[nukkad] A Secret...

[Nelson Fernandes <fernandn@geodc.patni.com>]

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A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery.

He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car broke down. Do 
you think I could stay the night?"

The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even fix his car. As the man 
tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound.

The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say,"We can't 
tell you. You're not a monk."

The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way.

Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same monastery. The 
monks accept him, feed him, even fix his car. That night, he hears the same 
strange noise that he had heard years earlier.

The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks reply, "We can't tell you. 
You're not a monk."

The man says, "All right, all right. I'm *dying* to know. If the only way I can 
find out what that sound was is to become a monk, how do I become a monk?" The 
monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass 
there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers, 
you will become a monk." The man sets about his task.

Forty-five years later, he returns and knocks on the door of the monastery. He 
says, "I have traveled the earth and have found what you have asked for. There 
are 145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on 
the earth."

The monks reply, "Congratulations. You are now a monk. We shall now show you 
the way to the sound."

The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, "The sound 
is right behind that door." The man reaches for the knob, but the door is 
locked. He says, "Real funny. may I have the key?" The monks give him the key, 
and he opens the door.

Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man demands the key 
to the stone door. The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a 
door made of ruby.
He demands another key from the monks, who provide it.

Behind that door is *another* door, this one made of sapphire. So it went until 
the man had gone through doors of emerald, silver, topaz, amethyst...

Finally, the monks say, "This is the last key to the last door." The man is 
relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob,and behind that door he 
is amazed to find the source of that strange sound.

But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.
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