India, Sept. 13 -- To aid his devotee's progress, a teacher sends him to stay with a simple family. It is rumoured in the neighbourhood that God himself stays with the humble occupants of this thatch roof dwelling.

The devotee spends a day with the children in the family, a brother and sister, working with them on the farm. The sister is simple, and quiet in her work. The brother has an ash-smeared body, wears the marks of a yogi, and says wise words, and quotes the scriptures: How rare is such a person, who casts off duality, Killing it, he attains Raja Yoga, the Yoga of meditation and success.

In the evening, as they return home, they find a bag of gold lying in their path. The yogi brother starts crying, and exclaims, "Oh God, why do...