Once, a traveling theater came to a village. A dashing hero and a beautiful heroine starred together in a play which also featured a nasty villain. The villain had done just about every bad thing possible: robbed the hero's father; poisoned the heroine's sweet grandmother, and that's before breakfast.
In one nighttime scene, the heroine was walking home alone. Hiding behind a tree, the villain lurked waiting to kidnap the fair maiden. The heroine slowly approached the tree...
One of the audience sitting in the front row - a villager - had had enough of the villain. The villager shouted out to the heroine, "WATCH OUT! I WILL SAVE YOU FROM THIS RASCAL!!!"
Saying that, the villager took off his slipper, and jumped on the stage and starting slapping the villain with all his might! Of course, there was much running around. Many stage-hands tried to save the villain but the furious villager mistook the stage-hands for the villain's goons and beat even some of them!
The director had the good sense to turn on all the lights and bring the villager "back to reality".
The villager turned out to be no less than the village headman - he felt quite embarrassed and walked away mumbling sanskrit mantras.
This is a true story and it is said that the actor who played the villain refused to give back the villager's slipper, prizing it above any acting award.
God carefreelessly watches the unfolding of the play of an infinite number of various characters, some high and some low.
----- Guru Nanak's Jap Ji, 3rd pauri
In one nighttime scene, the heroine was walking home alone. Hiding behind a tree, the villain lurked waiting to kidnap the fair maiden. The heroine slowly approached the tree...
One of the audience sitting in the front row - a villager - had had enough of the villain. The villager shouted out to the heroine, "WATCH OUT! I WILL SAVE YOU FROM THIS RASCAL!!!"
Saying that, the villager took off his slipper, and jumped on the stage and starting slapping the villain with all his might! Of course, there was much running around. Many stage-hands tried to save the villain but the furious villager mistook the stage-hands for the villain's goons and beat even some of them!
The director had the good sense to turn on all the lights and bring the villager "back to reality".
The villager turned out to be no less than the village headman - he felt quite embarrassed and walked away mumbling sanskrit mantras.
This is a true story and it is said that the actor who played the villain refused to give back the villager's slipper, prizing it above any acting award.
God carefreelessly watches the unfolding of the play of an infinite number of various characters, some high and some low.
----- Guru Nanak's Jap Ji, 3rd pauri
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