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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The weightlessness of a joyful, loving responsibility

 Osho tells a beautiful story of a Sanyasi named Bhavani Dayal. He was on a pilgrimage in the Himalayas.. it was a very hot noon and he was moving up the hill with his bedroll on his shoulder ...he was sweating and breathless because of the weight and the steep climb...in front of him a small hill girl was carrying her brother on her shoulders. She herself was small and that is why she was also struggling, panting, sweating ..all  breathless. The Sanyasi said to her, 'Daughter you must be feeling a lot of burden and weight on you.' The girl said, 'Swami ji the weight and burden is on you. He is not a burden, he is my brother.' The Sanyasi was shocked. A small girl taught him a big lesson of life. Where there is love, there is no burden in life. It was joyful for her to carry the physical weight of a little brother, while he joylessly struggled under the physical weight of his belongings.

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