A Brahmin scholar who was busy writing a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita thought that one of the verses must have been wrongly worded. The second line of that verse (9th Chapter, 22nd verse) reads, “To persons who meditate on me as non-separate and worship me in all beings and to those who are wholly and constantly steadfast in their worship, I carry what they lack and preserve what they already have.” The scholar could not understand how the Lord could himself carry anything. He meditated seriously on the subject for two days and nights and then he changed the text so as to mean, “I get the things they lack and preserve what they already have”. During the days as he was meditating on the difficult question he could not go out for begging alms as usual, and he as well as his wife had been without food. His wife told him that as he had not brought anything, she had been unable for the last two days to cook any food for him. She requested him to go out immediately in search of alms. The learned man went out but unfortunately his efforts all proved unavailing.
Shortly before noon, however, two boys came to his house with two baskets full of milk, butter, oil, spices and other articles of food. They placed these baskets before the scholar’s wife and when she asked them who had sent them, they said, “He has sent these things to you”. Before they went away she saw a scratch on the chest of one of the boys and when she asked how he got it, he said, “He knows all about this.’ The wife thought that by the word “He” the boys meant her own husband. The scholar who had been on his rounds came back home late in the afternoon without having been able to collect any alms. His wife immediately asked him to have his bath and get ready for his meal. He asked how she was able to prepare meals when he was not able to get any alms; and his wife told him that two boys, one of whom had a scratch right upon his chest, had brought two basketfuls of foodstuffs to his house and they had said that they had been sent by him. The scholar was convinced that the boys must be the forms the Lord himself had assumed and then brought the things that were required for his household. He also saw that the scratch upon the person of one of the boys must have been the scratch which he had made in the text of Gita. He said to his wife, “You are indeed blessed as you have seen the form of the Lord.”