In English
The should practise what he teaches
He was engaged in an elaborate , (Vedhic ritual sacrifice) under the guidance of his (preceptor), , where he was giving away to and priests land, homes, cattle and gold when the Lord appeared at the place as a young dwarfish mendicant , named . tempted Him with gifts of dominion, riches and power, but asked only for a patch of space, as much as could be measured by three steps of His feet. The Emperor's preceptor realised that the mendicant was the Lord Himself and that the three steps will encompass 's empire and beyond. He warned his disciple of the disaster that would ensue. He tried personally to prevent the gift, by entering the spout of the vessel used by the Emperor to conclude the rite of gifting. When a bunch of blades of grass was inserted into the spout to clear the obstruction, lost the eye which was pricked by the bunch. Teaching and practising what he preaches are the two eyes of the . taught but did not himself honour his teaching. So, the loss of the eye was highly symbolic. The "three feet" of space that the Lord wished to accept and sanctify after magnifying Himself into (Three-fold conqueror), are often identified as the Earth, Space and Outerspace, the , the and the . But, the Lord, who has projected the Cosmos by His own will, does not crave for a fraction of His own creation. Nor are the three situated one over the other. They are regions of consciousness, existing contemporaneously in and everyone else. When you pay attention to the , the individual personality does not impinge on your attention; when the individual personality is cognised, the recede from view.