A young couple goes to India to study with a guru renowned for her teachings on loving kindness. From the airport they decide to hire an open air bicycle taxi to take them to their mentors ashram. On the way to the temple they are unpleasantly surprised and accosted by a thief on foot who manages to snag one of their bags and take off with it. The couple are understandably shaken and distraught by the time they get to the ashram. Because of the theft, but also because they don’t know how to respond to this incident and stay true to the sacred teachings of their beloved guide. They ask her what they should do on the spiritual level if this ever happens again. She tells them that first they need to buy themselves a nice, new and very sturdy umbrella. And that they must carry it with them at all times. And if they are ever bothered by a thief in the future they should, with great and utter compassion, hit them with the umbrella around their arms and shoulders as hard as they can to encourage them to let go of their grip on their possessions. […]