Life's lessons: Dreams are useless without hard work

He did not want to do any hard work but used to dream of being rich. He got his food by begging for alms. One morning he got a pot of milk as part of the alms. He boiled the milk, drank some of it and put the remaining milk in a pot for converting the milk to curd.

He dreamed that if he could become rich somehow all his miseries would be gone. His thoughts turned to the pot of milk he had set to form curd. He dreamed on, “By morning the pot of milk would set, it would be converted to curd. I would churn the curd and make butter from it. I would heat the butter and make ghee out of it. I will then go to that market and sell that ghee, and make some money. With that money i will buy a hen. The hen will lay may eggs which will hatch and there will be many chicken. 

These chicken will in turn lay hundreds of eggs and I will soon have a poultry farm of my own.” He kept on imagining. “I shall buy jewels. I will have a handsome son.”

In his dream, he involuntarily picked up the stick next to his bed and thinking that he was beating his son, raised the stick and hit the pot. The pot of milk broke and awoke him from his daydream.

Moral: There is no substitute for hard work. Dreams cannot be fulfilled without hard work