31. The Difference
The son asked his father: “Father, please tell me if there is any difference between you and my mother?”The father replied: “Son, there is a great difference between your mother and me. As you know, your mother is an unrecognised incapacity, and I am an unmanifested capacity.”
Then the son asked his mother: “Mother, is there any difference between you and my father?”
“My son, certainly, there is. Your father is in love with himself and I am in love with God. This is the difference.”
The boy then said: “Mother, you are in love with God and Father is in love with himself, and I am in love with Judy. We are all lovers.”
Sri Chinmoy, Try, you too can laugh, Agni Press, 1973
