Prashant Mali meeting Dalai Lama - An Experience with His Holiness

My meeting with His Holiness Dalai Lama 

My Himachal trip was scheduled from 14th to 20th March 2015 and as the days came nearer, without any confirmation of appointment from His Holiness Dalai Lama, I have started telling my friends and fellow beings that i am going to meet Dalai Lama. My intuition then sensed that i will meet him on 18th that made me tell every body the date also. I was visiting my neighbor and Singer friends Baba Honey & Rishika Kaushal, and this trip was also decided extempore in the busy month of March. In preparations i started called one of my highly placed good friend in IPS and he said that he will try and as my faith goes i relied on the same, but my this friend got caught up in some important conference and he couldn't confirm my appointment till 17th, even though i was keeping patience, i never called him as i was knowing if i am scheduled to meet His Holiness, i would definitely meet and Almighty would help me. On 17th afternoon we started to meet a Saint called Mouni Baba Neelkanth Maharaj who had ashram on shores of river vyas overlooking fort of Hamir. On the road to ashram i made call to another highly placed friend in an central organisation, who directed me to a honest IPS officer possessing high integrity and direct previous connects with His Holiness office, who in return directed his previous colleague to help my appointment but was skeptical as i wanted to meet on 18th and was asking this on 17th afternoon. His colleague in Dharamsala immediately arranged appointment and asked me to leave Hamirpur in evening itself and booked me two paid rooms in Hotel Pride Surya in mcload gunj. My appointment was scheduled at 9:30AM on 18th as His Holiness was to leave at 12:00PM . The moment my meeting was confirmed my mind was filled with tranquility and bliss of epic nature. I woke up at 6:30AM and got ready only wearing a Saffron Curta and white pajama  to suit the occasion and decided to bear the cold weather in the happiness of seeing Dalai Lama. I was accompanied by Baba Honey, Rishika Kausahal and Kavishwa Kaushal there mother who were also equally delighted as they were from Himachal and meeting this great personality for the first time like me. Few Tibetans and sick people were present to meet his holiness when we reached his office and Dalai Lama was busy talking to other lamas and officers as i was told so we all braved the cold of mcload gunj in anticipation of once in a life time chance. Then came the chance to meet the most humble person i have ever met.. 

Prominent cheekbones meet the fine network of creases at his shining, penetrating eyes, as he listens and nods and smiles encouragingly. His unusually glowing skin accentuates a single, inquisitive, v-shaped line that runs the length of his high forehead. Regardless of the topic, brief words of practical advice and grounded viewpoint are woven into a conversation that begins and ends with your own initiative. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, believed to be an incarnation of the Buddha of Compassion, is not interested in gaining converts or becoming embroiled in passionate debate. He is simply there for you, to become engaged in a warm, personal exchange.

You notice, fleetingly, that the Dalai Lama's hands are exquisite. His long, slender fingers close gently around each other as he earnestly listens to you. Suddenly his hands open wide, then pull together in a hollow clap as he breaks forth into laughter. It is true that His Holiness does love to laugh. Whether in rippling giggles or a clear open gale, his sense of joy pervades his entire being. While he may roar briefly in response to something you have said, never do you feel ridiculed, for this great monk is laughing beyond irony or personal psychology. And his outburst is generally accompanied by a reassuring comment which clarifies the profound depth of his humor. He even asked my friend Baba Honey about his glares and complimented him. 

I gifted book Authored by me  "Cyber Law & Cyber Crimes Simplified " to his holiness and his secretary introduced me to him as Cyber Law & Cyber Security Expert Lawyer from Mumbai, India  and was referred by Delhi. to which he greeted me with handshake and his soft hands were mesmerizing. All the snaps clicked later were having my book caught prominently by his holiness, a moment to be revered. No personal cameras or mobile phones were allowed so no selfie was possible, but His Holiness instructed to take individual photographs with him and the photographer and his camera was awesome, who took photographs which further imprinted meeting with His Holiness in my mind for ever.