HELPED HIM TO STAND ON HIS OWN LEGS

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HELPED HIM TO STAND ON HIS OWN LEGS

 

 

 

 

At the time of the famine of 1865, a poor boy came to Vidyasagar begging for a pice.

 

“Suppose I give you not one but four pice,” said Vidyasagar.

 

“Let us be serious, Sir,” answered the boy; “give me just one pice.”

 

“I am quite serious,” said Vidyasagar. “If I give you four pice, what would you do?”

 

“With two pice, I would buy food and give two pice to my mother.”

 

“And suppose I give you two annas?”

 

The boy did not wait; he turned away. Vidyasagar followed him, caught

him by the arms and said to him, “Tell me, what would you do with two

annas?”

 

The boy broke out into tears. “I would buy rice with four pice and give the rest to my mother.”

 

“And suppose I give you four annas?”

“I would spend two annas in getting food which would last for two

days, and buy two annas’ worth of mangoes, sell them at a profit, buy

more mangoes and get more profit and thus provide for the needs of my

mother and myself.”

 

Vidyasagar gave him a rupee, and the boy could not believe it! He hesitated, then took the rupee and ran away in joy.

Two years later, Vidyasagar passed by a small shop. A young man

stepped out and said, “Sir, will you very kindly enter the shop and

bless it? It is your shop.”

 

“I do not know you,” said Vidyasagar.

With tear-touched eyes, the young man explained how, two years

earlier, Vidyasagar had helped him to stand on his own feet. Now he

owned the small shop and earned enough to look after his small family

and also extend a helping hand to some in need.

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