Once Sankaracharya was going to few houses taking bhiksha. He came across a hut and asked for bhiksha( food ). The lady inside the house was embarrassed as a saint had come to her house for food but she was extremely poor, that she did not have anything to offer him. She finally found an Amla fruit in her house. The poor lady was feeling embarrassed to give this little fruit to Sankaracharya but with immense devotion, she offered the amla fruit to Lord Sankaracharya. Sankaracharya realized the women’s devotion irrespective of being poor. He immediately started singing twenty one slokas praising Goddess Mahalakshmi, praying her to bless the poor lady by driving her poverty away and grant her riches. Mahalakshmi replied that the lady has not done any good deeds ( helping others in charity ) in her previous birth. so she doesn't deserve riches and is destined to suffer in poverty this lifetime. Adi sankaraya accepted it but said though the poor lady did not do any good deeds in...
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