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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 3861620" data-attributes="member: 120286"><img src="http://numii.net/word_press/wp-content/uploads/osho.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> There was one old man whose son died. He came to me and he said, ”Console me!”I said, ”I cannot do that; that is sin.”He said, ”I have come for that.”I told him, ”You may have come for that, but I cannot do it.”He said, ”But I went to this shankaracharya and he consoled me. He said, ’Don’t bother, don’t beworried; your son is reborn in a high heaven!’”I knew his son also, and that is impossible because he was a politician – they all go to hell, theynever go to heaven. And not only was he a politician, but a successful politician – he was a ministerof state, with all the cunning of a politician, with all the ambition of a politician. How can he go toheaven? And this old man was also a politician. Basically he was not disturbed because his son wasdead; the basic thing was that his ambition was dead, because through that son he was achieving more and more and more and more. He himself had become old; he had worked continuously hiswhole life, but he was a little foolish, not very cunning, a little naive. He worked hard, he sacrificedhis whole life, but he could not attain any post. And that was the deep hurt, it was a wound. Andthen through the son he had been trying, and the son had been achieving. Now that his son wasdead his whole ambition was dead.When I told him, ”This is the reason you are suffering so much; it is not your son,” he was verydisturbed. He said, ”I had come for consolation and you are disturbing me more. It may be,” hesaid. ”Whatsoever you say sounds true. It may be that my ambition has been hurt and it is not forthe son that I am weeping – it may be for the ambition. But don’t say such hard things to me, I amin such pain right now. My son is dead and you are saying such hard things to me. And I went tothis mahatma, and to that shankaracharya, and to this guru, and they all consoled me. They said,’Don’t worry, the soul is eternal; nobody ever dies. And your son – he was no ordinary soul, he hasreached a high heaven!’”These are consolations, and if this old man goes on listening to these consolations he is missinga great opportunity. He is missing an opportunity in which he could face his ambition, which is hisproblem. He could have encountered the fact that all ambition is useless, futile, because you workand work and work, and then death takes everything. He could have penetrated to this. But no, hestopped coming to me. He used to come to me, but since that time he has never come. He went toothers who would console him.Are you here to be consoled? Then you are in the wrong place.</blockquote>

Verification: Winadiyakata thappara keeyak tibeda?

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