this one was hilarious but at the same time also brought tears to my eyes. its an article i read in one of the most amazing newspapers of india-i love this paper for its opinions and editorials-quite valued i would say. but cutting chase here is what the children had to say:

Dear God, Are you really invisible or is that just a trick? Lucy

Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you have now? Jane

Who draws the lines around the countries?Nan

I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only four people in our family and I can never do it.Nan

How did you know you were God? Who told you? Charlene

It's OK that you made different religions but don't you get mixed up sometimes? Arnold

How come you did all those miracles in the old days and don't do any now? Seymour

I was watching TV when the Challenger shuttle exploded. That was a sad thing. Was there anything that you could have done? Were you mad because they came too close to your territory? We're sorry. Jose

no wonder that children are considered close to god or may be god himself. that is one reason i love talking to children.....coz the answers one gets comes directly from the realms of pure consciousness. in children the "I"ness is not developed at all. have you ever watched children doing something. they get immersed in it-totally lost in their work. something which zen guys try to reach. no wonder all enlightened men talk of men becoming children again if they were to realize the truth. but i would say that becoming children won't lead one to the truth but the realization of truth would make one a child for sure.

i guess most people when they grow up, become worse than children because they remain like children(unconscious about what they do, not knowing why they do things) and also develop all these prejudices on their way and get shut down.......closed hearts, closed minds. things won't happen like this. and of course this unconsciousness is the reason why children though closer to god are unaware of it and so cannot be enlightened. YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE THAT YOU ARE AWARE-ONLY THEN.

also read something about Gurdjieff-the great guy of europe in early part of last century. lived in france. his path was also that of self-awareness. this thing which i read, was of forming or being a part of the group so that each person can keep vigil over others and wake them up in turns or when required. something which goes by the concept of 'satsanga' in hindi-sat meaning truth and sanga meaning company......so true company. good idea but some people may not need that. first heard of gurdjieff from the one of my gurus-Osho-one of the most recent gyana yogis of all times i would say. he might want me to take sanyas if he were here but i would decline that coz i wish to do things while still being in this world.....its all in the mind i would say or is it in the no-mind!!

by the way, saw 2 movies today. natural born killers and paycheck. the first one about a romanto-psychotic killer couple and the other a futuristic thriller. the first one had a happy ending i might say coz after countless murders the couple finally come together-how romantic! but one thing that i liked in that movie was-a demon can only be killed with love. woooo, that was original(may be not). as for the second movie-u know how they go. but i have this problem that i don't remember the names of the movies and umpteen times end up watching the same movies again till i realize what i am doing. so everytime i get movies i am kinda apprehensive that it would turn out to be something i have seen before. thankfully today i was spared. i watched two movies for the first time :-)) HOT.