One False Step

By Staff

Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 14:03

A king once announced that he will honor with a big gift any brahmin who will agree to do anyone of the following three evil things; 1) He must aver that the Vedas are false, or
2) He must drink liquor, or
3) He must elope with another's wife.
For a long time, no one within the seven seas came forward to do any of these atrocious things.

At last a poor brahmin on the verge of starvation came into court and offered to drink liquor, an evil which he considered the least reprehensible of the three. But, as soon as he got drunk, he began to swear and curse and in the excitement of intoxication, he shouted in the streets that the Vedas are a tissue of lies; he entered the house of his neighbor and assaulted the lady of the house, like the worst criminal of the land. One thing led to another!