After the great battle of Mahabharata, Lord Shri Krishna travelled home to Dwaraka. On the way he met Uttankara, a holyman who lived in the desert.I bow to you, Lord Krishna,said Uttankara,How are you, and how are your cousins, the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Do they live happily together? Lord Krishna was amazed.
Uttankara lived in the desert and had heard of the great battle at Kurukshetra. Lord Krishna sadly told him the whole story. Uttankara became angry.You are the King of the Universe. You could have stopped this terrible fight! I will curse you.Just as Uttankara was about to hurl his curse, Lord Krishna revealed his divine form.I am the Lord of the Universe. All that happened is part of my divine will. Be happy Uttankara and know that this battle was part of my mysterious play! Accept from me a gift.
Ask what you like. Uttankara said,I have seen your divine form. What more could I ask? But Lord Krishna insisted, so Uttankara asked,I live in the desert and I am often thirsty. Please, O Lord, grant me water whenever I ask for it.So be it!said the Lord, and he went on his way.
Some time later Uttankara was meditating in the desert when he began to be troubled by thirst. He prayed for water and, suddenly, a dirty, low-born hunter with five hunting dogs and an old leather water bag walked up to him.Have drink! he person cried, offering the leather bag. Uttankara was horrified. Such should not approach or speak to a holy man!
Go away he said. The hunter tried again, but Uttankara became angry. The hunter disappeared suddenly and Uttankara thought, Surely this was a God and I have failed a test Then Lord Shri Krishna appeared: O Uttankara, what give you Amrita, the nectar of immortality instead. Indra insisted on testing you to. have you done? You asked for water and I asked Lord Indra, King of the Gods to give you to see if you were worthy. You would have lived forever if you had taken a drink from the hunters leather bag. From now on you must work to see no difference between a stone and gold, between pleasure and pain, and between a rough hunter and a holy man.
Uttankara bowed low and accepted this task given to him by the Lord Shri Krishna.
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