Passage 23

In English

Adult Education

When I was in school at , I used to teach elders aged between 20 and 30 in . They earned their livelihood by selling Jasmine flowers. I used to teach them in the evening, after coming back from . They revered as their . In the month of , the children of the village would have ceremonial bath in the pond near Temple. Once after the bath, I told them to go round the temple. They asked Me to join them but I feigned leg pain. Upon their loving insistence, I took a round with them. At the end of the first round, a huge monkey blocked My path. The efforts of the others to chase the monkey away, failed. The huge monkey prayed to Me not to go round him. I then explained to the boys that the monkey had come with such a sacred feeling. The huge monkey was none other than himself.