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CHAPTER 2. KRISHNA IS COMPLETE AND WHOLE<br />

To this Kabir simply said, ”<strong>The</strong>n prove to be so. What is wrong with it? What if people call us<br />

dishonest?”<br />

Kamal could not take it. And he said, ”It is too much. I can’t put up with it. You just stop inviting<br />

people to dinner, that’s all.”<br />

Kabir then said, ”If it <strong>com</strong>es to this, so be it.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> next day people came to satsang again, <strong>and</strong> as usual Kabir invited them to eat with him. <strong>His</strong><br />

son reminded him of his unfulfilled promise to stop feeding the visitors. Kabir said, ”I can’t give you<br />

my word, because I don’t want to bind myself to anything. I live in the moment. I let what happens<br />

in the moment, happen. If some day I don’t ask them to stay to dinner, it will be so. But as long as I<br />

happen to invite them, I will invite them.”<br />

Kamal then said in desperation, ”It means that I will now have to resort to stealing, because nobody<br />

is prepared to give us credit any more. What else can I do?”<br />

Kabir said grinning, ”You fool, why didn’t you think of this before? It would have saved us the trouble<br />

of borrowing.”<br />

Kamal was simply amazed to hear his father say this. He was known as a wise man, a sage, who<br />

always gave people profound advice. ”What is the matter with him?” he wondered. <strong>The</strong>n he thought<br />

that maybe his father was just playing a joke, so he decided to put it to a test.<br />

Late in the night when the whole village was asleep, Kamal awakened his father <strong>and</strong> said, ”I am<br />

going to steal. Will you ac<strong>com</strong>pany me?”<br />

Kabir said, ”Now that you have awakened me, I should go with you.” Kamal was startled once again;<br />

he could not believe his father would agree to steal. But he was Kabir’s son, <strong>and</strong> he did not like<br />

beating a hasty retreat, so he decided to see the whole of this joke, or whatever it was, through to<br />

the end.<br />

Kamal walked to the back of a farmer’s house, his father following him, <strong>and</strong> he began to break<br />

through the wall of the house. Kabir was st<strong>and</strong>ing silently near him. Kamal still expected his father<br />

to call off the whole thing as a joke. And at the same time he was afraid. Kabir said, ”Why are you<br />

afraid, Kamal?”<br />

”What else can I be when I am going to <strong>com</strong>mit theft?” he retorted. ”Isn’t it ironical to suggest I<br />

should not be afraid while stealing?”<br />

Kabir said, ”It is fear that makes you feel guilty, that makes you think you are stealing; otherwise<br />

there is no reason to think that you are a thief. Don’t fear, do your job rightly; otherwise you will<br />

needlessly disturb the sleep of the entire family.”<br />

Somehow Kamal drilled a hole in the wall, still hoping his father would call it quits. <strong>The</strong>n he said,<br />

”Now let’s enter the house.” And Kabir readily joined him <strong>and</strong> went inside the house. <strong>The</strong>y had not<br />

gone there to steal money, they only wanted grain, <strong>and</strong> so they picked up a bag of wheat <strong>and</strong> left<br />

the house.<br />

<strong>Krishna</strong>: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Man</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>His</strong> <strong>Philosophy</strong> 38 <strong>Osho</strong>

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