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The village head asked, “Do you have any the ensuing consequences. If we are not aware,
proof or witness for having kept the money there we will face humiliation like the cranes faced with
or removing it from there?” the snake”

Mallu responded “The banyan tree is my Mallu asked his brother to narrate the story
witness” of the cranes and snake.

Village head was surprised and asked both Come let’s learn about the story of the
to assemble at the banyan tree the next day to find cranes in the next and snake, and what happened
out the truth. to Mallu near the banyan tree, in the next month’s
edition.
Meanwhile Mallu asked his brother to hide
inside the hole in the tree and present evidence - Translated by Balaji Gorantla from Telugu Original by
on his behalf.His brother asked him, “Are you Srimathi Molagu Krishna Priya, Veerullapadu
sure you want to do this? When we try to achieve
something smartly, we also need to be aware of

Why and place to another, similarly this body with Indriyas
headed by Manas (mind) is given by the Lord to get
How to liberated from this material world with unceasing
cycle of birth and death and reach the destination,
Thank God ! His abode to serve eternally.

Sa:sthra says the sole purpose of human body
is to totally surrender and offer all services to
Srimannarayana.
edas mention that there are 8.4 million
species of life and the soul after passing vichithra: de:ha sampaththihi
Vthrough several species of life gets a human i:svara:ya nive:dithum
body. Human body is certainly the most wonderful
gift given by Bhagavan. The human body functions But once in this body, one forgets the purpose
like a big factory equipped with organs of knowledge of life and the fickle mind drags one to enjoy material
(jna:ne:ndriyas) and organs of action (karme:ndriyas) pleasures.
which are involved in sensory and motor activities. This wonderful body constituted of different

Sense organs respond to external impulses and motor organs helps us in performing various functions. With
organs do the necessary work. If a question arises the help of hands we do several things, with tongue, we
who is maintaining this amazing factory so efficiently, talk and taste, with legs, we move around, with eyes,
Adithya Hrudayam mentions we see different things, with nose, we smell and so on.
In general, in this world, we always thank anyone who
e:sha supthe:shu ja:garthi does a small favor to us as a sign of gratitude. Then

bhu:the:shu parinishttithaha how can we express our gratitude towards Bhagavan
who has provided us with this wonderful vehicle called
Lord Srimannarayana who as Antharya:mi in
the heart of all beings is awake when all beings are the 'body'? The only way we can thank the Supreme
asleep and He is the one who takes care of everything Lord who is a great 'Donor' is by engaging this body
at all times. A vehicle helps in commuting from one in His service and this is wonderfully instructed by

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