Once there lived an old woman. She had one regulative principle that every Sunday, she used to take bath in the morning, smear and purify her house with cow dung, prepare food and offer it to Lord and then take the remnants. By doing so she was filled with complete peace and happiness. She used to get cow dung from the cow kept outside the house of her neighbor. Her neighbor seeing the prosperity and happiness of old woman started feeling jealous and then she started keeping her cow inside her house. Due to not getting cow dung, old woman couldn't purify her house with cow dung and hence she didn't cook also and she slept without eating any food. That night God appeared in her dream and blessed her with a cow and its calf. The old woman became rejoiced to get the gift and kept them outside her house and gave them fodder to eat. When her neighbor saw the cow outside the house of old woman she became very jealous and to her surprise she saw that cow produced cow dung made of gold. She took that cow dung made of gold and replaced it with cow dung of her own cow and she kept doing it for many days and old woman could never know it. One day a great storm came and to protect her cow, the old woman started keeping the cow in her home. When the old lady saw for the first time that cow has given a cow dung made of gold she was very surprised and elated and she kept living her life. The neighbor felt now much more envious and she thought of a trick to trap this old lady and she went to the king and informed king of this mystic cow and how the gold from this mystic cow could be used for the benefit of entire kingdom. King immediately ordered his soldiers to get this cow and the old lady kept crying but the cow was taken away by force from her. Seeing this her neighbor became very happy. But strangely the king saw that there was sudden increase of pollution in his kingdom. One night God appeared in dream of king and told him the entire story and asked him to return the cow to old lady and honor her for her goodness and punish the crooked neighbor. Next day morning king offered great gifts to old lady as well as returned her cow and severely punished the neighbor for her crooked acts. 
B.G. 5.12 : The steadily devoted soul attains unadulterated peace because he offers the results of all activities to Me; whereas a person who is not in union with the Divine, who is greedy for the fruits of his labor becomes entangled.
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