Immediately the crane thought, This fish must be alive! Remembering the first training step, she released the living fish back into the stream. Rising from the water, King Sakka returned to his godly form and said, It is very good, my clear crane, that you are able to follow the Five Training Steps. Then he returned to the second heaven world.
In the fullness of time, the crane died. Following the Five Training Steps had brought her both merit and a peaceful mind. So she was reborn in the wonderful state of mankind, into a potters family in Benares, in northern india.
Again King Sakka was interested in finding out where the one who had been Well-born, and then the crane, was now reborn. He found her in the potters family, and wanted to help her in gaining merit and finding happiness.
So ihe disguised himself as an old man and created a cart full of golden cucumbers. He went into Benares and shouted, Cucumbers! Cucumbers! I have cucumbers!
When people came to buy these amazing cucumbers, he said, These golden cucumbers are not for sale. I will give them away, but only to one who is wholesome, that is, one who follows the Five Training Steps.
The people said, We never heard of the Five Training Steps. But we will buy your golden cucumbers. Name your price! He repeated, My cucumbers are not for sale. I have brought them to give to any person who practices the Five Training Steps. The people said, This man has come here only to play tricks on us So they left him alone.
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