Stories from Sadhguru | Topiwala and the Monkeys

Story time | Topiwala and the monkeys | Sadhguru Stories from Sadhguru Can I tell you a story? yes I always seek your permission because the moment I start once upon a time a lot of people think it's bed time that's the only time somebody told him a story So this happened in earlier twentieth century in 1910 there was a man whose name was topiwalah topiwalah means a hat seller people's second name indicates their trade so he is going from village to village town to town selling hats in the tropical heat. one afternoon he felt tired and he went and sat down under a tree opened his meager lunch and ate and dozed off after a little while he opened his eyes and to his horror all the hats were gone he looked all over the place no hats when you you do everything possible and when you don't know what else to do people pray so he looked up to pray and he saw a bunch of monkeys sitting there all hats on so he screamed at them they screamed back at him he abused them they abused him in their own language. he picked up whatever he could and threw it at them and they picked up whatever they could and threw at him not knowing what to do and out of sheer frustration he took his hat and flung it on the ground all the monkeys took their hats and flung it on the ground and he picked them up and went about his business 2013 December 21st another man was going around selling the hats his name also happens to be topiwalah and one afternoon he went and sat under a tree ate his elaborate lunch 21st you know and promptly fell asleep after some time he woke up hats gone he didn't look here and there he looked straight up a bunch of monkeys were sitting hats on he got up and jived they all jived he made funny faces they made funny faces he had all the fun he wanted to have when he was done he picked up his hat and flung it on the ground a baboon of a monkey quickly came down picked up the hat walked towards him and gave him a tight slap in the face and said 'you idiot you think only you had a grand father.