Once upon a time there lived a crow with his family on a big banyan tree in a forest. There was a kingdom nearby the forest. In the same tree, a cobra was staying under a hole. When the nest was unguarded, the ate the crows’ eggs. This happened whenever the crows left the nest in search of food. The crows went to his friend jackal for advice. 

The crows decided to follow the jackal’s advice and as per the advice, one of the crows went to the royal kingdom and stole the necklace belonging to the princess which was very precious. The guards followed the crow as he flew slowly towards the banyan tree.

The crow then dropped the necklace in the cobra’s hole. On finding the necklace kept in the cobra’s hole, the guards quickly killed the cobra and took back the necklace. The crows lived happily thereafter.

Moral: One should not give up. Even the most powerful enemies can be defeated with the use of wit.

Long ago, people lived happily under the rule of a king. The people of the kingdom were very happy as they led a very prosperous life with an abundance of wealth and no misfortunes.

Once, the king decided to go visiting places of historical importance and pilgrim centres at distant places. He decided to travel by foot to interact with his people. People of distant places were very happy to have a conversation with their king. They were proud that their king had a kind heart.

After several weeks of travel, the king returned to the palace. He was quite happy that he had visited many pilgrim centres and witnessed his people leading a prosperous life. However, he had one regret.

He had intolerable pain in his feet as it was his first trip by foot covering a long distance. He complained to his ministers that the roads weren't comfortable and that they were very stony. He could not tolerate the pain. He said that he was very much worried about the people who had to walk along those roads as it would be painful for them too!

Considering all this, he ordered his servants to cover the roads in the whole country with leather so that the people of his kingdom can walk comfortably.

The king's ministers were stunned to hear his order as it would mean that thousands of cows would have to be slaughtered in order to get sufficient quantity of leather. And it would cost a huge amount of money also.

Finally, a wise man from the ministry came to the king and said that he had another idea. The king asked what the alternative was. The minister said, "Instead of covering the roads with leather, why don't you just have a piece of leather cut in appropriate shape to cover your feet?"

The king was very much surprised by his suggestion and applauded the wisdom of the minister. He ordered a pair of leather shoes for himself and requested all his countrymen also to wear shoes.

Moral: Instead of trying to change the world, we should try to change ourselves.

Long ago, there lived an old man with his three sons in a deserted village, located in the vicinity of a desert. He had 17 camels, and they were the main source of his income. He used to rent out camels as a means of shipping in the desert. One day, he passed away. He had left a will, leaving his assets for his three sons.

After the funeral and the other obligations were over, the three sons read the will. While their father had divided all the property he had into three equal parts, he had divided the 17 camels in a different way. They were not shared equally among the three as 17 is an odd number and a prime number, which cannot be divided.

The old man had stated that the eldest son will own half of the 17 camels, the middle one will get one third of the 17 camels, and the youngest one will get his share of camels as one ninth!

All of them were stunned to read the will and questioned each other how to divide the 17 camels as mentioned in the will. It is not possible to divide 17 camels and give half of the 17 camels to the eldest one. It is not possible also to divide the camels for the other two sons.

They spent several days thinking of ways to divide the camels as mentioned in the will, but none could find the answer.

They finally took the issue to the wise man in their village. The wise man heard the problem and instantly found a solution. He asked them to bring all the 17 camels to him.

The sons brought the camels to the wise man's place. The wise man added a camel owned by him and made the total number of camels 18.

Now, he asked the first son to read the will. As per the will, the eldest son got half the camels, which now counted to 18 / 2 = 9 camels! The eldest one got 9 camels as his share.

The remaining camels were 9.

The wise man asked the second son to read the will. He was assigned 1 / 3 of the total camels.

It came to 18 / 3 = 6 camels. The second son got 6 camels as his share.

Total number of camels shared by the elder sons - 9 + 6 = 15 camels.

The third son read out his share of camels: 1 / 9th of the total number of camels - 18 / 9 = 2 camels.

The youngest one got 2 camels as his share.

Totally there were 9 + 6 + 2 camels shared by the brothers, which counted to 17 camels.

Now, the one camel added by the wise man was taken back. The wise man solved this problem smartly with his intelligence.

Intelligence is nothing but finding a common ground to solve an issue. In short, every problem has a solution. 

Once there was a fox lived in a deep forest. One fine morning it was feeling hungry. It saw a goat was grazing at the top of the paddy grass field. It situated top of the field with a pointed rock, where the fox could not possibly get at her.

The fox said to the goat my dear that is a very dangerous place for you. Please come out of that place. He called out, pretending to be very anxious about the goat’s safety. What will happen if you should fall? Please listen to me and come down! Here you can get all you want of the finest, tenderness green grass in the corner. You can drink water in the stream. I will give you company to come down and I will protect you from the wild animals.

The goat looked over the edge of the cliff. The goat said that, Oh my dear fox how worried you are about me. I am very happy to know that you are very kind about me. If you feel thirsty please go and drink from the stream. But I know you! It’s your own appetite you are thinking of, not mine! 

It’s ok thank you. I have enough food here and I could not come there. My owner is coming with his big dog so I am waiting for him. The fox went away from that place with fear of dogs. 

Moral: An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted.

Once upon a time there was a big festival was going on in a village. Two cats were prowling together. One of the cats saw a big cake and mooed. The other jumped up and picked it. The first cat said, Give me the cake. I am the one who saw this. The other cat said “Keep away from it. Because I picked it up. 

They were fighting and fighting. But there was no solution. They just took the cake to end of the village. There was a monkey sitting on the tree. He asked both of them. What happens? I will solve your problem. Don’t fight. Let me share the cake among you both. The cake was handed over the monkey.

The monkey split the cake into two parts. He shook his head and said, “Oho! One is bigger. One is smaller”. He had a bit of the bigger and now said “Oho! This has become smaller now”. He ate from the other part. And thus, he went on eating from part to part and finally finished the whole cake.

The poor cats were disappointed.

Moral: When you quarrel third person gains the profit.

Once there once lived an old crane on the banks of a pond. It found difficulties to catch the fishes because of his old age. In this pond there lived a lot of water creature like fish, frogs, crabs, jelly fish and snail too. 

One day a crab came out of the water and asked the crane, “Why are you looking so sad?" 

“I am sad because this pond is going dry and to fill up with mud." He replied. All the fishes are soon going to die. The crab was scared. He soon told his friends in the pond. They all decided to ask the crane for help. 

“I will take a few fish everyday in my beak to another pond and save all of you by this way," said the old crane. All the fish agreed to his idea. The wicked crane took a few every day to a nearby hill. There he ate them up. One day it was time for the crab to go. 

He sat on the crane’s back. When he saw all the dead fish he caught hold of the crane’s neck tight until it fell down. He then returned joyfully to the pond and told the remaining fish about the cunning works of the crane. There after the fish avoided the crane. 

After some time, the crane remained without food and at last died. 

Moral: Don't believe the wicked words.

Once upon a time there lived a milkmaid in a small village. She used to go market everyday to sell her milk. One day morning she was on her way to the market to sell some milk from her cow. As she carried the large pot of milk on top of her head. She began to dream of all the things she could do after selling the milk. She thought with that money, I will buy hundred chicks. When they are fully grown. I can sell them at a good price at the market.

As she walked on, she continued dreaming, “Then I’ll buy two young goats and rear them on the grass close by backyard. When they are fully grown, I can sell them at an even better price!” Still dreaming, she said to herself, “Soon, I’ll be able to buy another cow, and I will have more milk to sell. Then I shall have even more money.” I will get rich soon and then I will buy some necklace for me. I will looks like the queen. With these happy thoughts, she began to skip and jump.

Suddenly she tripped and fell in the road. The pot broke and all the milk split onto the ground. No more dreaming now, she sat down and cried.

Moral of the Story: Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.