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forest and meditated with them near a lion's den.
After 30 minutes, the guru started trembling and he fell down in a swoon, pretending that he had a terrible stomach pain. The disciples had never seen their guru so ill before and they started rubbing his stomach, his feet and his whole body. But nothing seemed to help or ease the pains of the guru.
"Oh, Guruji, what can we do for you ?" the disciples asked.
And the guru replied, "There is really nothing that you can do since my pain is my pain and it is the result of my own karma and I have to go through this myself. However, there is just one thing that you can do and that is bring me the milk of a lion, for there is no other substance that will help me."
The disciples looked at one another in disbelief, saying, "But, Guruji, we cannot get the milk from a lion without being killed." And the guru told them how to get the milk of a lioness and different ones tried but no one succeeded, for they all ran off in fear of their lives before the milk pail could be filled.
Meanwhile, the king, Shivaji, had gone to see the guru at the temple as was his daily habit. The king was told that the guru had gone to the forest and the king went to find him.
When the king found his guru in great pain and saw how his other disciples were crying out in great distress to help him, he asked what had happened. Then one disciple
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