The day dreaming Priest
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Once upon a time 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 rest.
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He was extremely delighted at the pot of milk he found and started
dreaming 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 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 more hens
and cocks. These cocks and hen will in turn lay hundreds of eggs and I will soon
have a poultry farm of my own." He kept on imagining.
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"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 jewellery. The king will buy all the jewellery 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 sleep. Only then did he realise he was
daydreaming.
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MORAL: There is no substitute for hard work. Dreams cannot be fulfilled without hard
work.
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