Diary of Laughing Siddha

Eyes wide shut : TIBET

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:26:19 +0530

"There comes a time, when we heed a certain call, whenthe world must come together as one"

- this is the opening line of Band Aid - the common platform where, years ago, world musicians got together to show solidarity towards & generate money for the famine hit people worldwide.

The world looks on and makes the right noises as the Chinese suppress the
Tibetans..yet again.

and we go on with out lives as nothing has happened.

living with our same small hopes and fears,

living our dreams and dreading our tears,

When in the nearby land of Tibet,

a race of humans so gentle & dignified,

are oppressed by the Chinese,

for whom territory is more important than lives,

for whom land holds more value than hearts,

but in that land which the Chinese occupy, the Tibetan hearts burn & die,

and with every (Tibetan) death caused , whether mortal or the death of a
Tibetan heart,

The wails & cries will torment the chinese till their next seven lives,

the chinese race will have to pay according to the divine law,

for as you sow, so shall you reap,

and it cannot be otherwise,

and the chinese are sowing grief and pain and watering it with blood,

and the harvest shall be like,

for when you plant a mango, you get a mango tree,

and when you plant grief and pain, you reap likewise,

so lets all connect with the light in our hearts,

which is the light which illumines the chinese, Tibetans and all other human
hearts,

and pray with all our might,

to our Lord to save the Tibetan land and the Chinese mind,

lets pray that the Tibetans get back their land,

and the chinese reap a lighter harvest

and the chinese eyes open to see the light.

namaste.

relationships. whats your take on this?

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:54:24 +0530

Everyone of us has many relationships - relationships with friends, with parents, with siblings, with other people as accquaintances, colleagues, club fraternity etc.

On thinking about it, I feel there are primarily three types of relationships:

a. relations due to the bloodline - like brothers, sisters, cousins, parents etc.
b. relations due to marriage - wife/ husband , wifes/husbands family & extended family, wifes/ husbands friends.
c. relations due to feelings /emotions - the relationhips not due to the above two but relationship created because either you wanted to be in that relationship or the relationship happened on its own.

All three are very important and need to be nutured and taken care of?

Any ideas on this from you? Whats your take?

namaste.
ls

A sincere wish for u all [not a forward]

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:38:06 +0530

A sincere wish for all of you from my heart:

Let the (divine) light descend into you, filling you with the divinity which
is Krishna, Christ, Allah and all the saints, Gods and Prophets.

Let your being be filled with this divine light, the light signified by the
dove in christianity, the anthakarna in Hinduism and represented in all the
religions.

Let each cell of yours bathe and dance in this divine light, a light which will
bring you joy, bliss, ecstacy and love.

Let this light fill up your life with material prosperity, spiritual
prosperity, good health and abundance.

Please allow this light to make your experience the bliss of Christ, Allah, Krishna and all the divine beings and the Gods and Godesses that you believe in.

Happy Diwali.

Namaste!

ls

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:36:16 +0530

"Friends"

What a strange relationship it is that we share with people we call
friends.

Unlike all other relationships where the name of the relationship with the
person is constant irrespective of your actual feelings or intereactions with
the person, Friends are the only relations where the name of the
relationship changes if the equation with the opposite person changes.

See the main relations : mother, father, brother, sister, aunt or uncle.
whether you like them or not or you speak to them or not, they will always
remain your mother, father, brother , sister, aunt or uncle.

If you divorce your wife, she still is called your wife with an ex added in
front ( ex-wife).

But if you do not get along with some friend or have a serious argument or
disagreement, he no longer remains our friend. He can change from friend to
accquaintance or maybe to an enemy.

Friendship is one of the two relationship which are normally made by choice ,
the other being love/ marriage. (marriage not of the arranged kind).

(About my take on Love, you can read my blog "love-yeh kis cheez ka naam hai?" on

rediff.)

If I think deeply about friends, it is one of the most enigmatic relationships
that one can come across in the human existence. A relationship made by choice, without any
barriers of sex, age, geography, history, circumstances, money or religion.

A relationship which truly unifies.

Maybe it is a pointer to / jhalak of the
ultimate relationship that we are here to discover.the relationship called by
various names merging the self with the higher self, merging our astitva with
that of God, The wave going back into the ocean..........

Jo bhi hai, friends rock and boy, am I glad to have good friend in my life!

To all of you my new friends here, I am glad that you are here. Welcome to my heart and life!

I value you and friendship above all else.

Namaste!

Namaste! (yeh kyu?)

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:24:35 +0530

Namaste!

Namaste is a very beautiful word in our language having a
very deep meaning. Namaste means:

"the divinity within me , salutes the divinity within you".

And when you bring both your hands together at the level of
the heart, one hand stands for me, the other for you and when I bring it
together at the heart, I imply that in essence, both you and me are one. Bringing it to the heart level implies love.

This bringing of hands together at the heart level and
saying namaste is very powerful if done properly.

Try doing that to the next person you meet and when you
bring your hands together and say Namaste, do it while looking deeply in the
others persons eyes. You will feel the connection happen immediately.

While I was searching for a photograph to go along with this post, I came across this small piece of writing which I feel explains Namaste so beautifully. Unfortunately, I am notsure who the author is. Here is the piece:

I honor the place in you

In which the entire universe abides,

I honor the place in you

Which is of love, of truth

Of light and of peace.

When you are in that place in you

And I am in that place in me,

We are one..

Namaste to all of you :-)

When the saints go marching in.....

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:06:59 +0530

"When the saints, go marching in,,,,,,when the saints go marching in"

what can one say about saints? no rule applies to them, no law applies to them....they function from a state of expanded awareness but are aware of every small thing that happens...

they have knowledge beyond what we can ever imagine, but they behave so innocently like children...

they are the lightposts on the path, the guide who will show the way.....having gone the way before, they know the pitfalls and the shortcuts...

they have nothing they call their own, but they keep giving and giving and giving and giving....with both hands open and more importantly, they give with their hearts.

They may or may not have experiencied human love, but they teach us about the love that really counts, the unconditional love!

They are the oceans of bliss, the waves of encouragement & the shields of protection.

Remember them and they will be by your side, always.

And if you are in trouble and your remember them,

"the saints will come marching in........."

for they are unconditional love personnified and they are there for your always.

A belated Guru Purnima to you all!

Namaste.

:-)

When the sun goes down...

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:57:38 +0530

What has a beginning has to have an end. Whosoever is born, has to die. Nothing is permanent.

Funny how we all know this, but somehow manage to never bring it to our daily consciousness, keeping it buried deep down somewhere in our subconscious.

Maybe this is what the spiritual teachers and seers call " Maya".

We never feel that we will die and never think about death. In our (new)culture, when someone speaks of death and dying, they say not to say such things and not to be morbid.

How does a reality facing you every day and something we know (at one level) will also happen to us become a morbid thing?

Why this fear? Is this fear called "Maya"?

We all know the story of the Buddha who asked one grieving lady who had lost her child to get few grains from any home where no one had died and he would resurrect the child. The lady could not find a single house where no one had died.

Why do we call it dying in the first place? Dying has a ring of finality to it, which may not be true. Wouldn't it be better if we call it "going over to the other side", "gone back home", or maybe " gone into the unknown".

How are we so sure that death is going to be an unpleasant experience?

Is this wrong surety called " Maya"?

Why can't death be the most wonderful experience of this lifetime for everyone? Maybe it is the most wonderful and ecstatic experience, a journey into light and love. A journey of & into Unconditional love!

When we are dreaming while sleeping, there is a very real quality to the dreams. The dreams seem to be the reality and it appears that it is actually happening to us. We get very happy, very scared, terrified, petrified, peaceful, wonderful etc depending on our dream. And then we wake up. And realise that that what was appearing so real, was only a dream.

Isn't it possible,then what we call death is actually is waking up & putting an end to a dream which we call life.

Would we then realise that all what we called or knew as life, our relationships, our pains and pleasures were only a dream. And death is waking up, a cause of joy & celebration.

Maybe that is Maya! :-)

Namaste!
"-)

The purity of a child... a real story

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:18:54 +0530

This happened last week to a friend of mine: This story is in her words:

She called me and said " LS, i feel like crying...i am so touched".

I asked her what happened...& she said " My father is in the ICU because of a stroke. My 9 yr old son, had gone to visit a friend, a 6 year old girl. When during the course of playing, my son mentioned to his small friend about his grandfather being in hospital and not able to move.

This small 6 year old girl, then took out a crystal from her small cute bag and gave it to my son. She told him to keep the crystal on his grandfathers forehead for about 5 minutes and his grandfather would be well. And then she told my son, to give the crystal back after putting it on his grandpa's forehead as she could then use it to give it to other people who required healing".

My friend actually put it on her fathers forehead and while doing it, she just burst into tears thinking about this good deed done by the wonderful tender heart, the 6 year old girl.

And her father is now well on the way to recovery!

Namaste! :-)

Your past lives and your religion ...think!

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:10:01 +0530

When one does past life regression and sees ones past lives, it has been observed that in different past lives , one is either a male or a female and is also sometimes a hindu, sometimes a muslim, a jew , christian, buddhist etc.

Then in this current life, how can one say that I am a hindu, or a muslim, or a sikh, or a buddhist or a jew or a christian as we have been all of this before ?

Think!

with love,
Namaste! :-)

Love...yeh kis cheez ka naam hai?

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:06:16 +0530

Rakhi Sahni was kind enough to add me as a friend...the subject of her blog interested me...she writes about love but is cryptic.

What is love ,Pyaar, Ishq, Mohabbat ? I think we have labeled many types of human desires and interactions as love.... but the basis of all these attractions we call love is possession.

We need to possess the person exclusively for ourselves. And when we have that desire strongly, we call it love.

I think that true love...or what should truly be called love is only "unconditional love". Love which believes only in giving. You give all so that you may the object of your love happy, irrespective of whether it makes you happy. The focus is on the person whom you love unconditionally. The focus of true love is to be happy in the happiness of the person you love!
Amen!
:-)