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The 3 Wise Monkeys in the form of emoticon pillow soft toys for your girlfriend and loved ones so that you can tell them the mystical story which gave rise to these creatures and their formations in everyday life.
The Three Wise Monkeys were described as the attendants of Saruta Hito no Mikoto or Koshin, the God of the Roads. The Koshin festival was held on the 60th day of the calendar. It has been suggested that during the Koshin festival, according to old beliefs, one’s bad deeds might be reported to heaven unless avoidance actions were taken. It has been theorized that the three Mystic Apes, Not Seeing, Hearing, or Speaking, may have been the "things that one has done wrong in the last 59 days".
According to other accounts, the monkeys caused the Sanshi and Ten-Tei not to see, say or hear the bad deeds of a person. The Sanshi are the Three Corpses living in everyone's body. The Sanshi keep track of the good deeds and particularly the bad deeds of the person they inhabit. Every 60 days, on the night called Koshin-Machi , if the person sleeps, the Sanshi will leave the body and go to Ten-Tei , the Heavenly God, to report about the deeds of that person. Ten-Tei will then decide to punish bad people, making them ill, shortening their time alive, and in extreme cases putting an end to their lives. Those believers of Kōshin who have reason to fear will try to stay awake during Koshin nights. This is the only way to prevent the Sanshi from leaving their body and reporting to Ten-Tei.
Though the teaching had nothing to do with monkeys, the concept of the three monkeys originated from a simple play on words. The saying in Japanese is mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil', where the zaru is a negative conjugation on the three verbs, matching zaru, the modified form of saru "monkey" used in compounds. Thus the saying ;[which does not include any specific reference to "evil"] can also be interpreted as referring to three monkeys.
The first monkey denotes 'Don't listen to the truth because it will disturb all your consoling lies'. The second monkey denotes 'Don't look at the truth; otherwise your God will be dead and your heaven and hell will disappear'. The third monkey denotes 'Don't speak the truth, otherwise you will be condemned, crucified, poisoned, tortured by the whole crowd, the unconscious people. You will be condemned, don't speak the truth!'
Mahatma Gandhi one notable exception to his lifestyle of non-possession was a small statue of the three monkeys. Today, a larger representation of the three monkeys is prominently displayed at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where Gandhi lived from 1915 to 1930 and people started calling them Gandhiji ke teen bandar and they became popular.