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I don't have a link. A friend showed me a paper about the offering and somebody else let me read the Vyasa Puja book. I left for a while to go to the store and when I came back I found prabhuji fast asleep in the couch and I'm guessing the book is under him because I can't find it anywhere and he was reading it in the couch the last time I saw them (prabhu and the book). More or less, Maharaja is asking for clarification from Srila Prabhupada. Here some excerpt from the paper: "During your physical presence your books were our be-all and end-all. Now, have we entered consciously or unconsciously, a new era of ISKCON known as "PPB"- that is,'post- Prabhupada's books'?" "More than a few seasoned devotees and supportive academics opine that indeed it's time to move on. Maybe, while mantaining our eternal gratitude to you , our founder-acarya,it's now necessary to evaluate what you have left us and distil whatever part of that legacy should accompany us into the future of a different world and a different ISKCON, Therefore amidst the perennial onslaugh of time and change in the material world, I clutch at your feet and seek your clarification, since you are the most expert strategist in Lord Caitanya's contemporary army. And because you cling most tightly to the lotus feet of Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati, you are the most divinely pragmatic." "1. What are your expressed desires for your books in relation to the future of ISKCON? 2. How do you see your books in relation to both training future ISKCON devotees and enlightening the present nondevotee population? 3.Amidst the burgeoning potpourri of Gaudiya Vaisnavism outside of India, do you still assert that your books are sufficient for bringing us to the zenith of bhakti? 4.What should we do and feel about purports that seem to clash with current scientific, gender, sociological, and political notions and niceties? TO BE CONTINUED...

Did anybody read Devamrita's Swami vyasa puja offering to Srila Prabhupada? OH MY GOD!

India its not for scary cats! I stayed in Hawaii for 3 months in 91 and I have wonderful memories of my time there. A really nice place. On Friday nights in Harinam in Waikiki, the Japanese always came directly to me and gave me donations to the amusement of everyone. My babies were really cute and we just chanted the Holy Name, never tried to distribute or sell anything but the people came straight to us with donations....thinking about it...in India they always tried to rip me off.

In my first month in Mayapur we got some rooms in the Long Building that now they use like offices. You enter the first room and have access to 2 more rooms. One peaceful winter night I was sleeping in one of the inside rooms when I woke up to the sound of screaming of my name and I saw one of the girls completely histerical crying aside my bed trying to telling me something. The other girls also woke up and we pacified her and she told us that something was biting her neck and sucking her blood. Thinking that it was a bad dream or maybe a ghost attack or whatever, to sleepy to think anything anyway, we chanted alittle bit to Lord Nrisimhadeva and Hare Krsna and fell sleep again. Next morning, to our surprise, while cleaning the rooms and mopping the floor we found a dead BAT under one of the beds! We had a vampire in the middle of us. I don't know if because we were kind of innocence and more devotional at that time we didn't take it seriously and harrased the poor girl for a while telling her that her blood was so bad that the bat died because of it! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif She is OK but after that I was always vigilant for bats in Mayapur. They love the Long Building. I have another story about the dog with rabies who died after biting my kid, for another time, its kind of late.

Tell Jayaradhe that we're missing her and I'm hoping for her to get well soon. Can you give me her phone number? If she agrees it to it you can write to me at: gouridasi@hotmail.com. Thank you and welcome back.

The meeting was here in LA. I'm not involved with the temple but I noticed few Maharajas and TP's around. I'll ask Sura about it. Knowing how things are going I believe the report from Ameyatma. I think that most of the people who write books are in a ego trip,in the same way like Satsvarupa's "art". One of my friends showed it to a psychologist and said exactly the same of what I thought. He got a few issues. Sura was screaming his head off when I pointed out to him that Sat's art was in the BBT website. He explained to me that the website was run by BTG (with funds from BBT) and Pranada is some kind of disciple of Satsvarupa M.He never saw the "art" until I showed it to him. I don't know if they did something about it. Some people may get offended for what I wrote but they're too many offenses against Srila Prabhupada going around and they are growing by the minute. In the 70's when the movement was so succesful, the same people who is criticizing now,became devotees with Srila Prabhupada's books. They are too many offenses against vaisnavas who are not in Iskcon an I think that is making them obtuse. "We arenot making devotees because of what Prabhupada wrote, we are not succesful anymore, the fault is not with us, it is Prabhupada's fault". Very envious mentality.

Signs and their meanings ... On a Septic Tank Truck sign: "We're #1 in the #2 business." ************************** Sign over a Gynecologist's Office: "Dr. Jones, at your cervix." ************************** At a Proctologist's door "To expedite your visit please back in." ************************** On a Plumber's truck: "We repair what your husband fixed." ************************** On a Plumber's truck: "Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber." ************************** Pizza Shop Slogan: "7 days without pizza makes one weak." ************************** At a Tire Shop in Milwaukee: "Invite us to your next blowout." ************************** On a Plastic Surgeon's Office door: "Hello. Can we pick your nose?" ************************** At a Towing company: "We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows." ************************** On an Electrician's truck: "Let us remove your shorts." ************************** In a Nonsmoking Area: "If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action." ************************** On a Maternity Room door: "Push. Push. Push." ************************** At an Optometrist's Office "If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place." ************************** On a Taxidermist's window: "We really know our stuff." ************************** In a Podiatrist's office: "Time wounds all heels." ************************** On a Fence: "Salesmen welcome! Dog food is expensive." ************************** At a Car Dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment." ************************** Outside a Muffler Shop: "No appointment necessary. We hear you coming." ************************** In a Veterinarian's waiting room: "Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!" ************************** At the Electric Company: "We would be delighted if you send in your payment. However, if you don't, you will be." ************************** In a Restaurant window: "Don't stand there and be hungry, Come on in and get fed up." ************************** In the front yard of a Funeral Home: "Drive carefully. We'll wait." ************************** At a Propane Filling Station, "Tank heaven for little grills." ************************** And don't forget the sign at a Chicago Radiator Shop: "Best place in town to take a leak."

If you put a woman on a pedestal and try to protect her from the rat race, you're a male chauvinist. If you stay home and do the housework, you're a pansy. If you work too hard, there is never any time for her. If you don't work enough, you're a good-for-nothing bum. If she has a boring repetitive job with low pay, this is exploitation. If you have a boring repetitive job with low pay, you should get off your ass and find something better. If you get a promotion ahead of her, that is favoritism. If she gets a job ahead of you, it's equal opportunity. If you mention how nice she looks, it's sexual harassment. If you keep quiet, it's male indifference. If you cry, you're a wimp. If you don't, you're an insensitive bastard. If you thump her, it's wife bashing. If she thumps you, it's self-defense. If you make a decision without consulting her, you're a chauvinist. If she makes a decision without consulting you, she's a liberated woman. If you ask her to do something she doesn't enjoy, that's domination. If she asks you, it's a favor. If you appreciate the female form and frilly underwear, you're a pervert. If you don't, you're gay. If you like a woman to shave her legs and keep in shape, you're sexist. If you don't, you're unromantic. If you try to keep yourself in shape, you're vain. If you don't, you're a slob. If you buy her flowers, you're after something. If you don't, you're not thoughtful. If you're proud of your achievements, you're full of yourself. If you aren't, you're not ambitious. If she has a headache, she's tired. If you have a headache, you don't love her anymore. If you want it too often, you're oversexed. If you don't, there must be someone else. NO WONDER MEN DIE BEFORE WOMEN.....THEY WANT TOO!!

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever," --Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest. "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff," --Mariah Carey "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," --Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign. "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," --Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward. "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country," --Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC. "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president," --Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents. "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," --A congressional candidate in Texas. "I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." --John Wayne "Half this game is ninety percent mental." --Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." --Al Gore, Vice President "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." --Dan Quayle "It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another" --George Bush, US President "We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" --Lee Iacocca "I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version," --Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony. "The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein," --Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback &sports analyst. "We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people." --Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor. "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --Bill Clinton, President "We are ready for an unforeseen even that may or may not occur." --Al Gore, VP "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." --Keppel Enderbery "Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." --Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina "If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." --Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

I'm wondering if Umapati Swami is thinking: "Never trust a woman". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Did anybody see it? It blew my mind away.

LIFE IS A PIECE OF CAKE A little boy is telling his Grandma how everything is going wrong. School,family problems, girl friend problems, health problems, etc. Meanwhile,Grandma is baking a cake. She asks her grandson if he would like a snack, which, of course, he does. "Here, have some cooking oil.Yuck" says the boy. "How about a couple raw eggs?Gross, Grandma!Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?Grandma, those are all yucky!" To which Grandma replies: "Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake! God works the same way. Many times we wonder why he would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and,eventually, they will all make something wonderful! God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.

Debbie, the beauty of this philosophy is that teach you that we are not this body. We're eternal spirit souls parts and parcels of the Lord. The first thing to understand is that you are a spirit soul. Maybe in this lifetime you're in a woman body and can't remember what body you had in your previous life and you don't know what body you may get in next life. Each time you die you change bodies, but you, the spirit soul within the body, remains the same. The perfection of life is try to realize our relationship with Krishna, or God. If you continue reading the books of KC, you'll find writen in some parts that women are less intelligent, lower birth, more lusty,etc,etc. Whatever, just remember that our goal of life is trascend this material designations and go back to Godhead by a simply process of meditation, just chanting : Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. I'm also in a woman body in this lifetime, mother of 2 daughters and of course is hard to have this body. I do recognize that maybe phisically is easier to have a male body and maybe we're more emotional and we follow our heart more often but in the end we have to understand that we don't want to fall in the trap of 'I'm this body". We have to utilize whatever we have to understand God and our relationship with Him. Most of the people in these forums are very nice and they have knowledge and experience of Krishna Consciousness. Few others they just write their opinions without knowledge, just their perceptions. Another thing, not all Hindus accept Christianity, here you'll find some Jesus-hater, just skip their posts. At least that's what I do and avoid the offences. Atma

Thank you for the feedback. I told the family about it and they"ll start playing Prabhupada's tapes of bhajans and lectures in the place where he commited suicide and in the places where they see him. My friend will go to the house to read Bhagavatam and CC once a week and they'll have some offerings for the deities here on his name. In that way the soul will get relief. BTW, today I saw "The Ring" and now they're showing on TV "Ghost". What's going on? Yesterday was the day of the Death in Latinoamerica. Latinos celebrate in a big way, they cook the favourite foods of the deceased and go to the graves to offer the food to the death. Getting spooky, better I go to listen to Srila Prabhupada.

Somebody I know committed suicide and now the relatives in the house see him sometimes. What can they do to help the soul to get peace? They are ready to try anything. As far as I know the soul will wonder around until the natural period of death come. Is there a way to accelerate the process?

I knew him personally and I saw how he tried so hard to please Srila Prabhupada. My prayers are with him.

Cows are undergoing "boob jobs" to enlarge their udders for bovine beauty contests. In dairy shows, the size of a cow's udder is important. "You are not going to get 80 pounds [of milk] a day out of a cow that has a peanut udder," explains farmer Elmo Wendorf of Oconomowok, Wis. So before shows, many farmers are now injecting udders with foam to make them larger. To stop the epidemic of cheating, veterinarians have developed an ultrasound technique for detecting enlarged udders. Says vet Robert O'Brien, "We think we could clean up the Miss America contest with the same technology."

A guy took his blonde girlfriend to a football game for the first time. After the game he asked his girlfriend how she liked the game. "Oh, I really liked it," she said, "but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other for 25 cents." "What on earth do you mean???" "Well I saw them flip a coin and one team got it and then for the rest of the game all they kept screaming was: Get the quarter back! Get the quarter back!"

My comment about gay sannyasis was because it didn't make sense to me to have separate monasteries where women were not allowed if the person carried with him his mind full of desires. It doesn't matter where you go if the mind still wants to enjoy separate from the Lord. Atraction to men or women still is atraction and attachment. Maybe somebody wants to renounce everything and goes to the jungle and gets attach to animals. Whatever. I don't care who is gay or not. They're part of my daily life. And if is not attachment to sex of any gender is attachment to fame, name, glory, power, etc. I don't think sannyas is for kali-yuga in general. It is more glorious someone who is dettached in the middle of society. I completely agree that everybody needs to recharge the bateries and have sadhu sanga. Gour Purnima and Karttika festivals are very good for association, pilgrimage and sankirtan. It's very sad that less and less sannyasis participate in the festivals or they come for a very little time. Association is so important in spiritual life.

What about gay sannyasis? Where do you keep them? Just wondering......

*Butterflies taste with their feet. * A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. * In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined. * On average, 100 people choke to death on ball point pens every year. * On average people fear spiders more than they do death. * Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. *Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. *Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. * Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. * It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs. * Women blink nearly twice as much as men. * It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. *The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. * A snail can sleep for three years. * No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." * Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. * Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. - SCARY!!! * The electric chair was invented by a dentist. * All polar bears are left-handed. * In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. * An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. * TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. * "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. * If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. * A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. * The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. * Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

I thought about a BLUE hammer.

Quick Exercise for the Mind Carry out this test; it's quite bizarre. Just follow the instructions as quick as possible but only one question at a time --do not carry on reading the following questions before you finish the previous one. You do NOT need to write the answers, just do it using your mind. You'll be overwhelmed by the result. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How much is: 15+6 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3+56 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 89+2 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 12+53 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 75+26 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 25+52 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 63+32 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I know! Calculations are hard work but this is the real thing! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Come on a few more. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 123+5 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > QUICK! THINK ABOUT A TOOL AND A COLOR! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Scroll further to the bottom.... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A bit more.... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Just a little further...... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You have just thought about a red hammer, haven't you? If this is not the case you are among 2% of the people who have a "different" if not "abnormal" mind. 98% of the folks would answer a "red hammer" while doing this exercise. If you do not believe this, pass it around and you'll see. Let me know what you thought of!

I think Crop Circles is not playing here anymore. I can't find showtimes for it.

About time it's an Indian thing. Indian men are as bad with time as Indian women. No questions about it.