A Sufi is on a sea voyage and a king
is also on the same boat; he has a servant. One day the sea is very
dangerous and it seems that any moment the boat can sink. The servant is
in a panic – crying, weeping, shouting ‘Save me!’ and praying to god and
almost going mad. The king says to him, “don’t be afraid. I am also here and
so many people are here – if we are all going to die, we are all going to
die, not only you.” But he is not in a state to listen. The Sufi
mystic is listening to the whole thing, watching, and he says, “If you give me
a chance I can put him right,” and the king permits “Do anything!”
So the Sufi and his two-three disciples take
the man up and throw him into the sea!
Of course he shouts more loudly in the sea:
“Save me! Take me out of it!”
“Save me! Take me out of it!”
For a few minutes he is left there and then the
Sufi and the disciples rescue him and carry him back into the ship; now he
is very calm and quiet. He sits very silently, and he is very happy that he
has been saved. The king is surprised but the mystic says, “This is a
simple application of a general law: People understand the beauty of something
only when they have lost it.”
And it is always so that you want true love but
whenever you are loved, you don't care for your lover. But when you lose love
you want it.
Whenever you watch Shahrukh Khan movies you
want your lover to love you like that great romantic lover on screen. Ready to
wait for years. You are fascinated with those ideas! And, when you are
truly loved in that way by a lover then all simply falls flat. You find it
stupid!
When you are not with your lover your heart is
simply longing to be together, and when you are together suddenly you see
stupidity in it. What is there? All those dreams look childish. Then you
want to be alone or you want to be somewhere else. This is the game people are
playing; it is not simply one person's game. It is the general game, the
game of life.
Whatsoever you have immediately loses
meaning; whatsoever you have not becomes meaningful. This is the general
rule. Beware of it!
