Yudhisthira’s Wisdom

Recently I got some interesting emails from Sydney and New York that I am a lazy and bad blogger. Well, yes that I am. I should say sorry to my those dear readers because they were eagerly waiting my second post on What to do in Nepal which I haven't managed to write yet. They said that their travel plan to Nepal was just stuck in Kathmandu, becuase had they been able to read my second post it would be easier for them to plan their days beyond Kathmandu as well.

I have been busy with one quite new stuff that we, I and some of my friends (they are also bad and lazy! after all they are my friends) are going to start. I will tell more about that later anyway. I will post my second post on What to do in Nepal before this weekend. I promise.

Can you imagine what did I reply to those dear readers of my blog? I sent them a nice moral and a sort of spiritual message that I read when I was at school. They loved it and instantly wrote me back that the message was cool.

It's a short conversation between two great guys of Hinduism. Here it goes:


According to a Hindu scripture Yudhisthira was the man with profound wisdom. Once he was travelling with his other four brothers and the day was very sunny and hot. They were very tired and thirsty, so wanted to drink water. Yudhisthira sent his one brother to fetch water from a nearby lake. Hours passed but the brother didn't come back. He sent his second brother, he also disappeared. He sent the third as well as the fourth ones, but they also didn't return.

Finally, he travelled himself and found all of his brothers dead near the lake. When he was near the corpses of his brothers, Yaksha (water god, by the way) appeared and warned him not to touch anything there unless he answers his questions. Yudhisthira agreed to answer Yaksha's questions.

Yaksha started asking.

"Tell me Yudhisthira what makes the sun shine?”
“The power of God!” Yudhisthira answered.

“What is man’s surest weapon against danger?”
“Courage! Courage is his surest weapon in danger.”

“What gives more to man than even the earth does? What feeds him and sustains him and makes him strong?”
“A mother, surely. A mother is more than the earth.”

“When does a man become loved by his fellows?”
“When he gives up pride.”

“What is that which makes a man happy when he has lost it?”
“Anger.”

“What can a man give up and immediately become rich?”
“Desire.”

Yaksha asked his final question, "What is the most surprising things about humans?"
"Indifference to the inevitability of death! People see everyone dying before their eyes, but they don't realise that they will also have to die one day."

Mr. Yaksha was very happy with Yudhisthira's answers and happily revived all of his dead brothers.

I hope you loved this stuff:)