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  1. Today I took me 25 minutes to reach home from work and its only 2 blocks away but I met everyone on the way and of course took darshan of the deities, my evening treat.

    All the time I pass the temple I think of you LE, and look at the camera, just in case.......


  2. believe it or not, I read recently about the amount of surgical procedures here in Beverly Hills and Hollywood and buttocks operation are very rare because after a while the plastic shifts, the doctor was recommending padding to be in the safe side.


  3. When I had my first baby in Calcutta they had to operate because was a dry delivery, I was awake and chanting on my beads. My eyes were covered and when I heard the baby cry, I inmediately asked the doctor the time of birth and the sex and he told me: "whatever Krsna sent you is fine", I understood was a girl because it was so difficult for the doctor to say it straightforward.

    After my second girl was born, my husband was teased for a while but lots of people told us that we didn't have to worry about dowry because the girls were white, many wealthy families would pay us to marry our daughters into their family to "bleach" the line! I just let people talk, I laughed at it and tolerated, what can you do with absurdity. Some people had marriage proposals for the kids when they were only babies.

    But I saw so much suffering, embarrasment and anguish when girls were born in other families. It will take a long time and lots of education to change the mentality.


  4. Here are the best headlines of the year (yes, they are real)...

     

    1. Include Your Children When Baking Cookies

     

    2. Something Went Wrong In Jet Crash, Expert Says

     

    3. Police Begin Campaign To Run Down Jaywalkers

     

    4. Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted

     

    5. Drunk Gets Nine Months In Violin Case

     

    6. Survivor Of Siamese Twins Joins Parents

     

    7. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

     

    8. Prostitutes Appeal To Pope

     

    9. Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over

     

    10. British Left Waffles On Falkland Islands

     

    11. Lung Cancer In Women Mushrooms

     

    12. Eye Drops Off Shelf

     

    13. Teachers Strike Idle Kids

     

    14. Clinton Wins On Budget, But More Lies Ahead

     

    15. Enraged Cow Injures Farmer With Ax

     

    16. Plane Too Close To Ground, Crash Probe Told

     

    17. Miners Refuse To Work After Death

     

    18. Juvenile Court To Try Shooting Defendant

     

    19. Stolen Painting Found By Tree

     

    20. Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years In Checkout Counter

     

    21. Killer Sentenced To Die For Second Time In 10 Years

     

    22. Never Withhold Herpes Infection From Loved One

     

    23. War Dims Hope For Peace

     

    24. If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last A While

     

    25. Cold Wave Linked To Temperatures

     

    26. Deer Kill 17,000

     

    27. Enfields Couple Slain, Police Suspect Homicide

     

    28. Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge

     

    29. Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

     

    30. Man Struck By Lightening Faces Battery Charge

     

    31. New Study Of Obesity Looks For Larger Test Group

     

    32. Astronaut Takes Blame For Gas In Spacecraft

     

    33. Kids Make Nutritious Snacks

     

    34. Chef Throws His Heart In Helping Feed Needy

     

    35. Arson Suspect Held In Massachusetts Fire

     

    36. Ban On Soliciting Dead In Trotwood

     

    37. Local High School Dropout Cuts In Half

     

    38. New Vaccine May Contain Rabies

     

    39. Hospitals Are Sued By 7 Foot Doctors

     

     


  5. .. and still be politically correct.

     

    He does not have a beer gut; he has developed a LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY.

     

    He is not quiet; he is a CONVERSATIONAL MINIMALIST.

     

    He is not stupid; he suffers from MINIMAL CRANIAL DEVELOPMENT.

     

    He does not get lost; he DISCOVERS ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS.

     

    He is not balding; he is in FOLLICLE REGRESSION.

     

    He is not a cradle robber; he prefers GENERATIONALLY DIFFERENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS.

     

    He does not get falling-down drunk; he becomes ACCIDENTALLY HORIZONTAL.

     

    He does not act like a total ass; he develops a case of RECTAL CRANIAL INVERSION.

     

    He is not short; he is ANATOMICALLY COMPACT.

     

    He does not constantly talk about cars; he has a VEHICULAR ADDICTION.

     

    He is not unsophisticated; he is SOCIALLY MALFORMED.

     

    He does not eat like a pig; he suffers from REVERSE BULIMIA.

     

    He does not hog the blankets; he is THERMALLY UNAPPRECIATIVE.

     

    He is not a male chauvinist pig; he has SWINE EMPATHY.

     

    He doesn't have a dirty mind; he has INTROSPECTIVE PORNOGRAPHIC MOMENTS.

     

    He is not afraid of commitment; he is MONOGAMOUSLY CHALLENGED.

     

     


  6. Just today morning 3 Argentineans devotees walked in where I work and after they left I was upset because I didn't ask them for my dear friend Kaivalya Svarupa. I thought I will ask them about him when I see them again and now I saw in the Memorial website that Kaivalya prabhu left his body few months ago.

    He was the first devotee that spoke to me personally and because of him I went back to the temple. The devotees came to give a conference to the University I was attending and Kaivalya was filming the event. I didn't talk to the devotees but we got "simple wonderfuls" and an invitation to the Mandir. Next day with a friend we went to the farm and the first person to greet us was Kaivalya, he spent the whole afternoon with us, gave me the most delicious sweet rice and I have to say because of him I went back two days later. Again he took care of me so nicely, at that time I didn't know about etiquette and I sat happily with this nice brahmacari for hours asking so many questions, he took me around the farm and showed me the deities, Sri Sri Gour Nitai, after that I didn't see him for few months. One evening I went to the preching center in the city and there he was giving Bhagavad Gita class. After class he talked to me and later the matajis told me he was the TP in Argentina and he was doing a super service preaching underground. He was so young, 23 or 24 at the time and he was risking his life for Srila Prabhupada.

    I saw him last time in Mayapur, 13 years ago and he was so happy to see me in the Holy Dhama. I'm so sad that I'm not going to have his personal association anymore. I can't stop my tears. His kirtans were incredible and he was so personal. He inspired me so much.

     

    Here is something other devotee wrote about him:

     

    Kaivalya Svarupa, an Argentine devotee, preached underground in Argentine after the government closed the temple in 1977. After some years, he has many bhaktas. He was "holding" the spiritual life of all devotees in Argentine and was extremely dear to all devotees there and in Brazil too. Also was very dear by many spiritual leaders as Jayapataka Swami, Gunagrahi Maharaja, Hridayananda Maharaja, Bhaktibhusana Maharaja, Harikesa Prabhu and others. Hundreds of emails were sent to hundreds of devotees after he left the body in January of this year, at Sunday. Couple hours before he left the body, Dhanvantri Swami was in his room giving advices about how to leave the body in Krsna Consciousness. And he left the body in a peaceful mood, hearing Srila Prabhupada singing, near Salagrama Sila and Gaura Nitai. As Srila Jayapataka Swami said : "We offer our humble obeisances to his lotus feet"

     

    Gunesvara das

     

     

     

     


  7. I just visited the memoriam website and I saw that Nistula prabhu and M Murari passed away. I knew both of them. Nistula from Bangladesh and Murari from Calcutta and Mayapur. Nistula prabhu did so much service in Bangladesh and he was very humble.

    I knew Murari when he was a brahmacari and after he got married, I lived in the same apartment with him and his wife for some years. Both of them left on their forties.

    Give me inspiration to chant more seriously. Will I be able to remember Radha and Krsna at the moment of death?

    I heard that a devotee named Dhruva also passed away a few days ago. He was very good with wood-work and he told a friend that he was going to visit his mother for a few days and when coming back he would do some work for him but after that was no news, they found his body after 3 days in his house.


  8. What about V. Mortenson, that guy called Aragon in Lord of the Rings, and Orlando Bloom, one of the elves called Legolas in the same movie, as one of the Pandavas.

    Monica Bellucci would be Draupadi.

     

    Johnny Depp has my vote for whatever.:)


  9. talking about movie stars, Anthony Hopkins honored prasadam at Govinda's a couple of nights ago and "Trinity" from the Matrix comes sometimes. I didn't like Matrix R at all especially that part in Zion?...I don't even remember the name of the place.

    Ricky Martin showed up at the Boutique and went to see the deities and in one of his CD's he has Lord Jagannatha. Recently he came back from India and went to Jagannatha Puri.


  10. For centuries, Hindu women have worn a red spot

     

    on their foreheads. We have naively thought it had

     

    something to do with their religion.

     

     

     

    The true story has just been revealed by the Indian

     

    Embassy in Washington.

     

     

     

    When one of these women gets married, on her

     

    wedding night, the husband scratches off the

     

    red spot to see if he has won a convenience store,

     

    a gas station, or a motel.

     

     

     

     


  11. Hansadutta came out of the coma and he is stable. It seems like he can hear other people.

    Today I heard what actually happened, he was alone at home when he felt severe pain in his chest, he called 911 and when the paramedics arrived he was "dead". They tried so hard to revived him that they broke his ribs.

    By Krsna'grace he is back again and I think this is another chance for him.

     

    Some friends of mine when to San Francisco to see Puroshottama prabhu, I'll know more tomorrow about his condition


  12. His family members called a friend of mine here and I happened to be with her at the moment. As far as I know, it was sudden, he felt severe chest pain and his heart stopped, the paramedics couldn't revived it and in their efforts to get the heart beating again they brohe Hansadutta's ribs. Now because of this problem, they couldn't operate on him, one artery is clogged. I don't know his condition today, by chance I left my phone disconnected and I don't know the news.

     

    I agree with you Jagat, we should forget our differences and be compassionate especially in a moment like this. If something like that happen to me I would really appreciate everybody's prayers especially for my spiritual life.

     

     

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