Story and reflection: a miser's death

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A miser had accumulated five hundred thousand dinars and looked forward to a year of pleasant living before he made up his mind how best to invest his money, when suddenly the Angel of Death appeared before him to take his life away.

The man begged and pleaded and used a thousand arguments to be allowed to live a little longer, but the angel was obdurate. "Give me three days of life and I shall give you half my fortune," the man pleaded. The angel wouldn't hear of it and began to tug at him.

"Give me just one day, I beg of you, and you can have everything I accumlated through so much sweat and toil."

The angel was adamant still.

He was able to wring just one little concession from the angel-a few moments in which to write down this note:

"Oh you, whoever you are that happen to find this note, if you have enough to live on, don't waste your life accumulating fortunes. Live!

My five hundred thousand dinars could not buy me a single hour of life!"


Reflection Questions
 

  • If you only had one hour of life left, what would it be worth to you?
     
  • What if you only had one year left instead?
     
  • If you were the miser, what would you have written in the note?
Replies (8)

very nice and inspirational story shared by you.

thanks for sharing

Originally posted by : Mukesh Kumar Singh

very nice and inspirational story shared by you.

thanks for sharing


 

True............ But why Dinars why not Indian Rupees as

????

Thanx all...

Dear Bhaavna,

i have taken this story from Heart of the Enlightened By Anthony de Mello, there Dinar was mentioned in the story, so i kept the same, as changing currency wont have changed the morale of the story.

 

Because, our Indian Rupee is in the ventilator, Dollar in the escalator and our Economy in the ICU

M Veerabhadrappa

Smilax Laboratories Limited

 

Money is not important but u cn say it only after earning sufficient money for ur future
"money can't buy life"........ :) nice story Thnx for sharing......
Originally posted by : CA. Tanvi Joshi

Thanx all...

Dear Bhaavna,

i have taken this story from Heart of the Enlightened By Anthony de Mello, there Dinar was mentioned in the story, so i kept the same, as changing currency wont have changed the morale of the story.

 

I asked it because our indian rupee is going down and it will go down cryingcrying, as it was not used atleast in a story..... wink and i was just kidding, thats it. 

But your post is thought provoking.... Any how i thanked for it. smiley


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