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has come to leave. This is unjust. Now I was feeling ready to really sing!'
But I tell you: even if Rabindranath had lived one thousand years, the same would have been the case -- because it is everflowing. You share and you know it is ever-flowing. You sing and you know it is ever-coming. There is no end to it. Even after a thousand years, Rabindranath would have died with tears in the eyes, because more was flowing. Nobody can exhaust it. God is inexhaustible. And you have God within you. Why are you so miserly?
Miserly, you become poor.
Generous, you become rich.
And generous you can become right now, as you are, because there is nothing else to it. You have simply to understand -- and become! Nothing is lacking. All that you need to be generous is already the case.
Of course: he was known as the President of the World.
EVERY DAY HE GAVE GOLD TO ONE CATEGORY OF PEOPLE -- THE SICK, WIDOWS AND SO ON. BUT NOTHING WAS GIVEN TO ANYONE WHO OPENED HIS MOUTH.
NOT ALL COULD KEEP SILENT.
Very, very deep, pregnant lines.
If you go to the temple and your prayer becomes a desire, it will never be heard. Because a prayer is possible only when desire is not there. A desire can never become a prayer. If you ask for something, you will miss. You are not praying. And God knows whatsoever your need is.
There was a Sufi saint, Bayazid, and he always used to say: `God knows whatsoever my need is, so I have never prayed -- because that is foolish! What to say to Him? He already knows. If I say something which He knows, it is foolish. If I try to find something which He does not know, that too is foolish. How can you find such a thing? So I have simply never bothered. Whatsoever my need is, He always gives.'
But at that time, he was very very poor, hungry, rejected by the town he was passing through. Nobody was ready to give him a shelter for the night. The night was dark and he was sitting under a tree; outside the town, it was dangerous. And one disciple said, `But what about this situation? If He knows that His lover, Bayazid, is in such a trouble -- that the town has rejected him, he is hungry and without
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