The toy elephants
The people at Sears told me about another shop very nearby which sold flowers, plants and so forth. When I went there, I saw two toy elephants for six dollars. Sometimes I tell you people what you were in your previous animal incarnations. In X's case, in her last animal incarnation she was an elephant, so I wanted to buy her these elephants. By this time she has a very large collection of elephants.I said, "Let me buy these two toy elephants." I went to give the lady behind the counter six dollars. She said, "Why six dollars?"
I said, "It is mentioned there, six dollars."
She said. "The price is three dollars."
I said "Three dollars?"
She said, "Yes."
Here this lady was telling me that I was giving too much money, and just two minutes before that I was about to be arrested.
Sri Chinmoy, Salutations, numbers 9-12, Agni Press, 1983