The Spectrum Of Life

The ruler Siddhartha, the young and righteous monarch of Kuchinda, once became ill with a rare ailment. He had a high fever with ocular irritation for several days. 

The royal doctor attempted a variety of medications but was unsuccessful. The doctor consulted his guru and brought a little white root of a rare flowering plant from the Himalayas.

The plant's unique characteristic was its blossoms, which had ten petals of varied colors, resembling a spectrum of a rainbow on the ground. The experiment was a success, and the king resumed his normal health. However, there was a negative effect from the root treatment. The king lost his ability to see colors. He could only see white, not any other colors. 

The royal doctor contacted his guru again, who dwelt in the forest's deepest portion. The guru proposed that the monarch should go on a world tour to obtain his vision of color. The king reluctantly mounted his horse and began his long journey in search of his vision of colors.

After a few days of trekking, he arrived in a city that appeared slightly pink to him. He was promptly summoned by the king of the country. He met with the elderly monarch and his lovely daughter. The elderly king was not in excellent condition, and the princess was a very kind and clever girl who not only looked for her father but also maintained the entire realm.

She was surrounded by a pink hue, which represented her compassion for all living things throughout the globe. Her sympathy enabled the monarch to attain visibility of the pink color. King Siddhartha accepted their invitation and spent the night with them. After appreciating the princess's care for her crippled father, he noticed a shift in his emotions toward her. He fell in love with the princess and was able to see the color red as well. After supper, he expressed his devotion to the princess.

"I am very lucky that I can get a place in your heart, but my heart has a lock, and it can be opened by the key made by melting the hardest thing in the world." The princess spoke.

"The hardest thing in the world?" The king inquired.

"Black diamond?" He added it again.

"You have to melt the hardest thing to win my love." The princess said this while smiling.

King Siddhartha could not sleep at night. How could he find a black diamond from the earth's core if he couldn't detect its colour? But he was desperate to earn the princess's heart.

Before embarking on his hunt for colors and diamonds, he visited the old monarch and bid him farewell.

He witnessed the princess carefully caring for her father without blinking an eyelid. He stood there, observing the old guy and his daughter, briefly forgetting that he was in front of a king and a princess. He decided right then and there to stay for a couple more days. He assisted the princess not only with state administration but also in caring for her father. Slowly, he noticed a steady color of red and realized his love for the princess was expressing itself.

After a few days, the old king spoke to King Siddhartha and told him, "I am quite delighted with you. You are bright and compassionate. You are the best man my daughter could have in her life. Will you marry my daughter?"

King Siddhartha turned to the princess and inquired, "I have melted the hardest thing in the world: a father's heart for his daughter. To send his daughter with her spouse, the father must harden his heart. I completely concur with that father's heart. Will you marry me, Princess?"

"Yes, you have opened the lock of my heart with your devotion and care for my father."

The king realized he could now see both pink and red colors, but he needed to explore new horizons to obtain his colored vision before settling down. He promised the princess that he would return shortly and then continued his voyage.

He traveled vast distances, impenetrable forests, and many dark rivers until he arrived at a location where he spotted a color of blue distributed in spots, but he could not locate the perfect blue color. He was sure that place was meant to return his blue color vision. He needed a place to spend the night. Someone advised him to take refuge in an ashram. He went to meet the saint, Sauvagya, at the ashram. The saint was meditating under a dark tree, and as the King set his first look at the saint, he could notice the blue sky for the first time in several weeks.

The peaceful spiritual saint's presence aided the king in acquiring the vision of blue.

The next morning, the king noticed hundreds of people assembling at the ashram. Everyone was complaining about the ruler of the land. King Siddartha joined the saint to hear the people's distress.

"This kingdom is under attack by an adversary who cannot be conquered via fighting. Thousands of locusts are ravaging the crops and consuming all food." The saint explained this to the king.

"Our monarch is not troubled by the predicament of the people; he does not want to abandon his comfortable existence and find a method to get rid of this destructive insect. The palace is unaffected by the insects because the king's garden contains special herbs that repel insects." The saint continued.

"We want the king to share the herbs with his subjects so that the kingdom will be spared from this locust's attack, but the king is very selfish, and he doesn't want to share the plant with his subjects." The audience spoke in unison.

King Siddhartha and the saint proceeded to meet the selfish king in his palace. King Siddhartha regained his vision of purple by casting a glance at the palace in question. The location was a symbol of monarchy combined with luxury and innovation. The egotistical king had spent crores of rupees to keep the palace in excellent order.

The palace was heaven, while the rest of the state appeared to be hell. The selfish king refused to meet them; therefore, King Siddhartha attempted to enter forcibly, resulting in a little scuffle between the king and the soldiers.

During this time, the king could see the orange bottom wear of the soldiers. He effortlessly overpowered the guards and entered the courtroom. The greedy monarch, dressed in black, was intimidated by King Siddhartha's boldness. In this whole process, King Siddhartha gained his purple, orange, and black color vision.

King Siddhartha instructed the soldiers to collect all of the locust-repelling herbs and deliver them to the saint. The saint produced enormous quantities of herb saplings and handed them to people.

When everyone planted herbs in their fields, locusts fled away, and the land was soon covered in greenery. King Siddhartha discovered he could see green, but still, he hadn't restored visibility for all colors.

After governing the selfish king and the kingdom for a few more days, King Siddhartha intended to return to his kingdom because his ministers were concerned about some irregularities arising in Kuchinda as a result of the monarch's protracted absence. 

Thousands of people gathered to say goodbye to him when he departed. The gratitude in everyone's eyes gave the monarch a vision of yellow.

While returning to Kuchinda, the king went to meet the princess; he realized his emotional well-being was steady when the princess was around him, and he could survive without her.

While kissing the princess, he suddenly realized he could see a brown hue.

After a few days, he married the princess, restoring peace and harmony to his realm by spreading a yellow umbrella of hope and regaining his vision with a firm white tint surrounding him.

The King and Queen lived for hundreds of years, each period of their lives distinguished by a spectrum of colors.