The Origin of A Temple

Two brothers, one single and the other married, had a farm whose fertile soil produced abundant grain that both brothers shared at equal parts.

At the beginning everything was going perfectly. But it came a moment when the married brother every night started to awake up startled thinking, "It's unjust. My brother who is unmarried takes half the crop; but I have a wife and five children, so in my old age I will have all I need. Who will take care of my poor brother when he be old? He needs to save for the future more than what presently saves because his need is, evidently, more than mine."

Then he stood up from bed, went secretly to his brother's place and poured in his brother's granary a sack of grain.

Also his bachelor brother started to awake up at night and say to himself, "This is unjust. My brother has a wife and five children and he takes half of the crop. But I do not have to maintain anybody more than myself. Is it just, perhaps, that my poor brother, whose need is greater than mine, receive the same as myself?"

Then he stood up from his bed and carried a sack of grain to his brother's granary.

One day both stood up from bed at the same time and run into each other, each one with a sack of grain on their back.

Many years later, when both already had died, the fact was divulged. And when the citizens decided to erect a temple, they chose for this the place in which both brother had found each other because they did not believe there were a holier place than that in all the city.

The true religious difference is not the difference between those who do worship and those who don't, but between those who love and those who don't.