One day a poor wood cutter was coming back from the forest after a hard days work, He met a saint sitting below a tree.
The saint tells him " I see you work very hard, if you follow what I tell you you can earn enough for a month in a days work".
The wood cutter becomes happy and asks the saint what he has to do. The saint tells him to go deep into the forest tomorrow, and he can earn enough for a month in a day.
The next day the wood cutter follows the saints guidance and finds sandalwood trees and by selling them he does earn enough for a month.
When he returned to thank the saint - the saint tells him, if you want to earn enough for 6 months in a days work, then go even deeper tomorrow.
The wood cutter does as he was told and finds a silver mine, and he earns enough money for 6 months.
Again he goes back to the saint and he tells, tomorrow go still deeper and you can earn enough for a year in a days work.
To his surprise the wood cutter finds a gold mine deep in the forest unknown to anyone, and earns enough money for a year and goes to the saint to thank him for his guidance.
When going to the Saint a thought enters his mind "if the saint knew about the mines then why did he sit below the tree at the edge of the forest rather than being rich?
He puts forth his question to the saint and the saint tells, " Deep in the forest you may earn enough for your livelihood, but sitting here under this tree everyday I go deep into my soul and find eternal happiness"
Then the wood cutter decides that he doesn't want money anymore and sits down before the saint to learn how to go deep into his soul to find eternal happyness
I have no reason why I published this story, I read it today and thought a lot of us need happiness more than money, so why don't we take this journey too?
