period of silence
  • your deisre resembles to lot of wellwishers who wrote tiredless in
    the past. Any how all the best.

    S.balasubramani B+ Bhubaneswar Orissa

    Desire

    An emperor was coming out of his palace for his morning walk when he
    met a beggar. He asked the beggar, "What do you want?"

    The beggar laughed and said, "You are asking me as though you can
    fulfill my desire!"

    The king was offended. He said, "Of course I can fulfill your
    desire. What is it? Just tell me."

    And the beggar said, "Think twice before you promise anything."

    The beggar was no ordinary beggar, he was the emporers past life
    master. He had promised in that life, "I will come and try to wake
    you in your next life. This life you have missed but I will come
    again." But the king had forgotten completely -- who remembers past
    lives? So he insisted, "I will fulfill anything you ask. I am a very
    powerful emperor, what can you possibly desire that I can not give
    to you?"

    The beggar said, "It is a very simple desire. You see this begging
    bowl? Can you fill it with something?"

    The emperor said, "Of course!" He called one of his viziers and told
    him, "Fill this mans begging bowl with money." The vizier went and
    got some money and poured it into the bowl, and it disappeared. And
    he poured more and more, and the moment he would pour it, it would
    disappear. And the beggging bowl remained always empty.

    The whole palace gathered. By and by the rumor went throughout the
    whole capital, and a huge crowd gathered. The prestige of the
    emperor was at stake. He said to his viziers, "If the whole kingdom
    is lost, I am ready to lose it, but I cannot be defeated by this
    beggar."

    Diamons and pearls and emeralds, his treasuries were becoming
    empty.The begging bowl seemed to be bottomless. Everything that was
    put into it -- everything! -- immediately disappeared, went out of
    existence. Finally it was the evening, and the people were standing
    there in utter silence. The king dropped at the fet of the beggar
    and admitted his defeat. he said, "Just tell me one thing. You are
    victorious - but before you leave, just fulfill my curiousity. What
    is the beging bowl made of?"

    The beggar laughed and said, "It is made up of the human mind. There
    is no secret. It is simple made up of human desire."

    This understanding transforms life. Go into one desire -- what is
    the mechanism of it? First there is a great excitement, great
    thrill, adventure. you feel a great kick. Somehting is going to
    happen, you are on the verge of it. And then you have the car, you
    have the yacht, you have the house, you have the woman, and suddenly
    all is meaningless again.

    What happens? Your mind has dematerialised it. The car is standing
    in the drive, but there is no excitement anymore. The excitement was
    only in getting it. You became so drunk with the desire thah you
    forgot your inner nothingness. Now the desire is fulfilled, the car
    in the drive, the woman in your bed, the money in your bank account -
    again excitement disappears. Again the emptiness is there, ready to
    eat you up. Again you have to create another desire to escape this
    yawning abyss.

    That's how one moves from one desire to another desire. That's how
    one remains a beggar. Your whole life proves it again and again --
    every desire frustrates. And when the goal is achieved, you will
    need another desire.

    The day you understand that desire as such is going to fail comes
    the turning point in your life.

    The other journey is inwards. move inwards, come back home.

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