**From & To Satish **( New Pictures Pl see pg 163) - Page 144

This is the actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. Radio conversation released by the chief of naval operations, 10-10-95.

CANADIANS: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

AMERICANS: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision.

CANADIANS: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

AMERICANS: This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

CANADIANS: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.

AMERICANS: This is the Aircraft Carrier US LINCOLN, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic Fleet. We are accompanied with three Destroyers, three Cruisers and numerous support vessels. I DEMAND that you change your course 15 degrees north. I say again, that's one-five degrees north, or counter-measures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.

CANADIANS: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your
heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."

? C. JoyBell C.

CHAPTER 19 OF BHAGVAT GITA... I suppose

The Karma of Forwarding Emails
Bhagvad Gita – Adhyay 19

Arjun: Hey Vasudev, how can I do the most heinous and unpardonable act of forwarding email that I receive, to my friends, relatives and revered elders?

Krishna: Paarth, at this moment, none of them is your friend or foe, relative or in-law, young or old and good or evil. You have no escape from following your Net-Dharma. Make haste to log on and send off the email to one and all. That is the only Karma expected of you and Dharma you must follow.

Arjun: Hey Murari! Do not implore me to do something that pricks my conscience and stirs my soul.

Krishna: O Kunti-Putra, you are caught in the vicious circle of Maya. In this material world, you are committed to no one except to yourself, your Dharma and your mouse. emails have existed for the last 25 years and will remain long after you are gone. Rise above the Maya and perform your bounden duty.

Arjun: Lord Krishna, pray and enlighten me on how email is related to Maya.

Krishna: Vatsa, email is the 6th element in the universe – Aap, Vaayu, Jal, Agni, Aakaash and email. It is at the same time animate and
inanimate, living and dead beat. It overloads the system and fills up the hard disk. But it serves one great purpose. It leads people to believe that they are filling their time in an intellectual pursuit by reading and re-forwarding mail. It gives them a sense of achievement without investing their intellect and efforts. Like the Atman that leaves one's physical body and moves on to another, the email moves from system to system and never gets deleted or dies.

Arjun: Great Giridhaari, kindly tell me what the true attributes of email are.

Krishna: Neither fire can burn it, nor air can evaporate it. Neither can it be conquered nor can it be defeated. Email is omnipresent and immortal like your noble and eternal soul. Unlike an arrow shot from your bow, many a time the email forwarded by you, will
even return to you safely after some months or even years, allowing you to re-re-forward it to the same people.

Arjun: Great Saarathi, my salutations to you. You have opened my eyes to the cult of email. I was lost in the Maya and have been reading all the email that I keep receiving and doing no other Karma. Now on, I will just press the "Forward" button without reading any of it and send it to all and sundry, friends and foes, relatives and in-laws, young and old. That will surely bring them to their knees in this epochal battle of Good against Evil, in the Kurukshetra.

Krishna: Arjuna, victory or defeat is not in your hands. Do not ponder over the fruits of your labour. Just keep forwarding email and make one and all go bananas reading it and you will have done your supreme duty…..Tathastu

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
? Bob Marley

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."
? C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
? Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
? Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

The Gathering


He lay in the hall waiting for the box
The box that would chill,freeze the already cold body
They,them and others milled around with suitable words and
Appropriate expressions with hushed and reverent tones
The doors were laid open for visitors to come in
For even if there are no specified hours one never visits the dead late at night
for fear of the unknown and having been warned from childhood to leave the dead alone
Chairs were placed around the center of attraction and coffee was being served
and everybody circled around like a game of musical chairs but quietly seeking the exit
They came some to pay respect,some with that and also filled with morbid curiosity
To know more about death for it gnawed at their souls and warned here today gone tommorrow


More doors were opened and some came from the back entrance and left by the front
Sadly nobody mentioned the soul by name and politely enquired when the body would be removed
And what arrangements were made for his final voyage
The coffee was getting cold and stale and the body was even colder
so did not go stale and appeared hearty and hale
The crowds thinned having made peace quietly,having paid their respects
And soon only the family were left wondering about many things
Some went to their rooms for respite and to gather their thoughts and wit
some were too numb and in shock to say anything
The night came bringing dark to the already darkened souls
And the cold added to the prevailing cold.
Death lay as the body and also gently touched the living souls
for it also killed happiness and secure lives of the living
The dead go taking with them the comfort and friendship they gave when alive
They leave without permission or saying goodbyes.
They fly away without hearing our goodbyes and they leave the living wanting more
and wishing for better times.

So the dead die and go on to live in another avatar and the living die and live only
As empty shells.

Recently, the Psychic Hotline and Psychic Friends Network have launched hotlines for frogs. Here is the story of one frog and his discussing with his psychic.

A frog telephones the Psychic Hotline and is told, "You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you."

The frog says, "This is great! Will I meet her at a party, or what?"

"No," says the psychic. "Next semester in her biology class."

Q. How do crazy people go through the forest?

A. They take the psycho path.

Q. How do you get holy water?

A. You boil the hell out of it.

Q. How do you keep your husband from reading your e-mail?

A. Rename the email folder 'Instruction Manuals'