Once there was a selfish man who was a stinkingly selfish rich man.

His neighbour was a very kind man. One day it was raining hard and a saint knocked on the selfish man's door. The saint asked him if he could stay there. The stinkingly selfish man didnot let him stay there. Then the saint went to the neighbour and asked him if he could stay there. The neighbour was kind hearted and let him stay. Then in the morning before the saint was about to leave, he was so happy with the kind hearted host that he wanted to give him a gift. He gave him 3 magic coconuts and said that if he wished anything while he broke the coconuts, he would get that immediately. So, the man broke one coconut asking for money, house. Second cocunut he broke asking for money to help others. The third cocunut he broke asking for health for himself and family. When the stinkingly selfish rich man saw the neighbour get a BIG house he immediately went to him and asked him how he got it. The man told him about the magic coconuts and the saint. The rich man then started in his car to chase the saint. Then he finally reached the saint and asked him if he could get the magic coconuts. The saint gave him 3. When he reached home after getting tired thoroughly, his wife started bugging him "what are you going to wish, what ? what ? what? can you ask for my friends ? " Then the man got so angry since he didn't eat anything, was hungry and his wife was bugging him instead of giving him food. He was mad and broke the coconut, saying "my foot". The wish came true and the whole house was filled with his foots. Then the man had to break the second coconut saying "No foot". Then all the feet in the house, including his own disappeared. Then he had no other option but to break the third coconut asking for his legs to come back to him. This way the selfish man didnot get anything but had to suffer a lot while the kind hearted man got everything he wanted and was happy.

The lesson of the story is to be not selfish.