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mind is to ask for more. It is not relevant what you have. It is the very nature of the mind just to go on asking for more. A rich man goes on asking for more, and remains poor. He goes on desiring for more, and remains poor. It is difficult to find a really rich man.
In my whole life I have come across only one man who was really rich. I have come across many, many rich men, but only one man who was really rich. And why was he really rich? He was rich because he understood the futility of it all. When I met him for the first time he brought thousands of rupees, poured them on my feet. I said to him, `Right now I don't need them. If some day I need them I will send a message.'
That old man started weeping and crying. I couldn't under stand what was the matter. He said, `Don't say that -- because I am so poor I have nothing else to give you except money.' He said, `I am so poor! I have nothing else to give to you except money. And if you reject my money, it feels you have rejected me because I have nothing else. Money I can give. That only I have -- nothing else.'
This is a man who has come to understand that riches are not real riches, and a man remains poor.
THERE WAS A RICH AND GENEROUS MAN OF BOKHARA.
`Generous' means he has really lived through riches, experienced the world, has come to a decision that this world is nothing more than a dream. And riches only give you an illusion of being rich, but they don't make you really rich. This man is disillusioned. That's why he has become generous. Now he can share. Now he can give all! Now there is no question. Now he is not asking for more. On the contrary, whatsoever he has, he is distributing and sharing with others.
BECAUSE HE HAD A HIGH RANK IN THE INVISIBLE HIERARCHY...
And such a man immediately becomes very high in the world of consciousness. If you can share whatsoever you have, suddenly you rise in the hierarchy of the invisible. In this world you may look like a beggar; in the other world, for the first time, you have become the emperor.
Buddha renounced his palaces, his kingdom, his riches, and became a beggar. When he came back to his capital town,
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