Dry Souls

Once upon a time, there used to be an oasis in the desert of Rajasthan, India. The village was abundant in everything, had good agriculture and businesses were flourishing thanks to a Caring Water Spirit that used to reside in a well. For them the well was sacred as it had the purest and sweetest water like an Elixir, they even made good money by selling water to other villages. It always helped villagers meet all their demands and brought prosperity to their family and businesses. However, the Water Spirit became fearful of the dry seasons as they began exploiting it often more, without ever worrying that it could go dry.

Always the well had abundant water for those who were thirsty but not for their greed. It was their greed and ungrateful attitude which made the well go dry. Their playful corrupt ways of exploiting the well for all their selfish businesses especially wine making made the Caring Water Spirit leave and never to return again to the well and the villagers.

Many Seasons passed by, the well remained dry and became oblivious to the people. The villagers became desperate for water and eagerly prayed to the Almighty. The Caring Water Spirit was in heavens but not as much happy as she had hoped. She was in her own world, aloof from other spirits and deities as they always used to talk about how much they are worshipped and loved by the people. The Caring Water Spirit had made her mind that she would never trust and care about the Earth dwellings again.

But the Almighty had something else planned for her. It was all going to change when the water spirit would fell in love. As the time passed by, the villagers were dying of thirst and their fields were not producing grains and therefore, they desperately prayed to the Almighty for a miracle. While the water spirit became more aloof and gloomier in the heavens because all Deities kept their distance from her. They feared that she would bring bad luck to them.

Then one day she met the Rain, who cared about her and never flaunted how he is worshipped by people like other spirits. She gradually fell in love with the sweet personality of Rain. She was curious about him and wanted to know everything about the rain as she was madly in love with him.

When she understood the world of Rain, she began to have a change of heart and gradually became willing to return to Earth so that she could she the Rain more often. She would do all sorts of things to gain the love of Rain and was even willing to die for him. But most of the time Rain used to live on Earth and she missed him like crazy. Whenever the Rain returned from Earth, he used to have a big heartfelt smile and the Water Spirit loved him more on those days. Rain began telling stories of Earth when she started asking how was the Earth? The stories of flora and fauna, the happy farmers dancing in their fields with their families. Rain described how happy they were whenever they met rain after a long dry spell.

The Water Spirit changed her mind and decided to return to Earth, to the people who she abandoned and to reside in the well again. The Villagers quickly noticed the Well filled with pure sweet water like before and thanked the Water Spirit and the Almighty. Now the villager became careful in ways of using the Well and always expressed gratitude to the Water Spirit. She now became fearless of the dry seasons as she knew that the Rain would always be by her side in every dry season.  

 

Moral: “Love can you make do all sorts of things which you thought    you will never do again.”

“Never take anyone’s benevolent actions for granted.”