A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

"""520 THE MAHABHAKATA.thers and the queen, went in search of them himselfand he came to a beautiful lake of water, beautifullotuses blooming on it, and as he was going to drink thewater, a voice from the other side of the lake saysStop"and he loolj:s down and finds his brothers andhis queen dead, the bodies floating on the surface of thelake. And he says*Who are you ? Whosoever* I be, s,nswerfirst my questions and then drink the water/ Ask/^aysthe king, lie says, I have several questions to ask. Whatis the most wonderful fact in this world? We seeevery day men falling off all around us, but those that are*"left behind think that they will never die. This isthe most curious fact in the face of death : none believesthat he will die. Another question was asked. SSO^tJsthe way of discovering the secret of religion. By argumentthe Scriptures, one part contradictsnothing can be settled ;the other. Two sages who do not differ in their opinionsare not to be called sages at all. The sign of the sageis to differ from somebody else. The secret of religionis therefore as it were buried deep in a pit."Then thevoice says, "What are we to do then?" "Haveyou seenany great soul in your life ? If you have, follow him. The.way to follow is that walked by great souls. And the voiceI am pleased.I am the god of Death. I came tonot one of them issaystest you. Now, your brothers are there,dead ;it is all my:magic"and they all got out of thespelland came back.So, that was the nature of the king. We find by hisanswer he was more of a philosopher, more of a Yogi thana king.And after this war was finished he gained hisempire then came to him the news that Krishna died ; ;hisfriend, his prophet, his sage, his counsellor, he died And!