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CHAPTER 19. RITUALS, FIRE AND KNOWLEDGE
One of the disciples asks why they are so beautiful. Jesus says, ”These lilies are blossoming here
and now; they live and act in the moment. They don’t do anything out of hope for the future, whereas
Solomon lives for the future and in the future. And this tension between the present and the future
makes everything tense, sick and ugly. These flowers have no idea of tomorrow; they are fulfilled in
the moment. This small piece of land on which they are growing is enough for them, they don’t crave
a larger field. The wind that is passing through them, making them sway, is everything for them.
The sun that is shedding light on them is more than everything they desire. These bees humming
around them give them the joy of the world.
”They are contented in being what they are; just being is enough, and they don’t want to become
anything else. Not that another moment will not come for them. It will come, and it will come of
its own accord. And when it comes they will welcome it and live it as totally as they are living this
existing moment. Not that the lilies will not bear fruit, they will, but it will be another action complete
in itself and it will arise from their existential moment. That is why they are so beautiful.”
We believe everything happens according to our desires and expectations. We are like that crazy
woman of a fable I love to tell again and again.
This crazy old woman had lived her whole life in a certain village, but one fine morning she left the
village in anger, cursing the inhabitants with foul words. When the people enquired why she was
leaving the village she said, ”I go because of the torments that you have inflicted on me so long. But
you will know what my going means to you from tomorrow. You will learn the lesson of your life.”
The villagers were surprised at the threat the old woman made. They asked, ”What is that lesson
you are going to teach us?”
She said, ”I am taking with me my cock at whose crowing the sun rose here every morning. Now
the sun will rise in another village where I am going.”
And the story says when the old woman reached another village and her cock crowed and the sun
rose, she said to herself, ”The idiots of that village must be weeping bitter tears, because the sun is
now rising here, and they are in the dark forever.”
The old woman’s logic is flawless. Her cock crowed and the sun rose in the village where she had
lived before. And when she went to another village and the sun rose with her cock’s crow, there was
no doubt left in her mind that sunrise depended on her cock’s crow. But no cocks become victims of
such illusions, only their masters. Cocks know they crow when the sun rises, but their masters think
otherwise.
This fable reflects human mind.
The future comes on its own; it is already on the way. We cannot stop it from coming; we cannot
prevent tomorrow from becoming today. Let man do his work and do it completely; that is enough.
There is nothing beyond or outside of the act. We need not worry about tomorrow, which will come
for itself.
The act must be total; this is the whole of Krishna’s teaching. By total action he means, once you
have done your thing you are finished with it; there is nothing more to be done about it. And if
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