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Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya-lila 22. 78-80

they can have Nevada.

a Ksatriya could not turn down a challenge. This is a different time...

 

 

but reading and learning the sanskrit and memorizing verses and thinking of unlimited pastimes of the Lord is plenty of brain exercise for me!!!

 

Everything is there - math, language, health, science....you name it!!!

a lot of people started posting after Theist stopped.

 

But I pray you are right!!! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

Com'n Theist....are you there? Please visit us!

your posts brought tears to my eyes. I am missing his association very much and pray that all is well with him.

 

I have been thinking about you the past several days Theist. If you still have my email address please write to me.

Sorry forgot to sign in when I posted this.

 

Different IQ tests will give you different results as they hit different areas of knowledge and perception. We all have different strong points and weakpoints. The online test general do not encompass the full scope.

 

In other words, they are not reliable. You would have to take a professional test to get the full idea of your IQ.

 

To think that reading the scriptures makes you "stupid" is well; stupid. If that were the case we would all be bumbling idiots sucking on our thumbs afer the 30 odd years of reading and chanting that some of us have been doing.

 

 

 

And yes as guest has pointed out look at our past acarya's!!

 

If it were not so funny I would consider it offensive that you think reading the scriptures lowers your IQ. Instead I can only ROTFLMAO!!!

in IMHO, is the best commercial yoghurt. Try the "Cream on Top"....hmmmmmm......Their yoghurt is smooth and creamy. So fresh...the closest I have come to homemade in a commericial variety.

 

There are others but they tend to be on the bitter side. Dannon makes a natural yoghurt but I steer clear from them since they make the gelatin added yoghurt also. You never know when some careless worker might confuse the ingredients.

 

Another product to watch out for is sour cream....same problem. There is one company...I think called Daisy that makes a natural non additive no meat sour cream.

 

Cracks me up!!! Just because they don't see flesh in the food people will call it vegetarian...look at Jello.

 

Gotta read those labels with a magnifying glass and also learn the tech names for meat by products.

 

Well, we are at it...read the ingredients on a bar of regular ol' commercial bath soap...eeeeekkkkkkk....I ain't washing this body with THAT!!! /images/graemlins/shocked.gif

asking for such info on a forum can get you a lot of false info either from people who only think they know or from people like to mislead.

 

Why would you want to ask here anyway? You should know to always go to your spiritual master for such things.

Hmmm...Joan of Arc...ok

Let's see Noah built an arc....hmmmm...it all makes sense now. /images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

ROTFLMAO!!! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

I know that Sucarita is not related to the word rita. I put that in there because it sounded like the person was remembering "rita' as a name and it was just a hunch that maybe they were thinking of this.

 

But no matter, the person never came back so they must not be that interested.

 

 

(news story lifted from internet)

 

WHO Says the Bible Is Literally True?

 

A majority of Americans believe the Holy Bible is literally true and not just a book of stories that are meant to be interpreted as symbolic lessons, reports The Washington Times of a recent ABC News poll of 1,011 adults.

 

61 percent believe the story of the creation of the Earth in seven days as told in the book of Genesis is literally true.

 

60 percent believe in the story of Noah's ark, the global flood, and God's covenant to never destroy the Earth again.

 

64 percent believe that Moses really did part the Red Sea so the Jews could escape their Egyptian captors.

 

"These are surprising and reassuring figures, a positive sign in a postmodern world that seemed bent on erasing faith from the public square in recent years," the Rev. Charles Nalls, a priest with the Catholic-Anglican church, told The Times. "This poll tells me that America is reading the Bible more than we thought. There had been a tendency to decry or discount Bible literacy among the faithful."

 

However, the levels of literal belief in these three Bible stories differ among various Christian groups:

 

Mainline Protestants: 75 percent believe in the story of creation, 79 percent in the Red Sea account, and 73 percent in Noah and the Ark.

 

Evangelical Protestants: 87 percent believe in the creation story, 91 percent in the Red Sea, and 87 percent in Noah.

 

Roman Catholics: 51 percent think the story of the creation is literally true, while 50 percent believe in the Red Sea story and 44 percent in the flood.

 

This may be the most interesting finding of all: Among those who said they had "no religion," 25 percent still believe in the creation story, almost a third believe in Moses and the Red Sea, and 29 percent believe in Noah and the Ark.

 

Here are some other fun facts to know and tell that are culled from two different Harris Polls taken in 2003. Among Christians in the United States:

 

95 percent believe in heaven.

93 percent in the Virgin Birth of Christ.

96 percent in Christ's Resurrection.

42 percent believe God is a male.

1 percent believe God is female.

38 percent believe God has no gender.

11 percent believe God is both genders.

 

universal law.

 

There are four principal kinds of dharma. They are known collectively as chaturdharma. Rita or Universal Law (example sunrise/sunset) is one of the chaturdharma. So yes, this seems it would also have to do with the seasons.

 

There is also a gopi name Sucarita.

 

you should not judge someone else because they chose a name for themselves to use on the web or elsewhere.

does your name?

 

 

i am frightened if this name does not join with a devotee behaviour and if, achieved a little social status among the practitioneers

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This was exactly my point, thankyou.

 

 

was not referring to initiated disciples who had been given their spiritual names by their gurus and i feel badly that you took this as personal chastisement. Please do not take it that way as it was not meant in that vein.

 

My point was to people who give themselves the spiritual names.

It frightens me more when someone gives themselves one or more of the Lord's Holy Names without adding the servant suffix to it. That makes it sound somewhat mayavadi to me.

 

If you think about it...the suffix is a description word not a title so dasa equals servant of.

but here is a pic of their temple room. Also, they have the original Jagannatha deities (moved from the original SF temple) that were the first for ISKCON.

 

they might be busy and will respond later. But if they do not respond and we do not know then I guess you will never know unless you do some research. Let us know if you find out.

if you honestly want to know and your intentions are good with just curiousity then go to their website and email them and ask.

 

Really, sometimes things are very simple and easy to do instead of repeatedly asking here.

no. Rheumatoid arthritis is tricky in that it affects the whole body system and attacks internal organs which it has done with one of mine. Fortunately, not an essential one.

 

 

I pray that all is well with you Theist and that you are just not inclined to visit the forums for now.

 

Take care. Your thoughtful and intelligent posts are missed.

 

Hari bol

means contaminated by our perverted material senses. You wnat a translation that is presented as they are not as the person translating wants them to appear to satisfy his/her ego.

 

 

 

I think its fun to think of it as Krishna's birthday (Appearance Day) everyday, <font color="blue">makes me feel enthusiastic, which is not a bad thing</font color>,

 

 

Srila Rupa Goswami gives us in "Nectar of Instruction" (Upadesamrta) a list of six principles that are favorable to the execution of pure devotional service.

 

Enthusiasm is number one on that list.

It is!!!