Why did Mahadev Ji take away the devotee's cow and mother?

A brief word from Pujya Maharaj Ji — watch the video above to hear the complete discourse.

The Complete Discourse

Once, by the grace of Lord Shankar, he said to Mata Parvati ji: "Come, I will show you my devotee." She said, "Come, Lord." Then he said, "First see a non-devotee, and then you will enjoy the darshan of the devotee." So they went. He was cutting betel nut, sitting there, but here a mattress was laid out, 50 cows and 50 buffaloes, milk was being milked. It was the early morning. He went in sadhu's attire and said, "Bhagat ji, give me 100 grams of milk, I need to bathe Shaligram Bhagwan." He went off from the morning and what else to say. Mahadev Ji said, "O Lord, whatever wealth and splendour he has, double it." Mata ji said, "Awadhad (the unruly one).." That is why they are called, "these are great Awadhad Nath (the uncontrollable lords)."

He got 100 grams of milk, gave abuse, and on top of that he says "double the wealth," he didn't say it but inside, very strange and generous. Lord said, "Let's go see the devotee." He said, "The non-devotee was such that if you were not with me, Ambe would have burnt him to ashes, because Amba is Shakti. Non-devotees insult you like this. I am not angry." They went to the devotee. A hut of thatch, one cow, and in the same thatched hut his mother lived. They went and saw the sant. He prostrated fully (sashtang dandvat). "Come, sit." He seated them, "100 to 200 grams of cow's milk, it will be good, drink it, Prabhu." For a while there was discussion of Bhagwat. Lord Shiv said, "Alright, brother, we'll be going now, we keep wandering." The sant said, "Bhagwan, please come again by your grace." Coming out of the hut, he said, "O Karunanidhan Bhagwan, take away this one's cow and mother, kill them." Ambe ji said, "Now it will not be tolerable. He did not give 100 grams of milk, so you gave him double the wealth, and one cow gave you full milk to drink, and the mother, who was there for conversation, you also killed. What is this?" He said, "Right now you don't.."

When a person with so much wealth insults a sadhu and speaks such abuses, when he has double the wealth he will commit such an offence. Understand, he will go to terrible hell. Part of his mind goes to the mother, part goes to the cow. Both went to the Lord. Will he constantly contemplate us, or will he become absorbed in us? Mataji said, "This point is right, right."

This text is taken from the auto-generated subtitles of the video — there may be word errors in it. Please do listen to the video for the authentic words.

Original video: Bhajan Marg (YouTube)