Devotional Humor

​Once upon a time, there was a prince named Sudhanva. He was very religious and was a devotee of Shri Krishna. As per the tradition of his dynasty and kingdom all men were bound to have one wife only. Once, during Krishnaavtaar, when Shri Krishna and Arjun were travelling together for the accomplishment of Ashvamedh Yagya (Victory on the entire world campaign), Sudhanva decided to engage Arjun in a fight since he was desperate to see Krishna and also wanted to be killed at the hands of Shri Krishna.

At the time of bidding him farewell for the battle, Sudhanva’s wife joked with her husband, “Today you are going to break your vow of having one wife.”

Sudhanva asked with surprise, “Why?”

In a lighthearted vein she said, “Since you will embrace Mukti Devi (means liberation and it is a feminine noun) on being killed in the fight with Shri Krishna today.”

The king understood the joke and said jokingly, “you are also going to give up your vow of loyalty to your husband.”

“No. How would I?” The wife asked him.

He said, “After my death you will perform sati (willingly give up life by sitting in the pyre of dead husband). So you will embrace MOKSHA". Moksha means liberation. In Sanskrit it is a masculine noun