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Rahiman! Ve nar mar chuke
Un te pahile te muye
तत्ते वित्तमहं मन्ये
Je kahum mangatha jāhi
Jin mukh nikasath nahi.
"Those who beg for anything are as good as being dead, i.e. they do not have any self-respect. But those who say "No" are dead even before the suppliants (die). That is they are worse than the suppliants." The man who does not enjoy or give away his wealth in charity is not the owner of the wealth, but only a custodian safeguarding it. It has been said in the Hithopadesha :
यद्ददासि विशिष्टेभ्यो
यच्चाश्नासि दिने दिने ।
शेषमन्यस्य रक्षसि ||
Yaddadasi vishishtebhyo
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
yachchasnasi dine dine
Tate vittamaham manye
- हितोपदेशः
sheshamanyasya rakshasi.
-Hithopadeshaḥ
"I consider that wealth as yours if you enjoy it and give it away in charity to deserving people. The wealth that is not used by you is not yours, but somebody else's and you are only a care-taker of it."
Sir Hukmichand was known as the 'Cotton King of Indore'. He possessed crores of rupees of wealth. Once he fell ill. He lay in his bed taking rest in his bungalow. A friend came to visit him. He naturally asked the multimillionaire, "You have such a lot of wealth. I think you have to prepare a will for your wealth."
The Saithji said, "What wealth is it? I have with me only seventeen lakh rupees, but regarding this wealth, I cannot write a will and so the question of preparing a will does not arise." The friend said, "Though you are a multi-millionaire,why do you say that you have only seventeen
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