He used to go and saw that there is a man who carries logs of wood on his head and sells them in the market, earns a few bucks and then he is surviving with great difficulty. So he accompanied that man to see where he lives and he saw that woodcutter lives in a forest where he cuts and chops the wood, logs, and brings them to the market, sells them, and he goes back to the forest, lives in a very small log hut.
So he went and told that man, “Look, you are living like this. I want to help you.” He says, “Who are you to help me? How can you help me? You don’t even look as strong as I am and I at least cut my wood and do that. You can’t even do that. How will you help me?” He says, “No, I have some connections with the king. How about that?” He says, “I don’t believe you. Nobody has connections to the king. Nobody can even enter the palace. There are so many guards there. How can you help me?” He said, “Well, in what way do you think I can help you?” He said, “Cut the logs with me and carry them to the market. That will help…and share the money with me.”
So the king begins to cut the logs and carry them to the market. And every day he tells him, “I have connections, you know,” and he said, “I don’t believe you.” One day he says, “Okay, let’s see. You keep on telling me every day that you have connections in the palace. Let’s see if the guards will let you in.” So he instructs the guards privately that, “When I come, don’t tell the person with me who I am, but just say, ‘Okay, you can go in.’”
So he goes to the palace, and he tells the guards, “You know who I am and this.” The guards say, “Okay, we will let you in.”This man is surprised! He says, “You really knew them. I should have believed you earlier.” And then he goes in, and then he tells him, “Look, I also know the minister in charge.” He said, “I can’t believe that one.” But he takes him.
To cut a long story short, the minister is told, “Okay, you can go in.” “I can meet the king!” Now that’s a big surprise for him. He says, “No, nobody can ever meet the king. He only comes out once in a year or something in his royal dress.” And he said, “Okay, let’s go and see.”
So ultimately he does go and gets the permission to go and see the king on the throne. And there the throne is empty and this man, the woodcutter, who is with the other woodcutter and sits on the throne and says, “I am the king. Welcome to the palace.” He says, “You cheat! Why didn’t you tell me first?” He said, “I told you on day one. You never believed me. So I had to go through all the phases of your life and bring your faith gradually up to that point where I could just bring you to the palace. I had to bring your faith up to the point that you could believe to come up to this point. And only when I brought you here, now you are saying I should have told you earlier? I was telling you all the time!”
Perfect Living Masters come and sit amongst us. They are constantly in touch with all the levels. And therefore, their function, their way to work with us, is very different. They can immediately work with us depending on which level we are. If we are skeptics, they’ll work like that so our skepticism can be taken care of to some extent. And the moment we are little higher up, they will act higher up, because they are constantly at all levels. So as we go to the spiritual levels, we recognize them more and more. At the end, they are the king sitting on the throne, and we realize they were the king all the time, not when they went there.