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The Dreaming Priest
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 jew-
els from me. I will be so rich that Il 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 les-
son, 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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