59. Three beans and thirty dollars
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After twenty five years of married life, one day when the wife was going through the contents of her husband's closet, she discovered a box with three soy bean seeds and thirty dollars in cash.
She went to him and asked with a lot of curiosity, 'What is this? Why three soy beans and thirty dollars cash? How did it come? What is the meaning?'
He said, 'Now I have to confess to you: whenever I cheated on you, I put one soy bean in that box.'
The wife was shocked, but was a little consoled that he had cheated on her only three times in twenty five years.
She then asked, 'And what about the thirty dollars?'
The husband replied, 'Well, whenever soy beans were ten dollars per kilo, I sold them!'
In life, in your relationships, many a time you only see the three soy beans, but you miss the thirty dollars behind it! Understanding all about the three soy beans and the thirty dollars and more than that, and still trusting life and continuing to live is called liberation, living Advaita.