7/1/2023 0 Comments Diogenes and alexanderHe died at the age thirty-two, in a most miserable condition because he had managed to conquer only one half of the world, the other half was still left. For another sixteen years he fought non-stop, killing thousands of people on his way. At the age of sixteen he started fighting. He wasted his life and other people’s lives. I would like to add a third name to him – Alexander the Great Idiot, because he was one person who wasted life. One day, he was lying down on the river bank in an ecstatic state, when Alexander came that way. On that day, he threw away his begging bowl and loincloth and lived totally naked. He just looked at this and thought “Oh my god, my life is worse than that of a dog.” He was already ecstatic, but he was saying his life was worse than that of a dog, because many times, he had felt like just jumping into the river, but was worried about getting his loincloth wet and about what could happen if he left the beautiful begging bowl there. One day, he finished his meal and was walking towards the river when a dog overtook him, ran into the river, swam around a little bit, came onto the sand and rolled around joyfully. He begged at the temple gates and ate whatever food he got. Somebody had given him a beautiful begging bowl and he wore only a loincloth. If you think about those three truths from a modern-day perspective, more than 2,000 years later, they are still very true.Sadhguru: Diogenes was a wonderful and ecstatic beggar who lived on a river bank in Greece.
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