Once a king was going round the town. A beggar came by and asked him for alms. The king asked him to go away saying, "Please do not disturb my peace of mind!"  The beggar had a hearty laugh and said, "Your Excellency! If your peace of mind is in pieces, then it is no peace at all!"
The king then realised that the beggar was really not a beggar but a sage. At once he bowed to him and said, "Oh, wise one! Please tell me  your desire and it shall be yours!"
The sage laughed again, "Do not promise what you cannot fulfil."
At this, the king was annoyed. He stopped his journey and took the sage to his palace. The sage extending his begging bowl and said, "Please fill this bowl with gold coins."
The king smiled and beckoned for gold. His attendant brought a plateful of gold coins. As the king put them into the bowl, the bowl seemed to swallow them up. Even after pouring all the gold coins from the treasury of the kingdom, the bowl was not full. Finally, the king was humbled and fell at the feet of the sage.
The sage said, "Oh, King! this begging bowl cannot be filled by anyone. Not just you; even the richest of the rich cannot fill this. This is not an ordinary begging bowl. This is the skull of a man who had lived and died with unfulfilled greed."
 Start to live by fulfiling your needs well within your means. You too can climb the peak of happiness! Greed is something that we should be wary of, in all walks of life.
There was a man who could be called the personification of greed. He resolved that the woman he would like to marry need not be beautiful, knowledgeable or even good natured.  She only had to be enormously rich.
In a distant town, he met a rich man. He got a proposal to marry one of the rich man"s daughters. The rich man said, "I have a daughter who is twenty years old. If you marry her, I shall give you half-a-million dollar as dowry. I have another daughter who is twenty-five years old and if you marry her, the dowry shall be one million dollar. There is a third daughter who is thirty years old - and the dowry for her is two million dollars."
As the rich man increased the age of the bride, the dowry amount went up proportionately. The hero of our story became very excited. He asked, "Do you have a daughter who is fifty years old and still unmarried?" Money, wealth and property are mere tools. Money is not happiness. Well, how to get happiness? It is hidden deep inside in the meaning we give to money, position and life….