The King's Strange Condition and a Clever Man!

A brief utterance of Revered Maharaj Ji. Watch the video above for the full one.

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A king announced throughout the city that whoever could satisfy my goat and fill it up would be given as much money as they wanted. Now people went mad: what would the goat eat? The goat would be kept from morning till evening. Whoever took it and satisfied it would pass the test. The goat would not eat anything. "Agreed, once it is satisfied we will give whatever you ask, one day each." Now someone is feeding it raisins, someone is feeding it almonds. Everything was fed [sound of singing]. By evening its belly was completely satisfied. They went before the king, tossed in a few blades of grass and a few things [sound of singing], and it nibbled a little. They said, "Fail." Earlier, one man used to go just to watch; now hundreds of people went, and everyone asked him, "Brother, what did you feed it?" They said, "We fed it chickpeas, we fed it this, we have hundreds of days of experience feeding it, and still it nibbled." They said to the king, "Give us one day." A green bamboo stick was kept there, along with raisins, grass, chickpeas, and whatever else they had heard of. Everything was thrown in, and wherever it nibbled, it was struck, from the back to the cheeks [sound of singing], the whole day. By evening the condition was such that they threw the stick away.

The items were kept there. It did not eat a single thing, and it did not nibble. It stands calmly. They took it to the king. The king said, "Maharaj, this goat is so satisfied that it has never been satisfied until today." They said, "Today it is hungry. Its belly shows it." [The king] said, "Do you mean just by putting things in front of it? If it nibbles, then accept that it is hungry. If it does not nibble, then keep putting things down." [The man] went and sat down in front of it and made eye contact with the goat. He kept thinking [sound of singing] and put in chickpeas, grass, and all kinds of things from the world. The goat looked straight into his eyes. It had already taken hundreds of stick-blows.

It did not nibble. The king said, "Brother, what did you feed it?" He said, "Danda."

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Original video: Bhajan Marg (YouTube)