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I Cleared Past Life’s Debt By Paying Double
You borrow from others and others borrow from you;
such give and take is inevitable in this world. If you lend money
to someone and that person does not pay you back, you get
agitated and keep wondering when he or she will pay it back.
How can there ever be an end to all this?
This happened to me once. From the very beginning, I
was never bothered much if people did not return money they
had borrowed from me. I would, however, once in a while
remind them about the money they owed me. Once I had lent
five hundred rupees to a gentleman without any kind of a written
note of this transaction. I did not make him sign any note or
anything like that. I had forgotten about this altogether. About
a year and a half later I happened to meet him and this jogged
my memory. I told him, ‘If you have the money, please send the
five-hundred rupees you borrowed.’ He replied, ‘What five
hundred rupees? When did you lend me money? On the contrary
you have forgotten, that I lent you five-hundred rupees.’ I
immediately understood. I told him, “Yes, let me recall for a
moment’ I pretended to think and then told him, ‘Yes I do recall
that. Why don’t you come by and pick up the money to-
morrow? ’ Then the next day I gave him the money. What
could you do if such a person were to come the next day
accusing you for not returning his money? There have been
such incidents.
How is one to cope with such a world? Expecting people
to return money you lend them is the same foolishness as
harboring expectation for a bundle of money wrapped in black
cloth and thrown in the ocean. If the money even comes back,
accept it. Serve the man some tea and snacks and tell him, ‘My
dear friend, I am grateful to you for coming to return the money.
It is a wonder because in this day and age, money never comes