King and the sage
Translated by
P.R.Ramachander
(Translated from Face book post of my friend Anantha
Narayanan)
There was a sage
who used to do penance in the forest,
And once a day he used to extend his right palm ,
And if any thing
is placed in it he would swallow
it ,
And people round
the forest , used to daily feed him.
One day the king
of a nearby kingdom came for hunting to the forest ,
And at that time
the sage happened to extend
his hand ,
And the king
filled his extended palm with
horseshit,
And the sage
simply swallowed it and king
and king’s men had a hearty laugh
Next day the
revered Guru of the king came to his court,
And he chided the
king for what he did and told him,
“A mountain of horse
shit is waiting your arrival
in hell,
And till you
swallow all of them , they would torture you
for the silly thing you dd.”
The king
repented a lot and vacated his great palace ,
And started living
in a g hut , and started feeding
every one ,
Who came there
and meeting the expense of
marriage ,
Of all the
girls who approached him in the forest.
Some bad people
started finding fault with him,
And started
telling that his intention of getting
,
The girls to g his hut
are not good and all the feeding,
He did was not done
by using his money but that of
the country.
After a lot of days , one blind man and his virtuous wife,
Came bear the hunt
and the lady stood for a minute
to salute the king,
And the blind husband asked , “Where are we standing?’
And she replied
“In front of the hut of the king
who helps every one,
The blindman laughed
, “Is he that king who
gets girls to his hut with
bad intention?”
And the lady old . “You know that due to my virtue I can see
everything ,
That happens everwhere. Every time a
person without basis finds fault with him,
One hand full of horse shit would
be removed from the mountain,
And today only one
hand full was left and it is now
reserved for you.”
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