Divine Humor : Parnika Issue 7
As narrated by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
So right now unfortunately our approach, what we call as science has become like this ‘How to use everything in the universe for our benefit?’ If you see a tree… In America they call it wood. This happened when I was in Mysore, for the first time I conducted a program after many, many years and all kinds of people turned up. My teachers from school and college turned up. They wanted to see what has happened to me. So after I spoke there and we had two-day event and then my English teacher came and hugged me and she said, ‘Now I know why you wouldn’t let me teach Robert Frost.’ I said, ‘Why Madam, why would I let you not teach Robert Frost, I like Frost?’ She said, ‘No, do you remember you wouldn’t let me teach Frost?’ Then I remembered. One day she came and she opened the book and she introduced Robert Frost as a glorious poet and then she started off, ‘Woods are lovely, dark and deep.’ I said, ‘Stop!’ And I said, ‘A man who calls a tree, a wood, I don’t want to listen to him.’ She said, ‘No, no, Robert Frost is a great poet.’ I said, ‘I don’t care how great he is; a man who calls a tree a wood, I will not listen to him.’ I didn’t let her teach. I didn’t let her teach Frost. So after many years she comes up to me and she says, ‘Now I know why you wouldn’t let…’
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