A young man who had become a religious mendicant from childhood was one day asked by his preceptor to go out for begging alms. He went out from the hermitage and on arriving at a village he started begging alms from door to door. In one house, a girl came out to give alms. He had not been used to the society of women and looking at the developed figure of the girl he enquired how she had come to have abscesses on her chest. The girl’s mother who was standing nearby said, “My child, they are not abscesses. They are given by the creator to every mother for suckling her children when they are born.” The young mendicant began to think how wonderful it was that God had thought of making provision for newly born babies even before they were born. He thought also that if the Creator had provided for babies not yet born, He must also have provided for those that had already been born. He, therefore, decided not to beg for alms any more. He went back to the hermitage and sat meditating upon God. Henceforward his physical wants were somehow provided for and he lived a life of total resignation to the will of God.