There was a millionaire who was bothered by eye pain. He consulted so many physicians and was getting his treatment done. But the ache was even more severe than before. At last a monk who was supposed to be an expert in treating such patient was called for by the millionaire. The monk understood his problem and said that for some time he should concentrate only on green colours and not let his eyes fall on any other colours.
The millionaire got together a group of painters and purchased barrels of green pain and directed that every object his eye was likely to fall on be painted in green colour just as the monk had directed.
When the monk came to visit him after a few days the millionaire’s servants ran with buckets of green pain and poured on him since he was in red dress lest their master see any other colour and his eye ache come back. Hearing this the monk laughed and said ‘’If only you had purchased a pair of green spectacles you could have saved these walls and trees and pots and all other articles and also could have saved a large share of your fortune. You cannot paint the world green. Let us change our vision and the world will appear accordingly. It is foolish to shape the world let us shape ourselves first.
1. The millionaire in this story was blind.
2. He didn't do what doctor told him to.
3. At last he asked the monk as a medical expert.
4. The monk's advice was to look at green objects.
5. The millionaire invited painters to paint the house in different colours.
6. The monk came to the millionaire wearing green.
7. The monk poured green paint on the servants.
8. The monk said he didn't actually mean to paint everything green.
9. The millionaire bought a pair of green spectacles in order to see the world green.
10. According to the moral of the story the world starts changing after our attitude to a situation is changed.
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