Long time ago there lived a
priest who was extremely lazy and poor at the same time. He did not want to do
any hard work but used to dream of being rich one day. He got his food by
begging for alms. One morning he got a pot of milk as part of the alms. He was extremely
delighted and went home with the pot of milk. He boiled the milk, drank some of
it and put the remaining milk in a pot. He added slight curds in the pot for
converting the milk to curd. He then lay down to sleep.
Soon he started imagining
about the pot of curd while he lay asleep. He dreamt that if he could become
rich somehow all his miseries would be gone. His thoughts turned to the pot of
milk he had set to form curd. He dreamt on; "By morning the pot of milk
would set, it would be converted to curd. I would churn the curd and make
butter from it. I would heat the butter and make ghee out of it. I will then go
to that market and sell that ghee, and make some money. With that money i will
buy a hen. The hen will lay many eggs which will hatch and there will be many chickens.
Those chickens will in turn lay hundreds of eggs and I will soon have a poultry
farm of my own." He kept on imagining.
"I will sell all the
hens of my poultry and buy some cows, and open a milk dairy. All the town
people will buy milk from me. I will be very rich and soon I shall buy jewels.
The king will buy all the jewels from me. I will be so rich that I will be able
to marry an exceptionally beautiful girl from a rich family. Soon I will have a
handsome son. If he does any mischief I will be very angry and to teach him a
lesson, I will hit him with a big stick."During this dream, he involuntarily
picked up the stick next to his bed and thinking that he was beating his son,
raised the stick and hit the pot. The pot of milk broke and he awoke from his
day dream.
Story moral: There is no
substitute for hard work. Dreams cannot be fulfilled without hard work.
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