THE WOODCHOPPER
There was once a man chopping wood in the forest. He was splitting the wood,
stacking it in piles etc. "It's very exhausting work," he thought. So he sat
under on particularly nice tree, and he thought to himself, "I just wish all
this wood would chop itself." So suddenly all the trees chopped themselves and
stacked themselves up very nicely. "What is this?" he thought. "I just wished
that it would happen, and it happened." So then he looked up at the tree he was
under, and he realized that it was a kalpa-vrksa tree.
"This is wonderful! Now I desire a beautiful woman." Poof! The most beautiful woman appeared to him.
"Now I desire a beautiful palace to live in, I desire so many servants, an opulent feast.." On and on he went for many hours, and every single thing appeared because he was sitting under a desire tree.
But then he thought, "The sun is going down, it's getting dark now. I know what's going to happen. Because this is a jungle, a tiger's going to appear and that tiger's going to eat me." So lo and behold, because he thought it, and he was sitting under a desire tree, a tiger appeared and gobbled him up.
MORAL: We have to be very careful what we desire. One has to develop a higher (devotional) taste and give up a lower taste.
PS: I humbly request all the devotees to please forward moral / instructive stories they hear so that everyone can be benefited.
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