Weaving Fantasies

Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 15:12

Desires breed fantasies, meaningless illusions that are no more than mere mirages. A short story illustrates the fact.

Once a beautiful girl while on a stroll through the woods came upon a bull frog with an extremely ugly and disgusting appearance. To her wonderment, the frog spoke to her. It croaked, "Maiden, would you do me a big favour? It it could be difficult to believe my story but trust me it is the truth"

The frog continued, "I was once a very handsome prince, reduced to this state by a wicked witch"

The startled girl exclaimed, "Oh! What a pity! I will do all that I can to help you break the spell!"

The frog replied, "The spell can be disabled if only a lovely damsel can take me home and let me spend the night under her pillow!"

The girl readily took the frog prince home and kept him under her pillow, who, the next day turned into a handsome young man. He took interest in her and they lived happily ever after, just that the girl's parents refused to believe her story!

Osho says that we weave fantasies or fairy tales like this, driven by our never ending desires. Desires only create illusion and we jump from one illusion to another in an unending trail. One breaks the chain of illusions only when one gets to know its very mechanism.

An insight dawns dispelling the very desires. Suddenly one remains desireless even of the desire to be 'desireless' The smoke of illusion then clears with the flame of the being burning bright.