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Once upon a time there was a priest who was extremely lazy and poor at the same time. He did not want to do any hard work but used to imagine becoming rich one day. He got his food by begging for alms. One morning he got a pot of milk as part of the alms. He was extremely delighted and went home with the pot of milk. He boiled the milk, drank some of it and put the remaining milk in the pot. He added little bit of curd in the pot for converting the milk into curd. He then lied down to sleep.

Soon, he started dreaming while he was asleep. He was dreaming that if he could become rich somehow, all his miseries would be gone. His thoughts now turned towards the pot of milk which he had set to form curd. He continued dreaming; “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 the market and sell that ghee, and make some money. With that money I will buy a hen. The hen will lay eggs which will hatch and there will be many chickens. These chickens will in turn lay hundreds of eggs and I will soon have a poultry farm of my own.” He kept on dreaming.

“I will sell all the hens of my poultry and buy some cows, and open a milk dairy. Everyone in the town will buy milk from me. I will be very rich and soon I shall buy jewels. The king will buy all the jewels from me. I will be so rich that I will be able to marry an exceptionally beautiful girl from a rich family. Soon I will have a handsome son. If he will do any mischief I will be very angry and to teach him a lesson, I will hit him with a big stick.” During this dream, he involuntarily picked up the stick next to his bed and thinking as if he was beating his son, he raised the stick and hit the pot. The pot of milk broke and he woke up from his daydream.