Stone & Leaf goes for pilgrimage to Kashi
This is an imaginary but funny story for children narrated to me by my
Grandma while I was a child.This story is about two friends-A stone & a
leaf who decide to go to kashi(Present day Benares) for pilgrimage-In
fact Kashi also know as Varanasi is in the state of Uttarpradesh in
India and this city is considered to be very holy-Mother ganga flows
through this city and also there is the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple
there.In fact Varanasi is renowned since the days of antiquity to be a
great centre of hindu religious learning.
Ok now let us come back to the story.After many days of journey the
Stone and the leaf reaches Kashi ,takes darshan in all the important
temples and bath themselves in the holy ganges.
Before going to Kashi our little friends the stone and the leaf had a
fight with rain and wind for some silly reason and on their way back
home a heavy wind starts to blow and the leaf gets afraid and says to
the stone that this wind will blow me away,so you please help me-the
stone reciprocates to save his leaf friend from getting lost by sitting
on top of the leaf like a paper weight the wind blows and blows,but
nothing happens to our friends.
Now the wind stops blowing defeated,now the rain decides to interfere in
the matters,rain starts falling.Now it's the turn of the stone to get
nervous because he says that I will dissolve away in this rain so he
tells the leaf to help him-the leaf immediately climbs on top of the
stone and shield the stone from the attack by rain like an umbrella.This
time rain also gets defeated and stops itself.
Now our friends stone and leaf becomes very happy and they start to go
home.Wind and rain again starts to plot against our friends and both of
them attack the stone & the leaf at the same time-now stone& leaf are in
a helpless situation because if the stone tries to help the leaf by
sitting on top of it so as to prevent the leaf from flying away the rain
will dissolve the stone and if the leaf tries to shield the stone from
the rain,the wind will blow it away-so the stone & the leaf are now in a
very bad situation.The wind blew away the leaf and the stone got
dissolved in the torrential rains.This is the tragic ending of the 2
friends.
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