Soma sharma’s Father
Swabhavakripan was a Brahmin living in a
city in the south. He was known for his miserliness. Every day, he would go
out begging and save some corn flour people gave him as alms. He stored such
flour in an earthen pot and when it was full he hung the pot to a peg above
his bed so that he could keep an eye on it.
He returned home one day very tired and
went to sleep and began dreaming: “This pot is full of flour and if there is
a famine it would fetch me a very high price. With that money, I will buy
two she goats that in course of time will become a big herd. I will sell
them for a huge profit and buy cows with that money. Then I will buy
buffaloes and later horses. And, when the stables are full of horses I will
sell them and buy lots of gold.”
“With this gold, I will build a huge
house with four floors. Seeing my riches one Brahmin will offer the hand of
his beautiful daughter to me. She will soon deliver a son and I will name
him Soma Sarma. When he is a year old, I will go and hide in the stable and
call out to him to find me out. But the son drifts dangerously towards the
horses. I shout at my wife to come and take him away. Busy with domestic
chores she ignores my call. Then I shall kick her.”
The dream shattered when he kicked the
pot of flour hanging from the peg and spilled all its contents over his
body. He now looked like a white ghost.
Moral:
He who covets the impossible or builds castles in the air comes to certain
grief. |