2. ARE WE NOT HERE TO HELP AND SERVE
OTHERS IN THE WORLD?
My answer is an anecdote.
I have heard about a little boy whose mother was
lecturing him about selfishness. ”You know,
darling,” she pointed out, ”we are in this world to help
others.”
3. The little boy considered this for several seconds, then
he asked with a great deal of seriousness,
”Well then, what are the others here for?”
You first please look at yourself. Don’t try to become a
do-gooder. These are dangerous people.
In the name of doing good, they simply try to interfere
with other people’s lives
4. Who are you to help others?
You have not even helped yourself yet. Physician, first healthy
self.
It happens many times around me: you listen to me, your
mind becomes more and more informed,
you start gathering knowledge, and then suddenly the desire
arises to help others. What you really
want is just to pour your rubbish into their heads. You want to
initiate people now. You want to help
people to become spiritual. Please, unless you have known
what I am saying, don’t try to convey it
to others, because it will be a distorted form. And lies are
better than half-truths; at least somebody
can come to know that this is a lie and will drop it. A half-
truth is very dangerous.
5. He will never be
able to detect that it is a lie because that half-truth will prevent
him, and he will never be able to drop
it, and he will become cluttered with it.
For four years the little old lady had owned the parrot, and for
four long years she had fruitlessly tried
to get it to talk. She had tried everything: repeating little phrases
endlessly, buying bells, mirrors,
and the very best food. Now she was at last at her wits’ end. In
desperation she turned to the parrot
and screamed, ”For God’s sake, why won’t you talk!”
The parrot regarded her with a beady eye. ”To tell you the truth,”
it said suddenly, ”I have always felt
that it was not a good thing to go around repeating things one
hears.”
At least be as wise as that.
