A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO PRACTICING RELIGION - PART 15

 Sometimes people worry that if they spend money on others, they will become poor. Once upon a time my mentor told me an allegory about it. There was a very poor man who got tired of being poor. He prayed to God, "O God, please give me all my sustenance of my entire life in the next 3 days so that I can enjoy it at least once, and then continue to be poor." God replied, "Ok. You will get all your sustenances for your entire life in the so and so grain room over the next 3 days."


When the poor man woke up next morning and went to the specified room, he couldn't contain his happiness on seeing it full of food. He invited the whole village to a feast and shared the food with them all. The same happened for the next 2 days.

On the 4th day, the poor man knew there will be no more food in the grain room but he decided to check anyway. He was shocked to see that the room was full of food from top to bottom. In surprise he asked God, "O God, you had said I will get all my sustenance in the next 3 days. Then where did this food come from on the 4th day?" God replied, "You are right. What you received over the last 3 days was your sustenance. But when you shared it with all your village people, then your sustenance got mixed with their sustenance. Now this is their sustenance coming through you."

My mentor told me that the moral of the story is that nobody in this world has ever become poor because they shared their income with others.

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