Monday, March 21, 2005

Hope

"Everyone hopes for something" Once a man asked "What do you hope for ?"
"I hope to get rid of my hopes" said I
The man laughed "You are insane"
"Who is not" said I
"How can one live without hope" said the man, with squinted brows
"One cannot" said I
"So you want to die"
"No. I want to live without hope"
"You are insane"
"Yes, you are, totally insane"
"INSANE YOU ARE"

3 comments:

anshul said...

nice pj mitr

Anonymous said...

You are not insane...bcoz till the time you have the hope to not have hopes, you have a hope - so you can still be alive!

anshul said...

hello anon,

thank you for the comment. you are right.
Once I heard from a man, the difference
between the bhakt and the sanyasi. The bhakt's first mountain climb is to loose
her ego in her Lord. The sanyasi gives up everything, and his last mountain climb to
loose that minute I left. The bhakt, does it
first what the sanyasi does last. Don't know
how true that is, but it is certainly true with hope, and hope to hope (by reason and not experience)