Parables of Wisdom
Learning About Purity
पवित्रता के बारे में सीखना · પવિત્રતા વિશે શીખવું
Nisha's puja clothes were spotless, but something else needed washing first
- 4 min full story
- 2 min children's telling
- For all ages
Nisha is going to do her first full puja at the derasar, and she wants everything to be perfectly clean. On the morning itself, a quarrel with her brother shows her that being clean on the outside is only half of it.
What it teaches Inner Purity Puja Forgiveness
The opening of the children's telling
Nisha was going to do her very first puja at the derasar. She practised for weeks with her Dadi. She washed her special puja clothes. She polished her little steel plate until it shone.
On puja morning, Nisha had a bath and put on her clean puja clothes. Then she went to get the puja rice. But her little brother Aryan had used it to make a rocket picture!
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To carry into the day
Clean clothes are a reminder; a clean heart is the real offering.
To talk about together
What helps you make your heart clean and calm, like washing makes your hands clean?
Retold for JainStory from the traditional narrative and checked against published Jain sources. Details vary between tellings.