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Thank you Pita das and gHari prabhus for your blessings. I don't know what is coming in my life and I only depend in the blessings of kind vaisnavas like yourselves. In this material world is danger at every step and I have to have complete faith in Their Lorships that everything is for my spiritual advancement. Many times I don't understand why things happen and I just have to accept it for my own benefit and peace of mind. I can think of Their Lorships in separation and continue my spiritual path wherever I'm. Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakadish are so beautiful and opulent and They are so kind to me and my girls taking care of us at every moment. I'm very grateful to Them. Every time that I see Their faces I feel very peaceful and enchanted. Maharaja also showed a place where Sri Narottama Thakura entered a lake or river and he dissolved in milk, he became milk. Very nice pastime. He also showed the new temple in Haridaspur where Sri Haridas Thakur chanted japa and I remembered when I was brand new in India and we went to a Nama Hatta program over there and was just a little house and we had this huge festival celebrating the appearance of Srila Bhaktisidhanta Sarasvati, thousands of villagers participated. Some plans were there for me and 2 other girls to stay behind to develop the temple but the proximity with Bangladesh and rogues discouraged any idea about it. India for me was mostly a very happy time, very easy life in a way. I don't think that we'll go back anytime soon because of the situation with Pakistan and the world in general but in my heart always will be a very special place for Sri Mayapur and Sri Vrindavan dham.

Jaya Pataka Swami is in town and last night he showed a slide show of the last Gour Purnima festival and the parikramas after that and made me homesick. Sridham Mayapur is so beautiful and merciful. I saw so many places and friends and I was thinking all the time during the show, "that should be me in there, hey look there is my dear friend, so and so, how I miss their association". One of the worst parts (emotionally) was when I saw my house in Mayapur, so many memories. The deities, the Ganges, everything broke my heart. The final stroke were the slides from Calcutta Mandir, when I saw the beautiful and most compassionate Sri Sri Radha Govinda and the little Radha Gopinath deities I couldn't stop my tears. They are so merciful, I was their pujari. I bathed, dressed, did aratik and put them to sleep. Radha Gopinath were Srila Prabhupada's travelling deities. So much nectar. How karma change. Now I have so much karmi asociation and is becoming harder and harder to trying to be a devotee or even appreciate them.. I guess this is my test. Maharaja was very kind to me and in the end he told me :"we're missing you in Mayapur". Maybe one day I may go back there and leave this body in Sridham Mayapur.

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I lived in India for 15 years and the dentists and doctors were excellent. I had my 2 kids in Calcutta by ceaserian (sp?)and 2 assistants took care of me and the babies day and night. No problem at all. I paid a fraction of what it would cost here. In the big cities you find excellent facilities but in the rural side is scary. Once I had to take one of the gurukula boys to the Mayapur "hospital" for an emergency and it was so dirty and freaky that we run away inmediately after the poor kid was stiched on the forehead without anesthesia. Other tales of delivering babies in one of the hospitals in Vrindavan are too gross to tell here. With a few hundred $$ a month you can live like a king in India

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE, THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED: 1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. 2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair. 3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person. 4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato. 5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food. 6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair. 7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time. 8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. 9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts. 10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE, THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED: 1) Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree. 2) Wrinkles don't hurt. 3) Families are like fudge . . . mostly sweet, with a few nuts. 4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground. 5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside. 6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the joy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD: 1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. 2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. 3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there. 4) You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster. 5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. 6) Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. 7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE: 1) You believe in Santa Claus. 2) You don't believe in Santa Claus. 3) You are Santa Claus. 4) You look like Santa Claus. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SUCCESS: At age 4 success is ... not peeing in your pants. At age 12 success is . . . having friends. At age 16 success is . . . having a drivers license. At age 20 success is . . . having sex. At age 35 success is . . . having money. At age 50 success is . . . having money. At age 60 success is . . . having sex. At age 70 success is . . . having a drivers license. At age 75 success is . . . having friends. At age 80 success is . . . not peeing in your pants.

Thank you prabhus for your answers.

I'll post this at my work tomorrow, more or less they have the same rules, they'll be surprise that somewhere else they post this as a joke.

Thank you for the answers, what I don't understand is if we feel atraction to a certain rasa while we are doing our sadhana is it because we experimented that particular rasa before? Another question is, why one soul will be in dasya rasa and other in madhurya, who determine that? Where is our free will? Our desires? Or we just want to serve the Lord in any capacity and He give us our service and we happily do it? Is that what we call unconditional love?

What about the sages that saw Lord Ramachandra in the forest and later become gopis in Krsna leela?

Dasya rasa is also permanent?

Grits: coarsely ground grain,esp.corn. Last saturday I went to a birthday party and the cake was kind of "grits", I swear that we heard from far the sound of the knife cutting the cake. Co-authors Noelle Cleary and Dini Von Mueffling. "We believe you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar," she added. BTW, I really don't want to catch any fly, remind me too much of flies in poo. Actually if you get the philosophy of the joke is like the material world. And my jokes are not anti-male just reality. Can I post some pakistani jokes?

Maybe in the other threads somebody already answer this but sometimes overnight so many postings occur that I don't read everything. I would like to know if it is possible to develop different rasas in the spiritual world or is it permanent? I mean like from sakhya to go to parental or madhurya.Mother Yasoda is always in that rasa? Is not possibly for her to become a gopi? Or the cowherd boys change to parental rasa?

Theist, do you really think that I'll waste my time watching 11 guys from each team running after a ball? No way Jose. I was just being sarcastic. But I do know that a woman will go with her man to see football or any other sport that he likes just to please him. She'll laugh at his boring jokes too.He'll go shopping with her and tell her that she doesn't look fat even if she is becoming a cow. It goes both ways. About Myke Tyson uvaca he said what most men want from their women. Simple like that. Thank you for your respect anyway,I have to acknowledge that I never watched american football and I know that in the end I'll watch the finals of the World Cup. That is the training from my 3 brothers. They even made me memorize the names of the Brazilian champions for one cup and we traded the photos of the players to fill up our albums, actually they abused me because they made me spent my pocket money to buy those stupid pictures and because of my lady like manners I never complained about it. I think that Gauracandra put that about ladies no forwarding e-mail jokes just out of envy because his jokes aren't as good than mine.

I guess that in every country they have some kind of remedy to increase milk to breastfeed the babies. In my country they said that beer increase the milk supply, I read here that ayurveda recommends garlic. From my experience porridge (mama bear?) did the trick. I never had a problem with the quantity. I had so much milk that very often the milk just came out and made my blouse and sari wet and you saw drops of milk in the temple floor. Everybody told me that was auspicious, kind of embarrasing though. I craved porridge like crazy and I ate it every day. I know that garlic is very good for many other things but is the first time that I hear that is good to increase the milk. One thing I did during my pregnancies was to eat gold around my 6 or 7th month. Somewhere in the Vedas said that gold was good to have intelligent children, don't recall the exact words but I'm very sure was in the ayurveda.

I read this from a post from Tusta Mohan Krsna about Nrisimha Chaturdasi in Mayapur, maybe scripture is involved? "The Bhagavatam classes were on the topic of the appearance of Sri Narasimhadev. The devotees were requested to follow no-grain prasadam because Mayapur has installed deities of Sri Narasimhadev."

I'm watching the World Cup. Is that good "lady" behaviour? Or is only American football? What are grits?

There was this "Husband Shopping Center" where a woman could go to choose from among many men, for her husband. It was laid out in five floors, with the men increasing in +ve attributes as you ascended up the floors. The only rule was, once you opened the door to any floor, you must choose a man from that floor, and if you went up a floor,you couldn't go back down except to leave the place. So, a couple of girls go to the place to find men ... First floor, the door had a sign saying "These men have jobs and love kids." The women read the sign and say "Well that's better than not having jobs, or not loving kids, but I wonder what's further up?". So up they go. Second floor says "These men have high paying jobs, love kids, and are extremely good looking" Hmmm, say the girls. But, I wonder what's further up? Third floor: "These men have high paying jobs, are extremely good looking, love kids and help with the housework." Wow! say the women. Very tempting !!! But, there's more further up! Fourth floor: have high paying jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking, help with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak." Oh, mercy me. But just think! What must be awaiting us further on! So up to the fifth floor they go. The sign on that door said "This floor is just to prove that women are impossible to please." ****************************************************************************** DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD!! UNTIE!!!!!

This weekend is Srila Prabhupada's festival here in New Dwaraka. Check out: www.prabhupadafestival.com for information.

I get it about following the lunar calendar with the tithis and everything else. What nobody explained to me yet is why in Janmastami and Gour Purnima we break the fast with ekadasi prasadam, at least in India they are very strict about that but in the West the devotees break fast with grains. Why follow Ekadasi those days when Janmastami is astami and Gour Purnima is Purnima? Any shastra injunction about this?

Flies on Poo There are two flies sitting on a pile of poo. One fly passes gas. The other fly looks at him and says, "Hey do ya mind? I'm eating here!

1. Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off. 2. Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your tissue to other passengers. 3. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!" 4. Whistle the first seven notes of 'It's a Small World' incessantly. 5. Sell Girl Scout cookies. 6. On a long ride, crash from side to side as if you're on rough seas. 7. Shave. (Especially if you're a woman.) 8. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask: "Got enough air in there?" 9. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down. 10. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off. 11. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves. 12. Lean over to another passenger and whisper: "Noogie patrol coming!" 13. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you, "Admiral". 14. One word: Flatulence! 15. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom. 16. Do Tai Chi exercises. 17. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce, "I've got new socks on!" 18. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back, "Oh, not now. Damn motion sickness!" 19. Give religious literature to each passenger. 20. Meow occasionally. 21. Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose. 22. Frown and mutter "Gotta go, gotta go," then sigh and say, "oops!" 23. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected. 24. Sing, "Mary Had a Little Lamb," while continually pushing buttons. 25. Holler, "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends. 26. Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side. 27. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce, "You're one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator. 28. Burp, and then say "Mmmm...tasty!" 29. Leave a box between the doors. 30. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them. 31. Wear a puppet on your hand and make it talk to the other passengers. 32. Start a sing-along. 33. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask, "Is that your beeper?" 34. Play the harmonica. 35. Shadow box. 36. Say, "Ding!" at each floor. 37. Lean against the button panel. 38. Say, "I wonder what all these do," and push the red buttons. 39. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope. 40. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space". 41. Bring a chair along. 42. Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: "Wanna see wha in muh mouf?" 43. Blow spit bubbles. 44. Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings. 45. Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host body." 46. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively. 47. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button. 48. Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at other passengers. 49. Stare at your thumb and say, "I think it's getting larger." 50. If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler, "Bad touch

Al and Joe are bungee-jumping one day. Al says to Joe, "You know, we could make a lot of money running our own bungee-jumping service in Mexico." Joe thinks this is a great idea, so they pool their money and buy everything they'll need: a tower, an elastic cord, insurance, etc. They travel to Mexico and begin to set up on the square. As they are constructing the tower, a crowd begins to assemble. Slowly, more and more people gather to watch them at work. When they had finished, there was such a crowd, they thought it would be a good idea to give a demonstration. So Al jumps. He bounces at the end of the cord, but when he comes back up, Joe notices that he has a few cuts and scratches. Unfortunately, Joe isn't able to catch him, and he falls again, bounces and comes back up again. This time, he is bruised and bleeding. Again, Joe misses him. Al falls again and bounces back up. This time he comes back pretty messed up -- he's got a couple of broken bones and is almost unconscious. Luckily, Joe finally catches him this time and says, "What happened? Was the cord too long?" Barely able to speak, Al gasps, "No, the bungee cord was fine, it was the crowd. What the hell is a pinata?"

Lord Krsna is always joking with Radhika and the vrajabasis. Plenty of jokes there. One of my TP's always told us not to be upset for problems, his motto was "Radha and Krsna are dancing in the spiritual world and is nothing to worry about it". He is one of the funniest devotees that I met and his classes were a delight to hear. BTW theist, my paw is very soft and don't forget that there is "Goldilocks".

"baby atma"? Humm...I think you're already spoiled. Today I got a joke that I didn't get it, I'll have to consult with the friend that sent it to me before I post it here. You know I'm kind of naive and I don't want to offend sensitive souls here Actually I get lots of jokes but they are not appropiate for here and babies like you. Hey, who was the one in this forums who wrote that some neophytes like mundane things like jokes. I think that I read something like that. I don't mind to be called neophyte because that is what I'm.

It was funny for me because it told me like in 3 different places that I need to move. Actually said: "don't procrastinate, MOVE" and things like that and lately I'm just thinking of leaving and go somewhere else. Maybe Alachua, anybody with experience of living there? I have friends there but because I know that they want me with them I know that they are not very objective. Any information?