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RELIGIOUS RITES 29
a reserved compartment. His co-passenger was a
friendly young man, who had applied ‘URDHVA
PUNDRA TILAK’ and who was regularly uttering
‘JAI SWAMI NARAYAN’. This writer soon
came to learn, that his co-traveller was a (‘Hari
Bhakt’), and he was in the business of supplying
raw materials to a factory dealing with plastic
goods. On one occasion his boss, who had in his
possession Rs.3 lakhs handed over to him Rs.2
lakhs towards some payments while actually his
intension was to give him only Rs.1 lakh, for the
same purpose. Later, the boss left the factory for
some routine work elsewhere leaving behind only
Rs. 1 lakh in his office, Following his departure
there occured a theft in the office, and on coming
to know the incident, the boss soon lodged a complaint
with the police reporting a theft of Rs.2
lakhs instead of 2 lakh. However, on return to the
office , the co-passenger learnt of the whole story,
but was in an acute dilema, whether to reveal or
not about receiving the additional Rs.1 lakh. However,
at this point of time he was strongly
prompted by an inner voice which urged him to
be honest and thus he decided to reveal the truth
and return Rs.1 lakh to his boss, which he did.