A very long time ago, animals from the three different realms namely the land, the sky and the ocean, has their own leader or king. The land's has named the majestic lion as their king. The ocean's has named the gigantic whale as their king. And the sky's has named the golden swan as their king.
The golden swan king had a very beautiful golden daughter. When she was still young, the king granted her one wish. So she wished that when she was old enough, she could pick her own husband. The king was not happy on this but agreed after his beloved daughter persuaded the king.
When his daughter get old enough, she is ready to get a husband. So the golden swan king sermon all the birds living in the vast forest to a gathering. This was to find a worthy husband for his golden daughter. Soon birds from all over the forest gather around the trees and garden near the huge and tallest Banyan tree where the King's lived. There were swans, eagles, sparrows, parrots, owls and many other kinds of birds.
Soon after the arrivals of all birds, the king greed his fellow birds and tells the reason and purpose of the gathering. After his royal's speech, the king asked his lovely daughter to select whichever husband she wished.
She looked over the garden for a rows of birds that standing in from of the Banyan trees as volunteered to be the husband of the King's daughter. Her eye was attracted by a shining emerald-green long necked peacock, with gorgeous flowing tail-feathers. As she whispers to her father and pointing to the peacock, "He is the one, he will be my husband", said the daughter.
The king was also pleased with her selection and announced the news to his fellow birds. After hearing that the peacock was the lucky one, all other birds cheers and congratulate the peacock. All was cheering and happy for him. The crowd was asking him to dance and shows his beautiful feathers. Immediately the peacock was filled with pride and began showing off his colorful feathers in a fantastic strutting dances, circle to show off and head held upward in pride. He was so conceited and forgot all modesty he accidentally showed out his most private parts.
Seeing this, the king and the elders was not happy and amused by him. All the others birds was laughing and giggled and some was embarrassed by the incidents. But the peacock never realized and thoughts that his feathers has made amazed the crowds.
The king get furious and said, "My daughter, as you can see, this peacock has no sense of modesty and he is too proud of himself, I am not going to bestow him to you.". The king's daughter also agreed on his father. So after the quick conversations, the King speaks to the crowds. "My fellow birds, this peacock has no inner shame to give him proper modesty nor does he have the outer fear to prevent indecent behaviour. So why should my daughter be shammed by such a mindless mate?"
Standing in the midst of the tall and huge Banyan tree, the king said, "Sir peacock, your feathers is beautiful and your voice is sweet but you have danced here like one who has no proper shame and self dignity, therefore I announce that I will not permit my daughter to marry such an ignorant fool"
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*This is just a fictional story, so don't take it too real. We all know birds mates with same kind.
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The moral of the story is: If you let your pride go ahead of your actions and mind, you'll end up acting like a fool and losing everything you have.
I picked this as my first Jataka Tales entry because this is best reflecting our current society. Not to said that having pride is bad. You can have sense of pride in results from the satisfaction with meeting your personal goals set by yourself or being pleasant having results from positive self-evaluation but many has blinded by pride and forgotten what they had been made today. At such, their behavior, actions and words not only disgusted many but will also ruining many people lives and also them self. Pride can be very destructive and bring harms to others because pride can lead to being proud and being overly proud, people will soon scratching their head what is being humble means. If we were to have self-humbleness, we will not easily fall and control by pride because no matter how rich you're, how pretty or handsome you're, how intelligent you're, how influential you're, how skillful or powerful you're, you will too die one day. We come with nothing and also go with nothing. Nothing is permanent. A humble person knows that we are all just a human.
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