Living in Hope

You Are Not Poor, You Are Rich one hand, and I’ll pay you Rs. 20,000.” The beggar again refused to comply with his request. So, the man said, “You have got two eyes, give me one eye and I’ll pay you Rs. 20,000.” The beggar refused again. The man now said, “Look, you have got two feet, two hands, two eyes. I wanted only one of each which together add up to Rs. 50,000. If we set a price on the pairs, it will be rupees one lakh. That means that the price of only three parts of your body is at least one lakh rupees. Then how can you say you are poor? You are extremely wealthy. Stop begging, invest this great wealth that God has bestowed on you and you will be reckoned amongst the wealthiest people in the world.” God has endowed man with extraordinary capabilities, but we do not realize their true importance under normal conditions. It is only when we lose any one of them, then we learn how priceless it was. Take the case of James Thomas, twenty-four years of age and a machine operator by profession. Due to some illness both his kidneys started malfunctioning. He was admitted into the AIIMS, (New Delhi) where doctors told him that the only way to survive was to obtain a kidney from a donor. Now, a kidney is a product of nature which cannot be built in a human factory, even if we were in a position to spend millions and billions