#Vivekananda has written that he went to the Himalayas for the first time. Used to pass by a hill. The Garrick Garments of the Saints! Some monkeys enjoyed it. Some monkeys started teasing him.

Many types of monkeys enjoy teasing on seeing the monk. Only monkeys enjoy teasing, who else would! Now monkeys are not religious, they are of devilish nature. His manner is like his mind. That's why the mind is called a monkey.

Vivekananda got scared. He was such a strong man. But no matter how strong you are, if some twenty-twenty five monkeys are after you... just one is enough. Those monkeys started following them. Raise your voice, make fun of. Then they started throwing pebbles and stones. Vivekananda started running. When Vivekananda ran away, the monkeys who were sitting on the trees also got juice. The siege happened. And the monkeys also came down. Vivekananda saw, this is not the way to escape. If I run like this, they will tear me to pieces. They stopped and stood up. When they stopped and stood up, the monkeys also stood up. After all, only monkeys remain! When they saw that they also stopped when I stopped, they turned back and looked at the monkeys, then the monkeys were a little scared, even took two steps back. When Vivekananda ran towards them, they ran away and climbed the trees.

Vivekananda wrote in his memoirs that day I understood that the mind is in the same condition: fear it, believe it, run from it, so it torments more. Stop, stop, stare at it, don't be afraid, take two steps towards it, challenge it that whatever you want to do, we are not going to budge, we are not going to budge -- then it starts wagging its tail.

Inspired by Osho's book