Is anybody scolded you? – 2

The story is once there was two brothers belonging to Bharadwaja lineage. When they get anger they used to loudly scold others and  because of this they got the name as aakrosulu(unnecessarily bothering people). The wife of younger brother was also behaving like that. But once she heard the words of Lord Buddha and since then she learned to control her anger and words. 

 

Whenever she got anger she used to remember Buddha and control herself. Her husband, the younger Bhaaradwaja did not like that and several times told to her not to remember Buddha repeatedly. But she did not listened. So, his anger tuned towards Buddha. He wanted to take revenge on Buddha by asking sarcastic questions and went to Venuvanam, the place where Lord Buddha was residing at that time. He asked Buddha” which animal we have to kill to live happily?”

 For that Lord Buddha replied that “ to live happily we have to kill the animal named hatred”. By listening this younger Bhaaradwaja  felt repentance, he changed  his mind and by taking the permission of his wife he entered into the “Bikshu union” of Buddha.

 

By listening this elder Bhaaradwaja became very angry and shouting loudly he went to Venuvanam. There he scolded Lord Buddha many bad words. After completion of his words, Lord Buddha said by looking peacefully at him “Oh Bramhin, if you give one thing to others as donation, but that person did not took that, then to whom that will belong?”

Then elder Bhaaradwaja replied that ‘it will belong to me only, why you asked this irrelevant question?”. Then Buddha said that “till now you were giving the donation of scoldings to me but your words neither hurted me nor made me angry. So, I am not taking that words. Now tell me to whom that words will belong?

 Though  bad tempered man, elder Bhaaradwaja was educated. So, by listening these words repentance started in him. He fell on the feet of Buddha and  told “Buddham saranam gacchami” then he also joined in the Biskhu union.

 

So, this story tells us that if anybody intentionally scolds us don’t take that words into the heart, just  leave them.