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                                          Greed destroys reason



Once there lived a rich man and a poor man. The poor man borrowed a vessel from the rich man during the marriage festival for his daughter. When the marriage celebration was over, he returned it to the rich man along with five small vessels, saying, “Your vessel has given to five children.”  The rich man was rather pleased because he was greedy. He liked the folly of the poor man.

But the poor man was really cleaver. During the marriage of the second daughter, he again went to borrow a vessel from the rich man. The latter gave him some silver vessels. When the marriage celebration was over, the poor man came to the rich man and said to him weeping, “All your vessels have died.”

The rich man was extremely angry. He filed a suit against the poor man. The poor man explained the whole story to the judge: “Sir, this man believes that a vessel can give birth to other vessels so why shouldn’t he believe that the vessels can die too?”  The rich man learnt a lesson.

MORAL: Greed destroys reason.


--- Swami Jyotirmayananda

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