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He gave Alexander the dir
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Enter the cave. There will be a sm
water and drink it. You
know it so badly. There is a particular
forest here.” He gave Alexander the
directions as to how to go there. And the
yogi told him, “If you go to this place, you
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There will be a small pool of water. Take
a handful of water and drink it. You will
become immortal.”
Alexander set up an expedition. With
a group of his bravest soldiers, he went
into the forest. As the yogi had indicated
certain landmarks, accordingly he went
and found the cave. He entered the cave
and was about to put his hands into the
water and drink. There was a crow sitting
on the other side of the pool. The crow
said, “Wait! Stop!” Alexander looked
surprised. A crow speaking Greek, not
“Caw!”
The crow said “A long, long time
ago I made the mistake of drinking from
this pool, and I have been sitting here
for I don’t know how long. My problem
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every way but I cannot die.” Can you
imagine the predicament? “And I will sit
here forever. Do you want to do this?”
Alexander had his hands in the water.
He was about to drink. All his life he
wanted to become immortal. Now this
crow put such a question and suddenly
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would it mean? And you still cannot die.
Alexander just stood there, trembling.
Sense dawned on him. Slowly he walked
back and never drank from the pool.
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Alexander even today. Aren’t we glad
all the dead people are dead? Maybe
you think, “No, but my father was such a
wonderful man!” If he lives too long, he
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his normal course of life and go. Only
then it is good.
LIFE & DEATH IN ONE BREATH
The greatest calamity of the human mind
is that it is against death because the
moment you reject death, you also reject
life. Every moment of living here, we can
either refer to this p
going through as lif
to it as death. Death
that is going to hap
is not in the future.
are born, one half o
Your inhalation is lif
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thing the child does
inhalation. And if yo
the last thing you w
Between life an
a certain tension; o
keep it going. Death
Right now, you can
see, if you take one
one big inhalation a
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exhalation to be mo
whenever you get t
build up too much in
mechanism in the b
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you a little bit. If in t
life, you know the re
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This is how it w
been if human bein
banished death as
cultures had not tau
is evil – that it shou
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way. If you observe
people, because th
death, they will inha
does not happen to
the reasons why, ov
you build up so muc
system that mentall
it reaches a point o
A REMINDER OF Y
Right now, it takes a
to understand that t
When you are youn
immortal. As the bo
little bit, you start to
is calling. This body
planet. The very bo
the food that you ha
that you ate is just t
just a piece of earth
you all the time but
10 GolfPlus JUNE 2020