मुल्ला नसरुद्दीन के किस्से व हास्य-रहस्य

CHAPTER 1.
ask what the meaning and purpose of life is. They never ask; so they never feel it is meaningless.
As they are, they accept it. As life is, it is accepted. There is no boredom. Man feels bored. And
laughter is the antidote. You cannot live without laughter; because you can negate your boredom
only through laughter. You cannot find a single joke in primitive societies. They don’t have any jokes.
Jews have the largest number of jokes. And they are the most bored people on the earth. They
must be bored; because they win more Nobel Prizes than any other community. During the whole
of the last century, all the great names are almost all Jews – Freud Einstein, Marx. And look at the
list of Nobel Prize winners. Almost half the Nobel Prize winners are Jews. They have the largest
number of jokes.
"And this may be the reason why all over the world Jews are hated. Everybody feels jealous of
them. Wherever they may be, they will always win any type of competition. Everybody feels jealous
of them. The whole world is united against them. It feels hateful against them. When you cannot
compete with someone, hatred is the result. Jews must be feeling very bored. So they have to
create jokes. Jokes are the antidote for boredom.
"Laughter is needed for you to exist. Otherwise, you will commit suicide.
"Now try to understand the mechanism of laughter and how it happens. If I tell a joke, why do you
laugh? What makes you laugh. What happens? What is the inner mechanism? If I tell a joke
expectation is created. You start expecting. Your mind starts searching for what the end will be. And
you cannot conceive the end.
"A joke moves in two dimensions. First it moves in a logical dimension. You can conceive it. If
the joke goes on logically to the very end, it will cease to be a joke; there will be no laughter. So
suddenly the joke takes a turn and becomes so illogical that you cannot conceive it. And when the
joke takes a turn and the result becomes illogical; then the expectation, the tension that was created
in you, suddenly explodes. You relax. Laughter comes out.
"Laughter is the relaxation. But tension is first needed. A story creates expectation, suspense and
tension. You start feeling the crescendo. Now the crescendo will come. Something is going to
happen. Your backbone is straight like that of a yogi. You have no more thoughts in the mind. The
whole being is just waiting. All the energy is moving toward the conclusion. Suddenly something
happens which the mind could not think of. Something absurd happens – something illogical,
irrational. The end is such that it was impossible for logic to think about it. And you explode.
The whole energy that had become tense inside you suddenly gets relaxed. Laughter comes out
through this relaxation.
"Man is bored. Hence he needs laughter. The more bored, the more laughter he will need.
Otherwise, he cannot exist.
"Thirdly, it has to be understood that there are three types of laughter. The first is when you laugh
at someone else. This is the meanest, the lowest, the most ordinary and vulgar when you laugh at
the expense of somebody else. This is the violent, the aggressive, the insulting type Deep down this
laughter there is always a feeling of revenge.
"The second type of laughter is when you laugh at yourself. This is worth achieving. This is cultured.
202 (Jokes of Mulla Nasrudin) 3 Osho