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How to Increase your Financial Frequency.So take charge of your own life and make it beautiful by attending AMC regularly. All we got to do is to meditate and attend AMC’s regularly but most of us are postponing AMC’s. We all want happiness ,bliss and silence ! And we also know the way to it. Moral : The above story emphasises that we also in own lives are continuously postponing. Otherwise he was perfectly healthy, but he was continuously drinking day and night. What to do now? He died of too much drinking, he died as an alcoholic. The moment he conquered India he became very much depressed, so much so that he became an alcoholic he started drinking too much. He was only thirty – three when he died, and he really died for the same reason that Diogenes has pointed to him.
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”Īnd actually it happened that way: Alexzander died on the way, he never reached back home. One can be certain only about this moment. First let me conquer this and then I will see, And I will come to see you when I have conquered the whole world.”ĭiogenes said, “ Nobody comes back - you will not be able to come back. He felt immediately a great sadness descend on him and he said,” Don’t talk such sad things to me. “ What you will do when you have conquered the whole world ? Do you know ? There is no other world ! You will be at a loss! At least right now you are occupied, busy, without business, but if you conquer the whole world then the real problem will arise : what to do next ? - because there is no other world.”Īnd it is said, Alexander felt sad even listening to the idea that there is no other world. One : remember, If you have conquered the whole world, then what you will do?”And Alexzander was only thirty two at that time. First I have to finish my conquest - I have to conquer the whole world!”Īnd Diogenes said, “Two things I have to say. Right now I cannot do it, But I will come one day. Be Diogenes right now !”Īlexander said, “That is difficult. You simply rest here, forget all about the world. He thought Diogenes will appreciate -but Diogenes said, “Don’t be a fool ! Don’t try to deceive me! What do you mean, ‘ next time’? If you are so much interested in being Diogenes, why not now? Now or never ! And who is preventing you? Throw the clothes in the river, lie down, take the sunbath ! And you need not even bother about food, because I go to beg, and I will bring enough for you too. Alexander immediately said that, “If next time god will ask me to come back to the world, I would like to be Diogenes rather than Alexander.” But, mind you, he said “next time” - postponing for the next time.Īlexander laughed because he has said something great. He had nothing, and yet he had something which was missing in Alexander. But he felt jealous of Diogenes a naked fakir with nothing, not even a begging bowl.īuddha at least carrying a begging bowl, but Diogenes has thrown the begging bowl also because one day he saw a dog drinking water from the river, he immediately threw the begging bowl in river, saying to the dog, “Master, you have taught me a great lesson! If you can manage without a begging bowl, why cannot I? Alexzander has everything, he has almost conquered the whole world. Just India was left out, so he was coming towards India and was certain that he will conquer India too. The place was absolutely silent, and Diogenes looked so beautiful that Alexzander felt jealous for first time in his life. He was lying naked on the bank of small river, taking a morning sunbath. Look at me! Without conquering the world I have conquered!”Īnd Alexander looked at Diogenes and felt the beauty of the man, the grace of man. He was told by Diogenes one of the greater mystic of his time or never that, “stop this foolish effort to conquer the world. Alexander himself was a coward in this sense.