Once upon a time, in a far off village there lived a saint.
He lived by begging for food from door to door.
Everyday the saint used to save some food and keep it a bowl.
The bowl was hanged up on a peg to keep it out of reach of mouse.
One day a mouse saw this. After the saint slept, he jumped up
and stole the food. Next day the saint found the food missing and came to know
the mouse ate it.
The mouse continued to steal the food for several days. But
the saint could not find a way to get rid of it.
One afternoon, a friend came to the saint's house. The saint
welcomed him and offered him food and water.
They sat together to have close talk. While they were
talking, the saint kept tapping a bamboo on ground to scare away the mouse.
Seeing this, the visitor was surprised and asked, "What
are doing with this bamboo my friend? You don’t seem to be interested in my
talk. I should leave".
The saint suddenly stopped tapping the bamboo and said,
"Forgive me! I am trapping bamboo to keep away the mouse which steals my
food".
The visitor saw the peg where the saint hanged the food bowl
and asked, "How can mouse jump so high and take away the food?" He
told the saint that the mouse accumulates a lot of food for eating and so has
great muscle energy to jump so high.
Thus they starting searching the food stored by the mouse.
Soon they found the stored food they threw it.
When the mouse returned to his hole, he found the food
missing. From then on the mouse never had enough food to eat. It became weak
and could not jump to steal food from the peg.
Moral: You can defeat your enemy by weakening them.
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