History books always told you that Alexander means courage. Who is stopping you?” Alexander said, “Yes, I would love to be like you, but I do not have the courage to do what you are doing.” This river bank is big enough for both of us. He asked, “Would you like to be like me?” This struck Alexander so deeply and he said, “Yes, what should I do?” Diogenes said, “Get off that stupid horse, take off those emperor’s clothes and throw them into the river.

What is it that you are so ecstatic about?” Diogenes looked up at him and asked him a question that nobody would have ever dared to ask an emperor. You do not have a piece of cloth on your body. Alexander raised his voice and almost screamed at him, “You wretched animal. I would like to add a third name to him – Alexander the Great Idiot, because he was one person who wasted life.Īlexander came riding his big horse, in his emperor’s clothes and looked down at Diogenes who had his eyes closed and was rolling in the sand in great ecstasy. Only an utter idiot can fight for sixteen years like this.Īlexander is called Alexander the Great. He died at the age thirty-two, in a most miserable condition because he had managed to conquer only one half of the world, the other half was still left. For another sixteen years he fought non-stop, killing thousands of people on his way. At the age of sixteen he started fighting. He wasted his life and other people’s lives. I would like to add a third name to him – Alexander the Great Idiot, because he was one person who wasted life. One day, he was lying down on the river bank in an ecstatic state, when Alexander came that way. On that day, he threw away his begging bowl and loincloth and lived totally naked. He just looked at this and thought “Oh my god, my life is worse than that of a dog.” He was already ecstatic, but he was saying his life was worse than that of a dog, because many times, he had felt like just jumping into the river, but was worried about getting his loincloth wet and about what could happen if he left the beautiful begging bowl there. One day, he finished his meal and was walking towards the river when a dog overtook him, ran into the river, swam around a little bit, came onto the sand and rolled around joyfully. He begged at the temple gates and ate whatever food he got. Somebody had given him a beautiful begging bowl and he wore only a loincloth.

Sadhguru: Diogenes was a wonderful and ecstatic beggar who lived on a river bank in Greece.

Alexander meets diogenes