Kimshuka Tree: Learn English(IND) with subtitles - Story for Children and Adults "BookBox.com"

This story is an offering for the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo Kimshuka Tree A story about Truth, adapted from Tales of All Times by The Mother There were four young princes of Banaras who were brothers. Each one of them said to their father's charioteer: “I want to see a Kimshuka tree.” “I will show you,” said the charioteer, and he invited the eldest to go for a ride. In the jungle he showed the prince a Kimshuka tree. It was the time of year when there are neither buds, nor leaves, nor flowers. So the prince saw only a trunk of dark wood. A few weeks later, the second prince was taken for a ride in the chariot and he also saw the Kimshuka tree. He found it covered with leaves. A little later in the season, the third brother saw it in his turn; it was reddish orange with flowers. At last the fourth saw it; its fruits were ripe. One day when the four brothers were together, someone asked: “What does the Kimshuka tree look like?” The eldest said: “Like a bare trunk.” The second: “Like a flourishing banana tree.” The third: “Like a pink and red bouquet.” And the fourth: “Like an acacia laden with fruit.” Being unable to agree, they went together to their father the king for him to decide who was right. When he heard how one after the other the young princes had seen the Kimshuka tree, the king smiled and said: “All four of you are right, but all four of you forget that the tree is not the same in all seasons.” Each one was describing what he had seen and each one was ignorant of what the others knew. In this way, most often, people know only a fraction of the truth, and their error comes precisely from the fact that they think they know it all. How much less this error would be if they had learnt at an early age to love truth so much that they would always seek it more and more. Narration: Maurice Shukla Music: Jerry Silvester Vincent SFX: Rajesh Gilbert Illustrations: Kallol Majumder Animation: BookBox Story: Tales of All Times © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry. WEBSITE: http://www.bookbox.com FACEBOOK:   / bookboxinc   INSTAGRAM:   / bookboxinc   TWITTER:   / bookboxinc   #BookBox #BookBoxEnglish #Learn2Read