It was a haunted house, the one inside a garden by the side of the river. Some unhappy ghosts lived there for a long period. The house was an earmarked haunt of the Holy Ghost, but the Holy Ghost would come only when many tough conditions were fulfilled by the wannabe ghost sighters. That rarely happened and so all the ghosts were living peacefully. But not exactly happily, for, while one ghost lived (or rather existed) in a content mode, the others were none too pleased. The happy one was the appointed boss which made the bossed upon ghosts very unhappy. When guest ghosts came to their haunt to haunt for varied periods of time, these unhappy ghosts found happiness in getting news, especially from the newly dead ones. The happiest topic of their conversations was their death. They had attained the status of ghosts by virtue of them all being done in. The devious ways of their killers and how they gave their opponents a bloody nose and a run for their money before turning ghosts was a very passionate subject.
They wished that these visiting ghosts would stay long enough, so that they may party hard or trouble their keeper ghost but these went back to be born again.
There was one pesky ghost which popped in amongst them quite often but refused to stay dead and again popped out into life.
The living and the dead were both irritated with him for his popping habits. How to hang him so that he gets booted out of both life and death is what baffles all of them. Anybody got an idea?
Swami Sampurnananda
Nilambar Mukherjee Garden House
Old Math, Belur Math
9 August 2006
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