87. Illusion
Once, a saint called his
disciple with whom the saint was very enchanted. He took him to a dense forest.
At a certain place, he stopped and said the disciple to dig the ground. After
digging a few feet down, he found a casket. The saint said, “Inside this there
is Parasmani stone that can turn any ordinary metal into precious gold if
touched and that is yours now.” The disciple being so learnt, thought that if
there would have been any relevancy of what the saint said, the iron casket
would have been changed into gold. Musing this he threw the casket, but as he
returned back where he found the casket, it had been turned into gold. It was
coated with cloth inside it that restricted the contact of the casket to the
stone. Regretting his deed he started searching for the stone that had lost in
dry leaves when he threw the casket. He wore a gloomy face.
Moral: Crying over spilt milk is futile.
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