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*** AND BHARTHRUHARI CLOSED HIS EYES..... *** A beautiful story narrated by Osho.
A great king, Bharthruhari, renounced the world. He renounced the world
because he had lived in it totally and he had come to realize that it
was futile. It was not a doctrine to him, it was a lived reality. He had
come to the conclusion through his own life. He was a man of strong
desire, he had indulged in life as much as possible, then suddenly he
realized it was useless, futile. So he left the world, he renounced it,
and he went to a forest.
One
day he was meditating under a tree. The sun was rising. Suddenly he
became aware that just on the road, the small road which passed nearby
the tree, lay a very big diamond. As the sun was rising, it was
reflecting the rays. Even Bharthruhari had not seen such a big diamond
before. Suddenly, in a moment of unawareness, a desire arose to possess
it. The body remained unmoved, but the mind moved. The body was in the
posture of meditation, SIDDHASANA, but the meditation was no longer
there. Only the dead body was there, the mind had moved -- it had gone
to the diamond.
Before the king could move, two men came from
different directions on their horses and simultaneously they became
aware of the diamond lying on the street. They pulled out their swords,
each one claiming that he had sene the diamond first. There was no other
way to decide so they had to fight. They fought and killed each other.
Within moments two dead bodies were lying there next to the diamond.
Bharthruhari laughed, closed his eyes, and went into meditation again.
What happened? He again realized the futility. And what happened to
these two men? The diamond became more meaningful than their whole life.
This is what possession means: they threw away their life just for a
stone. When desire is there, you are no more -- desire can lead you to
suicide. Really, every desire is leading you to suicide. When you are in
the power of a desire, you are not in your senses, you are just mad.
The desire to possess arose in Bharthruhari's mind also; in a fragment
of a moment the desire arose. And he might have moved to get it but
before he could, the other two persons came and fought, and there were
two dead bodies lying on the road with the stone there in its own place.
Bharthruhari laughed, closed his eyes, and went into his meditation
again. For a single moment his subjectivity was lost. A stone, a
diamond, the object, became more powerful. But again the subjectivity
was regained. Without the diamond the whole world disappeared, and he
closed his eyes.
- OSHO
Book - Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (Volume 2)
Chapter # 33
Chapter Name - Fear Of Transformation
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