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company with wood, even iron does not sink in water. The Sheth observed a ‘vrat' one day. Emulating the Sheth, his household servant also observed fast. The next day he was to break his fast and do ‘parna.' At the time of the ‘parna,'a nice thought came into the mind of that servant.
He thought. “How good it would be if I could do 'parna' by giving charity of food to some muni who might come up here by-chance. ?” The good sentiments of the servant attracted one Sumati Guptidhari Sadhu. With a sense of devotion and pleasure, the household servant did ‘patradan', that is, he gave as charity pure and mind-purifying food.
The other cow-herd servant of the Sheth saw the household servent giving food in charity.He approved that action and praised it. There are persons who donot themselves give charity but they prevent others also from doing so. Such
