18-Pind Daan
Birth
is not the sign of being son
Vikram
was continuing his journey, and Vaitaal was telling him a story - "Vikram, A Braahman lived
in Kaashee Nagaree. He had a beautiful daughter Leelaa. Once Leelaa was
sleeping in her room. Suddenly she woke up hearing some sound, she asked -
"Who is it?" Leelaa saw a young man hiding in a corner of her room. She asked - "How did you come here? Are you a thief?" That
man said - "Yes, I am a thief, but I have not come to steal anything
from your house. I was just going somewhere else to steal that the soldiers had seen me
and I came here to hide from them. I will go after a while, I will not
harm you, so don't worry."
The
then Leelaa heard soldiers' voices. Leelaa believed the thief, so she kept
him in hiding in her room. She got attracted to the thief. She enjoyed his company.
After a while he went away with the promise that he would be coming there
now and then. But he did not come again, because he was caught by king's
soldiers next day only, because he stole things from king's palace. Leelaa had heard
this. That thief was hanged for his crime and thus he was killed. Leelaa
got very sad at this news.
After
some time Leelaa came to know that she was pregnant. And at the same time
her marriage was also fixed. Leelaa kept all secrets with her, she did not tell
anyone anything. She got married and she went to her in-law's house. When the time
came Leelaa gave birth to a son. His father was that thief to whom Leelaa
protected from soldiers some months ago. But only Leelaa knew this. Her husband also did
not doubt anything. Gradually that boy grew up and became a young man.
After some time Leelaa's husband died. The same boy did last rites of his father. Vikram,
That boy was very intelligent. Later his mother also died and he did her
last rites also.
Once
Pitra Amaavasyaa came, so he thought to do Pind Daan at Phalgu
River. He went to Phalgu River along with a Pandit and completed all
formalities of Pind Daan. When the hands came out to take their share, he asked - "Whose hand is this?" A
voice came - "I am your mother." He gave a Pind to her. He again asked -
"Whose hand is this?" A voice came - "I am your
father." Then he saw two hands rising. Whose is this third
hand?" The voice came - "I am your father."
Hey
Vikram, The man got confused seeing two hands as his father's. He asked
the first hand - "How are you my father?" That hand was thief's
hand, so the thief told him everything. The son said nothing. Then he asked
the second hand - "How are you my father?" The voice came -
"I have brought you up the whole life and considered you as my own
son, and today you are not recognizing your own father?" The son got
confused, to whom to consider his father? To whom to offer Pind Daan?
Vaitaal said - "Now Vikram, you judge, to whom that man should offer
Pind Daan?"
Vikram
said - "Vaitaal, Nobody becomes father just only by giving birth, who
has brought up the child, he is his father. That is why he should offer
Pind Daan to the second hand."
Vaitaal
kept quiet for some time, then said - "You are right, Vikram, You are
one hundred per cent right." The he jumped away
from his shoulder, ran away and hung upside down from the same tree. But Vikram
brought him back and continued his journey. Vaitaal again started his story--
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