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(Swami Talkananda continues talking to a gathering sometime in the year 2020)
“Once there lived a great king who owned 1,700 Asses”, began Talk-ananda.
“Why not horses?” asked an incorrigible heckler.
‘Why not asses?” Talkananda smiled and continued, ‘Well, the King in fact began with 17 elephants which begot ...’
‘170 horses which begot these 1700 asses’ interrupted an irreverent wise man.
“Don’t be so sure” advised Talkananda, ‘There were serious threats of some unintended beasts emerging. But the machine managed to churn out decent workhorses in the end who begot the asses’
‘I don’t like asses’ remarked a brother.
‘What a pity! Ass cubs are very charming to look at. I have nothing against asses but when they grew up these asses became vicious and started kicking and biting each other.’ Said Talk-ananda
‘Why did the King start this animal farm experiment?’ asked a brother.
‘The King had built a new machine running on bio-power. He wanted to experiment with different animals. The elephants ran the machine perfectly. The horses too were satisfactory. The King got bored. He wanted to test run and check for worst case scenario. He created mutually quarrelsome, self kicking, back biting, warring donkeys’.
‘Did the machine break?’ asked a Brother.
‘No. Some donkeys were very horse like. They managed to sustain the motion of the machine. It ran quiet decently. But as the kicking melee was producing torrid heat the King placed many good eggs below the thick carpet’.
‘And what animal came next?’ asked another one.
“No more animals now. The eggs hatched into good birds. So as you fly up, look down on us remaining asses with some indulgent affection’ signed off Talkananda to the surprised fledglings.
Nov. 2008
Belur Math Sadhu Niwas
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