The Devotion of Life — Page 286
286 said, ‘Your Majesty, I have perhaps not been able to explain myself properly, the building would be made but this is how money will be spent. ’ The king said it does not matter. Like this at every few steps the engineer would pick up a bagful of money, throw it in the water and say your Majesty, this is how money will be spent until he had thrown the entire 200,000 in the river. However, the king displayed no sign of regret. When they reached the other side of the river, he said, ‘Your Majesty, the building will definitely be constructed. ’ The Emperor said, ‘You have understood me, but why did the others not understand?’ He replied, ‘Your Majesty the fact is that the plan you have in mind needs millions to be spent on it, whereas the other engineers estimated expenditure to the limit that you would be willing to spend; if the specific expenditure they had estimated far exceeded that, it would have caused them disgrace rather than fame. However, I put the extent of your ambition to the test and I have understood that no matter how much amount of money will be required you will spend it regardless. This has given me courage to make the building. ’ As a result, he succeeded in constructing a building just as the king had wanted. ” We Have to Create a New World and a New Firmament! “In fact, the extent of sacrifice the Emperor had to make to have the ‘Taj Mahal’ constructed is not even a millionth of our sacrifice. We have to construct a new world and a new firmament in