There lived a king who was very religious. He had a grown up son also who did not believe in God's existence. Even he did not all his workers to recite God's name. Once he put one of his workers in jail. The King did not like his son's behavior but he could not do anything. At last one day he freed that worker and sent her home with the assurance of her salary. He was very sad that why his son was atheist. Then he called his son and explained to him that it was not good to play with the sentiments of public. If he did not believe in God, it was all right, but he had no right to stop others to believe in God. But he did not listen to him. The King was old, he died after a while. Now the Prince was to be appointed the new King, so his Minister asked him to take oath, in the name of God, to work for his people. But as the name of God came i the oath, he refused to take oath because he did not believe in God. His plea was that he could not take oath in the name of God because he did not think that He existed. If somebody proved that God existed, he would agree, but if nobody could within 15 days, he would remove all God's idols from temples. He made an announcement also of this matter.
Now the Minister was worried about how to convince the Prince of God's existence; and if he could not be convinced of the existence of God within 15 days, then all temples will be empty of God's idols. During the next 14 days many people came with their pleas but they could not convince him of God's existence. One man said - "The path of Dharm is the path of Satya (truth) and God is the destination of the path of Satya." Once the Prince said to a man - "Every creation has two things - the Creator and the material with which the creator is creates his things, for example a pot maker is the creator and the earth is the material to make that pot. thus that pot maker is the proof of the creation, we can see him, but in our case, we don't see any proof of the creation. what is the proof our creation?" The man replied - "There are two causes of any creation - Nimitta cause who makes the thing and Upaadaan cause, by which the maker makes the thing. But both the Nimitta and and Upaadaan causes are the same in our world's case. There is only one cause of the dream and that is God." The Prince said - "I want the proof of the God." That man said - "As somebody closes his eyes in front of the Sun, then who can give him proof of the light?"
14 days passed. Nobody could convince the Prince of God's existence. Only the one day remained. the Minister was very worried. His daughter noticed her father's worried face and asked the reason. her father told her the whole story. She exclaimed - "Oh only this much. You take me there tomorrow, I will reply his questions." So next day the Minister took her to the prince's court. The Minister introduced her to the Prince - "She is my daughter and she will answer your questions." The daughter said - "Ask, What o you want to ask about God. I will answer your questions."
The Prince asked his first question - "Where is God?" The daughter said - I need a bowl of milk to answer your question." The Prince got a bowl of milk for her. She asked - "Raajan, What o you see in this bowl?" "Milk." "Only milk? Nothing else?" "yes only milk, nothing else." "But I see the butter also in this milk." "But I cannot see the butter here." The daughter said - "Raajan, As you cannot see the butter here I this milk, and it is there in every drop of milk, in the same way God is there in the whole world and cannot be seen by everybody. As to see the butter, churning the milk is necessary, in the same way churning the thoughts is necessary to see the God in this world. Now what is your second question?"
The Prince said - "My second question is "Where is He looking at?" The daughter said - "I need a candle to answer your this question." The prince got a candle for her. He was looking at her with a surprise as how she was going to answer his question with that candle. She asked - "Raajan, Where is its light going to?" "Everywhere. In no particular direction." "In the same way He is also looking at all the sides. He is omnipresent that is why He can look at every side." The prince had started getting convinced. The daughter again asked - "Now what is your third question?" The Prince asked - "What is he doing now?" The daughter said - "Raajan, You have bee asking me questions, so I am your Guru and you are my disciple. We have a tradition that the Guru's Aasan is higher than the disciple. I am standing here and you are sitting on your throne. So first let me sit on the throne, and you stand before me to get the answer of your question." The prince gave his seat to that daughter and stood in front of the throne. The daughter sat on the throne and said - "God can do everything anywhere. At this hour, he has exchanged the fate of yours with mine. He gave the throne to an ordinary person, and made a King stand in front of that ordinary person. Only He can do this, nobody else." And she got down from the throne respectfully.
Thus she saved the God's idols of temples and developed the faith in Prince towards God.
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