A HUSBAND
and wife renounced the world and
together
undertook a pilgrimage to various holy
shrines.
Once, as they were walking along a road,
the
husband, who was a little ahead of the wife,
saw a
piece of diamond on the road. Immediately
he began
to scratch the ground to hide the
diamond in
it, thinking that if his wife saw it
perchance
she might be moved to avarice, and thus
lose the
merit of renunciation. While he was thus
scratching
the ground, the wife came up and asked
him what
he was doing. He gave her, in an
apologetic
tone, an evasive .reply. She, however,
finding
out the diamond and reading his thoughts
remarked,
"Why did you leave the world if you
still feel
the distinction between the diamond
and
dust?"
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