00:00A Fakir went to China from India. His name was Bodhidharma. The emperor of China had
00:10come to welcome him. When he welcomed Bodhidharma on the way to enter the empire, the emperor
00:20saw the opportunity and said, Bodhidharma, I am very restless. Please tell me some way.
00:31Bodhidharma said, come tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the morning. I will claim you down. The
00:40emperor asked many fakir questions. Some told one way, some told another. But this man seemed
00:48amazing. He said, come tomorrow at 3 o'clock. I will claim you down. He had a little doubt
00:58that this matter cannot be so easy. I was restless all my life, tired all the remedies, but did
01:08not get peace. He again said to Bodhidharma that perhaps you do not know my complexity. I
01:18have got as much money as I need, but I do not get peace. I have done as many fasts as
01:27the fakirs told me to do, but I do not get peace. I have built lakhs of temples, but I do not
01:38get peace. I do not get double the peace that I have done as much good deeds as told. Bodhidharma
01:49said, no more conversation. No more conversation. Come at 3 o'clock in morning. I will specify
01:59you. He was very surprised. The king was very surprised. Okay. He thought he would see at
02:093. Now he doubted whether he should go to this man or not. He used to come down the stair
02:20of the temple where Bodhidharma where Bodhidharma was staying. He reached the last step when Bodhidharma
02:29shouted and said, listen, listen king. If you don't bring your inner mind with you, then whom
02:39will I pacify? So the king said, what madness is this? What madness is this? When I come,
02:50then my inner mind will definitely be with me. Right? Bodhidharma said, be careful and bring
03:00it. Don't leave it at home. That night he thought many times whether to go or not, but he thought
03:12that he had never meet such a courageous person, courageous man who said that he would pacify
03:21you. At 3 in the morning, he mustered courage and came. He climbed the stairs. But before he could
03:36climb, Bodhidharma asked, did you bring your inner mind with you or not? Emperor who said, what kind of
03:47jokes are you talking about? I have already come? So what is the point of bringing your inner mind with you?
04:01I and my mind are not different. I and my mind are not different. To this Bodhidharma said,
04:09I am, I ask this knowingly and I can see that you have left it at home. Yes? If you are sure
04:25that you have brought your inner mind with you, then come, otherwise go back.
04:33Bodhidharma said, okay, now that you have come, there is no harms in it. If you say, so then I will accept it.
04:53What you say? Sit with your eyes closed and hold your inner mind.
05:01Find out where it is and hold it and give it to me. I will climb it down.
05:12He said to Bodhidharma, I had doubt last night that I should not come. What kind of things
05:22are you talking about? Are you talking about? I am, I something that I can hold and give to you.
05:29Bodhidharma said, if you cannot give it to me, you can hold it within yourself.
05:37Bodhidharma said, I have never tired. Bodhidharma said, try. The emperor is sitting with his eyes closed.
05:50Bodhidharma is sitting in front of him with a big stick. The emperor is also scared.
06:00Bodhidharma said, it is night. It is dark. He has come alone. Trusting this monk who knows what he is up to.
06:12Bodhidharma, shake his head with the stick from time to time and say, search, search. Do not leave every a single corner.
06:25Wherever you find it, hold it. Half an hour has passed. Three quarters of an hour has passed.
06:36An hour has passed. Two hours have passed. The emperor has disappeared somewhere.
06:45The morning sun has started rising. Bodhidharma said, should I take a bath? Now, you have not been able to catch it.
06:58The emperor opened his eyes and fell at the feet of Bodhidharma. He said, I have never thought that there is no such things as I inside.
07:12When I went to search, I could not find it anywhere. I looked from one corner to another. I looked everywhere from corner to corner. But I could not find I anywhere.
07:27So, Bodhidharma said, now whom should pacify? I have been sitting with a stick for three hours. The emperor said, now I have become a peaceful. Because where I am not there, where I am not there, how can there be unrest?
07:52These three hours were my hours of peace. As I started searching and as I started finding that I am not able to find, I become a peaceful. Now I can say that I was peaceful.
08:10It was wrong to say what I was. Unrest. Bodhidharma said, go and be a careful of I again. Do not hold on to it again.
08:26The emperor who has it written on his grave that he listened to the words of millennial monks and sags, listened to thousands of scriptures but could not grasp any secrets and then influenced by the words of a strange fakir.
08:48He looked inside and all the secrets were revealed. There was no I there which needed to be purified. There was no I there which needed to be fought and defected.
09:12There was no I there which needed to be found. There was no I there at all.
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