There once lived a woman who left the religion in which she was raised. At first she became interested in atheism. Then she turned to another religion. Then she believed in the truth of some third one. Each time she changed her faith, she imagined that she had acquired something new. And each time, new co-religionists cordially and sincerely accepted her into their circle. The woman's search did not stop. Having heard about one famous teacher, she went to him. After listening to her statements and ideas, he said:
- Come home. I will send you my opinion in a letter. Soon after this, a messenger brought her a package from the teacher. She opened the package and found a glass bottle half filled with three layers of dense sand - black, red and white, pressed on top with a piece of cotton wool. The package said: “Take out the cotton wool and shake the bottle to see what you are like.”
She pulled out the cotton wool and shook the sand in the bottle. Multi-colored grains of sand mixed together, turning into a pile of dirty gray sand.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru