PAKKANAR-FORWARD Sunday, February 17, 2008 Posted by Sachin P at 12:00 PM
Dear friends, Yesterday in the Malayalam tele-serial “ Kaliveedu” in theSoorya TV the incident told below was referred to regardingGold ornaments by Pakknar. I felt the story very interesting and got frominternet and forwarding it. I did not know it earlier. Gopalakrishnan 18-3-2024. Pakkanar was a poor man. He used to earn his living by selling winnows madeof bamboo. Every day early in the morning he used to go to the nearby forest tocut bamboo. His wife will make seven winnows out of it. Pakkanar will sell thewinnows by taking it from house to house. He used to make bitter bargain withthe household women for getting good price for his winnows. But his philosophyis that he needs only the money sufficient for a day. Once he got that much hewill leave the place without waiting for the lady who went inside with thewinnow she bought, to bring the money. Pakkanar was a devotee of Lord Shiva. One day Goddess Parvathy,wife of Lord Shiva, appealed to Lord Shiva to save Pakkanar from his poverty bygiving his blessings. Lord Shiva told Goddess Parvathithat Pakkanar won't accept any such things from anybody and he is happy inliving by his own hard earnings. The Goddess was not prepared to accept his version asshe believed that it is the human nature to enjoy on somebody else's earnings.Lord Shiva told her that her assumption is not correct as far as Pakkanar isconcerned and He was prepared to prove it. One day, as usual, Pakkanar went to the forest to cutbamboo. But, to his surprise, when he cut the bamboo, gold coins began to pour down from it.Seeing this Pakkanar ran from that site to another. But the same thing repeatedwherever he went. He then ran away from the forest even without collecting thebamboo he cut, crying that it may be the wish of the Lord that they shouldstarve on that day. On the way he saw three people riding on horseback.They thought that he is running away seeing some wild animals. They asked himwhy he is running away. Pakkanar told them that there is a man killer( aale kolli in Malayalam) and so doesn’t proceedfurther. But ignoring his advice they went ahead keeping their arms ready. Whenthey entered the forest, to their great surprise, they saw heaps of gold coins there.They collected as much as they can in their gunny bags. On their way back home as they felt hungry, they sent one among themto bring food. The man who went for food mixed poisonin the food of his companions to make the entire treasure his own. At this time the other two planned to kill the thirdso that they can own the gold one half each. So theyhide behind a tree and killed him on the way. They then decided to divide the bounty aftereating the food. When they atethe poison mixed food the inevitable happened, both died. The prophecy of Pakkanar became true that wealth is a Man killer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1043102718.3461308.1710733225151%40mail.yahoo.com.
