Apply to admission in a monastery with identification
Rewritten by
P.R.Ramachander
(This is based on
a tamil posting in the face book, Thanks to whoever has posted it there. I searched online for
it but could not find it. Had the monastery been in India in 2017, Singlan would be forced to apply for aadhar card.)
There was a chinese soldier
called Singlan,
Who wanted to know
about spirituality.
He wandered all around
in search of a great Guru,
And reached the monastery in
Tibet at the mountain top.
When he was
trying to enter the great monastery ,
One young saint stopped
him and asked him what he wanted.
Singlan said he
wanted to know about what is spirituality ,
And he heard that
the monastery teaches just that.
The young saint told that there
are lot of rules of
admission in that monastery
A nd so he should first
write an application along
with his identity.
The saint also
told that already ten thousand people
had applied.
And the chief finally proposes to choose
just twenty students
Singlan laughed
and told the saint that as
he wanted to learn spirituality,
The first thing
he lost was all the identity about him.
The saint
said you cannot be admitted , pushed him out,
And closed the
door and Singlan slept below a
tree.
That night the
chief of monastrey who was all knowing ,
Called and told
the young saint”Don’t you know that we have all lost our identity”
He also told him,
Since Singlan has lost all his identity even before
coming there,
He was the best student and
was already selected as the
first student .
The young saint felt ashamed that he asked
for identity from a person,
Who has already lost it , as he himself did not have any identity.
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