In a village, there lived a poor farmer and his wife. They had only one cow. From the milk it gave, they made ghee (clarified butter) and somehow managed their household. No matter how hard they tried, they could never produce more than one kilogram of ghee a week.
Once a week, the farmer went to the market. He sold the ghee to a grocer and, in exchange, bought rice, lentils, oil, sugar, and other daily necessities before returning home.
One day, after the farmer left, the shopkeeper decided to check whether the ghee really weighed a full kilogram. What he discovered left him shocked — the ghee weighed only 900 grams, not one kilogram!
The next week, when the farmer came again with ghee, the shopkeeper yelled, “Get out of my shop! You cheat! You’ve been deceiving me with false weight!”
The farmer calmly replied, “Sir, I’m a poor man. I can’t afford to buy proper weights for my scale. So every time, I use the one kilogram of sugar I buy from you as the weight to measure the ghee.”
Moral: Whatever you give to others will come back to you — whether it’s love or deceit.
