Regional Sacred Stories · Stories Told Across the Land
A whimsical story cherished in family storytelling tells of a group of proud sages, halted by a flooded river on their journey, and the unlikely young helper whose simple solution let them cross safely.
A River Too High to Cross
As the story is told, a company of sages, confident in their own learning and standing, found themselves stopped entirely by a river swollen beyond safe crossing, their considerable wisdom offering no immediate way across.
An Unexpected Bridge
A young boy, unrecognized as Shree Ganesh in disguise, is remembered offering a simple, playful solution: laying out a path of floating modaks across the water sturdy enough to let the astonished sages cross safely to the other side.
What Devotees Seek
This lighthearted story is shared for the same reason as so many others in this collection: it reminds devotees, gently and with a smile, that wisdom and pride alone do not always find the way forward, sometimes it takes a simpler, humbler kind of help entirely.