The coffee house of Surat - By Leo Toystoy
Channel: Hakuna Matada
Date: 2020-10-11

In the town of Surat, in India, was a coffee-house where many travellers and foreigners from all parts of the world met and conversed.

One day a learned Persian theologian visited this coffee-house. He was a man who had spent his life studying the nature of the Deity, and reading and writing books upon the subject. He had thought, read, and written so much about God, that eventually he lost his wits, became quite confused, and ceased even to believe in the existence of a God. The Shah, hearing of this, had banished him from Persia.

After having argued all his life about the First Cause, this unfortunate theologian had ended by quite perplexing himself, and instead of understanding that he had lost his own reason, he began to think that there was no higher Reason controlling the universe.

"What Men Live By" is a short story written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1885. He has also written the famous novel War and Peace

Added along to the narration is the sound of rain and thunderstorm, to better immerse in the wonderful story telling, read by David Barnes.
 
Audio content is a Librivox recording. Read by Alan Davis-Drake.

Mountain hut picture - by Trollinho on Unsplash.