This is quite amazing.

Exactamundo for me. :) Now why have they left H out???? I really wanted to check out what it said for my BF and he is an H. :(

Chaitali why don't you just make one up for H. BTW even Z is missing!!!

Here's a funny one.

Brian came home from the pub late one Friday evening stinking drunk,as he often did, and crept into bed beside his wife who was already
asleep.He gave her a peck on the cheek and fell asleep.

When he awoke he found a strange man standing at the end of his bed wearing a long flowing white robe.

"Who the hell are you?" demanded Brian, "and what are you doing in my bedroom?".

The mysterious Man answered "This isn't your bedroom and I'm St Peter".

Brian was stunned "You mean I'm dead!!! That can't be, I have so much to live for, I haven't said goodbye to my family.... you've got to send
me back straight away".

St Peter replied "Yes you can be reincarnated but there is a catch. We can only send you back as a dog or a hen." Brian was devastated, but
knowing there was a farm not far from his house, he asked to be sent back as a hen.

A flash of light later, he was covered in feathers and clucking around pecking the ground. "This ain't so bad" he thought until he felt this strange feeling welling up inside him.

The farmyard rooster strolled over and said "So you're the new hen, how are you enjoying your first day here?"

"It's not so bad" replies Brian, "but I have this strange feeling inside like I'm about to explode".

"You're ovulating" explained the rooster, "don't tell me you've never laid an egg before".

"Never" replies Brian

"Well just relax and let it happen"

And so he did and after a few uncomfortable seconds, an egg pops out from under his tail. An immense feeling of relief swept over him and his
emotions got the better of him as he experienced motherhood for the first time. When he laid his second egg, the feeling of happiness was
overwhelming and he knew that being reincarnated as a hen was the best thing that had happened to him... ever!!!

The joy kept coming and as he was just about to lay his third egg he felt an enormous smack on the back of his head and heard his wife shouting,

"Brian, wake up you drunken b*stard, you're sh*tting in the bed"

Ok Guys I've managed to complete the list.

Ananya suddenly realised I don't have any close friend or even acquaintance whose name starts with 'H' (Strange!). So I don't think I'll be able to make-up attributes for 'H' :) But I did find what was mentioned for G holds for H, while G stands for something else. And also the sites which mention these vary. For instance in one of them what stands for J stands for K and vice-versa.

Have put in Z too.

enjoy guys!

-R-
You are a no-nonsense, action-oriented individual. You need someone who can keep pace with you and who is your intellectual equal the smarter the better. You are turned on more quickly by a great mind than by a great body. However, physical attractiveness is very important to you. You have to be proud of your partner. You are privately very sexy but you do not brag, you are willing to serve as teacher. Sex is important; you can be a very demanding playmate.

Sounds True! ; - )

Cheers, Rohit

Ha Ha "V" sounds cool, sooo me & if I may add fairly bindaas. So now that I know my name is the culprit for my 'attractions' to 'eccentric types' I'm actually feeling a lot better about myself. The last line hmmm I'm not sure but hey I will ask the next guy with a V intial...maybe I'm missing something .. :)

Here's some real definitions to chill with. O.K so Its world no-smoking day so the first one is
dedicated to all politically correct people

1. Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool at the other.
2. Love affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day test.
3. Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master
4. Divorce: Future tense of marriage
5. Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either". 6. Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
7. Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
8. Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power...
9. Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage.
10. Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.
11. Ecstasy: A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.
12. Classic: books which people praise, but do not read.
13. Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
14. Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
15. Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth. 16. Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
17. Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
18. Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.
19. Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
20. Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
21. Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
22. Opportunist: A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.
23. Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel Tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet."
24. Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.
25. Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
26. Father: A banker provided by nature.
27. Criminal: A guy no different from the rest... except that he got caught.
28. Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
29. Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after?
30. Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.

Vedant that was really hilarious.:)

There were two nuns...

One of them was known as Sister Mathematical (SM),
and the other one was known as Sister Logical (SL) .
It is getting dark and they are still far away from the convent.

SM : Have you noticed that a man has been following us for the past thirty-eight and a half minutes? I wonder what he wants.

SL: It's logical. He wants to rape us.

SM: Oh, ! no! At this rate he will reach us in 15 minutesat the most! What can we do?

SL: The only logical thing to do of course is to walk faster.

SM: It's not working.

SL: Of course it's not working. The man did the only logical thing. He started to walk faster, too.

SM: So, what shall we do? At this rate he will reach us in one minute.

SL: The only logical thing we can do is split. You go that way and I'll go this way. He cannot follow us both.

So the man decided to follow Sister Logical.

Sister Mathematical arrives at the convent and is worried about what has happened to Sister Logical.

Then Sister Logical arrives.

SM: Sister Logical! Thank God you are here!
Tell me what happened!

SL: The only logical thing happened.
The man couldn't follow us both, so he followed me

SM: Yes, yes! But what happened then?

SL: The only logical thing happened. I started to run as fast as I could and he started to run as fast as he could.

SM: And?

SL: The only logical thing happened. He reached me

SM: Oh, dear! What did you do?

SL: The only logical thing to do.
I lifted my dress up.

SM: Oh, Sister! What did the man do?

SL: The only logical thing to do.
He pulled down his pants.

SM: Oh, no! What happened then?

SL: Isn't it logical, Sister?
A nun with her dress up can run faster than man
with his pants down.

Some Laws....Newton 4got !

Law of queue: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

Law of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, ur nose will begin to itch.

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Bath THEOREM: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

LAW of the RESULT: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will!

LAW OF BIOMECHANICS: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.

LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Seven Kinds of Sex

:-)

I -----SOCIAL SECURITY SEX
Two men were talking. So, how's your sex life?" "Oh, nothing special. I'm
having Social Security sex." "Social Security sex?" "Yeah, you know-I get a
little each month, but not enough to live on

II -----LOUD SEX
A wife went in to see a therapist and said, "I've got a big problem, doctor.
Every time we're in bed and my husband climaxes, he lets out this ear
splitting yell." "My dear," the shrink said, "that's completely natural. I
don't see what the problem is." "The problem is," she complained, "It wakes
me up!"

III -----QUIET SEX
Tired of a lifeless sex life, the man came right out and asked his wife
during a recent lovemaking, "How come you never tell me when you have an
orgasm?" She looked at him casually and replied, "You're never home!"

IV -----CONFOUNDED SEX
A man was in a terrible accident, and his "manhood" was mangled and torn
from his body. His doctor assured him that modern medicine could give him
back his manhood, but that his insurance wouldn't cover the surgery since it
was considered cosmetic. The doctor said the cost would be $3,500 for
"small," $6,500 for "medium," and $14,000 for "large." The man was sure he
would want a medium or large, but the doctor urged him to talk it over with
his wife before he made any decision. The man called his wife on the phone
and explained their options. The doctor came back into the room, and found
the man looking dejected. "Well, what have the two of you decided?" asked
the doctor.
The man answered, "She'd rather remodel the kitchen".

V ------WEDDING ANNIVERSARY SEX
A husband and his wife had a bitter quarrel on the day of their 39th wedding
anniversary. The husband yells, "When you die, I'm getting you a headstone
that reads: 'Here Lies My Wife-Cold As Ever'." "Yeah," she replies, "When
you die, I'm getting you a headstone that reads: Here Lies My Husband-Stiff
At Last."
VI ---NO SEX
My husband came home with a tube of KY jelly and said, "This will make you
happy tonight." He was right. When he went out of the bedroom, I squirted it
all over the doorknobs. He couldn't get back in.

VII ---- OLD SEX
One night an 87 yr old woman came home from Bingo to find her 92 yr. old
husband in bed with another woman.
She became violent and ended up pushing him off the balcony of their 20th
floor assisted living apartment...killing him instantly.
Brought before the court on a charge of murder. The judge asked her if she
had anything to say in her defense.
She said coolly, "Yes, your Honor, I figured that at 92, if he could have
sex.....he could fly."

Kranti that was a real riot. Cannot stop laughing especially at 'old sex'. Gr8 to wake up to something which can make you laugh the whole day through. Annie & Anusheh ditto!

Thanx Guys for a really funny morning:)

DIARY OF AN MBA

Dear Diary,

I can't hold myself down. My FIRST day on the job!!
And I like it already.

"Assistant Junior Deputy to the Vice Chairman -
Manufacturing". My dad was thrilled when he heard my
designation.

"What the f!@#!!!" were his exact words. Oh I love it
when my parents are happy...

Need to meet HR in half an hour. I can't wait to get
my first Employee ID Card and cubicle. I hope
Parthasarathy Whatayblouse Crappers (PWC) is the
beginning of great things.

P.S. I have brought my favorite textbooks back from
the institute OD, OM and HR should help me grow
rapidly in the organization. And I WILL handle soft
issues before facing hard issues here at PWC.

July 28th

Dear Diary,

Had a lot of fun with HR yesterday. The guy who had
recruited me had left a month ago. So they didn't know
I was joining. We had a hearty laugh over that one.

I'll get my cubicle in a few days time. For the time
being I am sharing a nice one with Claire. She's with
Corporate Communication.

The phone doesn't work though...

August 2nd

Dear Diary,

Met my boss today. He spent a lot of time with my CV
and then asked me how I managed to get a job with
them. (Even he knows how lucky they are to get me..)
He told me to review our material ordering system in
the err... umm... the... the "big yellow and blue
noisy machine section" of the plant.

Claire is working on an "Our Employees Love Us"
campaign. The office boy had just resigned. So she got
me to pose with an apron and a tray of cookies for a
photo. They are going to call me Ramon and use it for
ads. I am going to be famous.

August 7th

Dear Diary,

My first breakthrough. I have decided to order nickel
ball bearings using the EQO.. QEO... whatever formula.
It takes into account item cost, holding cost and
weight of ball bearing I think. The purchase guy gave
me a funny look when he saw my annual requisition
contract form. He is obviously not an MBA...

Claire resigned today. She told me carry on with the
"Our Employees Love Us" campaign.

P.S. Lesson for the week. You cannot order 0.7564 of a
ball bearing. It has to be in whole numbers.

August 11th

Dear Diary,

I just got a shipment of 4384 ball bearings. I checked
up with Engineering.

They said that should be enough for around 14 years of
requirement. I gave them 3 and stashed away the rest
in a cupboard in my room. If prices of ball bearings
go up, I see a lot of potential savings.

I have decided to develop informal channels of
communication. From tomorrow I will spend a little
time next to the coffee machine to understand the
unspoken messages within the underbelly of the firm.

(That OD book is good)

August 14th

Dear Diary,

I sent my first official letter today. It was to our
Facilities manager Merry Le Bian. She is a hottie. I
told her that the Coffee Machine takes too much time
to reheat between refills. Wrote it in a WAC format
and all with a table of contents and everything. She
is sure going to be impressed!! I spell checked it in
MS word and emailed it to her an hour ago. No reply
yet.

They scrapped the "Our Employees Love Us" campaign.
The photo shoot was taking up too much time, and
people were being forced to stay late without extra
pay. Someone finally went and vandalised the banner.
It now reads "Our Employers Shove Us". I offered to
model for all the snaps and videos. They called me a
dickhead. I was delighted. Dickhead is internal slang
for "Big Stud". HR told me. Everyone calls me that...

P.S. One more shipment of ball bearings came. Again
4384. The contract can't be changed now. I dont have
too much space left in my cupboard.

August 25th

Dear Diary,

My letter came back. It had a pink post-it on it from
Merry. "Please proofread" it said. It was CC'd to my
boss. How was I supposed to know MS Word would spell
check her name and change it to Merry Lesbian????!!!!

Where's natural justice?

Today five minutes before a meeting the cupboard door
broke open. It took me ten minutes to pick up all the
ball bearings from the floor. I had to run to the
board room for the meeting and slipped on a bearing
which rolled under the door. I fell on the coffee
machine and tipped coffee powder into the polymer
mixing matching tray. No one saw anything.

P.S. Sorry for the long break. My computer crashed.
There was a mail from an old friend. She's now married
into the Welchia family I think.

Crashed after that. Strange name that Welchia...

September 2nd

Dear Diary,

My boss told me I may not last the probation period. I
was mighty thrilled to hear that. Imagine!! Permanent
in less than three months!!

That should be some sort of company record.

I made a presentation to all the staff yesterday. Some
300 people were there. I think I sent good vibes.
Everyone was smiling and nodding their heads during
the presentation. Someone later told me my fly was
open the whole time. But I don't think anyone noticed.
The presentation was on "An Open Culture: Let the
feeling show!!"

p.s. 17156 ball bearings. I floated a scheme to give
each employee a ball bearing for every year of
service. The HR manager immediately convened a meeting
with my boss. Every suggestion counts here at PWC.

September 4th

Dear Diary,

I have been transferred to the office in Sub-Saharan
Africa . I will be heading the Room Heater and Hot
Water Geyser products division. They have also told me
to pay for all the ball bearings I bought. I think it
speaks much of the entrepreneurial spirit. I have been
told to leave immediately for Kujumbinana.

P.S. A foreign posting in under a year!!!

September 5th

Dear Diary,

I am in Kujumbinana. We don't have a branch here...

Some sweet and some mushy:-)

*THE RIGHT AGE FOR CUSSING *
**
*A 6-year-old and a 4-year-old are upstairs in
their bedroom. *
**
*"You know what?" says the 6-year-old. "I think it's about
time we start cussing."*
**
*The 4-year-old nods his head in approval.
*
*The 6-year-old continues "When we go downstairs for breakfast I'm
gonna say hell" and you say "ass."

OK!" The 4 year old agrees with enthusiasm.*

*Their mother walks into the kitchen and asks the 6-year-old what he
wants for breakfast.*
*"Aw hell, Mom, I guess I'll have some Cheerios."
*
*WHACK! He flies out of his chair, tumbles across the kitchen floor,
gets up, and runs upstairs crying his eyes out, with his mother in hot
pursuit, slapping his rear every step.

The mom locks him in his room & shouts "You can just stay there till I
let you out!"

She then comes back downstairs, looks at the 4-year-old, and asks
with a stern voice, "And what do YOU want for breakfast young man?"

I don't know," he blubbers, "But you can bet your fat ass it won't be
Cheerios

_________________________________________________

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the
feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge and all of the
others, including Love

One day, it was announced to the feelings that the
island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left.
Love was the only one who stayed.

Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment.

When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to
ask for help.

Richness was passing by Love in a great boat.

Love said:

"Richness, can you take me with you?"

Richness answered:

"No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat.
There is no place here for you."

Love decided to ask Vanity, who was also passing by in
a beautiful vessel:

"Vanity, please help me!"

"I can't help you, Love. You are all wet and might
damage my boat," Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by, so Love asked for help:

"Sadness, let me go with you."

"Oh...Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"

Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy
that she did not even hear when Love called her! Suddenly,
there was a voice:

"Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder.

Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot
to ask the elder her name.

When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way.

Love realizing how much he owed the elder asked
Knowledge, another elder:

"Who helped me?"

"It was Time," Knowledge answered.

"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"

Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered:

"Because only Time is capable of understanding
how great Love is."

Timeless wisdom:

"People do not know the benefit of uselessness"
Martin Buber

"We are on earth to fool around and don´t let anyone tell you otherwise"
Kurt Vonnegut

"You are as vulnerable as a rose, take at least care that you have flourished"
David psalm 103:15-16

:)

Hi Meike

A 100% behind Vonnegut. Now if there was some where to whisper this convincingly into a baby's ear humankind maybe a very different wonderful experience.
Love the psalm too!

Finally went through your labyrinthe. Hmmm what a creative maze you have there. Have you shared it with Deepak? Maybe they can add it to their website. Now I'm convinced you are going to do a 3D virtual reality on Self designed Universe. I'm looking forward to it.
Thank You for the treat.
Much love

wow mieke, just now i saw your peacelabyrinth for the first time with the help of my younger son. it surely needs to be put on deepak's site as jasjit has suggested. as regards preparing a labyrinth for my book, i wonder what you will write from it. i would very much like the idea though.

hi jasjit.

love, harb

Hi Jasjit,

Well thanks very much indeed. Glad you liked this labyrinth :) I donated this already to the Chopra Center but have not heard anything back from them. Do not mind that much but that´s why i liked the quote of Martin Buber also lol

If your computers at IFSHA are up to it, i would very much like to donate my Universal Labyrinth of Life to you, together with an English explanation, cause i really consider this one as my Self Designed Universe. When you arrive in the middle, at last :), you will know what i mean.

As it is too large to put it for download on my website page, i will be happy to send it to you through normal post as a donation. You have my email address, so if you sent me your address i will send it to you.

Remember 64 MB Video memory :) at least

Love, Mieke

Well thanks Harb, but as i wrote to you in the beginning, before translating your book, my Universal Labyrinth of Life was the reason why i was attracted to your book in the first place. So if your computer is up to it you are welcome also :)

love, Mieke

Good Morning Meike

Thank You ever so much for the generous offer. We would love to add it to our website on the healing section. Actually when we were all watching it yesterday it triggered some great ideas to create on-line visual sections for our healing work on mental illness and HIV/AIDS. We are actually(hopefully) hiring a really qualified techy from Finland who will be working with us for a while. I hope to get him to assist us in designing som creative visuals.

Thank you for the generous offer and the ideas.
Much Love

Good Morning Harb

Ki haal chaal jey. Almora da plan haley hai ki nahin? Aaj kal ik ajeeb chuppi vich sabh kuch gayab jaya hoi janda hai. Kuch vi likhana yah sochna bada hi aukha lagda hai. Ji tey karda ay ki main vi pahadan di khamoshi vich ja ralan. Par SOT nu haley kuch hor hi manzoor hai....

love

Happy IVGLDSW Day!

Today is International Very Good Looking, Damn Smart Woman's Day, so
here's something for all the women out there

And remember this motto to live by:

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a
ride!" Have a wonderful day!

To the Girls !!

Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the
hell happened.
-Cora Harvey Armstrong-

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually
hush her up with cookies.
(Unknown)

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
-Helen Hayes (at 73)-

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.
-Janette Barber-

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
-Lily Tomlin-

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
-Rhonda Hansome-

The phrase "working mother" is redundant. -Jane Sellman-

Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult. -Charlotte Whitton-

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body
starts falling apart.
-Caryn Leschen-

I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack
me at once.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

If you can't be a good example -- then you'll just have to be a
horrible warning. -Catherine-

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. -Sue Grafton-

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. -Roseanne Barr-

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
-Elayne Boosler-

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. -Maryon Pearson-

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
-Margaret Thatcher-

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
-Gloria Steinem-

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house. -Zsa Zsa Gabor-

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt-

Dear Jasjit,

I´m glad to have been cooperating in triggering some ideas to greatly improve your website in future. After all, living in this field of all possibilities, why not all use them in the way we are capable of to arrive at a better world.

Like Frank Sinatra sang: I did it my way, so i did and will do it my way and you yours. And if we sometetimes can help each other, why not :)

Lot´s of success with all the emerging new ideas.

Love, Mieke

Great one liners Mieke, Anusheh! And Happy IVGLDSW Day to you guys too!

Mieke I have not been able to go through the Labyrinth yet but have been hearing about it from Jasjit and Anusheh. Will take a look at it soon.

By the way Mieke I must say, even though it might sound repeatitive, your English is excellent given how you learnt it! And I see you have been picking up Punjabi too! Hats off to you! You seem to have a knack for languages. I'm sure you'll be really quick to pick many of the Indian Languages if you came for a stay in India :)

Hi Chaitali, thanks and who knows what lies ahead in future lol Never too old too...

Happy IVGLDSW to you all!

jasjit, jaapda hai apna dona da haal iko jiha hai. soul has realized the futility of all worldly pursuits and just wants to play freely - here there or anywhere. but the kambal of the past deeds does not leave it. for me it is my immediate family, for you it may in addition be the 'extended family' of ifsha etc etc. the last two months have been very very difficult for me, a day before i even remembered your words that 'you are with me in my aloneness.' among other things the last few days also saw my grand-children being 'cutt-off' from me. not that i cannot meet them, but because of certain family circumstances/happenings the meeting will not be the same again. above all i saw in this happening a clear case of myself rising above a certain entanglement. so i too in a way welcomed it. it clearly seemed to me all this happened for me.

yet, all said, my hall chaal as i often say are constant, always the same, because all these things really do not touch me where i really live.

chaitali, seems you are fortelling mieke's future lol. i know she will want very much to visit india and perhaps even stay for some time.

hi anusheh, seems i should now find a surprised woman to be sucessful with my book. any tips lol??

Hi Harb! Yes she'll have to stay for sometime if she plans to pick up the languages in India. Though I can guarantee her she'll have no problem pickin up Punjabi, Hindi and Bangla :)

Dear Harbji

Missed you all these days. My heart went out to you when I read your post to Jasjit. But of course you are right when you say that all of this is just divinity readying you for something else. As for the suprised woman...in your case she has to be within you LOL.

lots of love

Hi mieke

A very happy IVGLDSW (phew! had to copy and paste that:-)

Thank you so much for your extremely generous offer. We're very moved by it and also excited
:-) Our postal address is IFSHA, C-52, 2nd Floor, South Extension Part 2, New Delhi 110049, India.

lots of love

Dear Harb

What can I say but give you a warm hug perhaps its time for us to sing 'mittar payarey nun haal mureedan da kehna'. This too shall pass and of course it is only about your own transcendence through it all. And yet the moments when the attachments are finally ebbing away there is also the sweetness of a melancholia which will be no more. So taste its last flavours too as the fading lights of Samsara.

Here are my favourite lines from a sufi kalam
"Aj sik mitran di vadheri ey
kyun dil vich chayi haneri ey
lun lun vich shauk chingeri ey
aj naina layiyan kyun jhadiyan"

In my limited understanding(largely intuitive) Today there is such a need for the warmth of the Friend, and why this storm in my heart, though every pore is electric with awareness and yet the eyes do not stop raining.

Actually I heard this kalam many years ago and instantly burst into tears when I heard the chorus. Didn't quite know why I was crying for didn't know then what they meant, least of all their import as oracles, but since then its been a favourite.

The opening chorus is
"Kithye Meher Ali, Kithey meri sana
Gustakh akhiyan kithey jaa ladiyan"

Did not know who Meher Ali was then but intutively felt it referred to the Master (God) I searched. "Where one such as He and where my insolent desire, look at how insolent my eyes are for look at whom they have chosen to fall in love with.)

With You

chaitali, i agree, once mieke comes here picking up languages for her will be like getting accustomed to eating our gol-gappas lol.

anusheh, seems god has spoken through you regarding the surprised woman...and in fact i knew...as i said sometime back to mieke in other words...'at the evolutionary stage i am it will have to be myself on both ends of the heartphone, and i am...' yet all said it was a very pleasant surprise to hear these words from you. and your 'heart went out' was so really from the heart, it fully reached me. pyar bhari galwakri, as mieke would have said in her freshly learned punjabi.

jasjit, i have often sung this 'mitter pyare nun...' in my life. and always it has given me needed solace. as i wrote in my 'first experience of oneness,' finally all subserve only your scheme of things. so once one understands this everything is easy. my transcending the situation was not less than a miracle seeing which even i was very much surprised. something from within just went away as clearly as the switching off of a bulb. now we can and will meet but perhaps from the point of strength rather than from weakness which it previously was or felt like. of course, eyes will and must rain at such occasions as one thread, howsoever thin, of all such attachments always ends up in the soul and have to be washed away from there. the rain from the eyes does this job.

thanks all of you...and CHEERS!

jasjit, i may tell you something interesting about mehar ali or baba mehar or mehar something which i read a few days ago.

i chanced upon a book which was describing various 'gots' of jat sikhs. first interesting thing was that sandhus and purewals belonged to a common vansh - suryavanshi - and the second interesting thing reading your present message was that their vadda vadera was one mehar ali or baba mehar...lol. seems we are the end products of 'wishing to know god' holomoment of baba mehar ji...lol.

ananda anandam!!

Dear Harb, as always, pyar bhari galwakri :)
And yes, when it is in the scheme of things, i will certainly visit India and will love it, of that i´m certain.

Have been away today and are catching up with all the messages here since this morning.

Dear Anusheh, great reading the address of IFSHA and i have noted it down. Am almost finished with the English translation of my comments to the Labyrinth. So in the course of next week i will be able to send it to you. Probably will take some 10 days before it reaches you. Will write here again to tell you when i have sent it off.

Dear Chaitali, Punjabi, Hindi and Bangla lol, and again, all good things in three :)

Will still have a long way to go though as i do not understand that much of the Punjabi written here above by Harb and Jasjit. Harb i definitely need you as my teacher lol

Much love to you all
Mieke

Good Morning Harb

Yes...the click of the light bulb- and then the total darkness or total light(either way the same) which is complete in its radiance and the 'other' is nowhere to be found. Finally!
And like Anusheh said now you will turn to meet the woman within and fall in love like never before and the wonder shall subsume all lol.

How strange that Mehar Ali was our Vada Vadhera (BTW what does that really mean??) like how did these two gotras get a Pir as a 'Vadda'? I'm afraid this gotra business is something I know little about and I always thought that once baptised as Sikhs we became a melting pot or gotraless then how was the 'suryavanshi' bit traced? And what does it mean to be 'suryavanshi' i.e who were we then before that??

Sorry to bombard you with all this but its just so fascinating, given that this Mehar Ali Kalam has never left me since I heard it many moons ago.

love

jasjit, i too am not very much into this gotra business (rather we are now going beyond even names lol)i just happened to look at a book brought by my son telling about jat-sikh gotras like sandhus, gills, purewals and so on and was amused to know that of more than a few hundred, only six or seven including sandhus and purewals came under a separate/particular suryavanshi clan. the others were like chandravanshi and so on...four in all. i think it is like the branching out of a tree, all these vanshis first came from one main branch...then they got further separated out into four branches of suryavanshis, chnadravanshis etc and then suryavanshis further got separated out into sandhus and purewals and a few others. vadda vadera must be a person with whom a particular branch/larger family began forth. it was mehar something in our case, probably mehar ali or mehar baba or baba mehar or mehar jatt or mehar masat from village mahrana, which is a village near our village chohla sahib. book is now not with me but i know there was something a bit interesting/intriguing qualifying the name mehar. of course at the end everything originated from big bang lol.

but of course in your lines from mehar ali is meant god but then again why ali only for god?? i think beyond a certain point in history all was again a mix up.

lol mieke, it will take a bit of time to be able to understand punjabi written by me, anusheh and jasjit here. it is sort of punjabi within punjabi what with anusheh's pakistani punjabi, mine theth (pure) village punjabi and jasjit's metro punjabi lol. but rest assured there are many teachers of punjabi here and of course i am the headmaster/headteacher always there for you lol.

Dear Harbji a big jadoo wali jhappi for you too
:-)

anushehia! eh jaadoo wali jhappi vi theek hai par mein tan kise din tuhathon ghantian badhi pakistani punjabi sunani chahvanga...i like it very much. once i met a pakistani at bangkok...we talked for hours...bara hi maja aave jaddon uh theth punjabi wich gal kare....theth punjabi jehri ki asal wich saade apne punjab wichon vi gaib ho chuki hai. since then i have been missing his words...

aaj hi mein ek pakistani punjabi kahani preet lari wichon parhi. us wich vi lekhak ise tran di punjabi likhda...pakistan wich apni ghar wali nun budhi kehnde lol bhaven uh 20 saal di hove...anusheh ki uthe haale vi sacheen mucheen istra hi bolde ne??

Dear Harbji....theek ai ji tussi time tey place dus dena menoon. Pakistan ich hun vi ais tara di meethi punjabi sunan nun aandi ai. Actually koi 50 kissam de punjabi dialect uthe haale vi bolay jaande nain. Saadi adi ton vadh population punjab ich rehndi ai.

Haanji budhi te mein vi sunnaya ai par voti zyada sunnan nun aanda ai....at least shehran vich. Khair menoon zyaada nahin pata. I was brought up in Sindh and only exposed to Punjabi through my summer visits to cousins in Lahore. Ais liye holay holay bolni aan. Hun ais to pehle keh tussi kavo "na mun na matha te jinn paharon latha) mein challi aan. :-)lol

anushehia

anushehia, you just cant imagine how much i enjoy your punjabi even written here. yes, voti vi akhde ne...in fact i often use this word even here in my playful way. your 'bolni aan' 'challi aan' just mesmerise me. in this connection i may tell you a hadbiti.

once there was a punjabi song sung by a famous punjabi singer jamula jatt (perhaps you may have herd of him.)its lines were:

lae ke sone di janjiri pai aa motian di gaani, barra saambh saambh rakhein nee eh keehdi aa nishani, barra saambh saambh rakhein...

teri yaad de ne moti, teri jeeve jindgani, ve mein tere lai rakhi hoi aa saambh ke javani..

'rakhi hoi aa' from this song so mesmerised me i dont know why that i listened to this song almost fifty times at a stretch...i actually got drunk listening to it...of course i was then in service and a bit eccentric as well lol. there was some special andaaz of saying 'rakhi hoi aa' by the singer..

Hi, having a great time reading all this lol
Thanks for the lesson.
Love, Mieke

mieke, now here is enough punjabi for you to learn for a month lol.

anushehia, jadon kite dilli da programme banya tan dasaan ga time/place da....jekar tuhada dafatar kite canaught place de lage hi hai tan te canaught place hi vadhia hai milan lai kionki jadon mein dilli aavan uthe tan janda hi janda han...i enjoy sitting for a few hours in one restaurant or the other sipping beer and even a smoke lol, my legacies of the days of gay abandon...

Yeah Harb, but then you will have to send me the other part of the dictionary lol, the one with the words from Punjabi into English words. At the moment i only have the one with the words from English into Punjabi :)

mieke, i will send it too to you soon. you will be made a puran punjaban (perfect punjabi girl/woman) lol.

but in lieu you will have to send me ADVOCAAT lol (in fact i learned about this dutch whiskey/word today so thought of using it to surprise you, more so as anusheh says i need to surprise a woman if i want to be successfullll.

love, harb

Hi Harb, indeed a surprise lol This ADVOCAAT tastes delicious especially MET SLAGROOM (with whipped cream). But when you want to taste it in that way you will have to come over at our place and taste it :)

Love, Mieke

Harbji stop your shaitaanees lol. Advocaat is not leading you to the suprised feminine....though I'm sure Mieke is very capable of suprising you too:-)Theek ai Harbji, connaught place it is. We will sit in your old haunt and I'll speak in my broken, halting punjabi and you in your thet punjabi lol

Mieke maybe we'll all come for a holiday to Holland. I've heard so much about it. Then maybe we can all have a round of Met Slagroom.:-) In the meanwhile cheers to you!

You are very welcome Anusheh and all :)

Cheers to you all!

anusheh, jasjitmayiaman nun vi pushh vekho(ask jasjit ji also), kaho tuhadi uthe (holland wich)meditation da vi pura khyal rakhange...te advocaat vi jabardasti nahin pilavange lol...

seriously anusheh, mieke it will be a great idea...mieke will you be really ready to receive us??? we promise we will lagao many many chakkars in your labyrinth there (we promise we will walk many rounds of your labyrinth with you...)

Harb that was so funny:-)

Hi Harb,

In our neighbourhood there is some nice accomodation:

http://www.hoteldeborgh.nl/

Look at the pictures (foto-impressie).

So looks like the universe is conspiring lol

And together with a friend of mine who lives a bit further away we made a labyrinth of stones in her garden that will lie there till eternity, so we can indeed go and walk it as much as we like lol

And there is another one in the middle of our country, a water labyrinth and when you are in the middle of that and start singing the music is resonating with you whole body. I experienced this only a few days ago and it was great :)

So if it really is in the scheme of things you all are invited heartily.

You are invited to come and taste a glass of ADVOKAAT MET SLAGROOM with us...

Love, Mieke

mieke, what is the best time to visit your country? i truthfully think we may be able to make it by next year.

over to anusheh, jasjit and praying to the universe...

mieke, the hotel seems to be very imposing...how much they will charge per night by the way and what will be the eating charges...

Hello fellow travellers

Harbji ey mayiamaan ki hundi hai. Kuj daravani jai cheez lagdi hai, shaid tuhadi mere baarey jo holoimage hai usdi dain hovey lol.

Meike

Holland has been a dream for a long time so now you are an added attraction. But I would like to first invite you to visit us here-there's three of us here and who knows how many else you are slated to connect karmically with. India has amazing, unique landscapes to explore and you are welcome to come and stay in my home. It's a quiet little homestead except for a crazy attention seeking labrador.

I'm sure Harb will arrange for the Indian equivalent of Advocat- since he's more of a connosieur than me. And here we can all walk and unwalk many, many interesting labyrinths.

After that we shall all come visit you one day soon. :) Kyon Harb Ji theek hai na?

Hi Harb, the months May and June are in general the best to visit our country, but you can never depend upon the weather here. These months are just before the High Season, so it is not so busy yet, cause the school holidays have not yet started.

Will find out about the charges and will be back to you by mail.

Dear Jasjit,

This is very very nice of you :) Thanks very much for the invitation. My daughter has an attention seeking labrador too, so am used to that lol

But i don´t dare to travel alone and my husband doesn´t want to fly, so for me at the moment this is a deadlock.

My intention is certainly to visit India one day, so will place it in the field of all possibilities and detach myself from it lol

We will see what develops....

Much love to you
Mieke

Dear Meike

Nearly impossible to imagine someone like you having any fear/trouble travelling alone. So maybe its just a whisper from a long-ago self. Anyhow with us three hearty punjabis to take care of you, you would not be alone. So if you and when you have a rethink do so with the knowledge that you will be with your sturdy karmic pals and all will be well and quite an adventure.
much love

Thanks Jasjit :)

At this moment i prefer to just wait and see...

Am very happy with my sturdy karmic pals though:)

much love

mieke, i second jasjit, no problem once you are in india, but perhaps i think you are afraid of flying alone rather than travelling alone...or may be, there is in fact some domestic problem too...as i myself may have to some extent...

yet jasjit, i may be ready to travel to her place the next summer...may be by then meike will be ready to get the dutch version of my book released in her country, so that it ends up rather being an important occasion...

anyways, let the universe take care of this problem in the times to come, as of now let us enjoy each other's company in cyberland...

and jasjit, anadamayimaan meditated at upper ganga and perhaps you too nearby (in your what was that glasshouse retreat) so i thought perhaps you too were going her way lol, hence the advance name jasjitmayimaan...(i know you are what you are it is just my way to lighten up the moods a bit on our what i know are unique ways...).

today i read excerpts from "the sound of the running water" and enjoyed it...ifsha's whole site is beautifully prepared/planned...

PS: and oh yes, i will arrange for the indian version of ADVOCAAT though sant ji is far from being connosieur of liquors lol. like parsad in a gurdawara it used to be any available when i was really into them. and now-a-days i only sometimes take a peg and that is usually signature...i like its colour and taste...

Hi Harb, you described my problem quite accurately regarding flying alone, thank you. So i am all with you to let the universe take care of this problem as it did for me before when i flew, for the first time in my life, to Portugal in the beginning of this year :)

Dear Anusheh and Jasjit,

I have my cd´s ready to send to IFSHA by tomorrow. Then it will probably take about 10 days for the package to reach you.

I have already been on ifsha´s site and admired the beautiful cards there. Will certainly go back to have a longer stay to read a bit :)

Love, Mieke

Dear Jashit,

I just visited your ifsha site because i wanted to rate the cards, but when i did i got the message that the page was not available. Just thought would let you know this :)

sorry for spelling your name wrong Jasjit :)

Good Morning Harb

Good to know a Dutch version of your book will be out next year and it is a memorable occassion to visit the beautiful Holland. So I'm sure SOT will take care of all the little details.

Glad you liked the website. Actually the story of Sound of Running Water goes something like this. Three years ago around this time I had flown off to Switzerland for a quiet retreat in the mountains. It was a profound time for me. I then went to London where I had been loaned a little flat to continue my time alone and I suddenly decided to spoil myself and buy a laptop I had been eyeing. As soon as I bought it I felt I had to inaugurate it by writing something. Out came Sound of Running Water at a stretch in nearly 80 pages of text (much of it is still not on the web site) realized it was the gift of the silence and beauty of the Alps.

Since then have been meaning to add many more sections there to make it an interesting journey for seekers with myriad levels of enquiry. Hoping that a new in-house techhy whiz will join soon and help in desiging some creative aspects. So far we have done most of the desigining of the site in-house and it was a wonderful, fun experience. Glad you liked it

The glasshouse you refer to is the spot near where Ma Anandamayi meditated next door, the tale of the Ganga flowing there and the power of her blessings is an interesting one. However for me the tale came true in the most miraculous ways and even today that spot contantly brings great moments and experiences everytime I visit. So now I understand why you call me mayiamaan-
:)

What's in a name Meike :)
Glad you liked the cards. I designed them in a burst of creative fun about five years ago, adding more categories as and when one is feeling inspired. Are having the rating section looked at by our site managers. Thanx for letting us know.

Reading you dialogue with Harb on flying, felt like sharing this expereince I had in the Swiss Alps a few years ago. Since I was in my twenties I wanted to sky-dive and paraglide. However the opportunities rarely conincided with my intention and finally much time had passed and I thought I must have lost the nerve. Three years ago, In Switzerland I was staying at a quaint little hotel in the town of Innterlakken by the river and as I was drinking my morning cuppa stoned on the awesome beauty of the mountains (a clear sunny day) I see these massive stunningly coloured kites carrying people over the mountains sailing along in the blue sky and landing in a park close to my hotel. I decided to find out how much it would cost, if beginners could do it and if I could die from the experience. Run by two young witty and warm Australians, I was assured I had more chances to die in a car accident than from paragliding. Well I said thank you, examined my ageing nerves and decided against it. But I could not tear myself away from the sight and spent most of the day watching people gracefully glide down to the ground. Finally in moment of intense bravado I signed up, was picked up bright and early next morning driven up the mountain in a ride where most of my inner organs went into a coma and arrived to find I was the lone suicidal maniac that morning. Strapped in I watched them give me the basics on how to run and then jump off the edge and let go. A sarcastic voice in my head suddenly whsipered, 'well practice your Zen lesson. Go jump off the edge and trust the universe. Maybe yours is a hands-on path'. The rest of me was of course one step away from bolting in the opp direction.

Well I did jump off that cliff and had the most stupendous experience of my life. I would go back and do it again and again. In the bare air over the Alps, flying between the blue of the lake below and the sky above was a hands-on miracle of infinity, expansiveness and of course Zen. All I can remember is that it ended too quickly and also that all along my head kept whispering, "Now I know why birds sing."

Love

Hi Mieke

Thanks for letting us know about the site rating error. We're working on it and hope to have it fixed by the evening. Excited about receiving the cds. Thanks again.

love

Hi Jasjit,

Isn´t it great to sometimes have these burst outs of creativity lol
You did a very good job on those cards :)

Amazing story about the paragliding. I guess when i had been there ´standing in your shoes`, i probably would have done the same.

I had those experiences on fairs. Remember that i went to much of them when i was a child and in my teens too. Nothing could give me more joy than for instance swinging in those large ´bargy´ swings they used to have on fairs. And of course other swings that did go round and round lol. Later roller coasters had my special interest. First in reality and when i was a member of that Computer Club we made one virtually, in 3D, great fun!

It changed when my children were born. My husband and i went on a holiday for a week without the children (who could stay with friends of ours) to Germany. Here the mountains are not even that high (more hilly). But we went up on a very steep small road to a little romantic hotel on the top. I was looking out of the window into a depth of about 500 meters and suddenly got so scared that i couldn´t move. I told my husband to turn around and go back the moment we were at the top. Couldn´t bear the thought to drive this road each day of our holiday.
Guess it had much to do with this heavy responsibility i felt of being a mother.
This fear always has been a riddle to me and even now it has not gone away totally, although flying in a plane for the first time was a great experience :)

Hi Anusheh, you´re welcome :)

Much love,
Mieke

you have quite bursts of creativity jasjit, i thought somebody wrote it from some text...

and you have lived life to the hilt it seems reading your tours and your flying ...i would have felt/done the same if i were in this situation...enjoyed the description/scenario very much...

sorry to write a short note as there is great problm with light and battery is just a few minutes more...

mieke, i think fear of heights is quite common...

hi anushehia...

IF THE FILM TITANIC WERE MADE IN INDIA:

1) There would be 10 times as many people on the ship

2) There would be a song with Kate Winslet in a white saree and of
course singing in the rain!

3) The movie could have been called "Pyar Kiya To Marna Kya"

4) Hero and Heroine would float in cold water for days and still
survive, but the villian would die in the first dip.

5) The iceberg could have been sent by the heroine's father to teach
the hero a lesson.

6) None of the women would float due to heavy designer sarees.

And last but not least

7) Half of the rescue boats would be reserve for SC/ST/OBC

Sat Sri Akal all
i dont know how i landed on this blog. and i dont know why i gave it a reading. i liked u guyz talkin abt life and fun. And u guyz look to be pretty mature My regards to u all . and if u dont mind i wud like to know more abt u people
Sat Sri Akal n god bless u all
Karan Gill