Akbar Birbal Story - Part 79
Akbar was extremely fond of Birbal’s intelligence and will often challenge him to demonstrate his wisdom. One day Akbar decided to test Birbal again and posed three questions in front of him.
1. Where does God live?
2. How can you find God?
3. What does God do?
Next day, Birbal’s son volunteers to answers these questions in the court in place of Birbal. To answer the first question, Birbal’s son ordered a cup of milk and sugar and mixed them. He asked Akbar if he can see sugar to which Akbar said no. Then Birbal’s son said god is like this sugar
For the second question, he used curd and asked if Akbar can spot butter in this? When Akbar said no as it will only come out upon churning the curd, Birbal’s son suggest that is exactly how one finds god i.e. by churning of heart.
For the third and final question, Birbal’s son asked Akbar to swap positions with him and then said that is exactly what god does – he turns a kind into a pauper and vice versa. Akbar had to agree on the intelligence that Birbal and his son have.
