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our Patreon supporters and by stretching. Tonight we'll read a story from folk tales of the Cassis called The Blessing of the mendicant, or Beggar,

compiled by Mrs Rafi in 1920.

The Cassie people are an indigenous ethnic tribe from India.

A unique feature of the Cassie people is that they follow the matrilineal system of descent and inheritance.

A mendicant is a person who relies on alms to survive.

This person is often a monk or otherwise part of a religious order.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the

and relax your body

into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Once there lived a very poor family consisting of a father, mother, and only son, and his wife.

They were poorer than any of their neighbors and were never free from

want. They seldom got a full meal and sometimes they had to go without food for a whole day

while their clothes barely covered their bodies. No matter how hard they worked or where they went to cultivate, their crops never

succeeded like the crops of their fellow farmers in the same locality, but they were

good people and never grumbled or blamed the gods. Neither did they ask alms of anyone, but continued to work season after season, contented

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