The Vanity Ruled Out
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