it happened in the beginning of this century an actual case
in mexico
in a far away part in the mountains there lived a small tribe of 300 people
who were all blind
was very strange
not a single person
had eyes all were blind
one young scientist
heard about the tribe and went there to find out the reason
and he was even more surprised because every child was born with eyes
not blind but within three four months time he will become blind and the scientists young men
discovered that there was a fly in that forest
its bite
was making young children
blind
and that fly was so much a common fly
so it was almost impossible
to remain with your eyes
but the poison of that fly
was able to make a person blind only before he was six months of age
after that he was strong enough and the fly could not affect his eyes but six months were enough
so six months
some babies remained with eyes
few for five months few for one month few for a few days
but by the sixth month almost all the babies went blind
he had discovered the fly
he has found the poison
and while he was discovering all this he was trying people to understand that they are blind
and they all laughed
because he was such a minority one man
and there were three hundred
and they all said that you are hallucinating
that you are dreaming
eyes don't exist
while he was working with the tribe he fell in love with a blind girl
she was so beautiful
but neither she was aware of her beauty nor anybody else was aware of her beauty
although she was blind still the young man fell in love with her
and he proposed to be married to her but the society refused the society said we can allow our
daughter to be married to you
if you become blind just as we are blind
we will have to take your eyes out
so you can think over and tomorrow you can tell your decision
the young man was very much in love with the girl
but still he thought that this is
a strange
bargain
to become blind because these eyes are which are making me
aware of her beauty
losing these eyes it does not matter whether she is beautiful or not
and i have come here
to convince these people
that your eyes can be cured because you are born with seeing just a certain poison
has destroyed your vision perhaps we can find some antidote
and you can be able to see again rather than being ready for that
they were not ready to go to the city out of their mountains
they were asking that that young man should become blind in the night he escaped
the crowd is blind
and to have eyes in this crowd
is to be condemned
is to be crucified
the greatest crime in the eyes of the crowd is
somebody becoming enlightened
because that man disturbs your peaceful sleep
he starts trying to wake you up
he starts discards destroying your
superstitions
he starts
fighting against your ideologies which are keeping you asleep against your beliefs
which are covering your eyes
against your
all kinds of religious
social and political dogmas which want you to remain as you are because it is in their favor
to exploit you
to enslave you
enlightenment
is possible to everybody
but the crowd prevents it
only few daring people
courageous of spirit
follow the path
alone into the unknown
they need somebody at least the footprints of somebody that somebody has gone ahead of them
at least somebody calling from the peaks of consciousness
that was buddha's word
go on coming go on coming
don't stop
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