Spontaneity Is Your Nature

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As I told you earlier, people often ask me, "Swamiji, how is it that with all your knowledge you seem like a child. Every time you crack a joke, you laugh so spontaneously and we look at you with awe! When you start telling a joke, sometimes we've heard you say it before and so we don't laugh, but you enjoy it so much as if someone else were telling you the joke for the first time!"

You see, this is exactly what I mean when I say you've lost your spontaneity and capacity to enjoy. You acquire a know-all attitude with all your knowledge.

Now that I have told you this, let me tell you a story that I repeat very often in my talks and which makes me laugh even now!

In the villages in Tamil Nadu, during the yearly temple festivals, there will be a temporary stage constructed in the open, where famous drama troupes will enact plays, mostly scenes from the great Hindu epics like the Mahabharatha and the Ramayana.

I used to go and watch those dramas.

On one such occasion, they were enacting the scene from Mahabharatha were Draupadi is about to be raped by Duryodhana and she is ultimately saved by Lord Krishna.

The Draupadi character was played by a man dressed in a saree.

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