{"id":496,"date":"2022-08-14T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2022-08-14T08:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T08:24:01","slug":"the-parable-of-the-greedy-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/the-parable-of-the-greedy-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parable of the Greedy Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember this about \u2018Attention\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are so indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. We feed the hunger blindly. Once the mechanism is brought to our attention and we begin to study it, it is as if a veil has been stripped off ordinary life, and we become freer in our action and choices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention a story titled \u2018The Parable of the Greedy Sons<\/em>\u2019 from the book titled \u2018Tales of Dervishes\u2019 which is a compilation of tales recorded during the past thousand years. Here the stories contain several levels of meaning and work like psychological mirrors in which the reader may see himself and reality reflected, and come to better understand both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Persian word dervish <\/strong>is generally considered to be derived from the verb der-vekhtan <\/strong>to wait at a door. The reference is to waiting before the door of enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Parable of the Greedy Sons<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was once a hard-working and generous farmer who had several idle and greedy sons. On his deathbed he told them that they would find his treasure if they were to dig in a certain field. As soon as the old man was dead, the sons hurried to the fields, which they dug up from one end to another, and with increasing desperation and concentration when they did not find the gold in the place indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they found no gold at all. Realizing that in his generosity their father must have given his gold away during his lifetime, they abandoned the search. Finally, it occurred to them that, since the land had been prepared, they might as well now sow a crop. They planted wheat, which produced an abundant yield. They sold this crop and prospered that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the harvest was in, the sons thought again about the bare possibility that they might have missed the buried gold, so they again dug up their fields, with the same result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After several years they became accustomed to labour, and to the cycle of the seasons, something which they had not understood before. Now they understood the reason for their father’s method of training them, and they became honest and contented farmers. Ultimately they found themselves possessed of sufficient wealth no longer to wonder about the hidden hoard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Story from \u2018Tales of Dervishes\u2019 by Idries Shah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tales of the Dervishes by Idries Shah<\/a><\/blockquote>