Antharanga mind ( ಅಂತರಂಗ ಮೈಂಡ)

A woman was dissatisfied with her fate;  she was poorer than all the others. The bread was never sufficient for her seven children. Her husband had died young. One night, after desperate prayer, an angel appeared to her, gave her a sack, and ordered her to throw all her cares and needs into it. The sack was hardly big enough to hold so many worries, cares, and anxieties. However, the angel took her by the hand and led her to heaven. Groaning and complaining, she carried the sack. When she arrived, the woman was amazed. She had imagined heaven differently. The clouds were all sacks of cares. And on the biggest of the sacks sat a most venerable old gentleman, who was known to her from pictures in her childhood.  The all-knowing one knew about her cares too- after all, he had heard her prayers and her curses every day. He bade her set the sack down, and said that she might open all the other sacks and look into them. She would, however, have to choose one of them, and take i...