Parables of Wisdom
Learning About Sharing
बाँटने के बारे में सीखना · વહેંચવા વિશે શીખવું
Seventy two perfect colours, and not one of them allowed out of the box
- 3 min full story
- 2 min children's telling
- For all ages
Jiya gets a magnificent box of seventy two colour pencils for her birthday and decides nobody else will ever touch them. Then her Toronto classroom begins a giant mural, and Jiya finds herself drawing alone.
What it teaches Sharing Daan Friendship
The opening of the children's telling
Jiya lived in Toronto, where it snows a lot. For her birthday, her aunt sent her a big wooden box of colour pencils. There were seventy two colours! Sunny yellow, sky blue, lotus pink and shiny gold.
Jiya took them to school. Her friend Amara asked, "Can I use the gold one, please?" But Jiya shut the box. "No," she said. "They are mine."
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To carry into the day
A lamp loses nothing by lighting another lamp.
To talk about together
What is 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.