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Anyone can read this story and laugh it off as a joke, but...

by mrkotians on December 10, 2009, 03:14:39 AM

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There is a story in the life of Mulla Nasruddin.... He lost his donkey – and that donkey was his only
wealth. He searched for him through the whole village. All the villagers joined in the search, but
without success. Then the people said that as it was a holy month, and many pilgrims were passing
through the town, perhaps the donkey had followed them. Otherwise, they had all searched the town
and hadn’t been able to find him, so Nasruddin should accept that he was lost.

But Nasruddin said he would make one last attempt to find him. He immediately stood still and
closed his eyes. Then he bent down and started walking on all fours. He walked around the house
and then the garden, and finally he reached a large pit into which his donkey had fallen. His friends
were surprised and asked him what his trick was.

Nasruddin said, ”I thought that if a man cannot find a donkey, then the key to finding it is not with
him; to find the donkey I have to become like a donkey. So when I began to feel like a donkey, I
thought if I was a donkey looking for a donkey where would I look? As soon as I thought that way,
I went down on my hands and knees and started walking like a donkey. I do not know how I found
the place, but when I opened my eyes, I saw I had reached the pit, and there was my donkey!”

Nasruddin is a Sufi saint. Anyone can read this story and laugh it off as a joke, but there is a key in
it. It is a key to searching, and in a spiritual sense, this is the only way to search. So every place of
pilgrimage has keys and yantras. The main reason for the existence of such places is that they put
you in the middle of a charged current, which you can flow with.

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