Krishna Katha - Story for meditation - 25/02/2011 - THE THIEF AND THE RICH MAN

THE THIEF AND THE RICH MAN

Once a thief and a rich man were traveling together. Actually, the thief was
following the rich man because he knew him to be very wealthy. Whenever the rich
man would go to the bathroom, or when the train would stop and the rich man
would go to buy puris or something, the thief would look all through the room
and in his bags, drawers, everywhere. Every stop he would try somewhere new.
"Maybe in the overhead locker," he thought, and searched all over. The train
journey was just about to end, and as the train was slowing down, the thief
confessed, "Actually, I'm a thief, and I have been trying all this time to get
your wealth, but you have outwitted me sir." The rich man went over to the
thief's bed and began pulling out his wealth from underneath the bed. "This is
where I hid it," the rich man said, "Because I knew that underneath your bed
would be the last place that you would look."
MORAL: So often we look for pleasure in many different places, travel to
different countries looking for this pleasure, but we don't realize that
pleasure is actually right there in the heart. That is Krsna.

PS: I humbly request all the devotees to please forward moral / instructive stories they hear so that everyone can be benefited.