accept it and correct it and artist from Raj Nagar was not ready to accept his mistake. So Rahman taught him a lesson with his common sense.