A Lesson worth Learning
I was walking out of temple of Lord Krishna at Mathura
city when I saw a man begging from everyone that passed by me. The beggar seems to be hungry. But unfortunately, I had nothing to offer to beggar. Just then a Land lord who had got down from his royal horse, excessively close to the priest of the temple, in a highly impressive style walked passed the beggar. As he starts moving towards temple stairs with his security guard by making sound of his shoes like Kat- Kat, the beggar caught his legs. The beggar raised his finger to the sky and said, for the sake of “Krishna" Please, give me.
Trying to end the moment and avoid making any sense of hearing, the
Landlord kept moving ahead. But the beggar kept his request continues. The Landlord, bearing black glass, un-attentively said, “Krishna will provide!" The beggar said back, "What! Did you think, at any moment that I ever thought you were my provider! I''m not asking for your mercy, I KNOW god provides for all including you.
The two stood there staring at one another for a moment and then the Landlord made his speedy movements, climbing temple stairs.
A poor Rajasthan desert girl selling her plums, was sitting nearby on the street was moved by the incident. She did not have much, but from what she did have, she pulled out 1 rupee coin and placed it in the hands of that beggar. He smiled and went on his way. After some time the Landlord returned from
worship. He saw now no one is there to disturb him. He turned around and made his way through the crowd to the place where the incident had happened. There was no one in the scene except poor girl. He pulled out a 100 rupees note from his pocket to give to the beggar. But he looked left and right and could not find him. What was he to do? He had already pulled out the 100 rupees note to give for the sake of god and was not going to put it back.
He found the nearest person was the poor girl. He thought for a while and said to his security man, please handover it to girl. Security man gave the it to her.
The girl quickly got up and ran behind the horse, shouting loudly your majesty please, hold on-hold on. The Landlord stopped his horse and asked ‘why are you running behind us, girl? The girl politely asked him to get down from his majestic horse. Landlord did so.
The girl said him, look “Charity does not diminish wealth, alternately it multiplies”. God says that “If you serve needy people, I shall serve you 100 times more”. She explained that Krishna has given her 100 times worth more what she gave to the hungry man. The landlord overwhelmingly impressed on the girl and he followed her inspiration whole life.
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