The Family of the Recluse
Story: An aspirant monk or sadhu built a hermitage for meditation.
But he was constantly troubled by mice.
Someone suggested that he get a cat to his hut so the mice problem would be solved, and the Sadhu acquired a cat.
The cat ate all the mice and had to be be fed milk. A cow became essential to provide the milk, and the sadhu got himself a cow.
The sadhu could not spend time in grazing the cow, milking, and cleaning the cowshed, and had to get a woman to take care of the cow and himself.
So he married.
Thus ended the meditation of the sadhu and he became a householder.
Moral of the story: One desire (some call it need or necessity), breeds another, till they become innumerable. There is no end to man's materialistic cravings.
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