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well-to-do persons, but also, I'm not also taking care of even The emo onal expression of the businessman really
the distressed. How meanness of me! My true brother! You shook the heart of the necklace-thief! How can he even touch
opened my shut eyes. You've really done a great favour on me! the necklace again once he kept on the table? S ll, the
The inflow and outgoing of money is a very ordinary thing, a businessman reques ng him earnestly, gave him money to
trifle thing in this world. I was carefree and unalert like an clear off the debts and start a business and only then he
alcoholic under the intoxica on of money. I was imprudent! allowed him to go.
Oh! I was devoid of all noble feelings and in such a situa on you Applause to such a dras c change of heart!
dared to take the necklace and thus removed my intoxica on,
arousing prudence and noble feelings in me and really, my
conscience woke! I thought how distressed and oppressed my
religious brother and a loving son of the Great Almighty,
religious father would have been before taking the necklace! In
such expressions, he may have met heart-jol ng failures! Is my
money then useful only to burn my funeral pyre?
I got two pennies in the service of world's well-wisher
Bhagwan. In spite of having that, if I don't rid off the sorrow of
my Sadharmika, it would be my u er selfishness! It's a
terrible plight like of a snake just guarding the enormous
wealth pu ng it into no good use. If such adversity would
have con nued, my Sadharmikas would have been dead in a
depressing state and would have forgo en the religion in the
worry of filling the belly. It would have forgo en would have
caused a significant loss to my great Godfather's ongoing
ins tu on of religious values and ac vi es. A er that, due to
lack of enough followers in the world Jinshashan would have
looked so poor! Also, the distressed Sadharmika brother may
have lost the right path! Etc. Thinking so, I realized my terrible
offence. So, I had to ask for Prayashchit (Compensa on) from
Gurudev today. Great man! We both are grateful to you, for
doing a great favour on us. We have presumed this necklace for
the service of Sadharmika only. You have to take it.”

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