The Real Poverty

Swami Ram Tirtha

A monk had some copper pices1 and was about to
give them away to some boys. Many poor people
came to him to get them, but he would not give
them. Finally, there came before the monk a king
seated on an elephant. The monk threw the copper
pices into the howdah on the top of the elephant
where the king was seated. The king was astonished
at this unexpected act of the monk. The monk said
the money was for him, the poorest man. The king
enquired how he could be the poorest man. The
monk said he was the poorest man, because of his
possessions and of his continual hunger and thirst
for more kingdoms. Hence he was the poorest man.
MORAL: The real poverty does not consist in want
of riches but in an unsatiated want or greed for more
and more. 

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