The Drunkard

A drunkard decided to carry a lamp to the pub anticipating his intoxicated state and stumbling steps post drinking.After drinking to his heart's content, as he was about to fall headlong on the floor, he managed to steady himself and reached out to his lamp.

As the man strode his way home,he dashed into a buffalo, bumped into a donkey and stumbled with a tree. He tried to peer at his lamp in the darkness of the night.

“What has happened to my lamp?”

Finally the man fell by the roadside and the next morning he was carried home by some of his friends.

The pub owner during the midday visited the man, “You carried my cage away with my parrot instead of taking your lamp!”

Similarly one does not go too far on the spiritual path with just reading the holy scriptures. One should be meditative enough to capture the import of it says.The soul of the scriptures has to be grasped than just reading them.