![]() ![]() Now look how embarrassed you are feeling before God. He said, ”Knowing this well, that someday one has to become naked, I threw away those clothes myself. Now even Alexander was naked – because everything has to be left on this shore – and he was feeling very shy and awkward, embarrassed. And I lived like an emperor, but look what has happened to your empire.” You were begging for the whole world – you are the biggest beggar ever. ![]() There you are wrong, otherwise you are right: it is the meeting of an emperor and a beggar, but I am the emperor and you are the beggar. And who is the emperor and who is the beggar – that you don’t know exactly. It may not have happened before, it may not happen again.”ĭiogenes laughed even more uproariously and he said, ”You are right, but you don’t understand who is the emperor and who is the slave. Just to save his face he said, ”Yes, this is strange, the meeting of an emperor and a naked beggar in this river. Just to save his face, Alexander also tried to laugh but he could not. Diogenes started laughing loudly, and he said, ”Look, do you remember, you fool? You died, and you died in the middle, and the victory was not complete.” And they met on the way to the other world, passing the river that flows between this world and that. There is a story that on the same day Diogenes also died. He must have remembered Diogenes, that naked fakir, in his last moments.Īnd then there has been another story I cannot vouch for it. Returning from India, he died on the way. When he was leaving Diogenes, Diogenes said, ”Remember, you will die before you have conquered the world everybody has died and you cannot be an exception. Logically, intellectually, Alexander understood it. If you really understand me, and if you really see that I am happy without bothering about winning the whole world, then you can also be happy without it.” The dream is never complete and the desire is never fulfilled. Something or other always remains to be done. I have to become a world conqueror, then I will come.”ĭiogenes said, ”Nobody has ever been a world conqueror. I am on the way – half the world, more than half the world I have won, but there is a remaining part. And I tell you, you also renounce hope otherwise you will always suffer.”Īlexander said, ”I will come to you to learn the secret, but not now. And you – a naked man, having nothing – what is the secret of your happiness?”ĭiogenes is reported to have said, ”I renounced hope. Just a little more is left soon I will finish. He asked the secret of it: ”How have you become so powerful, not having anything? And I am a world conqueror, I have almost won the whole world. In fact it is said that he was never impressed again by any other man. Diogenes was a naked fakir, he had nothing, but his being was such – so magnetic, so powerful – that Alexander was impressed, very impressed. Even Alexander was impressed by the man, even Alexander felt puny before him. He heard that Diogenes was just nearby so he went to see him. They are of the same quality.Īlexander was passing. Diogenes was a rare Being – if Diogenes had met Lao Tzu, they both would have sat and laughed and laughed and laughed. It happened: Alexander was coming towards India.
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