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Remember the Magi? He was the one who tracked the Star of Bethlehem and found it points to the island of Cebu. That was where Magi-land discovered the island-the home of the God Bathala( Child God). So, when they arrived, Magi-land brought an icon( The Child of Flanders) and gifted it to Queen Juana. The queen readily accepted the gift knowing that it was made in the same image of the God Bathala( Govinda). We observe the Feast of the Sto. Nino of Cebu every January 15.

Don`t be a parrot either. Don`t be a Janus, too.The duality of life the Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll. The good and bad. You can`t put a person in a box and label him/her that way by what he/she reads or write. Don`t judge others so that you won`t be judged. Don`t ever think you have reached a certain level of thought and that you already consider yourselves as bonafide to do this and that? Hahaha!

Salamat is a visayan dialect we speak in the island of Cebu, Philippines which in english means thank you. When Ferdinand Magellan discovered Cebu in 1521, the natives there already worshiped a God named Bathala. They were not pagans as what historians claimed. In fact, the natives were muslims ruled by a queen named by the Spanish conquistadores as Juana, whom Ferdinand Magellan( a portuguese navigator hired by the Queen of Spain to discover the Philippine islands) christened. Cebu derived its name from the word Sebu or animal fat. You see, the natives where converted to christianity after they tasted pork stew cooked by Magellan`s men. Being famous for her pork stew, the island Cebu or Sebu became famous throughout the neighboring islands. At present, Visayans worship a God Child named Sto. Nino. Yet a Cebuano historian said that the natives used to adore him as the God Bathala. The word Bathala represented two words, Bata(Child) & Allah(God). I`m inviting you all in this forum to come over and see for yourselves the image of the Holy Child of Cebu. There you will see the smiling face of Govinda, the primeval Lord. He`s only 9-12 inches tall. They say that the King of Spain attempted to take the Sto. Nino to Vatican in Rome and failed. So, he cut off his feet. Yet still the Child God managed to escape from the heavily chained box he was held captive three times. Remorseful, the King of Spain replaced his feet with golden boots. You can see these pair of shoes for yourselves. The Child God Sto. Nino never leaves Cebu, the Lord`s abode in Southeast Asia.

I always get sleepy when somebody tells me a story like that. Hehehe

The Brahman stage is where you`ve reached the status of Brahman, the creator of the universe. He`s isn`t a reactor, okay? When you`ve reached the all-pervading stage or Paramatma realization, one has realized that he/she is within every living entity. Just imagine you are all good. But in the later stages, the Bhagavan realization. One realizes he/she is Krsna/Radha himself/herself. That was how Narada Muni realized in the end. That he and Krsna themselves were no different. This is the state where one is in SAMADHI.

Swami Jesus( Prabhupad) gave us an example of MISTAKING THE ROPE FOR A SNAKE whenever we are confused of what`s impersonalism and devotion. Service without devotion is like rendering work which you are expecting to be paid. That`s impersonalism. But if you work and don`t expect anything because you have devoted this to pleasing someone then that`s not impersonalism. It`s devotional service(Bhakti). It could be your girlfriend or wife you want to please yet it`s different when you think your girlfriend or wife is Radha or Yasoda. One is material and the other is spiritual.

Paramatma-vadis are not devotees? A devotee is someone who is devoted to something or someone. Paramatma-vadis only think of the Superself within them and devote themselves to think that they are one with God. One becomes a devotee if he/she thinks simultaneously yet differently with God. It`s like God taking control over you and yet you are free to do what you want.

I play bowling. It`s my favorite indoor game. It says if you get three consecutive strikes you got a TURKEY! Hahaha!

If you have a small organ? Or a bigger one? Case closed! ....................................................................................

I don`t reside in America but I have relatives who live there. They must have tasted roasted turkey every thanksgiving day since the day they stayed there. I have not tasted one ever since I was born. Thank you, turkey, for not eating you.

..a cancer patient .. a heart donor .. a porno actor .. a politician .. a rapist .. a plagiarist( Hahaha!) .. a beggar ( Huhuhu) .. a swindler .. a philanderer( Hahaha!) .. a suicide bomber .. an osama bin laden!

How did Krsna convinced Radha that he could draw circles on her breasts? How did Krsna persuaded the damsels of Vraja to climb up the tree naked after bathing in the river Yamuna? In short, Krsna is always thinking of ways to trick his devotees into doing something out of the norm. He enjoys it yet what he`s trying to do to us is harmless. It`s different when Krsna tricked Putana into sucking her breasts. He took away her air-life in the end.

How do we make a brahmastra that would target only one person? A brahmastra is a nuclear bomb, right? But how can a nuclear bomb hit only one person? In Krsna`s time, they had the technology to build one, right? Now, imagine if there`s a person who could create a brahmastra in this age. That be the day heads of state would no longer run for a re-election. Hahaha!

It`s ironic that 911 when called rescues the distressed yet today 911 means something to somebody that was horrible.What I wrote that time was just a simulation, a test run. Internet at that point was just a virtual reality. Not anymore because what one writes here at this forum now becomes real tomorrow. Simulation , anyone?

Well, it was on September 11, 2001 when I wrote that article on this web site entitled, " Where does the day Begin?" I was playing with the other threads. Like, telling Prabhupad whom I animated that time, " Hey, Swami lets`s go!" Then we zapped. 10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1... Then we found ourselves again on another thread. Disrupting those who were exchanging their ideas on that particular location. When I logged out, a few hours later I saw the news on TV, planes slammed into the Twin Towers. It was awesome. And horrible. I believed it was a glitch that caused it to happen. Maybe connected to what I wrote that time. Oh, I don`t know. Because until now I couldn`t forget that incident...

Have you guys watched that movie, " Oh, God you Devil!" starred by George Burns? It was a very funny movie. Imagine you playing God and at the same time, you playing the devil! The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. If you could be that guy then you must be in heaven.Or hell. Try it sometimes.

You`re in heaven if you have plenty of savings. But your in heaven if you have savings. It is depleted if you buy good food to eat or 8. It`s hellish if you have no heaven. Hahaha!

In can`t forget WOODSTOCK. That was in 1969. Flower power. Mysticism all over the place. People were smoking ganja. Everything they took just to blow their minds away. I was only 12 years old that time so you could say I was not into it. But I was a witness how the United States of America sent their troops to Vietnam just to slaughter hundreds of thousands of the people who lived there. And all because of ideologies. That if you don`t believe in God, you are a communist. That if you believe in God you are a christian so on so forth. I was elated when in the middle 80`s I knew that His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Jesus Prabhupad landed in the USA in 1965. That in 1969 when the war was raging in Vietnam, he was the catalyst in these unforgetable words" Peace make love not war."

Like to play with words? One is uno in spanish. And in english his name is John. In spanish it`s Juan. Two is dos, a computer lingo. Three sounds like a tree to me. Four is quadro which is a square. Five is give me life. Six is sex. Seven is HEAVEN! What is Krsna`s favorite number? It isn`t HEAVEN or seven but it`s 8. Okay, let`s EAT! Hahaha!

Whenever and wherever there`s the lotus feet of Krsna, the place turns to Goloka Vrndavan, the planet where Krsna resides. Where there`s Krsna, there also live the damsels of Vrajabhumi. And everything we know from the sastras like Srimad Bhagavatam manifests themselves there. So, it`s an error to tell this writer that Goloka isn`t the same thing as Gokula. They are the same yet different( acintya- bhedabheda-tattva).

Couples quarrel even on the dining table. Patients argue with their doctors because they are told not to eat this or that. Religions kill each other because one doesn`t want cows to be slaughtered while the other abhor pork. Look at the United States of America, the people there eat sausages, hotdogs, hamburgers, bacon, steak, etc. Tell them not to eat these kind of stuff and these people go to war. Why? Just like in Pakistan, tell the people there to eat pork stew and they go to war. In India, tell the people there to eat corned beef and they go to war. It`s really something to do with food.

SOULS. There`s the Supersoul and the individual soul. The individual soul mates with another individual soul. The product is another individual soul, right? The bodies of these individual souls are their clothes. Because these individual souls have lost their true identities, they wear fashion clothes. Briefs to cloth the loins. Bras to protect the breasts, etc. Imagine, if all of us knew we are all souls. Who doesn`t want to wear those fashion clothes. We would all be running naked on the banks of Goloka Vrndavan`s rivers. Hahahaha!

I wish one of you would tell me if you been to Goloka. Just like asking one have he ever been to heaven. Or have he ever been to heaven and came back after one died? So, I believe I`ve seen Goloka because I had read Swami Prabhupad Jesus`s books. It`s there no need to travel with the mind just getting there. Just open those pages. And wham!In short, how did Devaki and Vasudeva, the parents of Krsna reproduce if there is no love in Goloka?

Goloka Vrndavan is the abode of Govinda. No one goes there except when you are a pure devotee like Narada or Dhruva. Be like them.

There are prohibitions, yes. Just like a doctor to his patient prohibiting the the latter not to do this not to do or not to eat this not eat that so on and so forth. There are laws that prohibit one from doing this and doing that. What does these all lead us to? We might just stay home and do nothing, right? Does that makes us happy? Of course not! Swami Prabhupad Jesus didn`t want us to do that and be sad. He wanted us to be happy. He said we should not change our religion. What matters is that we should go on chanting Hare Krsna until death do us part.