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There was a king called Midas. He was extremely fond of
gold. Although he had a lot of it, he wanted more. He thought if he had the
golden touch, he would be the happiest man.
A wise God granted his wish promptly. Half an hour, as the
king was sitting under a apple tree in his garden, suddenly a ripe apple fell
beside him. He picked it up. As he touched it, the apple turned into gold.
As
he entered his house, his little daughter ran up to him and he took her in his
arms. She turned into gold. The king was struck with horror. The king cried out
in anguish. Immediately the wise god took the golden touch away and the girl
became human again.
Once upon a time there was a greedy dog in a village. He was
very hungry and finding food here and there. That time he saw a house and
entered the kitchen. He took a piece of meat from kitchen and holding it in his
mouth, he begun to cross the river over a narrow bridge.
While doing so he chanced to look down and saw his own
shadow reflected in the clear water of the river. He mistook it for another
living dog with a bigger piece of meat. He decided to snatch that away from
that dog and thought to make feast with the two. But while he tried to do that,
he dropped down his own piece of meat, which was swiftly carried away by the
current of the river. Thus he lost his own.
Moral: Greed brings in disaster.
There was a farmer and he had an amazing goose. It used to
lay a golden egg every night. Farmer take care this goose every day for this
golden egg. The farmer used to sell them in the market. For this
reason a short time he became quite solvent. But his wife very greedy and she
wanted to be rich overnight. She told herself “surely, there is a good number
of golden egg in goose stomach”.
So, there is no use of getting one egg a day. She told the
farmer we can get all the eggs at a time. Farmer said how it possible. She
explained to that by cutting the belly of the goose. She suggested her husband
to do so. But the farmer was very intelligent. He did not agree with her
proposal. He told his wife that impossible.
One day when the farmer went to his farm near his
house, his greedy wife caught the amazing goose. She took a sharp knife and cut
the belly of the goose. She did not found any egg in the belly. Rather the
goose died. She was very disappointed to see this. In the evening when the
farmer returned home, he saw everything and became at a loss for his wife
foolishness. His wife said to him to forgive her. At his kind the farmer
forgave him. Thus it is for her greed she lost all hopes of becoming
prosperous.
From this story we learn that greed brings downfall.
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