THERE was
a king who used daily to hear the
Bhagavata
recited by a pandit. Every day, after
explaining
the sacred book, the pandit would say to
the king,
"O King, have you understood what I
have
said?" And every day the king would reply,
"You
had better understand it first yourself." The
pandit
would return home and think; "Why does
the king
talk to me that way day after day? I explain
the texts
to him so clearly, and he says to me, “you
had better
understand it first yourself”. What does
he
mean?" The pandit used to practise spiritual
discipline.
A few days later he came to realise that
God alone
is real and everything else - house,
family,
wealth, friends, name, and fame - illusory.
Convinced
of the unreality of the world, he
renounced
it. As he left home he asked a man to
take this
message to the king: "O king, I now
understand."
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