Gossip is idle talk or rumour, especially about the personal or private affairs of others. It forms one of the oldest and most common means of sharing (unproven) facts and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information transmitted. The term also carries implications that the news so transmitted (usually) has a personal or trivial nature, as opposed to normal conversation.
....from the Wikipedia.
...Gossip....a very interesting interaction wherein one gets to know more about someone than they themselves know!!
The newspapers and magazines have a special column just for it....so that we can have an interesting cuppa tea or coffee.
The side dish of gossip being the most spicy and tasty bits. Today I was in this class where we were discussing the futility of gossip and how it ate away our time and just then the person who had organised this lecture spoke about Spiritual Gossip and I translated it to Heavenly gossip, an imaginary piece of gossip in the heavens!!
Just visualise a couple of them forest spirits floating around a few years ago and laughing, with this bit of conversation:
Spirit 1: You seem to be in high spirits today....whats the news?
Spirit 2 : Ahh!! Ha Ha Ha...do you know what great fools these People are?
Spirit 1: Fools??!! I dont understand...what do you want to say?
Spirit 2 : You know this smuggler with this scary moustache...actually scarier than Lord Yama's itself?
Spirit 1 : Hmmmm…you mean the one who happened to be harmlessely drinking his cup of tea , while his men went on the deforestation spree??
Spirit 2: Yes,exactly the person am referring to!! What have you to say about his moustache….isnt it bushier than Yama’s?
Spirit 1: Hmmmm……I think you have got a point…..but then did you know something else??
Spirit 2:What?? That he uses conditioner on his moustache too??
Spirit 1:No…..!! Am not referring to the moustache, though am actually doing so….but that he is not as scary and eerie as his moustache suggests him to be!!!
Spirit 2: What do you say…is it for real?
Spirit 1: Real…???Did you think that his moustache was real??
Spirit 2: Uh..oh!!! You got me confused now….were you referring to his moustache or his attitude now??
Spirit 1: OK…Ok……Did you know that he is just nothing more than a joker playing out to be a smuggler…a dreaded one at that??
Spirit 2: Hey….what do you mean…I heard some other beings discussing this too….is it real??
Spirit 1: And do you also know that all the hype surrounding him being hunted by the police is all a hype….??
Spirit 2: Aaahhh…Now I know why there was a sudden party happening in the middle of the forest in the wee hours….Last time I heard they had brought Surround sound systems and were playing war movies….
Spirit 1: Hmmm…I had heard that too…
Spirit 2: But then…hey look who comes our way….its Lord Indra’s favourite elephant keeper…
The three give each other a Hi 5……
Spirit 2: Hey man…whats up there in the heavenly gossip??
EK: Uhhhh……There has been a lot of things happening…I am just a wee bit confused as to where I have to begin!!
Spirit 1: OMG…you mean to say having overstayed on earth we have missed out so much in Heaven?? Ok ….lemme help you ….begin with something close to your ears or follow the LIFO policy…!!!
Spirit 2: LIFO?? What’s that??
Spirit 1: ….Be an earthling when on earth…U never followed that!!!!
EK: But then whats LIFO…??
Spirit 1: Last In First Out….
EK: Uhhhh???
Spirit 1: The latest gossip dumbo!!!!
Spirit 2: good one that…..gimme a 5!!!!
EK: ….Ok…You are not gonna believe this….Rambha has developed an identity crisis…..!!!
Spirit 1: ……an identity crisis?? But why?
EK: Did you know that ever since Viswakarma in his updated version introduced the new Heavenly Cable centre…which works like a peek into the happenings in the three worlds…she has been seeing all these up and coming models and supermodels and Bollywood actresses and feels that she can no longer be of any use to Indra as the official seductress!!!
Spirit 2: OMG…is it that serious….??
Spirit 1:Ok…..I think this time around I can get closer to her playing on the sympathy card!!!
EK: Hey….also now the Asuras have brought up a rumour that’s spreading like wild fire that Indra won the seat of heaven because the entire process was already fixed…..and they are now gonna bring about the entire proceedings of the scam and try to insist on proper election pattern….there have also been talks that certain designations in the Gods’ position have to be removed as the Natural assets on Earth is depleting….
Spirit 1: Don’t tell me Heaven is facing another kind of recession???
EK: There has also been news floating around that your job on earth gets over the minute my conversation gets completed…..well that’s the latest update I received on my Mobile….And now I gotta go my way…need to spread some more news like a wildfire….cya take care!!!!
As soon as he disappeared the two spirits shot away heaven bound…..
