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SRI SANKARA JAYENDRA BALAVIHAR

• There was a cowherd called Maladasa who was determined to see the Lord, as He was described in the sacred texts he had heard expounded in the village temple by a pandit. So, he continuously prayed to the "black Lord riding on the white bird" all the time his cows were pasturing in the fields.

Eleven days passed; but there was no sign of the "black Lord riding on the white bird". He had forgotten to take food and drink during all those days and so, had become weak, too weak to walk or talk. At last, the Lord melted at his entreaties and presented Himself before him as an old Brahmin; but the Brahmin was not riding a white bird, nor was he black, beautifully black, as the pandit had described. So, he asked the Brahmin to come the next day at seven in the morning, so that he may bring the pandit and verify whether he was the Lord Himself. The pandit laughed at the whole affair and refused to take part in it, but Maladasa was so importunate that he agreed. The entire village turned out on the river bank the next day, long before seven o’ clock. The Brahmin was there exactly as he had promised and Maladasa showed him to all. But, they could not see him! they began to laugh at the cowherd’s antics, and threatened him with a severe beating for bringing them all along as butts for his jokes. Maladasa could see the Brahmin clearly but no one else could. At last, he got so enraged that he walked up to the Brahmin and gave him a whacking blow on the cheek, saying, "Why don’t you show yourself to all?"

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