An unemployed youth from a very poor family was travelling by train to another city in search of a job. Vegetables were rarely cooked at home, so he had kept only rotis to eat on the way.
After passing half the journey, he started feeling hungry, and started eating rotis from the tiffin. His way of eating was a little strange, he would take a piece of roti and put it inside the tiffin as if he was eating something else along with the roti, whereas he had only rotis!! The people around and other passenger were surprised to see this act of his. Every time the youth would take a piece of roti and put it in the tiffin and eat it. everyone was wondering why the youth was doing this. Finally one person could not resist and he asked him that Bhaiya why are you doing this, you do not have any vegetables, then why are you putting a piece of roti in the empty tiffin every time and eating it as if there is vegetable in it.
then the young man replied, "Bhaiya, there is no vegetable in this empty lid but a am eating it thinking in my mind that there is a lot of pickle in it, I am eating roti with pickle.
Then the person asked, "if you are eating dry roti thinking of pickle in the empty lid, then are you able to taste the pickle?"
"Yes, I am definitely able to taste it, I am eating roti thinking of pickle and I am also enjoying it very much.", the young man replied.
The passengers around him also heard this, and one of them said, "If you had to think, then instead of pickle you should have thought of matar paneer, shahi gobi....you would have tasted them. As per your saying, if you thought of pickle then you tasted pickle, if you thought of other tasty things then you would have tasted them. If you had to think then why should you think small, you should have big."
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