Luck and Timing

There was a rich man who had immense wealth. He used that wealth to help the poor, building orphanages and dharamshalas.

Because of this generosity, the rich man was well-known in the city. He married his daughter into a large family, but because her daughter's fortune was not happy, her husband turned out to be a drunkard and a gambler, leading to the loss of all his wealth.

Seeing her daughter's plight, the rich woman would daily tell the rich man, "You help the world, but why don't you help your own daughter when she's in trouble?"

The rich man would say, "Lucky man...! Until my daughter and son-in-law's fortunes rise, no matter how much I help them, it won't be of any use! When their fortunes rise, everyone will automatically be willing to help, but a mother is a mother. How can a mother find peace when her daughter is in trouble?" The rich woman was constantly wondering how to financially support her daughter.

One day, Sethji was out of town when his son-in-law arrived. The mother-in-law welcomed him and, wanting to help her daughter, thought, "Why not put Arshfiya in the Motichoor Laddus?" This would help her daughter without the son-in-law even knowing.

Thinking this, the mother-in-law placed Arshfiya in the middle of the Laddus. After applying the tilak to him and bidding him farewell, she gave him five kilos of pure ghee Laddus containing Arshfiya.

The son-in-law took the Laddus and left the house. He thought, "Who would carry such a weight? Why not sell them at the sweet shop?" So he sold the packet of Laddus to the sweet shop owner. He took the money from the shopkeeper, put it in his pocket, and left.

Meanwhile, when Sethji returned from a trip, he decided to buy Motichoor Laddus from the sweet shop. He asked the shopkeeper for some. The sweet seller sold him back the same packet of Laddus that his mother-in-law had given to his son-in-law.

Sethji brought the Laddus home. When Sethani saw the same packet of Laddus, she broke open the Laddus and saw Arshfia inside, she was shocked. She told Sethji about the time from the son-in-law's arrival to his departure, and about hiding Arshfia in the Laddus.

Sethji said, "Lucky! I already explained that his luck hadn't yet awakened. See, the coins were neither in the son-in-law's fate nor the sweet seller's fate! That's why it's said that no one has ever received, nor will receive, anything more than their fate or before their time."

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