The Wiser Wife

Anecdotes

-Staff

By Staff

Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 11:20

A husband may not be aware of the excellence of his wife's spiritual attainments. There is the case of a couple who were proceeding through a thick jungle on pilgrimage to an inaccessible shrine. The husband saw on the footpath a precious stone, shining brilliantly when the rays of the sun fell upon it from between leaves.

He hastily threw some sand over it with a movement of his foot so that his wife may not be tempted to pick it up and become a slave to the tinsel. The wife saw the gesture and chided the husband for still retaining in his mind a distinction between sand and diamond. For her, both were the same.