Narada & Sudama are discussing whether Krishna is engaging in a futile exercise in trying to reform Paundrak. Indeed, Murli is deceiving the gopis by making it appear that Paundrak played the flute. So this time, Narada turns on the TV (yeah, there are more than one 😆) and they start watching the Vasudeva channel.
Paundrak, after playing his flute, asks the gopis about it. They praise him but he presses them on whether he was a better flute player than Krishna. They disagree, and he reaches out and almost strangles one of the girls. Murli is shocked and persuades him to desist, and that if he let go, he'd hear what he wanted to hear. Paundrak does, and the gopis praise him as indeed being better flute players than Krishna. He asks them to say 'Bhagvan Vasudev Paundrak ki jai' and they oblige, although very unenthusiastically. Paundrak is very pleased w/ Murli, and tells him that he'd give him new honorary titles. He however tells him that he's not satisfied, and that he now wants to be known as Makhan chor 🤣
Accordingly, MM & Paundrak are roaming in a village, and Paundrak, who is in plainclothes, asks Murli why he disguised him? MM tells him that had he gone as himself, everyone would have feared him and given him whatever he wanted, and the question of stealing wouldn't even have arisen. Accordingly, they get to a house that has butter in it, and Murli climbs in through the window, and helps Paundrak in. Paundrak sees the butter pot hanging high, and can't reach it. So he asks Murli how, and Murli has him stand on his back. Paundrak reaches it and starts pouring it, spilling it all over his face 🤣 The pot then falls & breaks.
The lady of the house enters w/ a neighbor, and is furious to see someone stealing her butter. She scolds him and asks him whether he thinks he's Krishna Kanhaiya that he can go around stealing butter? 😆 If that were the case, everybody would become a Kanhaiya by stealing butter, and there wouldn't have been a need for the original Krishna. 👏 Paundrak is furious, wipes some of the butter off his face, and introduces himself as Bhagvan Vasudev Paundrak. The woman gets scared on hearing that, and Paundrak goes on the rampage, breaking pots in that house and threatening to punish her. Murli tries to calm him, and tells him that if he, god, doesn't forgive, who else will? Paundrak relents but demands that the woman say 'Bhavan Vasudev Paundrak ki jai'. The woman tearfully repeats it, and Paundrak relents.
Sudama & Narada finish watching TV, and Narada asks Sudama whether Krishna isn't wasting his time? Sudama says that Krishna is capable of anything, and Narada praises him for his unwavering faith.
Later, that night, when Sudama is eating, he offers a part of his rice to Krishna, and Murli arrives and accepts it. Sudama asks him what if he fails to reform Paundrak, and Murli asks him what if he succeeds? Murli tells him that this thing is not just about Paundrak, but a question of targeting the sin, rather than the sinner, and that if he doesn't give him the chance to reform, no one ever will.
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