Parables of Rama
by Swami Rama Tirtha | 102,836 words
Stories in English used by Swami Rama to illustrate the highest teaching of Vedanta. The most difficult and intricate problems of philosophy and abstract truths, which may very well tax the brains of the most intellectual, are thus made not only simple and easy to understand but also brought home to us in a concrete form in such an interesting and ...
Story 245 - The story of an ignorant child
If you show to a child a piece of sweet in one hand and a gold sovereign in the other, innocent and ignorant as he is, he would like to have the sweet, instead of the sovereign, because the sweet will immediately give him the pleasant taste, even though it is only short lived. Poor chap does not know that the sovereign can get him a huge quantity of sweets.
This is exactly how the world people behave. They give up True Freedom to accept the transitory pleasures of this world.