One day the khan met a wise dervish. Khan was in a good mood and started talking with the wanderer.
“You see, in my youth I also kept looking for the truth,” the khan confided in the dervish. - But now all the business and worries, the courtiers with their intrigues... And the interest in the search has disappeared somewhere, although they were once beautiful. What's the matter here?
- Look, Khan, how magnificent the top of the mountain is, isn’t it?
- Yes, very beautiful...
— Do you see that boulder by the road? Let's go behind it and admire the mountain.
- Are you out of your mind, dervish?! After all, if we go behind it, we won’t see any mountain. The boulder will block it.
“So you, khan, have yourself entered a place where not only the truth is not visible, but even the desire to seek it is not noticeable.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru