73-Mr. Vegetative’s Mother and Mr. Still’s Mother

Mr. Vegetative’s Mother and Mr. Still’s Mother

Rabash

A woman goes to visit her neighbor,

And she sees that her neighbor’s son

gets up at 8 in the morning
and goes to work,

And in the evening,
when he comes back,

he behaves normal,
like all the people.

And later he goes to meeting

To do something for the benefit of the collective,

And afterwards he comes home and goes to sleep

As usual, like other people.

And this lady,
when she returns home,

She asks her son:

Why do I see many times

When I get up in the morning

I see that the lights are still on,

And the meal I cooked for you

Is still in front of you untouched,

And you are still bent over the books

While the neighbor’s son

Behaves like normal people?”

Her son answered her:

“I love wisdom,

And I therefore understand

That it is worth giving up everything

To buy wisdom.

However the neighbor’s son,

Who has nothing to do with wisdom,

And only engages in matters
concerning the collective,

So that somehow others

will have contentment like himself.

But I understand that without wisdom

We are “all like the beasts”,

But the neighbor’s son

Does not understand that without wisdom

One remains like all the animals.”

And the woman goes to her neighbor

And tells her what her son said.

And the neighbor’s son tells his mother:

“ I am not crazy to immerse myself

entirely into the wisdoms,

for what will I get out of it?

No one will want to speak with me

And everyone will tell me

That I have no idea

In the matters of this world.”

However when I engage in public matters

And go to meetings,

Where intelligent people gather,

To do something for the benefit of the public

There will be many people that will show me respect

Because I don’t think of my own needs,

But only about the collective.

Not so the neighbor’s son,

he only cares for his own needs,

Therefore he buries himself in the books.”

It follows that every one says,

That his ways is right,

The path of truth,

And no one understand his friend.

It follows that

Those who are in the state of animate

And love to engage in wisdom,

They cannot understand

The state of the speaking,

Those who have reached attainment.