An emperor saw a beggar from his balcony and called him.Beggar came to emperor and said, 'If you are going to give me anything there is a condition.'
The emperor said, 'What do you mean? What do you mean by your condition?'
The beggar said, 'This is my condition: I will accept only if you can fill my begging bowl absolutely.'
It was a small begging bowl. The King said, 'What do you
think I am? Am I a beggar? I cannot fill this dirty small begging bowl?'
The beggar said, 'It is better to tell you before, because later you can get into trouble. If you think you can fill.'
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The King called his vizier and told him to fill it with
precious stones: with diamonds and rubies, emeralds. Let this beggar
know with whom he is talking!
But then there was difficulty. The bowl was filled but the
king was surprised -- as the stone fell into it, it would disappear. It
was filled many times and each time it was again empty.
Now he was in a great rage, but he told the vizier, 'Even
if my whole kingdom goes, if all my treasuries are emptied, let them be
-- but I cannot allow this beggar to defeat me. This is too much.'
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And all the treasures, it is said, disappeared. By and by
the king became a beggar. It took months. And the beggar was there and
the king was there and the whole capital was there and everybody was
wondering what was going to happen, what would happen in the end.
Everything was simply disappearing.
Finally the king had to fall at the feet of the beggar and
he said, 'Forgive me, but before you leave just tell me one thing. What
is the secret of this begging bowl? All has disappeared in it.'
The beggar started laughing. He said, 'It is made of human ego. I have made this begging bowl of a human ego: everything disappears in it, nothing ever fulfills it.'
The beggar started laughing. He said, 'It is made of human ego. I have made this begging bowl of a human ego: everything disappears in it, nothing ever fulfills it.'
It is a tremendously beautiful story. That's what is happening to you. It is not a story, it is your life.
You go on putting in your begging bowl houses, cars, bank balances -- everything disappears.
Again you are empty. Never any satisfaction, never any contentment. Again you are begging.
You have been doing it for many lives. It is your story. It is literally true, it is not just symbolically true.
It is a truth in everybody's life, in every man's life.
We remain a beggar. The begging bowl remains empty. It seems it has no bottom to it. You drop anything, it simply disappears.
The ego is never fulfilled.
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