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Please read the following extract :

 

A . SELVAKUMAR

 

 

 

A SUDDEN CLASH OF THUNDER - BY OSHO

( PAGE No. 234 )

Meditation is nothing but sharing .If you are a meditative person

,you give ,you share - you don't hoard ,you are not miserly .You don't

possess .How can you possess in this world ?

You were not here and the world was here ;you willnot be here one

day and the world is going to be here .How can you possess you ?How

can you claim that I'm the owner?How can you own anything? And if

you are meditative ,your whole life will become a sharing .You will

give whatsoever you can give -your love ,your understanding ,your

compassion -whatsoever you can you will give -your energy ,body, mind

,soul -whatsoever .And you will enjoy it .

 

There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something .Have you

given something ,to somebody ?That's why people enjoy giving gifts so

much.It is a sheer delight .When you give something to somebody - maybe

valueless ,may not be of much value -but just the way ,just the

gesture that you give ,satisfies tremendously .Just think of a person

whose whole life is a gift !whose every moment is a sharing -he lives

in heaven .There is no other heaven than that .

One of the greatest Indian poets ,Rabindranath Tagore ,has written a

small poem :WHAT HAVE YOU GOT FOR ME ? The poem consists of a small

story :

Once while I was begging from door to door ,I suddenly saw a

gleaming chariot pull up to me and stop .When I beheld its lordly

driver step down and smile at me with searching eyes, I immediately

envisioned the unsolicited charity that would surely be mine .

A beggar is relating this story .A beggar has come out of his house

,and suddenly he sees a golden chariot stop and the king of kings

gets out of the chariot .The beggar must have been thrilled by the

very possibility that he could get something today .

But to my everlasting chagrin ,this King of kings suddenly thrust out

his hand and asked , " What have you got for me ? " Oh lord,torn with

perplexity and indecision ,I offered you a mere grain of wheat and

on my carpet that very night I found a grain of gold.How sorry I

was I had not given you everything I had !

 

The beggar is ,of course ,accustomed to receiving ,not accustomed to

giving .He has never given anything .He has always been begging and

begging . So suddenly the King of kings spreads his hands and

says, " What have you got for me? " He was perplexed ,bewildered

,confused.He must have hesitated .He must have searched his bag .He

could have given more,but he could not gather courage.He gave only

one grain of wheat - just because he could not say no .How to say no

to the King of kings ?And by the time he must have become conscious

the chariot was gone ,and there were only dust clouds on the road

..And still, the whole day he must have worried about that one grain

of wheat less in his bag today .He must have thought again and again

;it must have been like a wound .

 

And in the night when he comes back home and drops on the floor all

that he has begged in the whole day,he finds a grain of gold .Then

he understands .Then he cries and weeps ,but now it is too late

-where can you find the King of kings again ?Where ?Now he wants to

give everything that he has, now he has found the illogical logic of

it :that which you give becomes golden ,and that which you go on

hoarding becomes dirt ,If you hoard gold it becomes dust; if you give

dust ,dust becomes gold -that is the message of this beautiful

anectode .And I absolutely agree with it .

 

It is not just a parable :it is a true secret of life -give and you

will get millionfold ; share and in the very sharing you will become

richer .Go on hoarding and you will become poorer and poorer .You

cannot find a poorer man than a miser .He may have much ,but he has

nothing - because you can have only that which you have given .It is

a paradox only in appearance .

 

Let me repeat it : YOU POSSESS ONLY THAT WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN; YOU

NEVER POSSESS THAT WHICH YOU HAVE HOARDED - YOU BECOME A MASTER OF

SOMETHING WHICH YOU SHARE . SHARE!UNCONDITIONALLY- BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS

GOING TO BE TAKEN FROM YOU ANYWAY ; DEATH IS GOING TO TAKE EVERYTHING

FROM YOU .

 

And death will not beg - it simply snatches away ,it robs .It doesn 't

ask your permission ; it doesn't knock on your door and say " Can I

come in ,sir. " No .It simply comes .By the time you are aware ,you are

gone.By the time you can do something ,everything has been taken away

..Death is going to take everything .

 

Before death knocks on your door ,share - whatsoever you have .You can

sing a beautiful song ?-sing it ,share it .You can paint a

picture?-paint, share it .You can dance?go and dance ,share it

..Whatsoever you have -and I have never come across a man who has not

much to share .If you want to share ,you have too much to share .If

you don't want to share, you may have enough, more than enough ,but

you are poor ,you don't have anything :

 

It happened :

 

Mulla Nasrudin was fishing off a pier when he lost his balance and

fell in .

" Help! Help! " Mrs Nasrudin started shouting . " My husband is drowning.Help!

Help! "

Luckily ,her cries were heard by two husky young men in the

vicinity,and they dove into the water and pulled poor Nasrudin out .

 

As he lay on the pier drying out ,Mrs Nasrudin leaned over him and

whispered , " They saved you from drowning ,man .Shouldn't we give them a

rupee? "

 

Mulla opened one eye and whispered back , " I was only half -drowned

..Half a rupee will do . "

 

The miser's mind continues to the very end .Beware of it .