Hey Gautam,

Why do you think it is important for us to get a play-by-play commentary of your personal fixation to reach far away summits?

Perhaps some might have been more inclined to get regular updates if your missions were noble and meaningful (and less vain)like going to the streets of Calcutta or Pretoria, for example, to assist children in need?

If you don't have anything meaningful to write about, why don't you leave this space to those who do?

Dear Mallika and Admin,
Just curious, why did you allow for AJ's message to be posted?
Surely, Gautam is doing something none of us have ever had the skills, courage and drive to do. He has chosen his path, his way to help others. So many more of us are here on this earth are doing next to nothing about helping out our fellow humans. I don't think it is wise or smart for any of us to criticize Gautuam. That you allowed such a comment to be posted...is deeply disappointing and sad.

Cinda

Thank you Gautam for coming here and giving us updates on your day to day adventures. Inspiration is one of the most valuable gifts a person can give...and it can be done in countless ways.

"A man may have never entered a church or a mosque, nor performed any ceremony; but if he realizes God within himself, and is thereby lifted above the vanities of the world, that man is a holy man, a saint, call him what you will..."
~Vivekananda

Taken from Dr.Wayne Dyer's "Inspiration, Your Ultimate Calling"

In Spirit,
Cinda

Gautam: In light of the pressure and oxygen changes, I wonder that the pressure to achieve such a monumental record for India might also be adding to the stomach upsets!

Cinda--Also "In Light Of....," Gautam's already historical acheivement for India, as a nation, let alone "Friends Without Borders, or the "Everest Peace Project," this doesn't sound like "our" AJ--maybe we've got another viral infection that likes to post fraudulently as another blogger.

You know Cinda--those who have nothing better to do than pit people against each other--people who are in fact, "not against each other!" Dave

Dear Cinda,

Realistically, why is it important, and to what advantage is it to the rest of us that we must get regular updates about this gentleman's obsession with challenging Mother Nature? Does not my previous post speak for itself?

Perhaps, you and a few others are interested, but most us aren't and thus the space can be better used by those who have something really important and meaningful to say!

Dear Gautam Patil, climb high.

Congratulations on your feats. By challenging nature we learn about nature and about ourselves. I am sure you are not doing all this for vanity and to be a spokesperson for some makers of climbing gear international corporations.

When you are rested and have time for introspection, could you please tell us what did you learn - not the spiritual/religious awakenings. Most of your posts are just routine stuff. Are you keeping a diary of your thoughts?

I admire you, man. And I wish you success.

Dear Mallika,

Thanks for the wise words. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and, understandably, not everybody will agree. I express how I feel and that is the beauty of free speech.

AJ.

AJ,
"challenging Mother Nature?"...I believe the word is "embracing", like that of many Spiritual Masters, they become one with nature in order to heal others.

Gautam,
GREAT use of the space here on this blog site! Please keep coming back.

Dave, thank you so much for the insight...I think you may be right!

{{{AJ}}} love and prayers to you,

Cinda

Dear Cinda,

Thanks for the 'wishes'. But I resent the notion of 'spirituality' the hereafter, and all similar religion-based nonsence!

Peace to you and yours!

{{{Peace to you AJ}}}

All the Best,
Cinda

In my humble opinion; I suppose that, having a quest, a desire, is a productive co-movement which serves two purposes: 1)self-desire 2)co-productive flow of positive movement.

What Gautam Patil is doing, is in fact taking us ALL, to a higher place!

Gautam Patil is a "Spirit, in Motion"!

Climb High, climb well!

North
http://spiritsinmotion.blogspot.com/

Bhagwan: Not that it matters to you--but I'm proud of your comments to Gautam.

AJ--not that it matters to you either--but I'm embarrassed for you; I doubt you could walk 1,000 paces in Gautam Patil's "boots," at this point; let alone set multiple records of achievement for your peoples, your nation, and the world--let alone what this accomplishment means for the organizations that Gautam "strives for"--such as the banner on his back represents, "Friends Without Borders."

You surprise me AJ, that these words actually come from such a long time poster as yourself--maybe you will sponsor an organization called "Borders Without Friends," when you go for climbing your next ant-hill.

Guess Mallika's relentless stance for "Freedom of Speech" can also tolerate my disgust at such pathetic remarks as started this blog--and towards a man, and his group, who are at 25,000+- feet above sea level; ab-soul-utely stuns me such small-mindedness still predominates in this "civilized" world. Dave

Nice job...curious, how do you get funding to do this?

Dave,

I do not need to apologise for any of my comments. I stand my them. I will always call it as I see it and so can you. You are very much entitled to your opinion as I am mine. You and a few others are, obviously, enthralled by this fellow's personal mission.

Look at his penultimate post, how many substantive responses did it receive?

All things are relative, Dave.

AJ.

AJ,
Quality not quantity.

Gautam is also entitled to "Free Speech", as you are,...not just a selected few.

Peace,
Cinda

AJ: Good to hear from you--I was thinking throughout the day, that I owed you and Bhagwan an apology for jumping on either of you--I figure sometimes when people say things, maybe there is something else bugging them.

Patty says, from "A Course in Miracles," that we are never angry for the reasons we think.

The earlier comment just didn't sound like the AJ I've read--I wondered that there is an issue for you, about there being enough "cyber-space" to accommodate what is worthwhile, and what is not.

Clearly, the Chopras, and Shekhar, will allow us to say anything we want, FOC, except for porn and certain kinds of ads.

It is their graciousness, and defense of free speech, that allows us to be at this "Intentblog party."

I do not wish to wear out my welcome, hopefully in any fashion or form; nor do I wish, in any way, to diminish our right to disagree--we've learned immeasurable and invaluable things amongst us all--from that greatest of platforms--that we agree-to-disagree, and whether we like each other or not, we learn to respect, and treasure, other viewpoints, other cultural contexts, endless diversity, and not hunt each other down with the intent to obliterate someone else's common humanity, and dignity.

If we can't learn here, how to not only find peace, but "be peace" itself, than we have no business suggesting how the rest of the world should accomplish this--we've been given a gift here, this place, this space that sometimes feels like a long-lost home, and to learn to work with this possibility as a true reality.

If you don't like what's posted about Gautam, why bother responding at all then; just scroll on my friend--if the Chopras aren't worried about enough space, why are you--we are guests in their "Cyber-Home," N'est Pas?

Thanks for writing AJ--Dave

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Dear Cinda,

Your post above makes no sense! Please explain!

AJ.

Dave,

Thanks for the comments!

I am the least worried about the effective usage of space. It is the frivolous, 'vainful' usage of same that I take issue with!

Look at Mallika's latest post: she brings an issue of real substance and real importance to the table! Won't you agree? I forgive you for your 'knee-jerk' reaction!

Regards.

But, AJ; just your lamenting your disdain; is also, an, as you state: "vainful usage" of same?

Stale-mate, in every respect.

North

P.S. child-parenting experiences really, ARE as real as it gets..the rest AJ; is adult, ego-play.

AJ Darling,
no worries...time to move on here.
How about if we all hug and make up! Seems as though we are all in need of some TLC.

My focus will no longer "entertain" justifying simple truths...they will stand on their own, with or without aid from any of us.

"The thing we surrender to becomes our power"
~Ernest Holmes

In Spirit and peace,
Cinda

AJ: Good to hear from you, again!

Since I'm one of the greatest violaters of putting frivolous and vain posts on the Intentblog; again, my apologies for all the irritation I've caused you, and most certainly others, as well.

I leave you with two considerations, again: "One man's trash is another man's treasure"--and I find all kinds of jewels hidden in some of the shortest, or even ridiculous posts.

Bhagwan's, or Tanzan's, if you (he) will, "hits buttons" in my mind, and emotions, that few others can do with their words--soooo....what is it he shows me about my own paradigms--kind of like the Eastern Mystics say; it is not as important how you act in this world, as how you react to it. "A Course in Miracles" also verifies this to the deepest levels of the soul's fabric.

Sooo.....AJ--Leela's, Tara's, and Mallika's discourses and experiential activities with "human doo-doo," or popo/poo-poo, as it were, are both a source of great amusement to many of us, a deep sharing on her part about intimate family "stuff," and her topics bring forward many anecdotal stories, lessons-in-life and motherhood, and "humanhood," that are invaluable jewels I would not otherwise have as grist-for-the-mill, as a life-long bachelor coming on 48 years-of-age.

Why is it a child, or an Avatar, will see an entire living universe in a blade of grass, or ponder in their young minds what all this "hub-bub" is about, regarding both the word "shit," and it's effect on others, in a variety of contexts, or better yet (for learnings sake!), a tub full of "shoot" floating around, with a wide-eyed young lady curious about the commotion that is enough to cause a possibly very interesting "contract-signing" to go downriver--as if it were an unimportant piece of "S#$!"

Why do you come to a blog, AJ, if you do not like's it's frivolous topics and responses?

And what's insignificant about one of "our brothers, or sisters," carrying a 60-80-100 lb. pack on their backs, while walking up to the roof-of-the-world, in such treacherous conditions--how would you feel if something happened along that most-spectacular of physical journeys, to Gautam, or his "mates" along this momentous climb.

Is it not strange beyond reckoning, that with India being the home of some of the highest peaks in the world, that Gautam is the first, from India, to bring this seven-peak feat, all the home to this magnificent land of such diverse peoples, and nature?

Consider how much "space" is now Gautam's reality; and how utterly insignificant is our "controversy" in this blog, in the greater scheme of things, as compared to what he is seeing and reckoning with, to say the very least about the physical endurance alone that each of his steps requires, as he and his group go through the next month.

Have you ever been in a situation, no matter how healthy, where your breathing is sooo.....labored that it feels like your chest is crushing in on itself; and that, for each step you take, and it's -40 degrees Farhenheit, and the wind is blowing steady at 50-100 mph; but you keep going--why does he do it--just because, because it's not been done before, and those mountains were calling him to a greater purpose, one that he himself may not know exactly what "pulls him" to it--except for a dream, a vision, he had in sixth grade!

We should all be so dedicated to what marvels we dreamt we would do, "when we grew up." Carl Jung talked about this late in his life; go back to your childhood "loves, and passions--see what you did then," if you want to know what your soul's true hunger, and purpose for being here, is!

What did you love to do, or think to do, when you were 5-7-11, AJ? That is what it is to "follow your soul's bliss," and no excuses as to why you "can't, or it's impossible, or...., or....." Dave

....And AJ, and Bhagwan, and every Intentblogger: You're never too old to have a happy childhood!

Sincerely and Respectfully, Dave

Dave,

Cinda wants to hug and make up! Should I give you a hug, too? :::}}}}

AJ: Some years back, I started hugging all those that came to me for readings, and then, pretty much whenever, and wherever, the "Spirit" moved me to do so!

At the time, I had read about "the hugging judge," who was a retired Federal Judge who decided to use his time just going around hugging everybody; he'd get on the bus with a box full of doughnuts, starting with the bus driver, and....well, you get the idea.

Medicine is now studying the effects that hugging has on patients, when their nurses hug them.

They've found that the T-cell count of not only the patient, but the nurse as well, goes up!

Wayne Dyer takes it one step further these days: he says that the same thing happens whenever an "act of kindness" occurs between two people; and that, just witnessing an act of kindness also spikes the "observer's" immune system!

Sooo....as Dr. Dyer likes to say: "I send you all green lights"--hug away, my friend--it is very fun (in spite of the few times people have recoiled from me as if I had the plague--mostly family members tho'!--except my young niece, and even now, my "recoiling" sister initiates hugging me, which she has never done before in her life!)--Dave

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