38. The Casket
with Gems
In village Rampur, a
decrepit lady lamented his dead husband. In the beginning, her two sons showed compassion
for her but soon got disenchanted with their mother. Now the pathetic condition
of her life made her to go to her friend Sheela, whom she related all her
problems of not even getting proper diet in her own house. The shrewd woman
wilfully showed her a way by which she would be dominating in her house and
gave her a mysterious casket, full of gems. When the widow reached her house,
she was given more attention. Both her sons asked about the casket, in her
hand. She replied that the casket was given by her husband in his declining
days. It was filled with precious stone and gems. Now their avarice for the
casket made them too caring for the lady. In due course, they used to ask for
the key of the casket but she ignored by saying that it must be given to them.
One day, the lady was grappled with a disease and died. After funeral, the sons
broke the casket and found it filled with stones, gravel, etc.
Moral: Greed gives nothing.
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