Tinnapala : The Luckiest Grass Harvester อานิสงส์กฐิน-นายติณบาล Tinnapala : youtube/watch?v=qvTUQy_TQLo The Kathina is the jubilant moment which all Buddhists really want to offer robes to the Sangha, as it happened in the past in the story of Tinnapala, the grass harvester. In the lifetime of Buddha Kassapa, there was a nameless pauper who worked in the field, harvest grass for a millionaire. People called him Tinnapala, which means the grass harvester. He worked for only daily support such as foods and beverages in a millionaire’s house. At the end of Buddhist lent, the millionaire wanted to offer robes in Kathina ceremony, so he told his family and his servants to join in offering Kathina-robes to the Sangha. Tinnapla heard that news and wanted to offer some robes but he did not have enough money to buy a robe. So, he gathered some leaves and sewed them together to be his cloth, then he sold his only cloth which he was wearing and able to buy only needles and threads to be the necessities for the monks to make robes. When the millionaire knew his action, instead of laughing at him, he praised him with his delight and put Tinnapalas needles and threads together with his grand kathina-offerings. Tinnapalas great merits reached Sakka, King of Tavatimsa heaven realm, heard his good deed then appeared in front of him, praised him and granted him 4 wishes. In stead of wishing to be rich, Tinnapala wished four things; he wished: never to harm any females by actions/words/thought, never to be stingy in alms-giving/dhana, never to associate with fools, and he wished to have a noble wife. After Sakka blessed him, the king of the country also heard about his good deeds, sent his guard to invite Tinnapala to his palace and asked him to share this great merit. With his sharing merits to the king, the king rewarded Tinnapala lots of properties and money. After death, Tinnapala was reborn into the Tavatimsa Heaven for a very long time. In his final existence, during the time of the Gautama Buddha, Tinnapala was born into a nice family and was ordained as a bhikkhu, with his merits cultivated from his past lives, he finally attained the Arahatship. ------------
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:31:31 +0000
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