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Moments 3-In The Kingdom of Fools

In the Kingdom of Fools, the guru and his disciple discover that the inhabitants sleep during the day and work at night, and that all food is incredibly cheap. The disciple decides to stay for the food but ends up in trouble, facing execution due to the king's absurd justice system. The guru cleverly saves his disciple by convincing the king to execute himself and the minister instead, believing it will secure their next lives as rulers.

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Moments 3-In The Kingdom of Fools

In the Kingdom of Fools, the guru and his disciple discover that the inhabitants sleep during the day and work at night, and that all food is incredibly cheap. The disciple decides to stay for the food but ends up in trouble, facing execution due to the king's absurd justice system. The guru cleverly saves his disciple by convincing the king to execute himself and the minister instead, believing it will secure their next lives as rulers.

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MOMENTS 4 - In the Kingdom of Fools

Question and Answers


1. What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
A. When the guru and his disciple reach the kingdom of fools, they find the following two
strange things-
a) All the people sleep during the day and work during the night time. They have trained
the cattle and all the other animals also to do the same as they fear punishment at the
hands of the king.
b) Everything in the kingdom of fools- a bag of rice or a bunch of bananas costs one duddu.
The guru is astonished and his disciple is excited to realize that food is so cheap in the
kingdom.

2. Why does the disciple decide to stay in the Kingdom of Fools? Is it a good idea?
A. The disciple loves food. He gets excited to see such cheap food available in the kingdom
of fools. As he wants to relish more and more food, he stays back in the kingdom of fools.
His decision was not a good one as he got into trouble. Although he was innocent, the
king's men took him for execution as they needed a fat person who could be killed easily
by the stake.

3. Name all the people who are tried in the king’s court, and give the reasons for their trial.
A. The names of the people who were tried in the king's court are as follows-
a) The rich merchant who was the owner of the house was tried because the wall that
collapsed onto the thief belonged to him. Later, on he was again tried and held guilty on
behalf of his dead father who had ordered the goldsmith to deliver the ornaments in a
haste due to which the goldsmith could not deliver the dancing girl’s ornaments in time.
b) The bricklayer who had built the weak wall was also tried for constructing the wall that
collapsed and killed the thief.
c) The dancing girl was tried for distracting the bricklayer. As she walked in the lane again
and again, the jingling sound of her anklets distracted the bricklayer because of which he
constructed a weak wall.
d) The goldsmith was tried because it was due to him that the dancing girl had to walk up
and down the lane again and again.
e) The rich merchant’s dead father was tried because he had ordered the goldsmith to
deliver his ornaments first as there was a wedding with his family. Due to his order the
goldsmith was unable to make the dancing girl’s ornaments in time.
4. Who is the real culprit according to the king? Why does he escape punishment?
A. According to the king, the real culprit was the merchant’s dead father. As he was dead,
he could not be punished and in place of him, his son who had inherited all his property
would be punished.
The merchant escapes the punishment as the minister feels that he is too thin to be killed
by the stake.

5. What are the Guru’s words of wisdom? When does the disciple remember them?
A. The Guru had told his disciple that the place was a kingdom of fools and they was
unsafe for them. He had asked his disciple to leave the place at once. The disciple is
reminded of his Guru’s words of wisdom when he lands into trouble. When the king's men
take him for execution, he prays to his Guru and asks him to save his life.

6. How does the guru manage to save his disciple’s life?


A. The guru is a wise and intelligent man. He traps the foolish king in his talks. He says that
as he is the Guru, he is senior to his disciple and so, he should be killed first. The king gets
confused to see the Guru’s eagerness to die. He asks him the reason for it. On being
promise that he would be killed first, the Guru says that as the stake is a new one, it has
not killed any criminal. He adds that the person who would be killed by the state first
would be reborn as the king of the kingdom. The second person who would be killed by
the stake would be reborn as the Minister of the kingdom. The king considers the Guru to
be genuine and so, tells his minister that they should not lose their kingdom in the next
birth. In this way, the king decides to save his kingdom and get himself and his minister
killed by the stake in place of the guru and his disciple. Hence, the Guru saves his disciple’s
life.

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