Dear Aachi,

This is such a wonderful cute story that i couldn´t resist replying to it :)

You truly captured the essence of being in your story.

I experienced sort of a same experience.

A few weeks ago i finished the translation of Harb´s book Self Designed Universe. It was a difficult book to understand and translate but somehow i became the book and it went by itself.
But the most beautiful gift that i did not expect and received was the inspiration of making a number of poems for myself that are so valuable to me that i am forever grateful that i translated this book. Hereunder the poem that i myself like the most:

LOVE

GOD means all and everything
the word LOVE means the same
List Of Virtually Everything
Shakespeare said it: What´s in a name

It is the feeling of the thing
that tells you what it is
the beingness in everything
that really gives the bliss

The silence of the full surrender
the embrace so very tender
the witness of the very thing
that´s really all and everything

Love, Mieke

Dear Aachi,

A marvellous piece straight out from the heart! Thank you! My day could not have started in a better way...opening the blog and reading your piece.

I read somewhere once "Let Life come to you. Don't run after it!"

Love
Chaitali

Hi Aachi,

Read your piece too. An inspiring one as always :) but will be back on it later on :)

congratulations jasjit, anusheh, chaitali...! thanks to the posts of the likes of aachi and mieke besides of course yours as always, your blog seems to be developing the power to send people like me into instant samadhi.

aachi, you seem to have the power to convert even a bar into a meditation center lol.

with you all, harb

Dear Aachi,
That sure was an inspiring piece as I have been planning to keep a bird bath in my garden with a bowl of food for the birds - I think it will be a great sight for my li'l kids to watch the birds feed and splash etc in the heat - I better get down o it now....
I like the way this little story grew with you each day - well put.

Hi Harb!

No problem with going into samadhi but do share the experinces when you come out of it. lol

From what I have read so far of Aachi's posts according to me he is a person who has got this wonderful power of deep thinking. I guess that is why the place of going into 'meditation' does not matter to him. Lucky!

I have often found noisy places help me think. The reason being after a point all the different noises merge into one singular humming sound, helping me rest my mind.

Of lately as I was telling Jasjit and Anusheh my car seems to have become the place for many of my realizations. As I drive from home to office and back so many things get sorted out. Ofcourse this doesn't mean I'm not alert while driving!

very nice aachi ! ; - )

i understand chaitali, what you do in a car i do while walking. when i used to write my book i would sometimes come running from my walk to write a few lines which had suddenly come to my mind while walking, they were so original and fitting...

Aachi

What a lovely post. Truly outside our little human world all creatures have a fairly uncomplicated and wholesome ability to interact. Once you gave them a 'whole' meal, water and rice, they knew you were serious about feeding them lol.

I too have wondered about the sparrows for long. Actually an aunt who lives in England was lamenting how all the sparrows in the U.K have ben eaten up by domestic cats and have disappeared altogether. she would save her leftover chappatis, not wanting to dump them (like a good Indian) and then feed them to the sparrows for many years until they disappeared. I tried to hint perhaps she killed off their very English stomachs with her Indian rotis and was herself the root cause of their diappearance. Needless to say she was not amused lol.

Then suddenly this Feb I saw the sparrows return to my garden, first a few and then in droves and now suddenly there are many around. Wonder if they have become migratory birds or have I just manifest them into the hologram of my universe LOL????

Our feathered friends are indeed a charming world. I have a bottle brush tree which comes upto my balcony and exotic birds like the long-tailed- treepie, durga tuntuni, kingfisher, blue jays, brown speckled doves etc make my morning quite a treat. the more I have focussed on them the more the ree grwos abundant with mynas, a green peigeon like fat bird, sparrwos and of course the occasional crows. Often I find the doves have begun to stray really close, dive for the crumbs of my morning biscuit and even nestle by my glass window when I'm indoors. They singularly make my mornings Zen. :)

Mieke

what a lovely poem!

Hello Aachi
What a lovely piece you had me in fits of laughter. Wise and funny at the same time. Animals can really do it to one though. For the last two days my dog hadn't eaten his usual amount of breakfast so the first day I took the remainder of his food and paced up and down the street looking for a dog to feed. Usually there are dogs at every two steps but this day I walked nearly half a mile, a bowl of dogfood in my hand and no sight of any dog. The next day there was food left over again so I set out again bowl in hand and this time to make the food a little tastier added a cooked egg to it. No dog in sight. Finally I saw a bitch not too far off and skipped over to her excited that I had found my target audience. She strolled up to the bowl, too a sniff, turned around and walked off. In the meanwhile there were passerbys who were looking at me strangely and some burst out laughing when I picked up the bowl and started walking home (Actually I kind of ran home:-)So I guess the animal kingdom is on a trip of its own really.

Next time I'm going to try the water bowl along with the food lol

Hi Annie, Chipmunk, Meike and Harb

Harbji congratulations to you too but I dont think we are ready to let you go off into samadhi as yet. There are many more interesting conversations to be had lol

Meike thanks for the beautiful poem.

Thank you Jasjit and Anusheh :)
It was my pleasure.
And Aachi, thanks again for that article!

no problem anusheh, even if i go you know how to bring me back into this world lol :) just one will do....

hello jasjit, no hi shi...

anusheh, perhaps the bitch and your dog are silent lovers. the bitch just wanted to sniff the food already sniffed by her lover...now call it 'anhe nu andhere wich door di sujhi lol.

alternatively, the egg could be bird-flued...

Hi all,

Mieke,

that is a lovely poem! I liked this sentence a lot "the beingness in everything
that really gives the bliss". :)

Dear Harb,

the beauty and power is in you as I have always maintained. your own purity makes you see the wonderful always and everywhere. :)

Dear Annie, Chipmunk

thanks. :). I think the bird bath is a wonderful idea Chipmunk. connecting with nature is a powerful way to learn. in one of my bird watching episodes I discovered how parrots taste ripe mangoes. the mango which gets ripened has its juice more in the lower part due to gravity. A parrot comes and sits on the branch with a mango and does an acrobat by bending down ala a monkey and makes a hole in the lower part. the juice trickles down and it gulps it down greedily.:)

Dear Chaitali,

thanks a lot. my thoughts come in spurts and are inspired by everyday happenings. and it is true that when the noise is more the concentration is high for as you said it becomes a hum and distraction is minimised.

hello rohit,

thanks a lot.

Dear Jasjit,

you have named so many bird species. It looks like you have been interested in ornithology for some time. :)

its amazing how we can actually understand and classify the colony of birds that live in ur neighbourhood. for example there is a Mr. Crane, loads of mynahs, koels and parrots with the rare sparrows around my colony. but the best I like are the red vented bulbuls....they are beautiful birds...i even named a pair that nested in a balcony near my tree as Abhishek and Aishwarya! :)

Dear Anusheh,

its so beautiful the way you carried the bowl in search of another dog to feed. many of us would have ignored it. but I find a very sensitive understanding and...whats the word....universality in it.

much love. :)

Haan Harbji meno pata ai. Es liye mein ik bann ke rakha hai us moment lae. :-)

wow what a beautiful story!!

I just found out about his blog... and i can't believe that i forget how i did..
CoOoL...

Hi Amaru

Glad you liked the site and found it too. Hope to hear more from you here. :)

hello amaru,

glad you liked the story. wish to see more of you in these spaces in the future.

lots of love