There was once a Brahman who had two wives. Like many Brahmans he lived by begging and was very clever at wheedling money out of people. (Brahman's are a respected caste in Indian folklore)
One day he went to the marketplace dressed only in a small loincloth such as the poorest laborers wear and see how people treated him. So he set out, but on the road and in the marketplace and in the village no one salaamed (Salute with a low bow) him or made way for him, and when he begged no one gave him alms.
He soon got tired of this and hastened home and, putting on his best pagri [turban] and coat and dhoti [waistcloth], went back to the marketplace. This time everyone who met him on the road, salaamed low( Salute and bow) him and made way for him, and every shopkeeper to whom he went gave him alms; and the people in the village who had refused before gladly made offerings to him.
The Brahman went home smiling to himself and took off his clothes and put them in a heap and prostrated himself before them three or four times, saying each time, “O source of wealth! O source of wealth! It is clothes that are honored in this world and nothing else.”
My life lesson:
We pay too much attention to the peel/skin and cannot really enjoy the fruit !
It takes more than just a few feathers in a crow's tail to make it a peacock!!
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
? Meister Eckhart
? Meister Eckhart
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