Once upon a time, there were four Brahmin friends. Despite their learnings they were very poor. At last they got tired of their punery and decided to go to another country to earn money. They reached Ujjayini. After taking their bath in the river Shipra they paid a visit to Mahakaleshwar temple. As they were coming out of the temple they met a hermit named Bhairawanad. They accompanied him to his hermitage.

After treating his guests, the hermit asked them -

"Wehere have you come from and where do you want to go?"

They replied -

"We are poor Brahmins. We want to earn wealth. We have decided that either we will become wealthy or we will give up our lives."

They also sought his help in this regard. Bhairwanad then gave them four lamps whose wicks were initiated with the powers of mantra. He said to them -

"Go towards the Himalayas and walk until the wicks of your lamps begin to fall one by one. Digging at the place where the wicks of your lamp fall you will find wealth."

The four friends proceeded towards the Himalayas carrying the lamps in their hands. After sometime, wick of one of the friend's lamp fell down. All of them dug up that place. They were amazed to find a copper-mine there. The first Brahmin told his friends to take all the copper but they refused. So he took as much copper as he could carry and returned to his home.

Remaining three friends proceeded further. After travelling for some time, the wick of the second friend's lamp fell down. They dug up that place and found a silver-mine there. The second friend asked his friends to take all the silver but they refused to take it. They thought first it was a mine of copper, then it was a mine of sivler. May be they strike the gold third time. The second friend took as much silver as he could carry and returned back.

Now only two friends were left. They proceeded further. The wick of the third friend's lamp fell down at a place. Both of them dug up that place and were amazed to find a mine of gold. He told the fourth friend to take all the gold but the fourth friend refused to take it because he was anticipating gems and jewels in his turn. The third friend took as much gold as he could carry and returned. The fourth friend requested him to come along with him, but the third refused and said -

"I will wait for you at this place. You go and try your luck."

The fourth friend proceeded further alone. After walking for some distance he found an injured man lying on the ground and a wheel spinning over him. He went near that man and said -

"Who are you? How did you get injured and why is this wheel spinning over your head?"

Hardly the fourth friend finished his words, the wheel left the injured man and stuck to the head of the Brahmin. The injured man replied that just like him, he too had come there in search of gold and found an injured man and asked him the same question and ..."since then the wheel has been spinning over my head. Now your miseries would only end when a man arrives here with a desire of wealth in his heart." - saying this the injured man disappeared while the fourth friend remained there with the wheel spinning on his head.

The third friend, who had found gold was still waiting for the fourth friend. When the fourth friend did not return even after many days he became worried. He went in search of the fourth friend. He reached that place, where the fourth friend was lying in an injured condition with the wheel spinning on his head. He asked him how did all that happen.

The fourth friend narrated the whole story. The third friend said -

"Intelligence has greater values than learning or knowledge has. Even qualified people lacking in intelligence get destroyed like the Brahmins who knew how to bring a dead lion back to life."

The fourth friend asked about that story. The third friend narated the following story -