Now, if you keep this grain locked up in a gold box it will eventually perish without providing nourishment or multiplying. Just as this grain represents nourishment for the body, peace represents nourishment for the soul. “I have been looking for an answer every morning but I find nothing.” The Sage said: “It is quite simple, your honor.
The King explained how he had asked the eternal question and this sage gave him a grain of wheat instead. Weeks later another sage, passing through, stopped to meet the King who eagerly invited him to resolve his dilemma. He locked the precious grain in a tiny gold box and placed the box in his safe.Įach morning, upon waking, the King would open the box and look at the grain to seek an answer but could find nothing. Puzzled but unwilling to admit his ignorance the King clutched the grain of wheat and returned to his palace. “In this you will find the answer to your question,” the Sage said as he placed the grain of wheat in the King’s outstretched palm.
Without a word the sage went into the kitchen and brought a grain of wheat to the King. “If anyone can answer your questions he can.” The King went to the sage and posed the eternal question. At last someone said the King ought to consult the sage who lived just outside the borders of his Kingdom: “He is an old man and very wise,” the King was told.
Many tried but none could explain how to find peace and what to do with it. Intellectuals in his kingdom were invited to answer the King’s questions for a handsome reward. What is peace and how can we get it and when we find it what should we do with it were some of the issues that bothered him. I would begin this article with a story of an ancient Indian King who was obsessed with the desire to find the meaning of peace.
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