Very Interesting :)
Subhash g
Very interesting!
A man is driving down the road and breaks down
near a
monastery. He goes to the monastery,
knocks on the door, and says,
"My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the
night?"
The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner,
and even fix
his car.
As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a
strange sound. The
next morning,
he asks the monks what the sound was, but they
say, "We can't
tell you.
You're not a monk."
The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and
goes about
his merry way.
Some years later, the same man breaks down in
front of the same
monastery.
The monks accept him, feed him, even fix his car.
That night,
he hears the same strange noise that he had heard
years earlier. The next morning, he
asks what it is, but the monks reply, "We can't tell
you. You're not a monk."
The man says, "All right, all right. I'm *dying*
to know. If
the only way I can find out what that sound was is to
become a monk, how do I become a monk?"
The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and
tell us
how many blades of grass there are and the exact
number of sand pebbles.
When you find these numbers, you will become a
monk."
The man sets about his task. Forty-five years
later, he returns
and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says,
"I have traveled the
earth and have found what you have asked for.
There are 145,236,284,232 blades of grass and
231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth."
The monks reply, "Congratulations. You are now a
monk. We
shall now show you the way to the sound." The
monks lead the
man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, "The
sound is right behind that door."
The man reaches for the knob, but the door is
locked.
He says, "Real funny. May I have the key?" The
monks give him
the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden
door is another door made of stone.
The man demands the key to the stone door. The
monks give him
the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made
of ruby. He demands
another key from the monks, who provide it. Behind
that door is *another* door, this one made of
sapphire. So it went until the man had gone through
doors of emerald, silver, topaz, amethyst...
Finally, the monks say, "This is the last key to
the last
door."
The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the
door, turns the knob, and
behind that door he is amazed to find the source
of that strange sound.
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But can't tell you what it is because you're not a
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Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
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