The Independent Mind by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OSHO Media International

In a village there were two rival temples. All temples are against each other. If there are different gambling places and pubs in the village there may be no rivalry between them, but if there are temples there is rivalry. It should not be so, but temples have always been against each other. The day there is no rivalry between temples it will be possible to build a temple of God. But as long as there is a rivalry it will not be possible. Until that day it will be called God’s temple, inside the statues will be of God, but the Devil will be hidden inside it. Rivalry is a weapon of the Devil.

So in that village there was rivalry between the two temples. Their rivalry was so strong that the priests would not even look each other in the eye. They were so much against each other that the devotees of one temple would not even go to the other temple. In their scriptures it was written that it is better to die getting crushed under a mad elephant’s feet than to take shelter in the rival’s temple. Visiting the rival’s temple was considered to be worse than dying under a mad elephant’s feet!

The priests of the temples each had a small boy who used to take care of them and do work like bringing vegetables from the market. Since they were small boys, they were not yet in the grip of the disease the old people were suffering from. So sometimes when they met in the street, they would talk to each other.

Older people want to infect small children with their diseases as early as possible. If they don’t, they feel afraid that the children will go astray.

Hence the priests of both temples used to constantly warn their boys: “Beware, never go near the other temple. Never talk to anyone from the other temple.” But children are after all children; they had not yet grown up and were still innocent. So occasionally they used to meet each other.

One day both boys were going to the market when they met on the way. The temples had names: one was called the Temple of the South and the other was the Temple of the North. The boy from the Temple of the North asked the other boy, “Where are you going?”

The boy from the Temple of the South answered, “Wherever my feet take me.”

The boy from the northern temple was quite confused. Now how can the conversation go any further? When the other boy said that he was going wherever his feet were taking him, the conversation got stuck.

He came back and told the priest of his temple, “Today I was defeated by the boy from the other temple. I asked him where he was going and he said wherever his feet were taking him. Then I just couldn’t think of anything else to say.”

The priest said, “This is really bad. To be defeated by the servant of that temple is humiliating.

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