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This story is being narrated on the basis a current- me
4. Two Americans
Snake bites back the generous giver who feeds him milk
while human overflows with thankfulness and gratefulness
towards his benevolent saviour and yearns to repay his
kindness. Here is a sen mental and heart-rending story of a
man who sought and cherished the crucial opportunity of
repaying the kindness of the other man. He experienced a
revolu onary and remarkable change when the other man
showed kindness towards him. It was the richness of his outlook
that made him infer the scolding man as a graceful person, as a
life teacher in disguise. The incident is like a diamond in a coal
mine. An illustra on of exemplary gratefulness in a spiritually
downtrodden country like America.
Gurudevshri cleverly showed the path of charity by
pain ng the psyche of an addicted donor. A donor in true sense
experiences joy in giving and distribu ng wealth while sorrow
in not giving, just as one feels uneasiness in withholding the
excreta while experiences freshness in releasing it. It's rightly
said, 'Wealth is the dirt of hand.' One should always intend to
wear it off. Pujyashri has explained the philosophical truths in a
very easy and excellent manner like, 'If one wants to experience
tremendous bliss in a aining Bhagwan, one should bring in the
mind and feel the boundless sorrow and pain of being jailed in
the mundane world'. Let's relish the sympathe c incident in the
words of classic author Gurudevshri himself…!
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incident appeared in an American magazine named 'Physical
culture'.
A rich American came to roam around a sea-coast.
Actually, he was a miser and it was night me, so what was the
need to show off? So he came dressed in simple night garbs like
t-shirt and pantaloons.
Some mes, some richies are very contented in
pleasures. So, when the common people want to do much
pomp and show, they want to relish rich eateries, then this
sa sfied richies resort to very simple food and dress! You may
ask, how does it happen! But look at nature-
1) The nkling of a bronze dish is more while the gold
dish doesn't sound much.
2) Clouds that are not raining make many thundering
sounds while the raining clouds calmly and efficiently perform
their duty.
3) A small river overflows and over floods on all four
sides on a bit rainfall while large watercourses like Ganga don't
show such false pomp. On the other hand, a sea doesn't
overflow even if large rivers submerge in it.
Similar was the case for this Richie. On reaching the sea-
coast, he got out from his car and kept his car parked far away.
Strolling on the sea-shore, he went and sat on a bench. The cool
wind was breezing. The crowd was slowly disappearing. The
place was growing solitary and quiet. Staring at vast sea,
sea ng on the bench, the American was lost in deep thoughts.
It so happened that an another rich man arrived at the
same me. He stopped the car, got out and loitering along the
coast came over there. He told his driver to keep the car behind
slowly. Then he came exactly behind the first American. At that
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