The story of the miser and her gold started long ago with a Miser woman named Sarun. No one in the town called her by her named instead they called her Miser. This is because the woman spent as little as she could. She only spent sparingly. This was why everyone prefer to call her the Miser.
The Miser woman would store all her valuables such as her gold, jewelry and money at the root of a tree in her house. The woman had a garden in her house, and there were trees in the garden. She kept her valuables at the bottom of the tree.
Every week the woman would go to the tree, dig up the valuables he buried under the roots and count each of her valuables. Each day, the woman would follow this routine and this continued for a while. One faithful day, a thief who had monitored his routine, went after the woman.
The thief had monitored the Miser’s routine and he planned to rob her one day. The thief then planned to rob her in the night. So, the thief went in the night when he saw that the woman wasn’t in her house. Once she was out of the house, the thief went to the tree and he dug up the Miser’s valuables and stole it.
The following day, when the miser went to check her gold, she went to the tree and dug it up. To her surprise, the woman was shocked to find nothing where she had previously kept her valuables. The woman ripped her hair, and she started shouting so that people could help her.
Sarun shouted so that her neighbors would come to her aid. When the neighbor came to her, they asked her what had happened. Sarun explained that her valuables had been stolen. When the neighbors heard her story, they questioned her.
The neighbors blamed her and told her that she should have kept the money in the house for easy access. The miser told them that she hadn’t planned to spend the money instead she only wanted to take a look at it. She told her neighbors that he wouldn’t spend any of the money.
Sarun was very sad for all the money that she had lost and she was in tears. One of her friends told her that she should have hid a rock in the ground instead of the money. Afterall, she didn’t plan on spending the money so the money was no better than an ordinary rock.
Moral of the story
The story of the Miser and ger gold teaches through its moral message how greed leads to dangerous results when combined with the pointless act of wealth hoarding. Sarun served as the Miser in town by meticulously storing her stuff yet kept them unreachable since she never meant to use them that caused her belongings to fall victim to theft.
This story shows that monetary wealth, which lacks meaningful purpose, brings no genuine advantage because distributing or investing the money is better than just storing it. This story teaches us that authentic wealth emerges through using our resources to make lives better for ourselves and others while disregarding pointless counts of material possessions.