Discussing the question of controlling desires and developing detachment, Sri Sathya Sai Baba once narrated a story of a sadhu in Rishikesh. The sadhu was in the habit of begging food and rushing with the food thus obtained to a nearby rocky terrain to sit on a special stone ledge and partake the food.
It so happened that on one occasion, he was delayed and so he went to his favourite spot rather late. To his dismay, he found another sadhu, who had got ahead of him, squatting on his favourite stone and enjoying food.
Immediately the sadhu shouted, "That is my place, you should not have sat on it!"
Everyone laughed as Sri Sathya Sai Baba concluded the story by saying that even sadhus after giving up everything, sometimes get attached to a stone.
(From "Wit and Wisdom of Sri Sathya Sai"
compiled by P. Gurumoorthy)
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