(Moderation)
Once upon a time, there was a rich village. One day, the
wealthiest of all the villagers decided to bury a huge lump of gold in a nearby
rice field to protect it from bandits and robbers. However, he passed away
without unearthing it. Many years later, the village was no longer wealthy. The
rice field was abandoned and left unused. One day, a poor farmer decided to
plough the field. After some ploughing, his shovel struck the long-forgotten buried
treasure.
At first, he thought he must have hit a very tough tree root,
but when he continued digging, he discovered that it was a beautiful lump of
solid shiny gold. Since it was daytime, he was afraid to take it with him, so
he covered it up again and waited for nightfall.
That very night, the farmer returned to the rice field. He
unearthed the treasure and tried to lift it. But it was far too heavy for him.
Then he tied ropes around it and tried to drag it. But it was so huge that it
wouldn’t budge an inch. Frustrated, he even tried kicking the huge lump of
gold, but again it wouldn’t shift an inch! He sat down and began to consider
the situation. He decided that the only sensible thing to do was to break the
lump of gold into four smaller lumps, so that he could carry them home, one
piece at a time.
“I will use one lump to pay for my ordinary day-to-day needs,
save the second piece for a rainy day, invest the third lump in my farming
business, and use the last piece to help the poor and needy and for other
charitable work,” he thought. With a calm mind, he divided the huge lump of
gold equally into four smaller lumps. He carried them home easily on four
separate trips, and lived happily thereafter.
The moral is ✏ “Don’t bite off
more than you can chew.”
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