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immodestly. “See?” And before Rup could blink, the yogi reached up and plucked a small fruit from the air, as if by magic.
"What else can you do?” Rup inquired of him.
“I can produce ornaments, also,” he bragged, and, from his empty hand, a golden ring appeared.
Seeing how he had succeeded in impressing Rup, the yogi invited him to visit him.
"I don't stay anywhere for long," he offered, “but for fifteen days I will remain under the banyan tree next to the cemetery. If you want to, come tomorrow morning. But do as you wish. It makes no difference to me."
The next day Rup's father went out to spend several hours at the temple to practise samayik or meditation. Rup came up with what he thought was a good idea. If this yogi can make ten nxpees out of one, then he can make ten gold ornaments out of one, also. So let me take one of my father's packets and ask this yogi to multiply its contents.
He took the key, opened the strongbox, and removed one of the packets. Then he locked it up again and rushed off to find the old yogi at the cemetery.
He located him sitting under the banyan tree, his eyes closed in meditation. When Rup ran up to him, he opened the eyes.
“What do you want, lad?” he asked.
"If you can make ten out of one rupee,” Rup answered, "then can you make other good things multiply also?"
“Of course," the yogi replied. “If you bring rupees or anything, I can make them multiply ten times.”
Rup showed him the packet he had brought.
"Well,” he said, “I don't want to see what you have inside the packet. Go a distance of twenty trees away, make a hole in the ground, and there bury your packet. Then come back, and we will use special mantra so that whatever is inside will start multiplying.”
Rup in his greed was ready to follow the old yogi's instructions. When greed invades the mind, it is blinding. One is willing to do almost anything. Rup found a place some twenty trees' distance away where he scooped out the earth with his
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