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A man was driving down a lonely road and breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, 'My car broke down, do you think I could stay for the night?' The monks graciously accepts him, feed him dinner, and even fixes his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. The next morning, he asks the monks what that sound was, but they refuse to tell him the source of that sound. "Because You're not a monk", they say. The man was disappointed but thanked them anyway and goes about his merry way. Few years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same monastery. The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fixes his car. That night, he hears the same strange noise that he had heard years earlier. The next morning, as can be expected, he asked what it was, but the monks had the same reply - "We can't tell you. You're not a monk". The man says, All right, all right. I'm dying to know. If the only way I can find out what that sound was, is to become a monk, how do I become a monk? The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When you correctly find these numbers, you will become a monk". The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, I have travelled the earth and have found what you have asked for. There are 645,236,284,232 blades of grass and 931,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth. The monks all stand up and give him a round of applause After chanting some mantras he was congratulated. "You are now a monk. We shall now show you the way to the sound". The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, The sound is right behind that door. The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked. A little bit annoyed he says, "Yeah real funny. May I have the key?" The monks give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man demands the key to the stone door. The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who provide it. Behind that door is another door, this one made of sapphire. Until So it went until the man had gone through doors of emerald,.... .......silver, topaz, and amethyst. Finally, the monks say, This is the last key to the last door. The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door he is amazed to find the source of that strange sound.................... ...................but I can't tell you what it was...because, you're not a monk!!!.

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