melvin

In " Gudartha Dipika " Sri Madhusudana

Saravasti explains what the word, " Pra-

padyante " means when Krishna declares:

 

"Verily this DIVINE ILLUSION of MINE,

made up of the three GUNAS is hard to

SURMOUNT!

But those who take refuge in ME alone

pass their days THINKING CONSTANTLY of

Me( VASUDEVA), who am such, beauty in

its entirety possessed of the luster of

sapphire and two lotus-like feet surpas-

sing the beauty of a newly blooming red

lotus, Who am ever engaged in playing on

a flute, Whose mind is absorbed in the

disport of Vrndavana, Who sportively hold

aloft the hill Govardana, Who am a Cow-

herd, Who am the destroyer of Sisupala`s

diabolic band, Kamsa and others, Who am

possess the body that set to naught all

the beauty of new rainbearing clouds, Who

possesses a Form made of Supreme Bliss

and Knowledge. Thus they`re able to trans-

cend Brahma`s phenomenal creations.

They ,on account of having their MINDS

IMMERSED in LOVE for ME, Who is an Ocean

of great JOY, are not OVERWHELMED by ANY

of the modification of the GUNAS of Maya.

On the other hand, Maya, as though out of

FEAR that, " Those who are skilled in des-

troying MY PLAY are capable of uprooting

Me, " withdraws from them as does a pros-

titute with a bad reputation."

" Therefore one who wants to CROSS over

Maya SHOULD CONSTANTLY THINK of ME ALONE

Who am such."

That is Krishna`s INTENSION for His pure-

devotees. Hence, " ...the Srutis and Smr-

tis( similar to those verses Krishna have

described) should be representative and

stressed to all as PROOFS in this regard,"

said JAYA SRI RADHEY!

 

Note: The above-article being presented

here was sent by my dear-most friend, Jaya

Sri Radhey, during those happy times two

or three months before the September 11,

2001 US Terrorist Attacks. What happened

in between is a fairytale story that must

be left untold. Why? Because your own ver-

sion of it maybe just as good as mine.

 

 

 

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When a great personality passes away,

we almost always praise to the hea-

vens his exceptional traits and the

great contributions he made, whether

in theology, arts and sciences, as

an ambassador of peace, for the good

of man, but not actually having dis-

cussed what kind of life he lived

while he was still struggling to have

his dream become a reality.

Yes, correct me if I`m wrong, if I

say that Lord Chaitanya is Krishna.

Just like calling Jesus is Christ.But

while both were still with us 2,001

and 515 years ago, only a few have

really considered Jesus and Chaitanya

to be GodThemselves. In fact, many

called them names. Example, " King of

the Jews", etc.

If only Swamiji were alive today, I`d

never hesitate calling Lord Abhay to

be Lord Chaitanya Himself even if he

covers his ears and not wanting to

hear any of it. Well, it`s better late

than never to tell His Divine Grace

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami that he is

no other than Lord Mahaprabhu Himself.

 

Please forgive me for being such a sen-

timental fool.

The branches of medicine,if it was a

banyan tree, is entertwined and rela-

ted, that one who studies it doesn`t

know just where each have taken root,

whether upwards or downwards, side-

wards and backwards, or whatever that

makes a medical student dreamed of

being able to perch on one of its

branches after having succeeded in

climbing the trunk of the banyan tree

(medical board exams) itself.

There are so many branches of medicine

that I can`t seem to make a choice of

what particular branch I should build

my future nest on. All I know is that

I`m a certified family physician, ha-

ving earned it in 1995 after attending

so many lectures and symposiums where

topics, from skin diseases to erectile

dysfunction, were discussed.

To heal therefore a person with cancer

is also part and parcel of Krishna

consciousness, similar to saktyavesa-

avatar, Jesus Christ, who healed a man

with Hansen`s disease, a malady known

to everyone as leprosy. In other words,

we all need a doctor, whom we could

trust to heal our aching muscles and

ligaments; do caesarean sections to de-

liver a baby which can`t be delivered

vaginally; manage a severely dehydrated

patient sick with dysentery by giving

intravenous fluids so he won`t die of

electrolyte imbalance; prescribing and

giving intramuscular antibiotics to a

patient suspected to have a sexually

transmitted disease, like syphillis or

gonorrhea; and providing alternative

forms of treatment like YOGA to heal a

disturbed mind addicted to alcohol, co-

caine, diazepams, and amphetamines.

If anybody thinks the job of a family

physician is easy, then I would suggest

to everyone to study medicine and try

to pass four years of a pre-med course,

another four years of proper-med, one

year post-graduate, six months of rural

work, and another six months preparing

for the board exams. If any teacher of

God can do that and still retain his

sanity in this chaotic, racist world,

then you`ve got it made.

 

Hey, anyone out there who is Guru wants

to become a physician? Then follow Jesus`

way because the Lord has seen the truth

(Krishna) who can give us eternal life.

 

Indeed I should perhaps let the Maha-

Prabhus do the evangelizing in bring-

ing back the people home, back to God.

I`m so glad you have come to offer to

get the job done in my behalf, for I

feel it`s my time to move to another

chapter in this book of life where I

could focus more in what I`ve been

destined by God to do in my present

life: Improve my skill in practicing

the art of medicine. That way, I`d

be able to heal as many as possible

those who are considered to be very

ill. Hence, if I could only find a

cure for cancer, HIV/Aids, or poverty

that leads to hunger and malnutrition,

then maybe, just maybe I could say to

myself that I`ve finally conquered

the very stumbling block I have crea-

ted for myself to succeed in life:

PRIDE.

I do hope the Lord in His divine mercy,

will forgive this egotistic-I and me. I

am therefore very sorry if I`ve caused

everybody who came to discuss with me

about anything under Krishna some em-

barrassment regarding what I may have

previously written.

 

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Namaste dear reactors, Tarun and Paul.

 

Our source for this discussion is the

book: Teachings of Lord Chaitanya,1987

Phil. Edition, which was handed over

to me from my childhood friend, Gaura-

sundara das(George Martinez)who left

for the USA as an immigrant in the ear-

ly `90s. I have read it, authored by

His Divine Grace, from cover to cover,

that I could not track anymore how many

times I`ve gone over it. And everytime

I open Lord Chaitanya`s book, in what-

ever page it`s convenient for me in my

search for the Absolute Truth, there`s

always, I feel, a fresh message which

comes to mind after having read a por-

tion of this wonderful book`s contents.

 

How I was able to assimilate Lord Chai-

tanya`s teachings, with no one to act

as my interpreter and guide in unders-

tanding its sublime message is a myste-

ry, considering that I had no idea what

Hindu religion is all about.

 

All I know is that I was born on Nov. 3,

1957 in the city of Cebu, Philippines.

My parents christened me the name of

Melvin Garces Mabalay. There even this

incident that the Catholic priest hesi-

tated to baptize me if I won`t carry the

a Christian name. Thus, I earned the

name of Melvin Vicente and Garces since

the latter is my mother`s(Juliana)maiden

name. I have asked my father-physician,

Mario Cochiengco Mabalay, Sr., why gave

me the name Melvin. His reason is that

it carried the letter M and that our el-

dest sibling, Mae, and my elder brother,

Mario Jr., all carried the letter M;that

according to my father, He chose Melvin

because he was very fond of reading nov-

els and he got my name from a certain

character portrayed in those books.

 

I have been practicing catholicism all

my life. I studied in a catholic school,

Colegio del Sto. Nino, run by priests

of the Augustinian Order, until they

kicked me out for bad conduct in my 2nd

year high-school. As a Catholic, I wor-

ship the Sr. Sto. Nino of Cebu and I

feel that, as the Patron Saint of Cebu,

the Holy Child of Jesus is Lord Govinda

Himself. If the truth is in the pudding

instead of the icing, then try to visit

His shrine,the Basilica del Sto. Nino,

located on the island of Cebu, Philip-

pines when we celebrate His birthday in

January, followed later by a mardi-gras

called The Sinulog.

 

It was here that led me to search for

Krishna, the Sr. Sto. Nino`s own Image.

That`s why I got interested in reading

the books authored by His Divine Grace,

in order to know more about this wonder-

ful and amazing GodChild. As I embarked

on the journey, of going home, back to

Godhead, it was this episode in time,

year 1987, that I started to read,write,

and produced articles about Krishna for

publication in The Freeman, a local dai-

ly newspaper in Cebu City since 1919,

that I used Naradadeva Bhagavan as my

pen name after the editor, Mr. Juanito V.

Jabat, gave me a space to write my views

entitled, " A Grain of Devotion," I had

no motive to become a servant or guru or

something when I started the column be-

cause all I wanted was for my fellow Ca-

tholic Cebuanos to be aware of the tran-

scendental messages of the Krishna Cons-

ciousness Movement that was taking place

in our midst. That I wanted the Filipino

to know a little of the Hindu religion

and the eternal philosophical truths it

carries because it seemed the Catholic

organization, for 480 years, have wanted

us to accept Christianity as if she was

the only religion that could make a fol-

lower, like me, go to heaven. Otherwise,

I would go to hell, including my family,

if I insist in believing in Karma and

the philosophy of Reincarnation, and

most of all, in the Krishna Sankirtana

Yazna initiated by Lord Chaitanya Maha-

prabhu, and later sustained by those

great men who believed in his Mission:

TO INUNDATE THE WHOLE WORLD WITH GOD

CONSCIOUSNESS, HIS LITERATURES, MUSIC,

DANCE, MOVES, BOOKS, PRASADAM, ETC.

 

Is that therefore a BAD thing if I go on

chanting and glorifying God`s holy names:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, even when I

still attend the Sunday mass with my fa-

mily inside the Church performed by the

Parish priest, while at the same praising

and calling God`s name, Lord Jesus Christ?

 

You be the judge...

 

 

 

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Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in

Mayapur in the town of Vijayanagara

(Nadia), India, on February 18, 1486,

Anno Domini. During an eclipse, the

Lord was christened by his mother, Sa-

ci devi, as Nimai because he was born

under the Nimba tree. And Pandita, Ni-

mai`s last name since it`s the name of

his grandfather, Pandita Nilambara

Cakravarti, an astrologer who predic-

ted his birth to be auspicious. Gau-

ra-hari, the damsels of Vijayanagara

call this whimsical and foolish boy,

because the Lord sported a golden skin

complexion.

Visvambhara is also Nimai`s other name

and later in his life as Chaitanya

since anyone who went to the Bhara-

tic School were recognized as such.

Lord Chaitanya`s guru was Keshava Bha-

rati, a follower of the Sankaracarya

sect. Thus, it`s correct to call the

Lord Chaitanya Keshava.

It was Keshava Bharata who allowed the

Lord to continue chanting the Hare

Krishna Maha-Mantra because Nimai was

foolish and sentimental about it, even

if he was Vedanta scholar during his

time, and the Lord was criticized and

by his peers and enemies alike since he

did not join in their group study.

In other words, Nimai Pandit never

really liked being called as Krishna

by his followers and devotees, even if

he actually was the Supreme Lord. This

precedent should be given cognizance

by Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu`s follo-

wers if they all wish to follow in his

footsteps.

It`s the surest way to please the Lord

of the Hare Krishna Movement. Or else,

His Divine Grace won`t dwell and live

with us who desire to be always in his

association.

 

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Lord Sri Keshava Chaitanya appeared on

the Earth Planet five hundred years ago

to taste the wonders of love of His de-

votee, Dhruva Maharaj, to demonstrate

how one can qualify to taste that love

and to celebrate the SANKIRTANA YAZNA

of chanting Lord Govinda-Krishna`s Holy

Names for the benefit of everyone or

otherwise.

 

By unlocking the rigid qualifications to

gain access to the most powerful spiri-

tual mantra, THE HARE KRISHNA MANTRA,

Lord Keshava Chaintanya Mahaprabhu was

able to remove the darkness of illusion

and material anxieties. He distributed

IT freely to those who are at-large, re-

gardless of caste, color, nationality or

creed. In this way, Sri Nimai Pandit,

inundated the whole EARTH with the sub-

lime philosophy of simultaneous oneness

and difference. Never before in the pre-

sent cosmic manifestation has there been

such an AVATAR of GOD.

 

Our spiritual master, His Divine Grace,

is now constantly touring the planet to

bestow this wonderful philosophy of God

even if His material body is no longer

with us. We therefore invite you ALL to

visit SWAMIJI in His abode beyond the

sky, Krishnaloka, a place where every-

thing is possible because ALL are given

only ONE secret PASSWORD to enter and

re-invent his life the way it should`ve

been.

 

That PASSWORD is: HAREKRISHNA.

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I don`t have the articles of the The

Dos Mundos Spanish-American Treaty,

but, luckily, I do have in my hand a

slightly dented Dos Mundos Spanish-

American silver coin, that was handed

from my grandfather, Epifanio, to his

eldest son, Mario Sr., my father who

taught me the art of Medicine in the

school, Gullas College of Medicine,

where he taught Pathology and Dermato-

logy to our class of 1983.

 

Seriously, the Dos Mundos(1755) silver

dollar coin perhaps minted in Lima, Pe-

ru was the symbol of the Spanish con-

quest of America after Borbon(French)

Spanish King, Ferdinand VII, circulated

this rare coin to the Western World,

where it became the object where goods

from the American colonies are brought

to the East in exchange for this wonder-

ful metal engraved with a picture of the

Two Worlds(West and East) buttressed on

its side the Great Pillars of Gibraltar,

perched on a mound amidst the rough seas.

Crowned in glory with words and numbers

around that read: VTRAQUE V NUM. At the

back, an engraved graphic of the seal

of the Spanish government and royalty,

indicating the King of Spain, FERDNAN VII

as the one responsible for giving it the

legality to use Dos Mundos as legal ten-

der to buy what the colonies in America

have produced urged by their colonizers

to create in the name of trade and indus-

try.

 

Since the advent of the Industrial Revo-

lution, men from Europe have tried in

so many ways to motivate those they have

conquered and enslaved to produce what

ever that may benefit their masters by

using the Dos Mundos as an excuse to per-

petuate this commercial venture in the

name of unity between Spain and America,

that would someday led its people to the

Promise Land described by Moses in the

Old Testament of the Bible, never mind

if no such a NIRVANA exists, that is

found either in the Koran or the Vedas.

 

Therefore, woe unto those who does not

acknowledge the God in the Bible, for

they shall inherit the desert where wa-

ter is mirage and the only drink to

quench someone`s taste is OIL, the

very same liquid refined into gasoline

use by the most wonderful product of the

Industrial Age, the airplane that became

the ultimate nail that nailed the coffin

that turned to grave when a KFO blasted

the World Trade Industry, when a loaded

airplane with fuel tanks filled to the

brim, led to its destruction, one after

the other, the modern Dos Mondus symbol

of capitalism, the Twin Towers of New

York(Gibraltar pillars)USA when an indus-

trial product smashed into it.

 

Skycrapers and airplanes therefore are

just one of man`s wonderful inventions,

after the Tower of Babylon became a

passionate occupational duty of men to

reach for God, from the pillars of Gi-

braltar to the conquest of cyberspace

by the Internet, in the hope of tapping,

without God`s permission, His Atomic Po-

wer, so that man can harness it in the

name of Commerce and Industry ran by men

who utilize the movers to enrich them-

selves, without a sweat, at expense of

those who do in the name of the Dos Mun-

dos, a programm envisioned by the King

of Spain, Ferdinand VII, that would fin-

nally help alleviate poverty all over the

world.

 

Thus, it did not surprise me when the

US Government used the Dos Mundos the

model to mint new silver dollars that

can be used by the colonial nation she

colonized, the Philippines or Puerto

Rico in the early 20th century.

 

It`s sad that a medical doctor who wor-

ked there earns per month only $400

while his counterpart in the USA earns

maybe $10,000 per month, considering

that both use and read the same books!

 

The destruction of the World Trade Cen-

ter in the heart of America is therefore

a proof why God who is all-merciful had

to destroy which it symbolizes, the TWIN

TOWERS of New York, USA, when the Abso-

lute Truth noticed this ANOMALY. God ne-

ver felt guilt if it costs lives and

limbs for allowing it to happen?

 

The lowly-paid medical doctor working

in the third world may have asked God

to give cognizance to his complaints

as to why the rest of which he repres-

ent(MDs) were not justly treated as they

worked zombie-like robots, when the YOU

who are stationed in the US receive

special treatments like Biz executives.

 

Ahh, The Dos Mundos of the Business

World is the dented Coin minted in 1755

that finally became the instrument that

cracked the US businessmen`s skulls when

it flew like Lord Krishna`s sudarsana

chackra disc which pierced and cracked

the heardest heads.

 

Hey, where can I find a numismatist to

assist me sell this DOS MUNDOS which is

now between my fingers. Any business men

out there who want to buy?

 

Here, you take it....shooooshhh...zzpt.

 

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The Doll`s Action and Lines that Fit

---

If you dreamed of presenting a simple

fairy tale that uses dolls, be sure

that somebody who can read between

the lines what your dolls are saying

while you are managing the strings

make them move and talk in a certain

way that convey to the audience the

message of the story that scares the

hell out of those who watch the play

as it unfolds before the watchful

eyes of those who love to see a hor-

ror play portrayed by dolls.

 

Those who therefore like to watch a

puppet show on TV are entertained

by the cocky antics and jerks staged

on the set by puppets the viewers

love. For example, Hermit, the Frog,

or Miss Piggy, or Bert.

 

But there`s however this horrible

doll story which D`UNKNOWN almost did

not release it for viewing because its

considered to be one of scariest of

them all.

 

Aired on Cable TV by your favorite

TV-Broadcast Network, it`s a doll

story where the world was ghastly

entertained by the bizarre creativi-

ty of the play set on stage for all

to see, without exceptions to those

who have weak hearts.

 

Alleged to be orchestrated by Osama

Bin Laden`s Doll Company, it does

not for the grace of me can fathom

how they were able to do it after

a group of terrorists hijacked

four US commercial airplanes target-

ed to smash, precisely, one at a

time, into the Pentagon in Washington

D.C., The White House where the US

President resides, and the Twin Tow-

ers of the World Trade Center loca-

ted in Manhattan, New York, USA.

 

It is therefore a scary doll story

that became a reality after somebody

stole the Book of Horrors archived

in the enchanted library of fairy-

land located somewhere far beyond the

sky.

 

In other words, the doll story that

was copied from the pages of the book

containing the most horrible tales was

stolen perhaps by a thief hired by the

doll-mastermind who have sold the du-

plicate copy to an UNKNOWN SYNDICATE

that produces the most horrible sto-

ries readers only get to view after

those who are interested in bank rol-

ling it get to see them first. One of

them I know was Adolph Hitler who was

delighted to watch The Holocaust, a

horrific tale that described how six

million of Jews were annihilated in-

side the Gas Chambers of Death.

 

The Doll Story therefore is fairytale

about a bunch of suicidal dolls who

were able to avenge the early demise of

their most beloved, Doll Master, who

left the world without notice leaving

behind his servant dolls stranded for-

ever on Earth. The Doll Master have

actually promised these dolls, who la-

ter became suicidal, that the former

would take them to a place where the

Supreme Doll resides, once the Doll

Master can arranged with the space a-

gency a Rocket ship that would take

them all to that eternal abode where

the Supreme Doll who is called by His

Mother, " Damodara" resides together

with His eternal playmates who loves

to play sincerely with dolls.

 

Unfortunately, the plan did not mate-

rialize after the Doll Master`s most

trusted dollmaker cut the strings

the Doll Master have tied to the arms

of his servant-dolls. After these sil-

ver strings were severed, it immmedia-

tely broke the Doll Master`s fragile

heart, a very unfortunate incident

because the dollmaker was in a hurry

to become the next Doll Master once

the Master of the doll kingdom dies as

dolls in different sizes and shapes a-

wait their turn.Others taken by child-

ren who dreamed of playing with dolls

even before they were born.

 

When the dollmaker became the chief of

all the servant dolls, he therefore

wasted no time of trading them for one

stupid servant robot from a buyer who

hates dolls.N`vermind if the dolls fall

into the hands of people who practice

witchcraft and voodooism. When the dolls

knew they will be taken to the Valley of

Eternally Dammned, they therefore made

an escape plan by which they were able

to do after a year of planning when they

boarded an airplane that took them to the

land of milk and honey in the guise of

being the pilots and navigators themsel-

ves of that plane

 

There the dolls set on stage a plan to

hijack four airplanes lying idly on one

of the several airports in the land of

milk and honey. Thus on that fateful

day of September 11, 2001, these suici-

dal dolls were able to slam and smash

the planes into the New Rock City`s

most famous Twin Towers housing the One

World Trade Center, and a building de-

signed like a Pentagon that housed the

most sophisticated intelligence equip-

ments known to dollmankind, an act OK`d

by the Master when the dolls who have

nothing to lose found the dollmaker and

Co. holding money-making ventures in-

side these ill-fated buildings.

 

Well, I guess there`s no need to tell

you how this scary doll story ended

since you can watch it on CableTV in

your homes as the climax of this scary

doll story unfolds before our very eyes,

courtesy from BBC or CNN.

 

(To Be Continued)

 

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OSAMA BIN LADEN, WHO?

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Hmmmm. Let me try to

analyse..HMmmm. I`ve

gotit! Bin Laden is the

BLIND SHOWMAN! For

goodness sake. The

one who`s always wea-

ring dark glasses! You

catch him if you can.

 

Teleprompt..2..1..0.zzpt.

Everyone is blaming terorist leader

Bin Ladin for the destruction of

Pentagon and the World Trade Center

and the innocent lives wasted in-

side those ill-fated commercial air

planes that went down, killing hun-

dreds if not thousands of those

who were inside these buldings that

were turned to rubble in less than

30-40 minutes. Well there just got

to be a fall-guy, after all, even

the most brilliant of minds can not

fathom how such a dastardly act was

carried out under the noses of the

most powerful country in the world.

 

I hate to think that backward coun-

try like Afgahnistan amd its Ta-

liban may have something to do with

it, and that Pakistan is under the

pressure cooker to hand Bin Ladin to

the USA for crimes the terrorist lea-

der of El Quaida have committed a-

gainst the American people and the

rest of the democratic world.

 

We must remember, Pakistan was once

a part of India and those who live,

past or present, in this Muslim count-

ry mostly took their birth on this

sacred land, Bharata-varsa. In the

eyes of the Lord, Pakistanis are still

His children-at-heart. If only the Pa-

kistanis and Hindus unite, regardless

of religious affiliations, they would

at last, find themselves transported

to the time when India(Bharata-varsa)

truly was the Superpower of the world.

 

Wake Up! Pakistanis and Hindus for you

are all brothers and sisters of one

God the Father, Vasudeva. You are the

Aryan race, and it`s now the time to

show us your divine heritage. All these

so-called advance-learning and techno-

logy from the West were actually borro-

wed from the timeless Vedic wisdom, the

source of which came from the Lord Him-

self, Vasudeva(Lord Krishna).

 

OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA!

Whatever that occurs in the material

and spiritual worlds, good or bad,

it is VASUDEVA who is the cause of

it all. The evidence comes from the

Book, Srimad Bhagavatam. Here it is:

---

 

The five elementary ingredients of

creation, the interaction set there

of by eternal time, and the intui-

tion or nature of the individual hu-

man beings are all differentiated

parts and parcels of the Personali-

ty of Godhead, Vasudeva, and in

truth there is no other value in it.

--

The Vedic literatures are made by

and are meant for the Supreme Lord,

the demigods are also meant for ser-

ving the Lord as parts of His body,

the different planets are also meant

for the sake of the Lord, and diffe-

rent sacrifices are performed just

to please Him.

---

The Supreme Lord is pure spiritual

form, transcendental to all material

qualities, yet for the sake of the

creation of the material world and

its maintenance and annihilation, He

accepts through His external energy

the material modes of nature called

goodness, passion, and ignorance.

----

These three modes of material nature,

being further manifested as matter,

knowledge and activities, put the

ETERNALLY TRANSCENDENTAL LIVING EN-

TITY under the conditions of cause

and effect and make one responsible

for such activities.

-----

The SUPERSEER, the transcendental

Lord is beyond the perception of the

material senses of the living enti-

ties because of passion, goodness,

and ignorance. But He is the control-

ler of EVERYONE.

------

The Lord, who is the controller of all

energies thus creates, by His own pot-

ency, eternal time, the fate of all li-

ving entities, and their particular na-

ture, for which they were created, and

He again merges them independently.

------

Srimad Bhagavatam:2:3:14,15,18,19,20,21

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AUTOMATION is making itself

in such different ways as

setting newspaper type, but

believe it or not, fly a

plane. Bottling, canning,

and packaging are largely

self-acting processes but

all automatic systems and

controls, it`s the milita-

ry which have the best, be-

cause they use the most e-

laborate kind of electronic

equipments for detecting

an enemy, for bombing and

firing guns, and for direc-

ting guided missiles ac-

curately towards the target

say, a perceived enemy sat-

ellite, or warship.

 

Such automatic machines do

have the many things that

human hands and brains used

to do- doing it faster. What

is more, self-operating sys-

controls can do somethings

that man can not do. For in-

stance, space-travel engin-

eers and scientists figure

that perhaps a human being

may not be able to think and

act quickly enough to control

a rocket when it takes off

and during the period of ra-

pidly growing speed. To solve

this problem, they let the

rocket operate in the automa-

tic mode, not knowing that it

could create mind-boggling

problems that may led to a ca-

tastrophic disaster, if the

that rocket on automatic pilot

no longer obeys the commands

of its human controllers.

 

It was on 1920 that a Czech au-

thor, Karel Capek, wrote a play

about mechanical men that were

invented to do many kinds of

work. These are robots for farm

work, others for factory work,

and so on. In the end, the ro-

bots learned to think and feel

like human beings. They revolt

and made slaves of the men who

created them. The name of this

fantastic play is R.U.R( Ros-

sums Universal Robot), perhaps

known to a few as URUKRAMA.

It`s a PLAY that is actually

happening today, when it all

began on September 11, 2001.

 

Haribol!

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dear bhaktasaya,

haribol! i would

like to invite

you to fairyland

for you and me

will soon be

free. you just

wait and see.

just a nobody,

bhakta melvin

 

please, oh lord

keshava. take me

and bhaktasaya

to krishnaloka.

 

teleprompt...

..3..2..1..zzpt.

Postscript

----------

 

Who is Dr. John W. Mauchly?

 

It was in 1941 when an American

physicist, Dr. John W. Mauchly

started to think that perhaps

electronic devices may help man-

kind in computing how to solve

complex problems in matter of mi-

nutes which may take a human

being years to solve even just

one.

In the hope of finding out for

himself, Dr. Mauchly served the

staff of the Moore School of El-

ectronic Engineering of the Uni-

versity of Pennsylvania,USA, so

he could inspire the institution

to construct a computing machine

using electronic tubes similar

to those used in our radios and

TV sets.

After a considerable study, a gp.

of engineers and technicians at

the Moore School produced the 1st

electronic digital computer on

February 1946, months after the

cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

Japan were razed by atomic bombs.

The development therefore of the

first digital computer was a well

kept secret during the war, a

computer named ENIAC, which is an

abbreviation for Electronic Nume-

rical Integrator and Calculator.

 

The Birth of ENIAC

------------------

 

In 1951, ENIAC was later moved to

the Ballistic Research Laboratories

in the US Army`s Proving Ground at

Aberdeen, Maryland.

ENIAC, in other words, is such a

complicated piece of electrical

equipment that no single person

knows every bit of its wiring. Am-

ong its nearly 18,000 electronic

tubes, it could multiply, in fact,

together two ten digit numbers in

1/350th of a second, while a good

human calculator equipped with a

pencil and paper takes about 3

minutes to caluculate. This makes

ENIAC 3,500 times as good as an

ordinary desk calculator. However,

one must consider also the time

the time it takes for the machine

to find out from its instructors

what it is supposed to do and print

the result when the task is over.

 

ENIAC VS. Human Memory

----------------------

 

Just as we keep useful bits of in-

formation in our memories to be re-

called when needed, so does the com-

puter that has stored in it informa-

tion it may use to solve a problem.

But a problem would require many

steps that depend on one another. If

it can store in its memory the re-

sult of step and hold it there as

long as necessary, then it can re-

call the information from memory when

necessary for another step. In that

way, the digital computer is superior

to human memory for it does not for-

get the bits and pieces of informa-

tion it has stored.

The computer`s ability to store in-

formation is made possible by using a

magnetic tape, magnetic drums, cath-

ode ray tubes, and calcuim of mercu-

ry in which numbers are stored in the

form of waves moving at the speed of

sound.

To "read" the information that has

been stored in the tape, the Compu-

ter, like ENIAC, uses each head of

the tape that contains a coil, a tiny

electromagnet which is spaced across

the tape to form a track. As a result

the tape can be used over and over

again for stroing different sets of

information since any message on it

is automatically "erased" when some-

thing new is written.

 

Retrieving Information

----------------------

 

To get a piece of information from

the tape into the airthmetic unit of

the computer, there is a particular

number of magnetized on the tape that

the computer needs which require the

head to run over the entire length

of the tape to find that number.

Similar in principle to the magnetic

tape is the drum which contains 50

tracks on its surface. The drum that

is mounted on a shaft whirls around

up to 3,000 turns per minute under

the reading and writing heads.

 

PICTURES NOBODY SEES

---------------------

 

Still faster than the magnetic drum is

the method of making "pictures" in the

form of electrical change on the face

of a cathode ray tube, similar to te-

levision. The pictures on the tubes of

the computer, however, can be "seen"

only by an electronic beam and not by

the human eye.

 

SPEED

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In other words, the arithmetic or com-

putin part of the computer lies in the

electronic tubes which are capable of

"switching" a curret "off and on" in

less than a millionth of a second,

when properly used. This enables it to

count by means of electrical impulses:

To add, multiply, subtract, and divide.

Nothing mechanical is involved in the

process, but only the movement of the

electrons. This is what makes it so

fast.

 

The Message

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After an answer is found, the computer

may send the data to a storage unit or

it maybe automatically printed on the

screen. The speed in which some machine

can print the message was more than ten

times greater in 1961. Imagine how fast

this message is printed now.

 

After the War

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When World War II was over, electronic

digital computers like ENIAC were put

to use solving all sorts of scientific

problems. And one of the most impres-

sive of such a large scale computer sys-

tem, after the invention of IBM 703, is

known as the SAGE computer, a machine

that uses radar data to give the Air

Force a round the clock chart of all

aircrafts that fly all over the world.

Unfortunately, that didn`t work when

two commercial aircrafts, Boeing 767s,

crashed into WCT`s Twin Towers in Man-

hattan, New York, USA on September 11,

2001. Why the SAGE computer failed to

detect these runaway planes prior to

the crash can only be answered by God

Himself( Lord Keshava).

 

Source: Book of Knowledge

 

[This message has been edited by melvin (edited 09-14-2001).]

Life is not at

all that bad,

my friend. If

you believe in

yourself. If

you believe

there`s someone

who walks thru

life with you,

Jesus Christ.

The Lord has con-

quered death.

So why worry?

 

[This message has been edited by melvin (edited 09-13-2001).]

Recorded inside

Krishnaloka`s

receiving room

on Sept. 14, 2001.

 

Sabrina: What place

is this?

 

Melvin: Welcome to

Krishnaloka.

 

Sabrina: Why, it`s

so quiet and there

is nobody around

only trees.

 

Melvin: You can`t

see them, but they

can see you! So en-

joy your stay. Bye.

Bye.

 

Sabrina: Melvin,

please wait for me.

I want to go with

you. I`m afraid..of.

Polar bears.

 

Melvin: Just take my

hand, and fly we go.

Ok?

 

Sabrina: Ok.

 

Melvin: Let`s flyyyyy!

 

Sabrina: Wee...weee...

 

(The two off they go to

Goloka Vrndavan)

dear sabrina,

don`t be afraid.

why, I`m inviting

you to come with

me to fairyland.

Ready?

 

Oh, Lord Keshava,

please take me

and Sabrina to

Krishnaloka.

 

Teleprompt......

3..2..1..zzpt...

 

 

Recorded under the

Narra tree on Sept.

14, 2001.

 

Melvin smiling) Tarum,

I want you to meet my

friend, Srila Prabhupad.

 

Tarum taking a bow be-

fore the great Guru) I

am glad to meet you,Sir.

 

Srila Prabhupad elated

to see these two) Why

are you, boys, here? You

should be in the class-

room listening and wri-

ting down notes the tea-

cher teaches you.

 

Melvin Scratching his

head) But, Srila, we do

not like the teacher

assigned to instruct us

about the science of

Krishna consciousness.

 

Tarum: Yeh, our teacher

is boring, strict, and al-

ways finding fault from

us, students.

 

Melvin: That is why we are

here, Swamiji, because we

want you to be our science

teacher. There`s nobody

like you. Your kind, and

generous. And I have yet

to find someone whom you

gave a failing mark in your

eternal career as Guru.

 

Tarum: Oh yeh, that boring

teacher was Swamiji`s pupil

before.

 

Melvin embarrassed)Oooops.

Sorry, Swamiji, for putting

my foot in my mouth.

 

Srila Prabhupad: O.K. I`ll

give you an assignment. Do

not come back if you don`t

have a report about The

Foot and Mouth. And the idea

of always closing your mouth

while eating. Is that clear.

 

Melvin: Yes, Sir!

 

Tarum: No, Sir!

 

Class under the Narra tree is

dismissed(author).

 

Tinng..Ting...Ting...Ting....

dear peter,

it`s okay if i`m

being ignored.

it`s okay if i`m

not being read.

it`s okay if no

body listens.

it`s okay , it`s

okay with me.

for i `m but a

nobody.

It is a transition.

Of the soul,

from one dimension

to another.

 

It`s a new chapter,

of another book. To

be read in another

time, and place.

The previous one,

whether unread, torn,

lost, or closed.

Gathers dust and cob

webs.

Until someone picks

it up and opened,

serves as edible

material for termites.

 

It is therefore the

resurrection of what

it would have been,

a sinner or saint.

 

Whatever. Life goes

on and lessons learned.

Another step another

bend. Down memory lane.

Never to be forgotten,

that HOLY NAME.

 

Hare Krishna,

Govinda Rama,

Radha-Madhusudana!

 

 

Tarum: Where are the others?

 

Melvin: Hibernating, I guess.

 

Tarum: Like Polar Bears?

 

Melvin: Yap, that`s right.

 

Tarum: Let`s better get out

of here before the

Three Polar Bears

awakens.

 

Melvin: Hey, I think I`ve

heard this story

before.

 

Tarum: Hans Christian Andersen.

 

 

Melvin: A Good Guy.......O.K.

Let`s gooooooo......

Here they come.

 

 

Tarum: Zoommm..........ToToTo..

 

 

Melvin: Zinnngggg......Brttrtt.

O.K. To Receive Guests: SCN KSHVA7130

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10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1..0000

 

Flashhhhhh!!!!!

 

WELCOME, GUESTS, TO FAIRYLAND!

 

Tarum: WoW! What a great place

this is.

 

Melvin feeling blue) Ah, home

sick home. C`mon let`s

visit Krishna`s hideout.

 

Tarum: Is Krishna really here?

I can`t believe it!

 

Melvin: Yah, to see is to be-

lieve. How much more

for those who believe

but can`t see because

they are blind. They

shall therefore inhe-

rit the Kingdom of God.

 

[This message has been edited by melvin (edited 09-11-2001).]

Kalpataru is the name of the

magazine showing Sri Keshava

on its front page. Kalpataru

is like a desire tree that

gives anything the devotee

wants from the all-generous

tree. There are numerous of

their kind in Krishnaloka.

In other words, if Sri Ke-

shava is pleased with us, He

would surely grant our wish:

Take us directly to Fairy-

land located beyond the spi-

ritual sky, Vaikuntha.

Oh, Lord Keshava, please

take us to Krishnaloka, Now!

 

Teleprompt..3.2.1.0..zzzpt.

Truthfully, my day begins when I`m

off to work in the hospital, where

I treat the insane, the hysterical,

the bruised, the hypertensives, the

diabetics, the astmatics, those

with erectile dysfunctions, deliver

those who are in labor a full term

baby, refers those who are stabbed,

shot, bumped, battered by the hus-

band, answers calls from those with

stomach pain, counsels those who

are suicidal after taking a dose of

organophospate, have an animated

discussion with the nurses on duty,

declares someone dead on arrival,

resuscitates a limp, cyanotic baby,

reads the laboratory tests done and

chest x-rays taken from patients

with tuberculosis. So, what else is

new?

Thus, when I go home after the mor-

ning duty( from 8A.M. to 8P.M.)I

have to contend with talking to the

children or wife. That is if they

are still awake when I arrive home

usually at 11 P.M. And there are

nights you have to wake at dawn be-

cause the missus wants you to do

something exclusively for her,SEX.

So, you manage to leave your home

at 7 A.M., where I have to commute

to the hospital riding on a public

utility vehicle(Jeepney) which

takes me about an hour and a half

to reach my working station. Then

the next day, I go on the grave

yard shift(8P.M. to 8 A.M.)where

you are the only doctor available

to do the work at the ward, emer-

gency room, delivery room, etc.

Then you go home the next day to

find out that you still have to

post this message somewhere inside

a net cafe, since I don`t own a

personal computer, nor will I ever

be able to possess, such luxuries

in life due to poverty. Imagine I

earn only $450/month. Your wife

is not working. You have two kids

taking up electronic and civil en-

gineering, and a girl on her 4th

grade. So where will I get the mo-

ney to give you the prize for ans-

wering my question of where does

the day begin?

For me, the day begins with me and

ends with me. And the prize I have

to pay is being able to talk with

guys, even If I have to pay twenty

pesos/hour to send you this brief

message. Why, it`s worth IT!