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She and her husband had a lucrative business in Florida. Once she brought the Master a set of china plus a twenty-dollar bill. When she gave him the twenty-dollar bill, she told him, “Unfortunately, I cannot afford to give you a larger amount because our business is not doing well. And after all, why do you need the money? For spiritual people money is not necessary.”

The Master smiled at her and said, “True, true, spiritual people do not need money. They live on air. They don’t need material food.”

“I am sorry,” she said, “I won’t be able to give you regularly twenty dollars.”

The Master said, “Who wants to have twenty dollars from you regularly? Perhaps this will be your first and last time.”

She said, “How do you know?”

The Master said, “I do not know anything; I only presume.”

The Master was right. All the Master got from this extremely rich woman who followed his path for six months was one twenty-dollar bill.

From:Sri Chinmoy,They came only to go, Agni Press, 1976
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/tcg