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Arpana posted an update in the group Caravanserai 7 years, 6 months ago
I was staying once with a sadhu. Every day, in the course of conversation, he would tell me, ”I have kicked a fortune of lakhs!” He would repeat this about half a dozen times with some excuse or the other in the course of the day.
”When did this happen?” I asked him. ”About thirty-five years ago,” he replied.
”The kick does not seem to have been very effective,” I said, ”Or else there was no need to be reminded of it, time and again. You renounced a fortune, that was the end of the matter.”
The lakhs of rupees still pursued the man. He kicked them away, but they followed him and made their nest in his mind. Repression did not bring renunciation, in spite of all the self-control. When the lakhs were with him, he strutted proudly — the owner of lakhs. Now he renounced them, and his arrogance doubled! The second conceit is worse than the first, for the former can be recognized while the latter is so subtle. It is suppression in another form and this we look upon as self-control and we call such men renunciates!Osho.
Osho.
The Beginning of the Beginning
Chapter #5
Chapter title: From Emptiness Towards Truth