Once there was a small village in which a young man who had been blind from birth lived. When he grew up, he wanted to do something beneficial for his parents as well as for the village. So he asked his father for advice.
His father said, ‘You cannot work in the paddy fields. You can, however, get up at dawn to awaken the villagers. Go to the main road and call out, ‘Villagers, the dawn has come, wake up! It’s time to go to the fields.’
The boy asked, ‘Yes, father, but what is the dawn?’
The father explained, ‘Dawn is when the sky is red like the colour of a parrot’s beak.’
But the boy had never been able to see the red skies at dawn.
Early next morning, he went to the main road of the village to awaken the villagers, and shouted out, ‘Wake up all villagers, the dawn has come; let us go to the fields!’
The boy did well and was happy to be given this duty.