There was a monk near Haridwar who had given up for many years both health and home and was living on alms; he used to keep all the food he collected on a flat rock that jutted out of the Ganga and used it as a plate from which he took his meal
One day he came to his rock and found another monk sitting there, taking food! He got enraged at this trespass on his "property". Then the newcomer said, "Alas! You have renounced all sense of I and mine; you have shaved your head, so that you may not be recognised by erstwhile companions; you yearn to be free from all bonds but you have tied yourself up with this rock! How can you swim across this Sea of Samsara with this rock round your neck? You are living a life of hypocrisy."
That opened his eyes to his error.
(Chinna Katha from the Divine Discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
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