Read the story about the two friends who had a piece of land, where they grow wheat.

Two friends, one a bachelor, the other married, lived in the countryside. They were neighbours and always helped each other. One day they decided to buy a piece of land to grow wheat together. The two neighbours were working hard from morning till evening. It turned out that the soil was fertile so it yielded an abundance of wheat. After their first harvest they decided to divide the wheat into half and store it in two separate silos.

All went well at first. Then, every now and then, the married man woke up at night and thought to himself: “This isn’t fair. My good friend isn’t married and he gets only half the wheat every harvest. Here I am with a wife and two kids, so I have all the security I need for my old age. But who will care for my poor friend when he gets old? He needs to save much more for the future so his need is obviously greater than mine.”

Keeping that in mind the married friend got up once a week stole over to his friend’s farm and pour a sack full of wheat into his friend’s silos. The bachelor too began to wake up at night and couldn’t go back to sleep. He was sure that he was better off than his friend. While he was thinking what to do it suddenly dawned to him. He said to himself: “This simply isn’t fair. My friend is married with two kids and he gets half the produce of the land. Now I have no one except myself to support. So my poor friend, whose need is obviously greater than mine, should receive much more than I do?” Then he got out of bed and poured a sack full of wheat into his friend’s silos every Sunday night.

One night as they were carrying a sack of wheat on their back, they bumped into each other.

Many years later, after their death, the story leaked out. So when the townsfolk wanted to build a shrine they chose the spot at which the two friends met for they could not think of any place in the town that was holier than that one.

The important distinction is not between those who are rich and those who are not but between those who care for others and those who don’t.