Invincible India

One Coin of Money

In those days in Idia, there was Rony which was a really rich company. Everyone respected them because they had a lot of money. On the other hand, there was a poor company called Potec. Rony said to Potec,
“I will improve your company if you give us the money every months.”
Potec believed that Rony was wise and fair.
There was the year Potec couldn’t gain money at all. They had no money to live. They asked Rony to borrow the money but Rony cried,
“No! I must have money to inprove your company and also for us. Promise or no promise, I must have a lot of money!”
Time went on, Potec became poorer.
A worker of Potec named Riga found a written contract of Rony in an elevator. He was clever, and he began to make a plan. He also had a sense of justice. When Rony heard about Riga, Rony asked him to come to an office with a written contract.
Rony said,
“Thank you for returning this. I was in trouble with it. But don’t tell anybody. This is strictly confidential. So… What do you want to have? I want to reward you.”
“You may reward me in this way,” Riga started to explain his plan, “today, you will give me a single coin of money. Then, each day for thirty days you will give me double the coin you gave me the day before.”
The next day, Riga was presented with two coins of money. On the sixteen day, he was presented with a bag containing thirty-two thousand, seven hundred and sixty-eight coins of money. On the twenty-fourth day, he was presented with eight million, three hundred and eighty-eight thousand, six hundred and eight coins of money-enough to fill eight baskets, which were carried to him eight bicycles. On the thirtieth and final day, two hundred and fifty-six trackes carried-five hundred and thiry-six million, eight hundred and seventy thousand, nine hundred and twelve coins of money.
All together, he had received more than one billion coins of money. Rony became poor and had no more money to give and live.
“And what will you do with this money,” said Rony with a sigh, “now that I have none?”
“I will give it to Potec and other companies which are poor. But if you promise from now on to be wise and fair, I will share it with you also,” said Riga strongly.
“I promise,” said Rony. And for the rest of days, both Rony and Potec became happy and both had equal salaries. Rony became truly wise and fair as Potec and Riga were.

Hinduism

Symbol: The symbol of the Hindu is called Aum (Ah-oo-m). Hindus believe this is a holy sound. They believe that is a way of describing Brahman.

Creator and Founder: Hinduism has no founder, is developed out of Brahmanism. The religion of Hinduism originated in Northern India, near the Indus River, about 4000 years ago and is the world’s oldest existing religion.

Place of Worship:

Shrines: the shrine may be in a room of its own and they put an image of one or more of the gods or goodness. The shrine is surrounded by flowers and perfume.

Puja: it’s making offerings to an image or picture of one of the god. It takes place at least once a day. They do Paja to spend time with God and this is the point of worship.

Temples: it is a special place and the Hindu people called “mandir”. They have priest and people goes several times in a day.

Beliefs: Reincarnation: it’s the belief that your soul moves on to another being when you die. The soul is called “atman”. Atman moves in a series of steps. “Samsara” is the repeated cycle of birth and death.

Celebration: Divali: it takes place at the end of the Hindu month of Ash win (October-November). Divali means light and people decorate their house. They used small lamps made of clay to guide Rama back home and to welcome Lakshmi which means good luck.

Holy book: The most ancient sacred texts of the Hindu religion are written in Sanskrit and called the Vedas. The Vedas scriptures guide Hindu in their daily life. Hindus have developed their system of worship and beliefs from the Vedas.

Holy Places: Hindus have many holy places but Badrinath is the holiest place for the Hindus. It is a temple to the Hindu god Shiva and it is built by the great Indian scholar and teacher Shankara.

Muslim

Symbol: It is translated as the Night of Forgiveness. Many people believe that in the night your destiny is fixed for the year ahead.

Creator and Founder: The prophet Muhammad found the Muslim. He was born in Saudi Arabia and he was the last prophet to be sent by Allah.
Place of Worship: The Muslim building for communal worship is called a mosque. Muslim often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, masjid. Very often Mosques have a domed roof and a tall tower called a minaret. There are no pictures or statues in a mosque because Muslims use prayer mats for prayer. There is often a fountain or pool to wash their hands, mouth, nose, ears, arms, throat and arms. This is a sacred wash. Women don’t pray in the same place as men.

Belief: Muslim has 6 main beliefs

1. Belief in Allah as the one and only God.
2. Belief in angels.
3. Belief in the holy books.
4. Belief in the Prophets.
5. Belief in the Day of Judgment (the day when people assessed to decide whether they go to heaven or hell).
6. Belief in Predestination. (That Allah has already decided what will happen. Muslims believe that this doesn’t stop human beings making free choices).

Celebration: Ramadan is the major festival in Muslim. It is a time when Muslims across the world will fast during the hours of daylight. Muslims believe that the gates of heaven are open and the gates of hell are locked for the duration of Ramadan. Ramadan concludes with the celebration of Eid al-Fitr. It is the festival for the day after Ramadan. They celebrate with good food and presents for children, and giving to charity.

Holy Book: The Muslim’s holy book is called the Holy Qur’an. Muslims believe it is the word of God. Muslims treat the Qur’an with great respect because they believe that the Qur’an is from Allah, and every word and every letter is sacred.

Holy Places: Mecca, Madinah and Jerusalem are the holy places of Muslim.

Mecca is the Muslim’s holiest city in modern day of Saudi Arabia. It is holy place because it was the most important city in the Arabian Peninsula.

Buddhism

Symbol: It’s a wheel with eight spokes and it reminds the eight ways of living called Noble Eightfold Path (Right viewpoint, Right thought, Right speech, Right action, Right living, Right effort, Right awareness and Right concentration).

Creator and Founder: The teaching of Siddhartha Gautama founded the Buddhist tradition. He was called the Buddha and lived in the 4th or 5th century in India. He found the path to Enlightenment. Buddhism was founded over 2500 years ago in very old India.

Place of Worship: Buddhist worship at home or at a temple. Worshippers may sit on the floor and it is very important that their feet face away from the image of Buddha. They listen to monks chanting from religious texts. The best known Buddhist temple is called pagodas of China and Japan. Buddhist worship is called puja. When Buddhist is alone, they usually read the holy books.

Belief: There are three Buddhist central beliefs. These are known as the three jewels.
1. Belief in Buddha.
2. Belief in Dharma (the teaching of Buddha).
3. Belief in the Sangha. (The Buddhist community made up of ordinary people as well as the monks to help others to move on the way towards enlightenment.

Celebration: The Vesak is the major Buddhist festival of the year as it celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha on the one day, the first full moon day in May.

Holy book: The holy book of Buddhism is called the Trip taka. It is written in an ancient Indian language called Pali which is very close to the language that the Buddha himself spoke. Trip taka is a very large book.

Holy Places: The birthplace of the Siddhartha Gautama, Lumbai, is one of the holy places of Buddhism.

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