Jataka Online » fish http://www.jatakaonline.com Buddhist Tales, Jataka Tales Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:53:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The worry of the big fish http://www.jatakaonline.com/unsequenced-jataka-tales/the-worry-of-the-big-fish http://www.jatakaonline.com/unsequenced-jataka-tales/the-worry-of-the-big-fish#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:43:19 +0000 admin http://www.jlatte.com/?p=24 A long long time ago, there was a big fish swimming happily with it’s wife. The big fish finally stuck with fisherman’s net.

After a while, the fisherman brought the net and put it on the beach, began preparing fire.

Instead of worrying about itself, the big fish was much worried about it’s wife.

It repeatedly muttered to itself, “Being grilled or being impaled are not much suffering. I’m very suffered that my wife would think that I leave her and have a new wife.”

There was a Purohit (a priest of a royal family) walking passed and heard the muttering.

He thought “This pity big fish is much immersed in love and passion. If it die now, it surely will be in hell. I need to help it.” So he buy the fish from the fisherman and free it.

The big fish finally reincarnated as a monk who almost disrobe because thinking of his wife. The wife of the big fish finally reincarnated as the wife of the monk. The Purohit finally reincarnated as the Buddha.

Moral: The greatest suffering is being separated from love.

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