{"id":15436,"date":"2025-07-03T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=15436"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:30:28","slug":"happy-birthday-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=15436","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!!!???"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!!!???<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by RAMAKANT TIWARI\" href=\"https:\/\/niratishaya.wordpress.com\/author\/niratishaya\/\" rel=\"author\">RAMAKANT TIWARI\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ramakant-Tiwari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-14163\" src=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ramakant-Tiwari-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ramakant-Tiwari-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ramakant-Tiwari-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ramakant-Tiwari-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/footer>\n<div class=\"entry-content clear\">\n<p><strong>I am often asked my date of birth, then my quizzical expression confounds others quite a bit !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then I am suspected of not being aware of my date of birth at all in spite of my saying that I was born in Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital, Ville Parle in Mumbai, brought up as a Mumbaikar and blessed with a certified date of birth-card issued by the hospital with time of birth recorded in hrs. and minutes accurately !! Then the question that I ask before offering an accurate reply leaves some of us aghast. What is that question ?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is date of birth on which day we leave the Real world, the subtle world, embody ourselves into a gross, mortal form of existence, then serenaded into this world by being born to our mothers, a world holding joys and woes, days and nights, peaks of enlightenment and ignorance, extremes of intelligence and stupidity, climaxes of nobility and depravity, extremes of renunciation and indulgence, extremes of frugality and extravaganza\u2026a world that offers ample opportunities to transform ourselves in a direction of our inclination\u2026wherein we are extended an opportunity to work out our past\u00a0<em>Karma<\/em>-s, be rendered purer and consecrated, a world that periodically beholds decline of\u00a0<em>Dharma<\/em>\u00a0followed by its resurgence orchestrated by an\u00a0<em>Avatara<\/em>, a world wherein every mind is\u00a0<em>Kuruksetra<\/em>\u2013<em>Dharmaksetra<\/em>\u00a0whereupon attrition between dark and bright forces continuously goes on, a world that witnesses rivers of blood flowing across its bosom as a measure of omissions, commissions and nemesis of some depraved ones\u2026a world that everyone is destined to quit compulsorily\u2026a world that offers immense opportunities and pitfalls too all equally well\u2026<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there is yet another date of birth on which we dis-incarnate\/dis-embody ourselves, transform ourselves into subtle beings, waft away into an exquisite, strange world of subtlety\u2026a world wherein our TERMINAL\u00a0<em>KARMA<\/em>-REPORT is presented to\u00a0<em>Yamaraja Maharaja<\/em>\u00a0assisted by a retinue of His Ministers viz.\u00a0<em>Citragupta<\/em>\u00a0etc., awarded rewards and punishments to be undergone on various planes of existence, a world wherein there are 14 levels of existence ranging from the lowest to the highest, where no\u00a0<em>Karma<\/em>\u00a0can be enacted, where profound tranquillity prevails, from where most of the inhabitants are dis-inclined to revisit this gross, miserable world, from where emancipated ones never revert to cycles of mortality, a world of precise, nano-accuracy, a world wherein no recommendations work and corruption impossible\u2026\u2026<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Once upon a time\u00a0<em>Svami Abhedanandaji Maharaja<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Guru<\/em>\u2013<em>Bhai\u00a0<\/em>of\u00a0<em>Svami\u00a0Vivekananda<\/em>, another\u00a0<em>Siddha Yogi<\/em>\u00a0par excellence, was in communion with\u00a0<em>Atma<\/em>\u00a0of his deceased friend Gauri Shankar Ghosh who had come over to meet him, in his state of deep\u00a0<em>Samadhi<\/em>. It was a unique and mystical meeting between two old friends. During discussions,\u00a0<em>Svami Abhedanandaji\u00a0<\/em>observed his old friend periodically enacting the action of spitting on the earth. A bit surprised at Ghosh\u2019 inexplicable repeated gestures, he asked his friend as to why he was behaving like that. Gauri Shankar Ghosh\u2019\u00a0<em>Atma<\/em>\u00a0communicated to the effect that Planet Earth is so unreal, so detestable, so absurd that he strongly felt like spitting over it again and again !!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which birthday do we celebrate every year ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And which birthday should be celebrated every year ??\u00a0<\/strong><strong>(49)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!!!??? 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