If You Want Wealth To Be Showered Upon You,

Goddess –     Come, quickly load the treasure onto my chariot!

Don’t you know it’s my birthday today?    

I want to go to earth and shower this wealth on deserving people

Helper –         Oh Goddess, it is futile to carry so much of the treasure along

                        Anyway, you are not going to find a large number of deserving people! 

Goddess –     What are you saying? 

                        These days I am worshipped in almost every household! 

                        Poor humans, they work so hard round the year in the hope of my arrival!

I can’t disappoint my devotees! 

Helper –         Who is asking you to disappoint your devotees? 

                        But you can’t break your own law also, right?!

Goddess –Don’t make excuses! Come, let’s quickly go to earth

(...Even after roaming on earth from evening to late in the night, the Goddess could barely find a few people on whom she could shower wealth. She becomes quite dejected.)

In the same sad tone she asked the helper – How did this happen?

Everybody knows that I sit on an ‘Ullu’(An owl is called 'Ullu' in Hindi which also means a fool)...and shower my blessings only on simple and straightforward people

Then today, even on the occasion of dhanteras, how come I didn’t find many such people?

To this the helper replied – Well, didn’t I tell you beforehand that

Now times have changed

Not many of your devotees are left on earth

A lot of people desire wealth

But they are scared of walking the right path to become your favourite!

Now in an effort to gain wealth

They resort to robbery, cheating, and notorious activities

These days no one believes that you “Sit on an Ullu” 

Instead, everyone has found a short cut and that is, worshipping you

Otherwise, day and night they only flaunt their smartness! 

Hearing this, the Goddess said angrily –

            That’s it... let them struggle to gain wealth!

I don’t want to give anyone anything

I like sitting on my Ullu only and will continue to do so! 

So now onwards, I will open heartedly shower my wealth

Only when I come across people who are simple, straightforward and not showing over-smartness! 

But those who try to acquire me by devious means or excessive smartness

I will make them pine for wealth all their life!