Kimshuka Tree: Learn English(IND) with subtitles - Story for Children and Adults "BookBox.com"

This story is an offering for the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo

Kimshuka Tree
A story about Truth,
adapted from Tales of All Times
by The Mother

There were four young
princes of Banaras
who were brothers.
Each one of them said
to their father's charioteer:
“I want to see a Kimshuka tree.”
“I will show you,”
said the charioteer,
and he invited the eldest
to go for a ride.
In the jungle
he showed the prince
a Kimshuka tree.
It was the time of year
when there are neither buds,
nor leaves, nor flowers.
So the prince saw only
a trunk of dark wood.
A few weeks later,
the second prince
was taken for a ride
in the chariot
and he also saw
the Kimshuka tree.
He found it covered with leaves.
A little later in the season,
the third brother
saw it in his turn;
it was reddish orange
with flowers.
At last the fourth saw it;
its fruits were ripe.
One day
when the four brothers
were together,
someone asked:
“What does
the Kimshuka tree look like?”
The eldest said:
“Like a bare trunk.”
The second:
“Like a flourishing banana tree.”
The third:
“Like a pink and red bouquet.”
And the fourth:
“Like an acacia laden with fruit.”
Being unable to agree,
they went together
to their father the king
for him to decide who was right.
When he heard how
one after the other
the young princes
had seen the Kimshuka tree,
the king smiled and said:
“All four of you are right,
but all four of you forget
that the tree is
not the same in all seasons.”
Each one was describing
what he had seen
and each one
was ignorant
of what the others knew.
In this way, most often,
people know
only a fraction of the truth,
and their error comes precisely
from the fact
that they think they know it all.
How much less
this error would be
if they had learnt
at an early age
to love truth so much
that they would always seek it
more and more.

Narration: Maurice Shukla
Music: Jerry Silvester Vincent
SFX: Rajesh Gilbert
Illustrations: Kallol Majumder
Animation: BookBox
Story: Tales of All Times © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry.

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