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What i am posting here is an old tale which i really liked. We used to learn a lot from what we studied earlier but is
it really the same today??
Once upon a time there was a rich village. The wealthiest of the
villagers decided to
hide a huge lump of gold to protect it from
bandits and robbers. So he buried it in a nearby rice field.
Many years
later, the village was no longer rich, and the rice field
was abandoned and unused. A poor farmer decided to plow the field.
After
some time plowing, it just so happened that his plow struck the
long forgotten buried treasure.
At first he thought
it must be a very hard tree root. But when he
uncovered it, he saw that it was beautiful shining gold. Since it was
daytime
he was afraid to try and take it with him. So he covered it
up again and waited for nightfall.
The poor farmer returned
in the middle of the night. Again he
uncovered the golden treasure. He tried to lift it, but it was far too
heavy. He
tied ropes around it and tried to drag it. But it was so
huge he couldn't budge it an inch. He became frustrated, thinking
he
was lucky to find a treasure, and unlucky to not be able to take it
with him. He even tried kicking the huge lump
of gold. But again it
wouldn't budge an inch!
Then he sat down and began to consider the situation. He decided
the
only thing to do was to break the lump of gold into four smaller
lumps. Then he could carry home one piece at a time.
He
thought, "One lump I will use for ordinary day-to-day living. The
second lump I will save for a rainy day. The third lump
I will invest in
my farming business. And I will gain merit with the fourth lump by
giving it to the poor and needy
and for other good works."
With a calm mind he divided the huge lump of gold into these four
smaller lumps. Then it
was easy to carry them home on four
separate trips.
Afterwards he lived happily.
The moral is: "Don't bite
off more than you can chew."
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