Nothing Like Pride 
Narada, of whom you have heard before. He really did love God, but he was also quite proud of it, and of course that's not a very good thing. It went so far that one day he began to imagine that there was probably no one in the whole wide world who loved the Lord so much as he did. 
Now God has a way of "reading" one's heart, knowing our secret thoughts. After all, our heart isjust where he is seated. So one day he told Narada, "Go to such and such a place. Someone greatly devoted to me lives there. Go and get acquainted with that devotee." Narada, surprised to hear this, went to the village, inquired, and found that the man was a farmer. The villagers described him as a great lover of God.
Narada saw that the man got up early in the morning, spoke the name of the Lord just once, went to his fields and plowed and tilled the soil all day long and did all his other tasks. Then at bedtime he again repeated the name of the Lord --once-- and went to bed.
Narada said to himself, "How can this crude farmer be a lover of God? He just works all day at his commonplace duties and what attention does he pay to the Lord?" Narada went home, called on the Lord, and told him what he thought of this fellow: not much.

The Lord listened and said, "Narada, I want you to take this cup of oil, full to the brim, and go all the way around the city wall with it and come back to me. But one thing: you must not spill one drop. See that you don't." Now one of the things Narada was most proud of was that he was always able to carry out any command of God. So he set off with the cup of oil and made his way slowly around the whole city, not spilling even a drop. Returning to the Lord, exhausted, he reported his success.
"How many times," asked God, "did you remember me while out on your walk?"
"Lord, not once. How could I, when I had to watch this brimming cup of oil?"
"You forgot me completely? Just in preserving this cup of oil? But that farmer, though carrying the burden of a family and a farm, still remembers to think of me twice a day!"