‘The dream of a Brahmin’ is a popular moral story of a Sanskrit moral story text named ‘The Panchatantra’ composed by Vishnu Sharma.
Once upon a time, there lived a miserly Brahmin in a city. One day, after eating some of the sattu that he got in alms, he kept the rest in a pot. Then he hung that pot with a peg and slept with a cot nearby. While sleeping, he got lost in the strange world of dreams and started having strange fantasies.
He started thinking that when there is a famine in the city, the price of sattu will become Rs.100. I will buy goats by selling sattu. Later I will sell these goats and buy cows. After that I will buy buffaloes and horses also.
The miserly Brahmin was completely lost in the strange world of fantasies. He thought that by selling the horses at a good price, I would buy a lot of gold. Then I will build a big house by selling gold at a good price. Anyone looking at my property will get his daughter married to me. The child I will have after marriage, I will name it Mangal.
Then when my baby starts to walk on his feet, I will enjoy watching him play from afar. When the child starts bothering me, I will speak to the wife in anger and say that you cannot even handle the child properly. If she is busy with household chores and will not obey me, then I will get up in anger and go to her and hit her with the foot. Thinking of all these things, the Brahmin’s foot rises up and stumbles into the pot filled with Sattu, which breaks his pot.
In this way, along with the pot full of sattu, the dream of a miserly brahmin also gets shattered.
Moral of the story ‘The dream of a Brahmin’
From this story we get a lesson that while doing any work, greed should not come in the mind. The fruit of greed is never sweet. At the same time, only dreaming does not bring success, it is also necessary to work hard for it.
Note:- This story has been taken from ‘Panchatantra’ a Sanskrit Text of moral stories composed by Vishnu Sharma.
Some facts have been verified with Wikipedia.
