

Hence, they went to the innkeeper and asked her for the money box. They could not find their friend anywhere. After some time, the remaining thieves got a doubt and went inside the inn. The thief took the box and quietly escaped from the back door.

So she went inside, got the box and handed it over to him. She came out and asked the rest of the thieves whether she could give the box to him. They are waiting out side”, requested the thief. If you don’t believe, please come out and ask them. She said, ”Look, as you came alone to claim the box, I can not give it.Īs I promised before, I will give the box only if all the four of you come together.” “My friends are waiting outside. The thief went inside and asked her for the money box. As they required some money, they sent one of them to bring the box from the keeper of the Inn. But before they entered the inn, they had some serious discussion amongst themselves. But do not give it to any one of us if we come alone.” She agreed for it and the four men went away.Īfter wandering around for some time in the city, the men again reached back to the inn.

You should give this box only if all of us come together and claim for it. While Ramanna was looking at them, one of them said, “Madam, we will stay here for two or three days.

The inn-keeper was an old lady who was recently been widowed after the death of her husband. They gave a bundle of money to the keeper of the inn. He saw four people, who were thieves, going into an inn. Ramanna was observing the strangers in the city. One day Ramanna went to the capital city of the kingdom. The Old Woman and The Money Box – First Case Of Tenali Raman. Message – Achieving a comfortable life we should have to drank both glass in our life. He soon mastered all learning’s and became famous as the great humorist, the comic poet Ramakrishna.īecause of his great wit and humor, he soon gained popularity as ‘Vikatakavi’. Pleased by his presence of mind and outwitting quality, The Goddess blessed him to attain fame, money and also the ability to make people laugh. He immediately bowed before the mother and explained that life would be complete and comfortable only if one had both fame and money. Mother Kali Devi was very annoyed with him and wanted to curse him. In a split of a second, the clever Ramakrishna drank both. Trusting him, the Goddess handed over the glasses to Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna thought for a second and told the Goddess that he would be able to choose, only if he had a closer look at both the glasses. Asking him to choose one among them, she told him that he would be blessed with knowledge if he chose milk and he would be rich if he chose curd. She blessed him and offered him two glasses, one with milk and one with curd. I was wondering how you would manage to wipe your thousand noses with two hands if you caught cold.” Ramakrishna again fell at her feet and asked her to forgive him for laughing at her.The smile and the sense of humor of the boy pleased the Goddess. A gang of thieves had entered the city, and a string of robberies had. The kotwal (chief of police) of Vijayanagara was a worried man. Still laughing, he replied,” Divine Mother! It is really hard for us to wipe our single nose with two hands. Seeing him laugh uncontrollably, Goddess Kali asked him to tell her the reason for his laughter. Soon after he saw her, he took her blessings by touching her feet and immediately burst in to peals of laughter. She looked terrifying with thousand faces. Listening to his advice, Ramakrishna went and prayed to Goddess Kali sincerely by chanting mantras. After repeating it eleven crore and eleven times, Mother Kali appeared. When he was wandering aimlessly through the streets of the village one day, he met a sage who advised him to pray to Goddess Kali.
