Mahakumbh 69-72: Opening moves & Episode 74 Page 5 - Page 5

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

Shymaladi we do not have any clue on what was Dansh plan when he got the books. Was it to give Shiva and then detonate those bombs appropriately so that Shiva if possible Rudra too get murdered. Presence of those detonators make me think Dansh had that plan.

Anyways with other Garuds showing up somehow all plans whether it is that of Dansh or that of Rudra were thrown out of balance. Dansh was forced to distract Rudra. If he had shot Shiva of course Rudra would have bumped Leela and gone after him so did the other Garuds. So Dansh took the option of shooting Leela and getting away with Shiva and books.

I guess Dansh needs Shiva alive not for the books, but for Rudra. He wants Rudra to come to that camp once again, to take him on, in his place than fight him where he has the strength. Rudra coming to get Shiva , the chances are high. If Dansh bump Shiva off, then Rudra would be trying other ways to save Amrit than lookout for Naga hideout.

Drish not pouncing on those books some how I am not seeing learnability in Nag guru. I mean a search for knowledge. He is more controlled by Dansh, the guru of Nanu appears much more powerful. Nag Guru is more confusing to me than Leela or Maya to be frank. His behavior doesn't add up. Something, somewhere is missing and I am unable to connect the link at this point.

Originally posted by: happychappy

BG = Bhagvat Gita

This is an Indian show, dear Shyamala...😆 we thrive on chaos. And slow learners... And will rise like a phoenix from the ashes..

Victory of the good can only happen last week last day last minute..

P.S. your impatience with young Rudra suggests you have spent too many years in "foreign" parts!!😆 Though I can quite imagine you shaking him out till he was fixed...😃

Originally posted by: sashashyam

My dear Vishu,

Thank you, both for liking this one and more so for coming back to my threads.

Now let me tell you something about HH the Dalai Lama .

First, no, not Mr. Lama, my dear! It is His Holiness. His own name is Tenzing Gyatso,and the Dalai Lama is a spiritual post that is always filled thru the re-incarnation of the last one, and the finding of the successor thru a thorough search following certain rules. The present Dalai Lama is the 14th in the line, and his seat was in Lhasa, in the Potala Palace. Now of course it has all been taken over by the Chinese, who have reduced Tibetans to a minority in their own land thru the relentless immigration of Han Chinese into Tibet.

The Dalai Lama fled to India over the Himalayan passes in 1959, as soon as China invaded an occupied Tibet, and it is to the eternal credit of the Govt.of India under Prime Minister Nehru that we not only gave political asylum to him and several lakhs of Tibetan refugees who came over for decades after 1959,but looked after all of them very well, and helped preserve their Tibetan culture. We still do.

When I was a Joint Secretary (Head of a Division)in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi from 1988-1992, one of my duties, apart from my normal territorial division foreign affairs work, was taking care of HH, except where his internal travels were concerned. This included accompanying him to the airport when he left on a foreign visit, and receiving him on arrival. In December 1990, when he returned after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, as he and I were driving back from New Delhi International Airport at about 2 am, there were Tibetan families, all holding lit candles and flowers, lining the airport road for 3 kms, braving the Delhi winter cold! It was an incredible sight, to see the joy in their faces as he blessed them.

I also visited him in Dharamsala, his headquarters, and met him later in Washington, when I was the Deputy Ambassador there in the mid-1990s.

All in all, I have spent a lot of time with HH. He was, and is, a very serene person, somewhat like Rudra is now, and one could see at a glance that he would be incapable of hatred or anything negative at all. But he had a quality Rudra lacks totally, he had a great sense of humour and of mischief, and he used to laugh a lot at various odd political developments in India and outside. he was also very mechanically inclined, and his great hobby was repairing watches and clocks, though sometimes he could not put them back together!

I count myself blessed that I had this wonderful and rare opportunity to see him up close. He gave me a bronze Buddha statue as a farewell gift when I left that post and went on my first ambassadorial assignment, with his blessings. It has pride of place in our home.

To revert to Mahakumbh, the guru is not equated with God, my dear. He or she is like a conduit, thru whom the grace and the wisdom if the Divine passes to the shishya, for the shishya is not equipped to handle that on his/her own. Whence the cardinal importance of the right conduit, which neither distorts the message nor filters it and holds part of it back. It is a great blessing to get the right guru.

Shyamala