I am trying to show that one can never derive a moral from a story...

It's always the other way

round, you write a story to communicate your perspective of morality. Someone else can do it in
his own way too...

1.
Once a king ordered his three ministers to take a bag and go to the forest and fill up the bag with
fruits.
The first minister thought that since the king has ordered for collection of fruits, he must collect
the best of the fruits in the bag.
The second minister thought that since the king is a very busy person, he may not look very
thoroughly into the bag what has been collected and hence he collected whatever he could lay his
hands. Thus his bag was filled up with a mixture of good and rotten fruits.
The third minister thought that the king would see only externally how big the bag is and hence
he just filled up the bag with all dried leaves and dust.
All the three ministers came back to the court with their respective bags, having executed the
order of collecting the fruits.
The King, without even seeing what their bags contained, just ordered that now the three
ministers must be sent to separate jails for three months, where they will not be provided with
any food and they were only allowed to carry the respective bags wherein they had collected the
fruits.
The first minister could spend the three months in the jail by eating the very nice fruits he had
collected.
The second one could survive for some time with the good fruits in the bag and later he
developed diseases by eating the rotten fruits he had collected.
The Third minister had nothing to eat and hence could not survive.
Moral of the story:
From the above story we understand that we have to undergo the consequences of our own
activities.
“You will be suffering your own reactions after your karmas, any single karma you perform, you
have to suffer for it. Good and bad, everything, you have to have this reaction. No doubt about it.
In Mahabharata, Anushasana Parva, it is said
yathaa dhenu sahasreshu / vatso gachhati maataram
yat ca krtam karma / kartaaram api gachhati
“Amongst thousands of cows, the calf finds its own mother cow. Similarly the results of our past
karma (deeds) when fully ripened, will find us without fail.”

2.
Once a lazy, greedy king ordered his three ministers to take a bag and go to the forest and fill up
the bag with fruits.
The first minister was never happy with whatever the kind ordered. He had also failed several
times trying to correct the king's behaviour. And hence, filled his bag with stones and leaves.
The second minister - though disliked his king - didn't want to get caught and hence put some
good fruits on the top and fill rest of the bag with mostly rotten and unripe fruits.
The third minster was very meek. He never thought about the wrongs being done by his king. He
diligently spent all the time collecting the best fruits.
All the three ministers came back to the court with their respective bags, having executed the
order of collecting the fruits.
The King, without even seeing what their bags contained, just ordered that now the three
ministers must be given 50 lashes on their back for taking so much time - and sent them home -
never to come back again to the palace. He also snatched back those bags and kept for himself.
The king opened the bag with good fruits. All his wives, and his servants and wives' servants
were staring at him. So, he just threw all the fruits at them an asked to get lost. They all left with
a fruit.
The king then opened the bag with good fruits at the top. His bodyguards were staring at him. So
he threw the few good fruits at them - and shouted them not to come back for a week.
As he put his hand deeper into the bag, all that he could get for himself was rotten and unripe
fruits. He threw the bag out.
Then the king finally opened the bag that had only leaves and stones! He became angry for a
while, but later felt bitter that he was tricked.
Meanwhile, as the ministers were going back home - the one who had filled the bag with stones
was the most happiest since he had done what the king deserved.
Moral: From the above story we understand that we should always follow a few principles
irrespective of the short term consequences. Karma doesn't unfairly affect only you, it affects
everyone - at its own chosen time.

3. and so on…