Once upon a time there lived a woodcutter who was in very distress. He lived on insignificant sums of money earned from firewood, which he brought to the city on his own from the nearby forest.
One day a sannyasin passing along the road saw him at work and advised him to go further into the forest, saying:
- Go forward, go forward!
The woodcutter listened to the advice, went into the forest and walked forward until he reached the sandalwood tree. He was very pleased with this find, cut down the tree and, taking with him as many pieces of it as he could carry, sold them at the market for a good price. Then he began to wonder why the good sannyasin did not tell him that there was a sandalwood tree in the forest, but simply advised him to go forward. The next day, having reached the felled tree, he went further and found copper deposits. He took with him as much copper as he could carry and, selling it at the market, earned even more money. The next day he went even further and found silver placers. The next day he found gold, then diamonds, and finally acquired enormous wealth.
This is precisely the position of a person who strives for true knowledge: if he does not stop in his movement after achieving some supernatural powers, then, in the end, he will find the wealth of eternal Knowledge and Truth.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru