July 28, 2006
The Internet
announced this news item. Someone who wanted a house had a strange inspiration.
He was unemployed. Taking a look at a red paper clip on his table he said to
himself that it could be traded for a house. He went on the Internet, put up
his clip, announced his aim. Someone responded not with a house but with a pen.
Perhaps he was mightily encouraged and he continued his trading. A handmade
doorknob, a stove, a 100-Watt generator, an illuminated Budweiser beer sign, a
Bombardier snowmobile responded successively. It continued and became a paid
role in a Corbin Bernsen movie called Donna on Demand. Now, the town of
Kipling, Canada has offered a farmhouse in exchange of the role in the movie.
This is a young man
of 26 years named Kyle Macdonald. It was from July 12, 2005 to July 12, 2006.
It was done in 14 trades. The Internet published the pictures of all the
articles. The whole procedure defies rational thinking and yet it is a fact for
anyone to see on the Internet.
How is it possible?
The world accepts the results. Macdonald says this is
not the end. What has happened? Where does the phenomenal result arise? It can
be explained to meet the requirements of common sense or offered a
philosophical explanation. Both are possible and desirable. I would want to go
further and offer a method by which this can be practised in our lives. The
pity is it is happening daily in our lives and we are unaware of it. We find
journals at our doorstep every week or month for which we have never paid. We
speak to the USA today for a nominal fee or fees. Banks offer loans upto Rs. 15
lakhs without security. Car comes to the door with car loans for the mere
taking. We have accepted them as desirable, but have never given a thought to
how it happened. Material benefit is welcome and it shows the booming
prosperity in India. The rule for material prosperity, psychological
prosperity and spiritual prosperity is the same. The higher ones include
the lower versions. One can rise as far as he wishes or as far as he can.
A young man
was learning tennis using an old racket from another person. It was broken and
mended. Against him was playing someone with a few years experience. His racket
was brand new. He found the young man playing well and suspected that it was
the racket. They exchanged their rackets for one game and it was found to be
true. The new one was exchanged permanently for the old one. The old racket
had a value for the other player and he honoured it. Every person or object
has unseen values which is sometimes recognised. The truth is each object is a
miniature of the entire universe. It is seen by spiritual vision. The Internet
takes one's news to the whole world through cyberspace in the course of which,
one of the many thousands who see it sees a value which is abnormally out of
all proportion. Thus in 14 trades the clip became the house and it is made
possible by the Internet. Banks, when they started a few hundred years ago lent
three times the money they had. Now bankers say money multiplies in the banking
system nine times. For an uneducated servant, a Ph.D thesis is weighty waste
paper that can fetch some money. Russell's servants often acted thus. The
Marwaris often pay earnings worth 5000/- rupees one or two thousand more when
they see a diamond in it. In the jewellery trade it often happens precious
stones get mixed with cultured stones. What the owner does not know, the
professional knows. In politics we see the phenomenon of today's Nobody
becoming tomorrow's VIP. A volunteer is a Nobody to us, but life sees a hidden
value in him and raises him.
One who knows that his mind is more valuable
potentially can bring those potentials out. One who knows he is a Spirit
knows all. He need not bring it out. It is enough he KNOWS it. It is
Self-awareness. The best way to bring OUR inner potentials out is to
recognise in others talents they are unaware of it. Developing that faculty one
will see his own inner talents emerging. Socially it is considered as being
generous or helpful. Psychologically it encourages the other person.
Spiritually such an act awakens the inner Spirit. Teachers who are in charge of
many students have this opportunity. Teaching is the lowest paid profession all
over the world. Should the teachers become capable of bringing out the inner
talents of the pupils, very soon they will be the most sought after and offered
the greatest price in the market.