WISDOM NUGGET: Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
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A lot of people want to be
on the receiving side. And it is no sin or crime at all.
Everyone
loves to receive gifts. However, we must recognise the infallible, life-governing, principles. One example of those principles
is that of sowing and reaping (seed time and harvest shall not cease).
As long as there is
seed in the ground a harvest awaits: it is a universal law of nature. Also when
it comes to receiving, the only guarantee that one will receive is that one has
given.
Once, a blind beggar sat
beside a road, fingering the rice in his little bowl. The road stretched into nowhere both ways.
The scarce travellers occasionally gave him a little rice. One day he heard the
thunder of a chariot in the distance. It was the grand entourage of the
maharajah. Never had they passed his way before. Surely the great one
would stop and give him baskets of rice. Indeed, the golden chariot of the
maharajah stopped before the poor beggar. The great one stepped down and the
beggar fell before him. Then the sky seemed to fall in. "Give me your
rice," said the great one. A fearful, hateful, scowl masked the face of
the beggar. He reached into his bowl and thrust one grain of rice toward the
maharajah. "Is that all?" said the great one. The beggar spat on the
ground, cursed, and threw him one more grain of rice. The great one turned,
entered his chariot, and was gone. The beggar—angry, empty, and
crushed—fingered the remaining rice he had hoarded in his bowl. He felt
something hard, different from the rice. He pulled it out. It was one grain of
gold. He poured out his rice, caring nothing for it now. He found one other
grain of gold. Had he trusted the great one, he could have had a grain of gold
for every grain of rice.
You could receive by begging or
asking a favour. But the best way to receive is to give.
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