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Mokshmala - Lesson-48. Kapilmuni Part-1
student, became a householder; but he was quite incapable of earning his living as he had no experience of such earnings. So this clever Brahmin widow suggested to Kapil that it was no good to be confused but success lay in right efforts. She adviced him to see the king of that city Shrawasti whose daily practice was to give some gold to a Brahmin who visited him first in early morning and blessed him. If you try and succeed then you can get two golden coins. Kapil accepted it and he tried for about a week to get up in the early morning but failed to do so as he would go to the King's palace very late and so he returned empty handed. So Kapil decided to sleep in the open so that he could get up early in the morning to visit King's palace.
At the middle of night seeing the moonrise, Kapil got up and mistaking it for early morning he ran to the King's palace but there the palace guards thinking kapil to be a thief. Kept him with them and at day break they produced him before the king for punishment. Kapil was much sorrow stricken but the King did not find any symptom of a thief in Kapil and so at King's order Kapil narrated the whole story of his life. Hearing this pathetic story, King showed mercy and sympathy for this simple boy who mistook moonlit night as daybreak. The king felt mercy for him and wanted to relieve him from his poverty so he asked him what he needed to relieve his poverty. He can demand as per his wish as he had taken so much trouble to bless me. Kapil kept dumb for some time and when the king asked him the reason for his keeping mum, Kapil said, 'O King ! My mind is not yet at ease and so I am not able to decide as to what should I demand.' Hearing these words, the King asked Kapil to go to the opposite garden, think what to ask for and return. So Kapil went to the garden and sat at thinking.
LESSON-48 KAPIL MUNI (MONK)-PART-III
Originally Kapil who started with a desire of getting only two golden coins was now pushed by the waves of greed. He desired to ask for five coins instead of early two, then he again thought that five coins would not be sufficient for his maintenance. Therefore he should ask for twentyfive coins.
Then again his thought was changed that twentyfive coins would not be sufficient for the whole year or two and then again he will have to face poverty so he should ask for one thousand coins. But if there are some expensive occasions of children then one thousand coins will be also not sufficient, therefore he should ask for ten thousand coins so that his whole life can be passed very happily.
But again he thought that when ten thousand coins are spent away he will have to face poverty again, therefore he should ask for one lakh coins so that he can enjoy the whole life with the interest of the lakh coins.
But again he thought and told himself that oh soul! There are so many persons who are having lakhs of coins and so he cannot be famous by one lakh coins. So I should ask for one crore coins so that I may be regarded as a great wealthy person. Again he thought that by becoming only famous wealthy person he shall not have any power or authority so he should ask for half of his kingdom but if I ask for only half of his kingdom then the king would be of his equal grade and he would be called a beggar of the king therefore he should ask for his whole kingdom. Thus this Kapil drowned more and more in the ocean of greed.
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