Most of us spend our lifetime just to earn more and more money. If you think earning more money is motive of our lives, then you must read the story of Gujarati businessman Kanti Bhai:
Kanti Bhai has jewellery shop in Kandhiwali area of Mumbai. Kanti Bhai was making decent money with his business, but he was very stingy and do not believe in spending a penny. Every one has seen Kanti Bhai in same pair of clothes since generations. Kanti Bhai eat only if it’s necessary, otherwise he use to skip lunch and dinner. People use to make fun of Bhai that he don’t wash his cloths for months, and his cloth smell so bad that you can smell it from Kandhiwali to Andheri ( A different city couple of miles away). His son Karan didn’t like father’s attitude and left home in early age, so Kanti Bhai was living with wife Sharda Ben. Knowing Bhai’s nature no relatives OR friends use to visit Bhai’s home.
One day Kanti Bhai was walking back to home after closing the shop, suddenly a car stopped near to him and some one called from the car “KANTI BHAI…”
Kanti Bhai got surprise to see that this was Shakun, a childhood friend of Bhai.
Shakun asked ‘Hey Kanti Bhai, where are you going”
Kanti Bhai “To Home”
Shakun “I can drop you by my car”
Kanti Bhai immediately agreed to accept Shakun’s offer, as it was Bhai’s first-time experience to sit in Infinity G35 model car (an expensive car) OR intact it was the first car trip for Bhai.
Driver started towards Kanti Bhai’s home and the old friends started talking on childhood fun. Shakun use to be very poor in his childhood, so Kanti Bhai could not keep quiet and asked him desperately, how Shakun is able to maintain such status. Shakun politely explained that he is an investor in share market and he is earning in millions now a days.
They discussed and remembered their childhood memories and car reached to Kanti Bhai’s home in few minutes. Although, Kanti Bhai offered Shakun to come home, but inside his mind Kanti Bhai’s thinking was to say goodbye from outside, so that he don’t need to offer Tea OR Dinner to him. Shakun said he would come next time as one of his client is waiting for him on dinner in GoodLuck restaurent Andheri, and Shakun left for Andheri.
After coming inside the home Kanti Bhai keep thinking about Shakun, he thought I can also invest a little money in share, if share goes up, I can also be an millionaire like Shakun. After thinking ten thousand times, Kanti Bhai finally invested two thousand in share of an upcoming IT company. Kanti Bhai’s luck worked here as well and in a month period his share price went twenty times up. Kanti Bhai was very excited after finding an easy money making option, so he started investing little more in share market and his share prices were went up again, in a year his share value become two million.
One morning when Kanti Bhai was busy in discussions with his financial advisor to invest in a new dot com company, suddenly Bhai got a call from Gujarat, it was his elder sister Laxmi, she informed Bhai that Laxmi’s husband Ganesh met an car accident in Mumbai and she pleaded Bhai to reach hospital immediately to provide help to his brother-in-law, but Kanti Bhai was in mood for big investment of his life, so he did not gave importance to it. He got another call in the evening from his wife that his brother-in-law has died in nearby hospital. Kanti Bhai did not feel anything, as he was excited to invest all his shares to upcoming dot COM Company and dreaming to become a billionaire.
After two weeks of this incident his dot COM company share went down and Kanti Bhai loose around fifty percent of his share value. His advisor explained him it’s a downturn for few weeks and share may come-up in few days. On the other side people said its curse of Kanti Bhai’s sister, because he invested all his money the day his brother-in-law was dying in the hospital. It may be true because in few months share value came in thousands from million and the dot COM Company, where Kanti Bhai invested all his money got disappeared from the market.
Although Kanti Bhai’s Jewellery shop was still running well as before, but Kanti Bhai could not take the shock of suddenly loosing millions. He stopped eating and fall terribly sick. His wife took him to several hospitals and famous doctors, but they couldn’t diagnose any disease still Kanti Bhai’s health was going down day by day. One day Kanti Bhai’s family doctor Shayam Lal visited him, after routine check up, he told Sharda Ben that Kanti Bhai is going to die soon as he don’t have any interest towards life, so try to keep him happy. As soon as people came to know that Bhai is going to die soon, they started visiting Kanti Bhai’s home to see him last time.
This news finally reached to Kanti Bhai’s sister Laxmi, hearings about his brother’s illness, Laxmi couldn’t stop her from visiting his brother last time. She reached to Kanti Bhai’s home, where Sharda Ben explained her the entire story.
Laxmi reached to his brother’s room, seeing his sister Kanti Bhai said ‘ I am sorry; I did not try to save your husband’s life. Please forgive me for that”
Laxmi said “Brother it’s my destiny and I have to live with it, I don’t think I can held you responsible for it”. After that they talked several things about their old friends and family members.
Next day, before starting for her home, Laxmi went once again to his brother’s room and asked “Dear Kanti can you do me a favor’, Kanti Bhai thought she may ask some financial help, so he said I have lost all my money in shares.
Laxmi said, “No I don’t need your money”
Kanti Bhai: “Then what?”
Laxmi: “My husband often comes to my dream, and he ask for his ring….”
Kanti Bhai: ‘Which Ring, I don’t have any ring”
Laxmi: ‘No, it’s the ring I have gifted him on one of his birthday, It was his lucky ring, he always use to carry this ring with him, but that fateful morning, he forgot to carry it with him and died in car accident, so I have his lucky ring with me…..”
Kanti Bhai said “…Ohh…but how can I help you in that?”
Laxmi said “ after death you might meet my husband, so can you please handover Ring to my dear husband”.
Kanti Bhai thought that he is not loosing anything here, if he meets Ganesh after death he can give him the ring OR else he can keep himself, so he immediately agreed. Laxmi left for her home in couple of hours.
A week later of this incident an miracle happened and Kanti Bhai’s health become better and in month he was completely fine and re-started going to his Jewellery shop. Also, Kanti Bhai becomes a nice person after that. His wife and everyone strongly believed that it’s the miracle of lucky ring, which Laxmi gave him. All the relatives and Friend want to see OR touch the ring once, believing that it may change their luck too.
Few months later Kanti Bhai visited Laxmi’s home in Gujarat with his wife, before leaving from there, Kanti Bhai gave her lot of gifts, gold etc and he also returned the lucky ring.
Kanti Bhai’s Wife got upset by that, she cursed her husband, “what was the need of returning the lucky ring. We may loose everything again”.
Kanti Bhai said ‘Its not the lucky ring, which did the miracle”
Sharda Ben looked at her husband with dis-belief and asked ‘Then what? even doctors believed on it?’
Kanti Bhai said ‘ Once Laxmi gave me the ring and left our home, I first kept the ring in pocket of my shirt, but then I realize that shirt will not go with me after death, so I kept the ring in hand, but even that wasn’t an options, so I even tried to swallow it but it wasn’t an option to carry the ring after death. I couldn’t find a way to carry the ring with me, so I realized that when I cant carry a small ring with me, what I will do with this money and property after death, So this was the miracle OR change in my thought, which brought my interest towards life”.
Sharda Ben looked at him and couldn’t speak a single word.
Kanti Bhai is still alive and living a healthy life in Kandhiwali, his son came back to home. Father and son go for social service on every Sunday and Holidays. Bhai has donated a few thousand to organization called ‘CRY’, which help in education of orphans.
Laxmi still living in Gujarat and she work for the organization, which help providing medicine to poor people. She still gives the lucky ring to people, who can deliver it to his loving husband, but this ring always came back to her.
If you want the lucky ring, you can reach out to Laxmi Ben. If you need Laxmi’s address then provide your valuable comments to this story.
The next story which coming to Manojsharmaji.blogspot.com is “Meaning of Life –Based on true Rumors”
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5 comments:
Shabash! Very good story. I liked it. I am looking forward to the meaning of life.
Good story Manoj bhai. Welcome to blogging.
Awesome!!!!! I liked it very much !! looking forward for your next post.
Nice Post Man(oj)..almost looks like a real story...this tells me how good you are at making up stuff..need to be careful with you.. :) - Gagan
Simple fact stated so beautifully.
A killer start for your blog.
You are correct. An era of blogging has started...
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