Tearing up my books to reduce my luggage
I had ten or twelve books. I was reading them, but since they were so thick, I said, “Let me tear out the pages that I want.”Any place that was important, I ticked off, and then I tore out the pages that I had marked. The man who was sitting beside me asked, “What are you doing?”
I said, “I have to go to America, so I do not wish to carry all these books. They are so heavy.”
These were Chinese proverbs, a book of wisdom, a book of friendship and others. From each book I got perhaps four or five pages.
The man sitting next to me asked, “Can I take these books that you have discarded?”
I said, “Yes, by all means take them.”
So the man took the books, while I kept only a few pages from each one.
Sri Chinmoy, My express visit to India, Agni Press, 1995
