Diogenes - The Legend

This time it’s about a saint who showed us how to live. Even Alexander the Great, had a change in him after he met this saint. I said 'Alexander the great' because no one seems to respect someone near who is more priceless. They need to be authorized by someone who had some prefix or suffix like Alexander. So the saint name is Diogenes. I don’t know how many heard about Diogenes, but he should be known like how we know Sachin. 

When Alexander came across India, he heard about this great man and he really want to meet him. So he is searching for Diogenes and came to know that he was taking sun bath near a river bank. The King is really embarrassed to meet him, but he didn’t find any movement in him as he is just lying naked and the king is waiting for him. After a long time he went near Diogenes to wake him, but the saint opened his eyes and inquired about his arrival. Alexander replied that he had heard about him and wanted to see him.

The saint then asked him who he was. Alexander is surprised and told him that he is Alexander the Great and inquired him with exclamation that how could he never come across a great king who ruled most part of this world.

The saint then replied, ‘you call yourself as the great!!!’

Alexander then answered, ‘I am a king so called as Alexander the great’.

Then Diogenes told, ‘Oh!! So you have the superiority complex and you know what, superiority complex is a kind of inferiority complex. So, what’s your ambition?’  

The king then replied, ‘I now ruled most part of this world and I have to rule the whole world one day’.

The saint with a smile again inquired him, ‘After that?’

The king answered, ‘After that I want to relax with no work left and enjoy the world’.

The saint now said, ‘You could enjoy the world from now on why you wanted to wait for ruling the world? Do you find any connect?’

The king has no answer left and he started to think about what Diogenes has told him. Then he asked the saint whether he could do any favor to him.

The king thought he might ask him something that can’t be given, but to his surprise the wise man asked him to step aside as he wants sunlight to fall on him directly.

The man who almost ruled the world could give anything that he wants, but he just wanted him to step aside.

After this the king started to live without wars and there is a coincidence that Diogenes and Alexander left this world with the story all known that Alexander dead with the stretched hand. Alexander’s last message to the world is an inspiration from an Indian saint.

As a Conclusion, Proud to be an Indian, but don’t hurt other countrymen just because you’re Indian because you will be categorized even within this nation from state to state because the border lines are everywhere. 

Source : A song without words - Osho