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Laugh Your Blues Away

Pramod Batra

Man is a strange animal! Many of us “enjoy” inflicting “self-wounds”! We all know that laughter kills stress. We also know that there is nothing as inexpensive and as easy to produce as laughter, but still we prefer producing stress, knowing very well that it is harmful for us. Our mind can produce laughter or stress. So make up your mind to laugh your worries away and your problems will disappear.
Laughter is nature’s greatest tonic. A good laugh immediately makes us feel better in every way. Read funny books. Meet funny people. See funny films – Charlie Chaplin, to start with. Hear good jokes. I have some friends – “funny ones,” like Ravi Bahl…When you think of him, your mind starts laughing. Refuse to be in the company of men and women who do not laugh. Be a sport. Never ever make a sport, if you cannot laugh at yourself. Only then can you expect people to tell you jokes which will make you and them laugh. Laughing is infectious. All this is sheer common sense. But then why don’t 86% of the people follow these simple ways to laugh and reduce the drudgery of life?

Joy and laughter as religion.

Amongst all the world’s founders of religious cults, it was only Sri Krishna who set an example by proving that a person could propound an immortal code of ethics (the Bhagavad Gita) and, at the same time, like a mortal, enjoy the good things of life: dancing, singing and flirting with pretty girls. It is not surprising that he is the most popular deity in the Hindu pantheon.

To the best of my knowledge, of the hundreds of God-men we have had in recent years, it was only Osho who understood the message of Sri Krishna and propagated a religion full of fun, laughter and goodness. Every sermon he delivered (they were most erudite), ended with a bawdy joke leaving the congregation splitting their sides with laughter. All other preachers of religion were constipated with Puritanism and most of what they had to say was in the negative: don’t do this, don’t do that, pray and lead as dull a life as you can. Not so Osho. He said:

“If you can decide that every year, for one hour, at a certain time, the whole world will laugh, I think it will help to dispel darkness, violence, stupidities…Just the touch of laughter can make life something worth living, something to be grateful for. Laughter is prayer. If you can laugh, you have learnt how to pray. Don’t be serious. A serious person can never be religious. Only a person who can laugh, absolutely, who sees the whole ridiculousness and the whole game of life, becomes enlightened in the laughter.”

He went on to make fun of people who can’t laugh:

“You don’t see donkeys laughing, you don’t see buffaloes enjoying a joke. It is only man who can enjoy a joke, who can laugh. My definition of man is that man is the laughing animal. No computer laughs, no ant laughs, no bee laughs; it is only man who can laugh. One should go on laughing the whole of one’s life. I am not saying don’t weep. In fact, if you cannot laugh, you cannot weep. They go together, they are part of one phenomenon of being true and authentic.”
Laughter brings strength. Now, even science says that laughter is one of the most effective medicines nature has provided to man.

The opposite of song and laughter is seriousness. Osho ridiculed seriousness:
“I have not seen a serious tree…a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. Seriousness is illness. Spirituality is laughter, is joy, is fun.”

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