Having read your penultimate response, I would imagine ‘The Committee’ would advise to withhold display of your DRASP in this case, as you do appear to be ‘on the right lines’, as they say (unless it’s ‘all talk, no action’, ie just “words, words, words”)…

So, keep up ‘The Good (or rather, ‘The God’) Work’ – only another dozen or so lifetimes to go – if you’re lucky! See you in Heaven then, ok?!

Given your reply in defence of what you wrote, it would seem that my fears are thankfully unfounded however. I shall therefore on this occasion extend you the benefit of the doubt, and trust that your protestations regarding your innocence were indeed proclaimed in an honest fashion.

P.S. On a more positive note, please accept my gratitude and thanks for providing me with a precious opportunity to attire myself in full DRasp QUEEN regalia with matching accoutrement.

As the great Master used to say, ‘Hope that helps’!

Which reminds me, as you have come to visit…I think I will put on one of my DRASP QUEEN frocks in your honour. You see – you have turned me into a cross-dresser! I think you might be one too, sometimes doubling up as a moderator? Oh well, whatever turns you on, duckie! (MOD: DREAM ON, ASHOK!!).

As Lokesh has said much in this thread on the need to go in and explore one’s own interior world, I would like to dedicate the following contribution on the subject to you, SD, as a token of my appreciation for all your sterling and most earnest of efforts in this regard:

On Self-Enquiry and Self-Remembering: Going-in and Coming-out again.

Are you deeply intimate with yourself, and the world around you?

Self-remember that we are each here for a very unique individual experience of spiritual growth and expansion.

Whilst we meet companions who walk alongside us for a given time, ultimately we must navigate our own distinct path. At each fork in the road, it is our work to go within and connect with our inner GPS to show us the way forward.

If we can be quiet and attentive in these moments, our inner wisdom can be revealed and deeper intimacy of knowledge and self becomes available and subsequently flowers in the exterior world. The clarity we find within being then reflected without, in signs, nods, aromas and confirmations from the Universe.

What subtle messages are stirring within a soul uniquely yours, fully open to the energies of creation? What new direction might you like to explore?

Whatever the nature of the spiritual challenge that presents itself, do not forget to pull the chain after overcoming another of life’s many obstacles, and self-remembering of course, to wipe one’s own botty first!

But ultimately, so what? What’s the point of being ‘fascinated’ by such apparent ‘glamour’ if one isn’t prepared to actually follow the man’s teachings, or at least try out his recommended methods?

What are we, just poor, bored people on the look-out for an amusing ‘show’ to fill the inner vacuum, and/or to stuff ourselves with a bit more useless knowledge about ‘great men’s deeds of the past’?

Thanks for all your efforts. Sorry to hear about the lost work written for my benefit…you never know, it might turn up as unexpectedly as it vanished! That’s the way God planned it, I suppose ( or as you said, “Osho was working on you”)…which, believe it not, is a line I heard in a song sung by some Christian religious group, I saw on Bible-Belt TV (a freak show that caught my morbid interest), in Texas, U.S.A, about the same time some here were on the Ranch!

Now, I just wanted to say that Gurdjieff was, to say the very least, a bit of an unusual and eccentric character and therefore of great attraction and interest to me personally. To my mind, he was certainly more colourful than many who put themselves forward as gurus.

Noted for his harsh and volatile personality, I warmed to him when I read that he had been dubbed “Monsieur Bonbon” by some of the poor children in Paris to whom he gave free sweets whilst taking his regular evening walk. Apparently, it delighted him that these children would just come and snatch the proferred sweets from his hand and run off without thanking him. For Gurdjieff, it seems, it was enough of a thank-you that they took what was on offer.

In addition, I love to watch the ‘dances’ he created, although I find them impossible to perform myself!

By the way, I would just like you to know that I sent a previous reply to this one yesterday, which the Moderator in his inestimable wisdom deemed unworthy, and ‘binned’, just in case you thought I had neglected you in some way by not answering sooner! The piece in question was not abusive or negative in any way about you incidentally!

MOD: THAT POST OF YOURS (RE SIESTAS) WAS LEFT OUT AS IT WAS IRRELEVANT TO THE TOPIC, ASHOK.