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| .....In the City of Taksasila, at the time of King Dhandara’s reign, a Brahmin domesticated a young calf in his home. He loved the calf as if it was his own son. He tended to it with good care. The Brahmin named the calf ‘Nandhiwisala’. |
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| When years passed, Nandhiwisala had grown up into a sturdy and stalwart bull. He always behaved obediently to the old Brahmin. Although having given the Brahmin years of faithful service, he always found more ways to repay the Brahmin’s kindness out of the sense of obligation. |
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| The old Brahmin set out to meet
the millionaire at his manor and
challenged him to bet on the
ability of Nandhiwisala. |
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The time passed by until a day
before the due date…
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The old Brahmin could not get to sleep that night
because of being taken by nervousness until dawn |
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| The next morning,the old Brahmin and
Nandhiwisala started
their journey into the town.
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| The old Brahmin was jeered and heckled as he and his bull emerged into
the town Those affronted expression
disheartened him almost unable to
walk further.
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At the sight of the 100 loaded carts tightened in rows, the old Brahmin suddenly almost felt faint. |
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At that moment all kinds of negative thoughts rocked the old Brahmin’s mind causing his
emotion ran wild. |
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| When Nandhiwisala heard the old Brahmin called him in such the hurting-the-feelings way in front of the crowd, he felt completely crushed, unable to take on the task but standing still with the stream of tears running down both cheeks.
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That evening, the old Brahmin laid in his bed.
His heart was over-whelmed by severe depression after losing
face and the bet |
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The old Brahmin so
travelled into town again |
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Time passed;
then come
the trail.
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Hearing the endearing words, Nandhiwisala became vigorous. He started pulling the 100 heavy carts. |
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With his tremendous energy, the 100 tightened carts wheeled forward from the spot. |
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All the on-looking city folks, upon seeing the old Brahmin smiling with confidence, raised a loud cheer. |
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Finally, the train of carts slowly and smoothly moved ahead amid the great cheer going up from the crowd.
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All the city folks crowded around the old Brahmin and Nandhiwisala to congratulate and award them with money and gold including other material things. This story obviously demonstrated that the endearing and truthful words of the old Brahmin heartened his bull to complete the almost-impossible mission, receiving the victory that Nandhiwisala intended to requite an obligation to him. |
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Nandhiwisala Jataka |
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The motive of the Lord Buddha’s recollection of this story can be summarized as follows |
.… Once in the time of the Buddha, there were six ordained monks called themselves ‘The Group of Six’. Behaving laxly in Dhamma-Discipline practice, they preferred to embarrass other monks and start a dispute. Often they held their other fellow monks up to ridicule. Sometimes, they made irresponsible and sarcastic remarks about other monastic members. Their behaviours reached the Lord Buddha. The Lord so gave them the forthright admonition. In the conclusion of the reproof, the Enlightened One added that ‘one with harsh speech brings about harm to oneself because being disliked by others even animals.’ Then, He furthered unveiled the story of Nandhiwisala in details as described above.
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:The inspirations drawn from the story of this Jataka: |
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....1. Even though the grateful are willing to pay back their debt of gratitude out of the sense of obligation, it is hard for them to tolerate the harsh and sarcastic speech. Thus, no matter in whatever circumstance, one should not speak roughly to others.
....2. Speaking the pleasant speech is graded 10 among the thirty-eight highest blessings enunciated by the Lord Buddha.
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3. Kind speech implies words that endear us to others. It is not confined only to the use of polite words but has wider implication as follows:
1) Words that arise out one’s kindness and cause the listener to appreciate one’s virtuous character.
2) Words of sincerity and good wishes expressed at the right place and time.
3) Words that are polite, easy on the ear, and meaningful.
4) Words that are encouraging to those who are in the process of developing characteristics of a true friend.
5) Words that are truthful and expressed at the right place and time.
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