MALUTA-JATAKA.

MALUTA-JATAKA.


Brothers there are always differences amongst the followers of the great Gurus or Buddha! Who are these Buddha?  They are the people around you. Living peaceful life with a great drive force commanded by the almighty God!
They are the people who enjoy the great wealth by virtue and not by just looting poor people. They live the life, with love by all other around them. Not only relatives respect them but common men also respect them. The mighty people, when you see around, may be like any of the Hero your look into their behavior and feel you could be like them. 


When two great people are around they will have same idea about something, which they will try to put differently or in pursuit to show I am the great they will try to put differences. following story presents a similar situation.....


"In light or dark."--This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana about two Brethren (Bhikkhus) who had joined the Brotherhood (Sangha) in their old age. Tradition says that they were living in a forest-dwelling in the Kosala country, and that one was named the Elder Dark and the other the Elder Light. Now one day Light said to Dark, "Sir, at what time does what is called cold appears?" "It appears in the dark half of the month." And one day Dark said to Light, "Sir, at what time does what is called cold appear?" "It appears in the light half of the month."


As the pair of them together could not solve the question, they went to the Master and with due salutation asked, saying, "Sir, at what time does what is called cold appear?"


After the Master had heard what they had to say, he said, "Brethren, in bygone days also, I answered for you this same question; but your previous existences have become confused in your minds." And so saying, he told this story of the past.


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Once on a time at the foot of a certain mountain there were living together in one and the same cave two friends, a lion and a tiger. The Bodhisattva too was living at the foot of the same hill, as a hermit.


Now one day a dispute arose between the two friends about the cold. The tiger said it was cold in the dark half of the month, whilst the lion maintained that it was cold in the light half. As the two of them together could not settle the question, they put it to the Bodhisattva. He repeated this stanza


In light or dark half, whensoever the wind
 Doth blow, 'tis cold. For cold is caused by wind.
 And, therefore, I decide you both are right.


Thus did the Bodhisattva make peace between those friends.


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When the Master had ended his lesson in support of what he had said as to his having answered the same question in bygone days, he preached the Four Truths, at the close where of both of the Elders won the Fruit of the First Path. The Master showed the connection and identified the Birth, by saying, "Dark was the tiger of those days, Light the lion, and I myself the ascetic who answered the question."