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The Priest and The Goat | Panchatantra

There was a religious and devoted Priest in a small village. He was simple and very innocent. One time because of his services he was rewarded with a goat by a wealthy man. The Priest was very happy. He was happily taking the goat over his shoulder and walking towards his home.
On the way, three cheats saw the Priest taking the goat.


The three cheats were very lazy but greedy. They had their eyes on the goat and they want to have the goat for their delicious meal. All of them made a plan and thus they separated and hid at three different places on the way of the Priest.

As soon as, the Priest arrived at a lonely place, one of the cheats came out of his hiding place and asked Priest in a shocking manner, “Sir, what are you doing?  I don’t understand why a pious man like you needs to carry a dog on his shoulders?”  The Priest was surprised to hear such words.  He screamed, “Can’t you see? It’s not a dog but a goat”.  The cheat replied, “Sir, I beg your pardon.  I told you what I saw.  I am sorry if you don’t believe it”.  The Priest was annoyed but started his journey once again.

The Priest had barely walked a distance, when another cheat came out of his hiding place and asked the Priest, “Sir, why do you carry a dead calf on your shoulders?  You seem to be a wise person. Such an act is pure stupidity on your part”.  The Priest yelled, “What? How can you mistake a living goat for a dead calf?”  The second cheat replied, “Sir, you seem to be highly mistaken in this regard.  Either you don’t know how does goat look like or you are doing it knowingly.  I just told you what I saw. Thank you”.  The second cheat went away smiling.  The Priest got confused but continued to walk further.

Again the Priest had covered a little distance when the third cheat met him.  The third cheat asked laughingly, “Sir, why do you carry a donkey on your shoulders?”.  Hearing the words of the third thug, the Priest became really worried.  He started thinking, “Is it really not a goat? Is it some kind of a ghost?”

He thought that the animal he was carrying on his shoulders might really be some sort of ghost, because it transformed itself from the goat into a dog, from a dog into a dead calf and from dead calf into a donkey.  The Priest got frightened to such an extent that he threw the goat on the roadside and ran away.  The three tricksters laughed at the Priest.  They caught the goat and were happy to feast on it.

Moral -

Dear Friends!! 
"Many times Bad people always try to convince you and prove that what you are doing is wrong. But you should not get carried away by what they say and always believe in yourself. !!"

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Story By - Panchatantra Tales
Post By - Khushi

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