Passage 9

In English

An example of 's devotion to his Master

At this, , one of the renowned sages who was assembled in the hall, rose up and challenged with the question, "! You say that you will not wear or bear, eat or carry anything that does not sound of . Well, you carry about this body, don't you? Does it sound of to you?" accepted the challenge. He pulled a single hair from his wrist and held it to the ear of the sage. Lo! It was reciting ', ,' without interruption. So deep and sincere was 's loyalty and devotion to all that belonged to his Master. That is the reason why he achieved success, whatever the assignment. After the Coronation celebrations, , and his brothers sat together, reminiscing over past events, and some of them expressed a desire to have a larger share of serving . and were the most eager. So a list was drawn up of all items of service that could be offered to and the items were allotted to those present. was not present at the time, and when he came in, the others announced, with certain amount of glee, that he had no more chance to serve as everything was now to be done by others. also joined in the fun.