Simple Things

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Simple Things

-Unknown AuthorA man comes to a master to ask how much man is independent, free. Is he

totally free, or is there a limitation? Is there something like fate, destiny, a God who makes a limitation beyond which you cannot

be free?

The mystic answered in his own way - not logically but existentially. He said, " Stand up. "

The man must have felt this was a stupid kind of answer, " I am asking a

simple question and he is asking me to stand up. " But he said, " Let us

see what happens. " He stood. And the mystic said, " Now, raise one of

your legs up. "

The man, by this time must have been thinking he had come to a madman;

what has this to do with freedom, independence? But now that he has

come... and there must have been a crowd of disciples, and the mystic

was so respected; not to follow him would be disrespectful, and there

was no harm. So he lifted one of his legs from the earth, so one foot

was in the air and he was standing on one foot.

And then the master said, " That's perfectly good. Just one thing more. Now take the other foot up also. "

" That is impossible! " the man said, " You are asking something

impossible. I have taken my right foot up. Now I cannot take my left

foot up. "

The master said, " But you were free. In the beginning you could have

taken the left foot up. There was no binding order. You were completely

free to choose whether to take the left foot up or the right foot up. I

had not said anything about it; you just decided. You took the right

foot up.

In your very decision, you made it impossible for the left foot to be

lifted up. Don't bother about fate, God. Just think of simple

things. "

With Love,Ganesh Babahttp://kriyababa.blogspot.com/To get spiritual mails//spiritual_inspiration