An elderly lady named Sudha Dadi used to run a small tea-pakodi shop on the edge of the village.
Throughout the day, passersby would stop there, drink tea and feel relaxed for a while.
One evening, a traveler came there. He was tired and exhausted. He said,
“Dadi, if I get permission to stay here overnight, it will be a great favor.”
Sudha Dadi smiled,
“Of course, son, it is not my house, but my heart is big… you can sleep comfortably here.”
The traveler pointed towards an old cot kept in a corner and asked,
“How much will it cost if I sleep on this cot?”
Dadi said, “Just half a rupee.”
The traveler thought, after all, one can sleep anywhere… why spend money? I will spread a sheet on the floor, that is enough.
Then he asked, “And if I leave the cot and sleep here on the floor in the courtyard?”
Sudha Dadi replied easily—
“Then it will cost one rupee.”
The traveler was surprised,
“What kind of calculation is this, Dadi? Why is the cot cheap and the land expensive?”
Sudha Dadi said laughingly—“Son, the width and length of the cot is fixed. If you stay within that limit, I have no worries. But it is difficult to measure the square of people sleeping on the ground… sometimes the head is there, sometimes the feet are here. Who knows how much area you will occupy! It is easy to stay within limits, but discipline is lost in the infinite. That is why sleeping on the ground is expensive.”
The traveler smiled after listening to Dadi. He understood that life is also like this— it is easy to stay within limits, but if we forget our limits, then problems arise automatically.
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