WORTH READING 2 Dec 2005

Generosity

Mahatma Gandhi went from city to city, village to village collecting
funds
for the Charkha Sangh. During one of his tours he addressed a meeting in
Orissa.

After his speech a poor old woman got up. She was bent with age, her
hair
was grey and her clothes were in tatters. The volunteers tried to stop
her,
but she fought her way to the place where Gandhiji was sitting. "I must
see
him," she insisted and going up to Gandhiji touched his feet.

Then from the folds of her sari she brought out a copper coin and placed
it
at his feet. Gandhiji picked up the copper coin and put it away
carefully.

The Charkha Sangh funds were under the charge of Jamnalal Bajaj. He
asked
Gandhiji for the coin but Gandhiji refused. "I keep cheques worth
thousands
of rupees for the Charkha Sangh," Jamnalal Bajaj said laughingly "yet
you
won't trust me with a copper coin."

"This copper coin is worth much more than those thousands," Gandhiji
said.
"If a man has several lakhs and he gives away a thousand or two, it
doesn't
mean much.

But this coin was perhaps all that the poor woman possessed. She gave me
all
she had. That was very generous of her. What a great sacrifice she made.
That is why I value this copper coin more than a crore of rupees."

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