Our Purani Premprakash Swami used to tell a very nice story. A small village, an ordinary village. Olden times. So, mostly laborers lived in the village. And in the village, there would be a nagarsheth, one or two merchants. So, those who did business, they were prosperous. Everyone would bring in the evening and eat in the morning, that's how it was. So, right next to the sheth's house is a laborer's house. And in the sheth's house there is a lot of money, but the sheth has a bit of a greedy nature, so he quarrels with his wife. That you spoil things like this, the other says, 'you spoil things like this.' And sometimes the quarrel gets worse. A greedy person is bound to have some. So, if there's no quarrel, they wouldn't be called greedy. So, a quarrel happens. So one day, the sheth's wife says, 'What now, you and I...' Even though we have so much, we have peace, and still, that laborer living next door, how peacefully they live, morning and evening, eating and drinking and enjoying themselves. So the sheth says, 'You wouldn't know.' 'What wouldn't I know?' That he hasn't yet felt the jolt of 99. Meaning, what is the jolt of 99? He says, 'Look,' and saying so, he filled 99 rupees in a bag, opened the window of that laborer, and placed it near the window. He placed it on the ground. The next morning, the laborer, after having breakfast, must have been going somewhere to work, he opened the window and that bag hit his foot. So, even feet have eyes, that these are money that have hit. He wasn't paying attention, and even though it was inside the bag, his foot sensed that these were money that had hit from somewhere. Money is very sensitive; even if it touches your back, you know it's money. And even if it touches your eye or hand, you know it, so money also has a lot of consciousness. So, when he realized and saw it, he immediately closed the door. He came back and called his wife. He said, 'Look, today there have been very good omens; if Lakshmi Lakshmi A devi (goddess) who is the wife of Vishnu. She is the devi of wealth. Therefore, money and gold is also called Lakshmi. She eternally remains in the sevã of Bhagvãn. Tap to open in glossary → So, today there have been very good omens. Alright, he opened the bag and counted, and there were 99. So, he thought that there can never be 99. It's always a round figure, isn't it? If you save money, do you put 99? One doesn't put 99. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details