I am looking for the source of a story I read long time ago; It goes like that: 

the spiritual teacher (maybe krishna) meets a young man and is asked how the creation resp. the spirit is related to mans life; (sort of question to understand how karma affects your lifes ways). And the teacher says: Yeah I will explain in very detail, but first please get me some water from the next well; It is a short walk for a young man, a few hours this direction. So the young guy is on the way to the well and arriving there he meets a person there also fetching water. This person turns out to be a beautiful girl and they have a nice chat so he accompanies her just to her near village. There is a celebration going on in the streets, so he stays a bit longer. Then a neighbour offers a bed for the night... and so on the other day: - more people, more work to do, more involvement with the community, they fall in love, the parents accept him and - you imagine the rest - they marry and have a family and he gets old. One day he remembers he was sent be krishna(?) to get water...

It would be very nice to read it again. And somehow krishna in the beginning ask him to look into the clay jug and see his life on the water surface?? I confused the story i guess...