Once a boy and his father are going somewhere by car. At that moment, the father's attention goes to the children on the corner of the road who are doing something in the mud. So the boy's father puts his car on the side of the road and goes to the boys and asks them, "what are you looking for here?". So the boys tell them, "Don't you see that there's a golden fruit in the mud? We're trying to get that fruit." Then the boy's father turns his attention to the fruit in the mud that is shining. Seeing that fruit, the father starts thinking, "If this fruit will get by my son, not only his but also my life will be stable". Without thinking for a moment, without any other thought taking into the mind, they throw his child into the mud and say that you should get that fruit in any case and you have to bring it.
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| The Golden Fruit |
But the boy did not want that fruit. He has different dreams of his own .. The boy tries hard to convince his father that my happiness is not in this fruit but in something else, my dreams are different but his father does not hear anything, they push him into the mud and say that, "I'm not asking you, I'm ordering you to get that fruit under any circumstances".
So the boy tries his best to get the fruit, to fulfil the dream of his father. And as he crawls inside to get the fruit, he sinks into the mud, realising that it is not mud but swamp. The boy cries out to his father, but his father does not listen to him. Instead, he tells him not to give reasons, if others can do then why can't you ? try again. The boy tries hard again, but he does not succeed. In doing so, the boy slowly slowly slips into the swamp and dies. Then his father realised how big a mistake he had made. They sit in that place...shout and cry loudly. At that moment, a monk was passing by asked the man, "why are you crying ?". The man shows his finger to that fruit & tells all the incident to the monk & replied that, i was doing all this for the welfare of my son. At that time, the monk looks at the fruit once and tells the man that you have lost your son for that golden fruit, even if you look closely once to see if there is any golden fruit there or not. On hearing this, the man became angry and said to the monk, "Don't you see the fruit in front of you?"
Then the monk points to the fruit shown by the man and tells him that what you call fruit is not the real fruit but the real fruit is on that tree, what you call fruit is the shadow of the fruit on that tree in the mud.
So the monk tells the man that if instead of forcibly throwing your son in the mud and telling him about his happiness and future, if you ask your son what your happiness is, maybe your son is alive today and the real golden fruit is in his hand.
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