Parables of Wisdom
Learning About Selfishness
स्वार्थ के बारे में सीखना · સ્વાર્થ વિશે શીખવું
Saanvi had a hundred colours, and her little cousin had one broken crayon
- 3 min full story
- 2 min children's telling
- For all ages
For her birthday Saanvi gets the most wonderful art box she has ever seen, and she decides that nobody else is going to touch it. Then a rainy weekend with her little cousin teaches her what the colours are really for.
What it teaches Sharing Aparigraha Family
The opening of the children's telling
For her birthday, Saanvi got a beautiful art box. It had a hundred coloured pencils, and lots of pens and paints. Saanvi lined up all the pencils, from yellow to every green there was, all the way to black. She had never seen anything so lovely.
Her little cousin Ishaan came to stay. "Can I draw too?" he asked. "No," said Saanvi. "It's mine." She took the box to her room and closed the door.
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To carry into the day
What I hold too tightly ends up holding me.
To talk about together
Is there something you find hard to share? What might happen if you shared it?
Retold for JainStory from the traditional narrative and checked against published Jain sources. Details vary between tellings.