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I was walking out of
Lord Krishna's temple at Mathura city when I saw a man begging from everyone that passed by. The beggar
seemed to be hungry but unfortunately, I had nothing to offer to the beggar.
Just then, a Landlord who had got off his royal horse excessively close to the
priest of the temple, walked passed the beggar in a highly impressive style. As
he started moving towards the temple stairs with his security guard, his shoes
making the sound of 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 some
money.
In an attempt to avoid the beggar and end the moment, the Landlord kept moving
forward. However, the beggar continued requesting the landlord for some money.
The landlord, wearing his black glasses, un-attentively said,
"Krishna will
provide!" The beggar replied, "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 way to the temple stairs climbing hurriedly. A poor Rajasthani desert
girl selling her plums, was sitting nearby on the street and was moved by the
incident. She did not have much, but from what she did have, she pulled out a 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 his worship and noticed that there
was no one 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 the poor girl. He pulled out a 100 rupee
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.
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He found the nearest person and it was the poor girl. He thought for a while and
told his security guard to handover the money to the girl. The security guard
did as he was told.
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. The landlord got off his horse. |
The girl said to him, "look charity does not diminish wealth, alternately it
multiplies it". God says that "If you serve the needy people, I shall serve you
100 times more". She explained that Krishna has given her 100 times more worth
of what she gave to the hungry man.
The landlord was overwhelmingly impressed by the girl and he followed her
inspiration his whole life.
Contributed By:
Murari Chaturvedi, freelance writer -
articles, short story, political news and technical.
Email :
mikertc@rediffmail.com
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