There was this story about Gautam Buddha. Once Buddha is meditating beneath a tree with his disciples. A man walks up and starts abusing him. The disciples get agitated, but Buddha remains calm. After some time the man is tired to abusing and walks away.
The disciples are curious about why Buddha did not react. He says that, when someone abuses me or calls me names, I refuse to accept them and therefore it just bounces back to them. Just because someone calls me a donkey, I don't become a donkey.
This story may not be accurate, but it teaches one thing. Everyone can project calmness and pretend to be truly at peace with themselves till the time this peace is put to the test. Well, Buddha passed the test.
Now, there's another story. I was watching the live telecast of some yoga program this morning, presided over by that winking fellow who calls himself "Baba Ramdev". So this guy is projecting all calmness and peace and all that jazz till some MP in the audience calls him a "bloody fool". This so called baba gets so riled, he instigates his disciples to go and rough up the guy saying "itni himmat ke mujhe bloody fool kehta hai".... all this on the mike and telecast LIVE!!!
Made my day hahahaha
5 comments:
Jai ho!
Seema..you make it so hard to leave anon comments here ;P.
Love your blog always.
Ramdev baba is no Buddha for sure. He has mastered the technique of yoga asanas. That does not mean he has reached the state of complete and total enlightenment like Buddha.However the politico was disrupting the session as well. Mind you I am not justifying Ramdev baba's modus operandi here to deal with disruption.Just that the politico was the instigator here. It takes two to tango when one of them is not Buddha ;).
Well, I'm not analysing the situation, just enjoying the ridiculousness of it all :)
:))) Long live ridiculousness ... such a source of joy and entertainment !
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