A sannyasi and a diamond

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Here is a delightful (and insightful) story involving a sannyasi:

 

A sannyasi had reached the outskirts of the village and settled down

under a tree for the night when a villager came running up to him and

said, "The stone! The stone! Give me the precious stone!"

 

"What stone?" asked the sannyasi.

 

"Last night the Lord Siva appeared to me in a dream,? said the

villager," and told me that if I went to the outskirts of the village

at dusk I would find a sannyasi who would give me a precious stone

that would make me rich forever."

 

The sannyasi rummaged in his bag and pulled out a stone. "He probably

meant this one," he said, as he handed the stone over to the villager.

"I found it on a forest path some days ago. You can certainly have

it."

 

The man gazed at the stone in wonder. It was a diamond, probably the

largest diamond in the whole world, for it was a large as a person's

head.

 

He took the diamond and walked away. All night he tossed about in bed,

unable to sleep. Next day at the crack of dawn he woke the sannyasi

and said, "Give me the wealth that makes it possible for you to give

this diamond away so easily."

 

 

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