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saints.
Finally he decided to go and see for himself what was going on. He took a motorboat, reached the small island. It was so small that there was only one tree on the island, but with beautiful foliage, and all those three saints were sitting underneath it.
Just by looking at them the archbishop knew: These are absolutely uneducated villagers -- who has created this rumor? And how gullible are people that they are worshipping these people? And as he descended from his boat all the three villagers touched his feet. He was immensely happy.
He said, "Are you the three priests the whole country is talking about?"
They said, "We don't know. People come to us, we cannot prevent them coming. All that we know is that we are absolutely contented. All that we know is that there is no more desire, no more ambition. Life is just a tremendous blessing, and we are enjoying it. More than that we don't know. We are uneducated, we are villagers."
The archbishop was very happy. He said, "What kind of prayer do you do?"
Those three saints looked at each other ashamed, embarrassed. Finally one said that it was not much of a prayer. "We have created it by ourselves. We don't know what is the authorized prayer of the church, but whatever we have been doing we will tell you."
Christianity believes in the trinity of God -- that God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, three together. And those three villagers said, "Thinking that he is three and we are also three, we have made our prayer: `You are three, we are three, have mercy on us!' More than that we don't know."
The archbishop was very angry -- "This is not the right thing for a Christian to do! How have you dared to create such a stupid prayer? I will tell you the authorized version which the church accepts."
They said, "We will be very grateful, but make it a little short, because we are uneducated and we cannot remember anything long."
The archbishop said, "You will have to remember it!"
They said, "We will try if you insist."
The archbishop recited the whole prayer. It was really long, and when he had said the whole prayer one of the
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