DREAMING PRIEST
11-Aug-16
(AZADI KE PANKH CREATIONS )
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 dreamed 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 dreamed 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
may eggs which will hatch and there will be many chicken. These chicken 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.
Moral
There is no substitute
for hard work. Dreams cannot be fulfilled without hard work.
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