The Good You Do, Returns!

                 How Rich Are You?

       A wealthy man offered a thousand rupees to a poor dervish ( a holy man).

        The dervish asked the rich man, “You are giving me a thousand rupees. How much do you have for yourself”? 

         “Many many thousands of rupees”, was the answer

         “Do you still hanker after more”? 

         “Surely yes! Answered the rich man 

         “Then I cannot accept your offering”, said the dervish. “For a rich man must not receive one poorer then he”!

           “I do not understand,” said the rich man.

            The dervish explained, “ Though I have nothing I desire nothing! You have plenty; and yet desire much more! Surely, the man who desires is poorer than the man who is content with what he has”!