Two shopkeepers of honey

Once upon a time, there lived a lady who was in the profession of selling honey. Her attitude of speaking towards her customers was very nice. Her shop always remained filled with people. She always used to greet her customers happily. Due to this, her customers always used to come to her shop for buying honey. Her customers were also her brand ambassadors, and her popularity was continuously increasing with each passing day.

The Haughty Crow

Once, a wedge of swans was flying through seashore. A crow was also enjoying himself there. He looked at the swans and said with an intention of insulting the swans, "All of you fly so nicely. What else you all can do except flapping your wings and flying!!! Can you also do stunts in air like me?? No, because you only know of flying in a simple manner, nothing else!!"

Camel tied to invisible bond

Once upon a time, a group of people were going somewhere with a caravan of camel. In between the journey, it became dark night and the group decided to stay in tents till morning. Before going to sleep, the people started tying the camels with rope. However, one camel was left with no rope to tie him down. Everybody started discussing about how to get the rope.

Prince Yudhisthira and Truth

Once in the gurukul (school where the children used to live with teacher for the purpose of acquiring knowledge and practical training in ancient India) of Dronacharya, there was a lesson being taught on speaking truth. Guru Drona said to all Kauravas (sons of king Dhritrashtra) and Pandavas (sons of king Pandu including prince Yudhisthira), "Always speak the truth. Never tell a lie." Then he started asking each student to explain what they learned. Everybody said more or less the same thing on their turn (except prince Yudhisthira), "It is always speak the truth and never tell a lie." But Yudhisthira said, "I am sorry respected guru! I have not yet learned the lesson."

King and his dream

Once there lived a king in India. One night he saw a nightmare that an enemy king attacked on his kingdom and defeated him. The king after losing everything in the battle left the field in fear of his life and started living a nomadic life. He even started begging for food. One day it started raining heavily and he had to hide himself inside a cave. It started getting darker and the king started feeling hungry. He somehow managed to come out of cave. He again started begging for food from one home to another. After knocking at very doors unsuccessfully, finally an old lady gave him some raw rice and pulses and said that he could make khichdi (prepared by boiling rice and pulses together along-with some spices) and eat it.

The Lazy Donkey

Once there lived a poor laborer, Bhola, in a village. He used to earn on a daily wage by working for salt merchants. He had a donkey. Bhola always treated his donkey with love and affection. Though Bhola was poor, he never made his donkey to work too hard to earn more money. On the contrary, the donkey was lazy and cunning. Even after having a kind and generous master, he always used to think of some tricks to avoid the work. The poor Bhola had to take some load on his back himself. The donkey used to feel very happy by looking at the condition of his foolish master.

Lion and the sheep

Once there lived a shepherd. Everyday he used to take his sheep for grazing. One day, while his sheep were grazing, he saw a very little lion cub shivering with cold. He went near to him. He felt pity on the condition of the cub. He took the cub with himself and fed him milk. After taking milk, the cub fell asleep. Shepherd thought if he would leave the cub in open forest, it would put the life of cub in danger. So, he kept the cub along-with the herd of sheep. Now, the lion cub started living with sheep. He went with the herd of sheep everyday for grazing in fields. Many years passed and the cub became a young well-built lion.

Frog of a well

There was a very big well in a village. A frog (frog-1) lived inside that well. He used to feel very proud of his well, as it was the biggest well in whole village. All the frogs from nearby wells used to come to meet him regularly. All those frogs also praised the spacious big well. Even during famines in village, that particular well did not dry. The frog-1 had a firm belief that he is living in the best possible location of the whole universe!!!!

Hunchback and Woman's bread

A woman baked chapatti (roti or bread) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words:

Miser inside a well

Once upon a time, there lived a very rich man in a village. He was also very greedy and miserly person. He always used to think of becoming wealthier. However he was good at heart. Whenever he met someone needing help (not financially though!!), he used to help the person.

Elephant of the circus

Once, there lived a man who used to capture animals and sell it to earn money. One day, he captured a small elephant and sold it to a circus owner. The circus owner took the little elephant and tied him with a rope on a bamboo stick. The elephant started getting training on various circus tricks. After the circus is over, the elephant was again tied with a rope on the bamboo stick. The elephant initially tried to get himself free, but he was very small and was not powerful enough to break the bond. This created a belief in his mind that the bond of rope and bamboo in which he is tied is too strong to be broken.

Two ants of sugar and salt hill

Once there lived an ant on the hill of salt (Ant-1). She was very happy as she had enough salt for all her life. One day, another ant (Ant-2) who used to live on the hill of sugar arrived as a guest. Ant-1 greeted her and served her few salt granules. Ant-2 happily took it. Both of them then started talking on various subjects. While talking, Ant-1 asked Ant-2, "So what do you eat?" Ant-2 replied, "I live on the sugar-hill. Whenever I feel hungry, I eat it and it tastes very good." Hearing this, Ant-1 asked how does it taste like and if it is similar to the taste of salt. Ant-2 said, "It tastes sweet and it does not taste like salt. If you want, I can take you there and you can taste it on your own as I am not having words to describe it. It can only be experienced." Ant-1 agreed to the invitation and both ants started getting ready for their journey to sugar-hill.