Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

een slightly deaf because he used to shout quite loudly, and I
believe his wife was always ‘bugging’ him about one thing or
another. She used to work, elderly as she was, and I think the
man must have been retired. Anyway, one morning as she was
leaving, after the usual quarrel no doubt, his voice must have
been heard up to high heaven as he called after her, ‘Seventy
years of age and still going to work.’ Personally, I thought he
should have been gratified for two reasons; a little more
financial help was forthcoming (unless she hid it), and in her
absence he might enjoy a measure of peace!!!!
Life certainly does have its brighter moments, and I am
sure Mr. Catt often must have thought, ‘Oh dear, those
humans, why do they not agree, if only to differ?’ As I may
have mentioned before, cats cannot stand friction, and that is
one reason why they suffer from nervous and physical ailments.
If there is too much friction and lack of care a cat will give
up, just lie down and die, or he may disappear altogether.
As I look back I see that a good part of my own life has
been spent seemingly in waiting—but waiting for what—and
even if at times it has appeared I am seeing ‘through a glass
darkly’ (Bible quotation), always at the back of my mind I
FELT there was something behind it all. Now I actually KNOW
that all the periods of seclusion, especially after meeting Carl,
and during the times following his departure from this planet,
were for a special reason.
Since I have mentioned a Bible quotation, and one has
always interested me greatly, I am going to digress for a
moment to tell of an experience of two days ago, when two
middle-aged to elderly men knocked on our apartment door. I
opened the door to these men and they asked me if I had a few
minutes to spare. ‘What for?’ I asked, being slightly suspicious
of strangers accosting one in our city these days, as the
affluence seems to be attracting too much crime. ‘Well,’ one of
them announced, ‘we are from the Bible Society and we would
like to have a chat with you.’ Politely I replied that, ‘No, I
don't think I wish to chat’ (I had rather a lot of things to do,
especially as it was early in the morning) ‘for you see we here
are of the Buddhist belief.’ They took a step backwards, then
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