Now –a- days we see the entire world is running on deals. Every transaction involves some kind of deal. If offer another perspective to this. If you really want the best deals of life, don’t try to make them. You must be in such a way that the other party should fall in love with you in every way. Because, the necessity and passion are the basis for any deal. If it is not necessary it will not happen. The deals is for the well being of both the people, so it must be needed by both of you. Once we live in this world, there are transactions. Some are personal and others are business. All of them affect your life. Whether your talk to a taxi driver or your boss or your spouse every transaction affects your life. Now the problem is you hold one transaction over the other. You involve yourself more in one and less in another. It won’t work that way. All the things are required for a fulfilling life. So, total involvement is required.
So do you see that to make a deal, you should only meet people who are more stupid that you? If you meet people who are more intelligent than you, there is no way to get deal to your advantage. If you just give yourself and see how both of you get benefitted from the deal, then whenever it is possible, it will happen. So one need not worry much about pulling off deals somehow. Just learn to offer yourself which is the best possible thing and leave it there.
Now a days we see many people trying to make deals with God as well. You fulfill this desire for me and, I’ll visit your temple.. or give my hair to you. Hair anyway doesn’t cost anything. There are other big shots who offer gold ornaments such as crowns to God. Still they end up facing legal issues. God never makes deals with anybody. You have to make a disciple of devil if your life is all about making deals.
Once it so happened that a priest was walking on the street and he saw a man who had just been stabbed. The man was lying face down on the street, struggling for breath. The priest has always been taught that compassion was the highest thing; love is the way and all that stuff. Naturally, he ran to the man. He turned him over and saw that it was the devil himself.
He was shocked and horrified and quickly backed away. The devil begged him, “Please take me to the hospital! Do something.” The priest hesitated and thought, “Why should I save you, the devil? You are against God. You should die. The whole priesthood is all about somehow banishing the devil and it looks like somebody has almost done a good job of it. I’ll just let you die.” The Devil said, “Don’t do this. Jesus told you to love thy enemy, and you know I’m you enemy. You must love me.“ Then the priest said, “I know that the devil always quotes scriptures. I’m not going to fall for that.” So the devil said, “ Don’t be a fool. If I die who will come to church? Who will seek God? Then what will happen to you? Okay, you won’t listen to the scriptures, but now I’m talking business, you better listen.” The priest understood that this was true. With no devil, who would come to church? This made business sense. He immediately put the devil on his shoulders and took him to the hospital.
Sounds interesting, right?