Bhagavan Ramakrishna's short stories Kovil Kaalai

Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna's short stories.
TEMPLE BULL TURNS INTO BULL HAULING CART

கோவில் காளை போய் வண்டிக்காளை வந்தது  

There is a Vishnu temple by the name Govindaji in Jaipur.  The priests of the temple were Brahmacharis earlier.    So they had moral strength and courage.   Once when the King of jaipur asked these priests to come and meet him the priests did not go and insisted that the King should come and see them.    After sometime these priests got married.   After that, there was no necessity for the King to ask for the priests to come and see him.   Because, the priests themselves started coming to the palace.   They will tell the king -"We have come to Bless the Maharaja!   We have brought the flowers  bedecked to the God Vishnu.   Kindly accept these flowers."  The priests were pushed to a state that it started to be a regular thing of visiting the Maharaja afterwards.     They started having their wishes to be fulfilled by the Raja like their requests of - "Today we have started the construction of our house, the 'annaprasanam' of the child is to be performed, vidyarambha of the child, and it continued to the marriage of the ward."   Their wants increased as the family grew.   Therefore they had to visit the palace often.

Working under someone has always the necessary inherent requirements.    English education has made youngsters also to such employments, where the employers 'boot' them and they quietly suffer with that to have a family life.  A person looses his independence because of the company of a woman and further he cannot live the way he would have liked.   It is like a temple bull has now turned to haul a cart.