Passage 19

In English

In this context, I will give you a story from the . If you are continuously taught the aspects of Veda, then your interest in the subject will decline. So I propose to narrate some light stories from or to make things easy and give you some relief. In , was a well-known and rich (land owner). The inhabitants of that village had great respect for and they would not disobey him at all. In fact, and were treated by the villagers as if they were their very life-breath. People were lighting up their from ’s house in the hope that if they lit their lamps from such a sacred house, they would imbibe the good ideas and behaviour for which and were famous. In those days, people did not have artificial and unreliable lights as we now have.