Never did I become interested exploring fables not until I've known Panchatanra-- a famous collection of animal fable in Sanskrit literature from India.
I mostly done reading the Panchatantra stories available in the Internet without being get tired. One story caught my attention entitled "The Power of a Rumor". With just reading its title it gives me a strong impression of what the story would be and I feel curious since I think it would be completely relatable to life then when I read it, it didn't disappoint my expectation.
It happened in the animal world from the album of Sataka Kathaye/Tales. One day, an hare heard a weird striking sound then he got the thought might be the start of the earth is breaking up. He jumped up and ran madly without even observing the direction of the sound. Along his way, he met another hare spreading his perception and then until the news spread to more of the hares. Very soon, thousand of hares were running through the forest.
On seeing hares running through the forest, the other animals too got frightened. The news spread from mouth to mouth and soon, everyone came to know that the earth was breaking. It didn't take much time before all the animals joined the race. The news spread like a wild fire that easy. All creatures whether that reptiles or birds, insects or four-footed animals, everyone was running to escape and their cries creates chaos all around.
The Lion, the king of the forest heard about it. Then, he calmly figured out the main source of the news. Then at last, out from asking several animals it led the lion to the hare. The hare told the lion what happened. The lion investigated the matter and explored the the sound the hare had heard. Untimately, he came to know that the sound had been caused by a large coconut fell on the pile of rocks causing a minor landslide.
The moral of the story is that check the rumor before acting it.
In real life situation, we often get the same thing happened in the animal world. When a friend told us a rumor about a certain matter either about a person, situation or event , without filtering the information, we get believed since we trust that person. And we also tend to spread that rumor to others not knowing if it's true or not which lead to create a chaos , we ourselves get involved into committing falsehood. From this, we define ourselves a product of stupidity and lies that somehow made us to be fallen into turmoil.
To avoid such I remember from the Proverbs 24:28 "Do not be a false witness against your neighbor and also not tear him into pieces with your lips." From this, it teaches us to avoid false acquisition. Putting everything in confusion without even asking and knowing the truth.
In real life, we must apply and learn from this story because it's not really a good behavior to follow. With correct mindset and well-equipped of moral values help us to live in a peaceful lifestyle.
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