You are searching for GOD!

Everyone in the village got "pilgrimage fever" and everyone got busy packing up some traveling clothes and food for the road. All except for Nasrudin, who watched them laboring away. Soon, all of the village: the men, women, and children, were heading out to Mecca. They were singing songs and shouting with great excitement about how they were off to find God.

They got about one mile away, when Nasrudin suddenly riding up on his donkey, shouting about some terrible emergency. They caught the donkey and made him tell them what the problem was.

"I'm trying to find my donkey! Where is my donkey?"

"Why, Nasrudin, you're sitting on top of your donkey," answered the villagers.

"Oh really. Is that so? And why are you all going on a pilgrimage to find God?"

A SUFI STORY

Junaid was going through the market-place of the town with his disciples. And it was his way to take any situation and use it. A man was dragging his cow by a rope, and Junaid said 'Wait' to the man, and told his disciples 'Surround this man and the cow. I am going to teach you something.'

The man stopped - Junaid was a famous mystic - and he was also interested in what he was going to teach these disciples and how he was going to use him and the cow. And Junaid asked his disciples 'I ask you one thing: who is bound to whom? Is the cow bound to this man or is this man bound to this cow?' Of course, the disciples said 'The cow is bound to the man. The man is the master, he is holding the rope, the cow has to follow him wherever he goes. He is the master and the cow is the slave.'

And Junaid said 'Now, see.' He took out his scissors and cut the rope - and the cow escaped.

The man ran after the cow, and Junaid said 'Now look what is happening! Now you see who is the master; the cow is not interested at all in this man - in fact, it is escaping.' And the man was very angry, he said 'What kind of experiment is this ?'

But Junaid said to his disciples 'And this is the case with your mind. All the nonsense that you are carrying inside is not interested in you. You are interested in it, you are keeping it together somehow - you are becoming mad in keeping it together somehow. But you are interested IN it. The moment you lose interest, the moment you understand the futility of it, it will start disappearing; like the cow it will escape.'

Who is afraid of the scams?

Anyone who knows the nature of the ruling class in India will not be surprised by the reports of numerous scams unearthing daily. After the introduction of the so called policy of liberalisation the cat is let loose among the pigeons with impunity. All the talks of honest politician , reputed journalists are sham .Now it is revealed beyond doubt that capitalism has assumed the highest stage and it has succeeded in planting its stooges in all the spheres of our public life. None is spared. If we examine the rulings of the Courts for the last two decades a perceptible shift against the common man can be seen. So there is no institution which can claim purity from this cranker of corruption .Perhaps the time has come for a true revolution capable of revamping the entire system from the scratch.