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Question
Did Lencho try to find out who had sent the money to him? Why/Why not?
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Solution
No, Lencho does not try to find out who had sent the money to him. This is because he never suspected that it could be anybody else other than God who would send him the money. His faith in God was so strong that he believed that God had sent him the money.
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(Reference – A Letter to God and The Sermon at Benares).
