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 affairs and worries, the courtiers with their intrigues... And the interest in the search has disappeared somewhere, although they were once so 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 beyond it, we will no longer see any mountain. The boulder will block it.
“So you, khan, yourself have gone to 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