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of it. It suddenly comes and surrounds you, and wherever you go it is with you.
But certainly problems are bound to arise which don't arise for ignorant people. Once you are enlightened everybody is against you, because the very phenomenon of your enlightenment hurts their egos. You are just as human as they are, and you have become enlightened and they have not become enlightened. They cannot tolerate your height and their smallness.
They have only two ways out: either to grow up to your full height, which is an uphill task, or the easier way is to destroy the enlightened one -- to poison Socrates, to crucify Jesus, to murder al-Hillaj Mansoor. That is easier. Then the whole crowd is satisfied and consoled: "There is nobody who is above us. Everybody is of the same size."
An ancient Greek story is:
A famous king had made a guesthouse for other kings when they used to visit. He made such a beautiful guesthouse, even better than the palace, and he made a golden bed which exactly fitted him: if he was five foot five inches, he had made the bed exactly five foot five.
Nobody had the courage to ask him, "What are you doing? Somebody may come who is six feet, and he will not find it comfortable on this bed." But it was well known that if you asked this king anything he answered with his sword, your head would be cut off. You could not ask anything; his word was the law!
So the craftsmen made the bed exactly to fit a man who is five foot five inches. But it is very difficult to find the same sized people ....
The first emperor who came as a guest loved the guesthouse. He repented later on, but then it was too late. In the night four big wrestlers came in. Because he was six feet tall they had to push him from both ends to fit the bed.
The king had ordered, "Everybody has to fit the bed. If he is too long, cut him short, or push him in! If he is too short, make him longer! Don't be worried whether he lives. Alive or dead -- I have made a special bed of pure gold ...."
The emperor tried hard, but those four wrestlers first tried to push him in to fit to five foot five, and it was a difficult job. How to squash
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