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Prelude…

The Brahman's Clothes a folktale from India

Brahman music … There was once a Brahman who lived in India. He was a sage, a seer, and a wise man. Like many Brahmans he lived by begging and was very clever at wheedling money out of people. One day the fancy took him to go to the marketplace dressed only in a small loincloth such as the poorest laborers wear and see how people treated him.

Begging music…So he set out, but on the road and in the marketplace and in the village no one salaamed to him or made way for him, and when he begged no one gave him alms.

Sadly walking home… He soon got tired of this and hastened home.

Fine clothes …. He went to his fine chest where he kept his fine garments, and on his best pagri [turban] and coat and dhoti [waistcloth].

Boldly walks back to town… went back to the marketplace. This time everyone who met him on the road salaamed low to him and made way for him, and every shopkeeper to whom he went gave him alms; and the people in the village who had refused before gladly made offerings to him.

Thoughtfully walking… The Brahman went home smiling to himself and took off his clothes and put them in a heap and prostrated himself before them three or four times, saying each time, "O source of wealth! O source of wealth!

It is clothes that are honored in this world and nothing else."

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