Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Charity and Keeping The Five Precepts & Brahma Asks for Dharma, Part 1 of 10, Aug. 03, 2015

I promised you to talk about the fish. There was a rich person. He was very, very rich but he had no son. So, both of them, husband and wife went all over every possible worshiping area to plea for a son. Because of their sincerity, she gave birth to a son, finally. And then one time both of them went out to near the river, playing and having picnic and then because they were happy, so they were tossing their child up and down, up and down. Then she was so happy, and distracted by the joy and then the baby fell into the water. At the end of this river, there was a little village and there, there was also a very rich family and the rich father also had no son. He kept praying everywhere but didn’t get any….