The peasant, too frightened to say anything, sat helplessly until the money lender came across and asked him his business. The peasant told him frankly the story and said he had wanted to try whether his money would attract more money, but it had not, so the rich man had been quite wrong in what he had said. Suddenly, looking at the innocent face before him, he felt an unusual gleam of compassion. He gave him three silver rupees from the top of the pile and sent him away happy. The yogic application of this little story is that the spiritual attracts the spiritual.
Many people take up yoga feeling they are acquiring something for themselves.
Perhaps there is even a hidden aspiration to become a teacher. Such sentences actually appear in books by self-appointed teachers who claim to have risen above all egoism. However if aspirants are straightforward and work hard at yoga they will find that any little personal success is swallowed up by the gradually revealed greatness of what they are practising. Still after the complete transcendence of the personal a few silver coins of inspiration may well come back from the infinite.