LOOM OF WISDOM : Parables and Other Stories

<p>A parable is a short story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle. &nbsp;Stories by and large fall into three categories: Temporal spiritual and psychological. &nbsp;Secular stories or tales embody secular (temporal) literature while the spiritual literature encompasses socio-religious and didactic tales. And then there are psychological stories. The Hindi equivalent of literature is sahitya. Sahitya is of two types: Swanta sukhaiy and Parjan Hitaiy. &nbsp;Swanta sukhaiy is the sahitya qua literature that is produced for self-delight self- pleasure and self- satisfaction while parjan hitaiy sahitya has wider connotations; it affects the manners and morals and is prone to bring about a salubrious transformation in human conduct and idiosyncrasies. Parables that is the didactic literature falls in this category. Therefore efforts have been made to Include parables and other didactic stories in this book: they will willy-nilly refine the sensibilities of the people at large.</p>