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distortion of facts. A few chapattis or rotis along with some dhal and chatni was good enough for Him and He never took breakfast leave alone coffee. That is the simplicity of his life. If you look at his simple living, you can see to what extent he can go to be simple and plain and we know it is not because he could not afford. He could surely afford. There were days when he could afford and there were days he could not afford. He was always not in poverty but there were days of poverty. Ten rupees for us is a very an insignificant amount and in those days of 1900‘s it was something phenomenal. Otherwise his salary of ten rupees would not have been mentioned in his story. Let us not look at ten rupees from our angle. Look at the ten rupees from an angle when we are told that a sovereign of gold was six rupees in 1910‘s. So ten rupees was a good amount, he could eat whatever he wanted but he was not prepared for it. That amount of restraint is required.
Spiritual Duty: So when we think about a Great Personality of that type, we think about what exactly made Him a Great Personality. His only job was how to structure a person in such a way that
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