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We came back from Darshan. In
Darshan I have told one story: A milkman in India
supplied ten families with the milk of his cows.
Each day he brought them fresh milk. What they did
not know was that he mixed some water in it, to make
more of it. When he was accused of doing this he
always lied. However one day the landlord, who was
sure that the milkman was cheating, came and said to
him "I know that you are mixing water into our
milk. Let us also taste the real milk
sometimes!" This time the milkman did not deny
his trick. All people who got the milk from this
milkman the next day found that it tasted different
and after drinking it they all started feeling funny
and had loose motions. When the milkman came the
next day they asked him: "Why did we all get
sick? Something must have been wrong with the
milk!" And he said: "Oh, no, that was
pure milk." They only became sick because they
were not used to it.
I gave
this story today to explain why it might be
difficult for some people to stay in silence. They
are not used to it. Talking is like a habit. I
repeated this after the Darshan again to prevent
something that I noticed last week after the
Darshan: Some people, after one hour of meditation
in silence, got up and started talking with each
other loudly for at least half an hour. I know it is
not usual here to be quiet but please, if you start
chattering after a meditation you will lose the
energy again! So I asked people to go home in
silence and to have a nice sleep with this energy
from the meditation and to have a nice start in the
next day. With this explanation the atmosphere was
very different from last Friday. People got up
quietly and in peace and started going home. Peace
and calmness will be in their sleep tonight.
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