The Vanity Ruled Out

Lord Krishna noticed that

The man of restraint Yudhishtria

Was badly infected by Vanity,

While he was watching with

Pride the grand food festival celebrating

The great victory and the coronation

Urging the lord conceive a lesson.

On finding a half gold body

Mongoose rolling on waste

Food, the emperor asked 

For the reason.

The mongoose readily replied that

He found a hungry priest's

Wife, giving a handful of

Left flour to another hungry man

In her act of offering, little flour

Fell to the ground, when he

Rolled on the pious flour

His half body turned gold

Rolling on your worthy

Waste food, unfortunately, my

The half body remained unchanged.

The Lord's divine smile

Made the emperor hung

His crowning head

In the shame