Life is like a parable

The great Russian poet V. Mayakovsky once wrote: "Baby son came to his father ...".
And the man asked God: "What is good and what is bad?" For religion, the answer of God is a doctrine of the meaning of human life. For art - the ability to answer the main question of being in the form of an artistic parable.
The word "parable" is no coincidence in the name of the book.
The story of the wise elder of Savvatia, separate stories of the second part of the book, in which love, repentance, duty, smile bizarrely intertwined into fascinating everyday stories, very much resemble parables. After all, the parable is not only a story about a particular hero, but first of all a dialogue with the reader about his own life