Kids Bedtime Story – SEA AND ITS SALTY NATURE
© Anand Vishnu Prakash, YourStoryClub.com
Long ago in ancient times the ocean and sea were full of fresh and sweet water but even they did not know that their destiny was about to be changed in a short time. In the same era in India there lived an old man who had two sons, the younger Ram one was obedient, honest and hard working while the elder one Raghunath was lazy and used to go for short cut methods in doing his work.
One day the old man became ill and before dying he told both his sons and their wives that they should live together in unity and never be jealous of each other and live together on the piece of land they owned. But after the old man died the elder brother and his wife grabbed all the land and gave only a small portion of land to his younger brother and also threw them outside the house.
The younger brother quietly accepted his fate and along with his wife started living in small kuchcha house(mud house). Whatever he could grow on the small piece of land he used to sell and earn a living, his wife was good in pot making and she would make good pots which they later would sell. In the mean time his elder brother by trickey gained a lot of money and doubled the size of their old house but never gave anything to his younger brother.
One day a Sadhu(priest) came knocking on elder brothers door but was refused any alms or food rather the elder brother abused and harassed the sadhu. The sadhu quietly came to younger brothers house and asked for some food, whatever Ram could give he offered to the Sadhu who ate it and took some rest in their house. After taking rest when he was about to leave he gave Ram a chakki(stone mill used in India in olden times) and told Ram that it was a magical chakki whenever he wanted anything they should say “chakki bhai chakki chal”(rotate mill) it would start rotating and then ask whatever they wanted it would on the spot produce it and when they wanted to stop it they should say “chakki bhaichakki ruk” and it would stop,saying this the Sadhu blessed them and went away.
Ram and his wife in order to check did as the sadhu said and asked for some food and they were served with one of the most tastiest food they could have. Then Ram asked for some money and he was granted. In a few days Ram built an average looking good house and started living a simple life and also he used to help the poor and needy with the money.
One day his elder brother Raghunaths wife spied on him and saw him asking the mill to give him some Gold jewelry as Ram had to give it to a poor man who’s daughter was getting married, she quickely went and told to her husband who was shocked and did not believe his wife but later in the evening he saw Ram and his wife going with bag full of new and beautiful clothes somewhere.
When they had left he and his wife broke open Ram’s door stole all his money that was in the house and took the chakki with them. They packed their bags and left their house happy that they were now going to be rich for their whole life. They boarded a ship and set sail to a foreign land on their way when they were having lunch inside their cabin Raghunath told his wife to get some namak (salt) for the salad, she said she did not bring any with her and might have put less in the food also in haste.
So What? we have the chakki we can ask it, so Raghunath’s wife went to the chakki and said “chakki bhai chakki chal”,Chakki bhai chakki namak and soon there was salt she took some with her and gave it to her husband and they had their food, after some time she saw whole floor near the chakki full of salt, she went there and tried to stop the chakki but to no avail, her husband asked what happened and she told him that she only saw his brother see how to start it but in her haste did not see how to stop it, in the mean- time chakki went on producing salt after salt soon their cabin was full of salt and they had to move out of their cabin, the people and authorities on the ship did not know what to do and soon the ship started sinking due to the weight of the salt that was being constantly produced on it by chakki.
After about 3 hours the ship sank and so did the whole crew with it but chakki went on spinning and it still is spinning and producing salt and making our seas and oceans water salty so If any one of you finds the chakki when out in sea deep diving or on some expedition do say “Chakki bahi chakki ruk”
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