Once upon a time king of some region went for hunting. It was too late in the evening to go back therefore he decided to spend night with all his soldiers and other staff, in forest.

After mid-night a thief saw royal tents in forest. so he made his mind to steal the crown of the king . with this intention he entered in king's tent and ran away. soldiers saw theif running away with the maharaj's crown, they ran after thief. by this time king also woke up and knew about theft, so he also went to catch thief. he took his weapons and rided on horse.

this side king's slodiers were verymuch after thief and they were very close to him. thief thaught that he will definately be captured by soldiers. meantime he saw small hut of some saint. he entered in the hut thinking that this is better place to conceal himself. fortunately, it was time for swamiji to take bath in the river hence there was nobody in the hut. thief took UPVASTRA of  swamiji and sat on the Peetha (gaddi),with closed eyes, pretending/disguising as true swamiji. meanwhile soldiers entered in the hut they looked here and there they saw swamiji is in deep meditation but thief was unseen. After sometime  king also reached there, he asked his soldiers to search for thief and entered in the hut with his ministers. they also saw that swamiji is sitiing on Peeth and in deep maditation. king and his ministers felt at the feet of swamiji (thief) and kept quiet.

The disguising swamiji, the thief, was watching all this thing with half eye open. He thought  that only by pretending as sadhu/swamiji, a king of empire with his ministers bowed down to me. IF I WERE REAL SWAMIJI THEN WHAT NOT I CAN GAIN. this thought changed his mind  and  stoodup from PEETH, confessed/repented on his past deeds  and turned to complete renunciation.