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opposite person, listen and even check it before offering the
dona on. This man didn't even ask, listen to me or checked
anything! Just he felt 'This person is in need' and immediately,
he took out a two-dollar note and a card as a promise to lend
job and handed over to me. In this age of unemployment who
gives a job to even the familiar and educated?
While this man, without knowing my eligibility, he told
to come for a job! Kudos to his generosity! his benevolence! his
selflessness! Really, he opened my eyes! What kind of
perspec ve does he have for money? And what kind of do I
have? He must have thought for me in his mind, that, “This
distressed man, my fellow ci zen and he does like this? Let me
help and recover him from his problem. What is other good use
of my money?' Thinking along such lines, when he is giving me
money without asking me, then why should I remain such a
miser? The true purpose of wealth is in elimina ng the
sorrows of others! in pacifying the enraged hearts of others!
Just as I enjoy in amassing more wealth, he may be enjoying in
distribu ng wealth! Wow! On properly thinking it seems true
that true enjoyment lies in charity. Because the people who are
taking it make the atmosphere deligh ul. Even this is a fact
that there is no guarantee or trust of wealth. It silently slips off
in personal expenditures, diseases, business loss etc. In true
sense, we experience inner bliss in eradica ng sorrows of
others. O.K then even I want to experience the boundless bliss
of charity! I should take this incident as an excellent wisdom
lesson and kickoff miserliness from me and generously offer
dona ons to the depressed and distressed.’
Words and incident are the same, but our life is shaped
according to our outlook.
1) Pat on the back and
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2) 'Fool! Have you come to die? Take these two dollars!'
these words can also be taken as an insult. One can imagine,
'Such an egois c man that he gives a slap on my back! If he
wants to offer the dona on, he can use gentle words, how can
he insult me straight away with fury in mind? What is the value
of such rough behaviour?' If we have a low and mean outlook
for words of the opposite person, it creates a quarrel. But over
here, the American took it as words of affec on and words for
his personal benefit. So it provoked love for him and changed
the direc on of his life.
American reached home and kept that visi ng card and
two dollars in a showcase. He acquires more and more
mo va on for dona on as he looked to it, every day. As such,
years passed by, he offered plenty of dona ons during this
period. Now he changed his disposi on, he couldn't remain at
ease without offering the dona on and knew no bounds of
ecstasy in dona ng. Now, what happened? He was
experiencing sorrow in not giving and happiness in giving!
Once upon a me, it so happened that he was reading a
newspaper on the dining table in the morning. On opening the
newspaper, suddenly, he read the name of that American's
company. Actually, he had a regular habit of looking at his card.
So he immediately recognized him.
The news were that the creditors had struck his
company with a raid, meaning that the company was under
calamity.
He was really shocked to read this. It extremely
trembled his conscious. He felt, 'Oh my gracious, my great
generous, beloved is in a problem? If he rendered me great
purity and strength of mind and lifelong inner bliss then,
Shouldn't I rid off his financial adversity and repay his
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