Sri Rameshji Jain

Once there was a very spiritual king. He had three questions in his mind about God, but nobody was able to answer the questions to his satisfaction. One day he announced that whoever answers those three questions to his satisfaction will be rewarded with half of his kingdom, but if they fail they will be hanged.

Many people tried but failed. As the king was getting restless, he ordered his most intelligent minister to find the answers. The minister went home worried as he did not know the answers. Looking at the worried face of his father, the minister’s son asked him the reason. The minister said, “The king needs answers to these three question: (1) Where does God exist? (2) How can one see him? and (3) What does He do? And if I could not answer he would hang me.”
Hearing the questions, the son assured his father that he would satisfy the king the next day and he need not worry any more.
Next day the child arrived in the king’s court and asked the king to get him a bowl of milk. The king laughed and ordered for the milk. The child started rotating his finger in the bowl of milk.
Amused at the child’s behaviour, the king asked him what he was doing. The child said that he was trying to find butter in the milk. The king laughed and said, “You are still a child. You do not know how to find butter in the milk.”
The child said, “Why do you say so, O dear King! Doesn’t butter exist in milk?”
“No doubt butter exists in milk,” replied the king and said, “But to separate the butter from milk, the milk has to be first set into curd and then churned. After churning only the butter separates from curd.”
The child said to the king, “I have answered your first two questions, dear King. God resides in the whole universe but to separate Him from the universe you need to first still your mind and churn the still mind with contemplation on God. Only then you can separate God from the universe and see him.”
Satisfied with the child’s answer, the king offered his reverence at the feet of child and sought the answer to his third question.
The child asked the king that after having offered his reverence at his feet, whether he was asking this question as a king or as a pupil. The king felt ashamed and said that he is asking the question as a pupil and requested the child to answer the third question.
The child said, “If you are asking this question as a pupil then how can you be seated on the throne, higher than me and make me stand on the floor?” The king immediately requested the child to be seated on the throne and he himself stood on the floor with folded hands.
The child said, “O King! This is what God does. He brings down the higher ones to the lower levels and uplifts the lower ones to higher levels.”
The king, fully satisfied with the answers, bowed down at the feet of his new guru who enlightened him with the secrets of God. He realised that God exists everywhere in the universe but to see him we need to still our mind, shift focus from the worldly matters to Godly subjects and contemplate on him. He realised that one should not have any ego of one’s wealth, intelligence, looks or otherwise and always be humble, modest and caring person. Otherwise, one day God will pull him down and break his ego into pieces.

Sri Rameshji Jain is a modern age spiritual guru and founder of Poorna Ananda, a Centre for Spiritual Evolution
and Joyful Living. visit www.poornaananda.org