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Hari bol, that is so kind, I just emailed you, but am not sure if it sent. I notice when I email through these links it doesn't give you the pop up mesage that your mail has been sent. so you might get a duplicate mail. with many thanks, Jayaradhe

Thanks so much for getting the right link. My other web site is actually in the index mode, I was more expereinced by then, and also gHari gave good advice, but I never got back to that site. I also see the glitches too. Buyt orignally they weren't there, not so many, and never did I leave spaces. I am surprised the site is still up in a way, because one devotee got his turned off automatically when they noticed his tiny link selling the Jayananda book he wrote. I cant fix it, too sick, but anyway most small versions should be viewable, and a few of the big ones work when you click the pic. Hare bol, Jayaradhe

Hari bol, I have learned many new things about my physical condition on a recent visit to SF, and we are trying to keep me alive until a liver is available. It is epidemic and if your blood type is common (hmm, don't like to think of anything being common about me, what a funny ego) you have to wait and perhaps die while waiting for someone else to die and give their liver for someone to live. So I am fundraising for medical related expenses, and just found out I have to go down this week for various surgeries (they found and took some colon cancer three weeks ago) and treatment to get strong enough for a transplant, which I am also doing on a daily 80 gram protein diet, allopathic drugs (well, you do these things when you straddle life and death), and other things. Relocation is also a challenge, but it is required as I have to live close to the hosp for when a liver does come. Maybe sounds dire, but honestly it is a wonderful and intersting experience, and I am confident that most of us, as devotees, would be overall in general good spirits when faced with death. It is so enriching! So I am sacrificing some of my art for my life, and if anyone is intersted in buying a painting, some are available, like Cosmic Jagannath and Nagarjuna. There are two very high priced paintings too, which are too large to send in any form: the Sri Nrsimhadeva healing mandala, and The Nature of Love (look for Radha and Krsna in it). This latter one I actually improved since that picture, deciding on a wash of green in most white areas, and color in Radha and Krsna, and a few flowers. If interested, please check my site, I never got it set up for business, and ignore any prices there because I can't remember how much I put anyway and have a new set of price feelings in me. Nagarjuna (Lord Jagannath in ksatriya costume (read about this on the Jagannath Puri site under vesta or clothes) is only $125 bucks, with a wooden frame. It can be sent flat without the frame, if preferred, with deductions for the frame. Buyt the frame looks great on it. The Cosmic Jagganath one is three hundred dollars. I believe all sizes are noted on the site. Prints are also available, of any painting on that site, for $5.00 plus postage (probably around a buck, or $8 with mat. Here is the url for the site, and thank you for looking. htpp://www.geocities.com/worldfamilyart/worldfamilyart.html {edited to fix website link, and thanks to rada for this!) Your Godsister, aunt, daughter, friend, aspiring servant, take your pick, Jayaradhe dasi PS Of course, email me with any questions, either from here or if there is a address on that site, then from there. I also have antiques like a sandalwood Krsna and a temple wall carving, but someone is coming tomorrow and I will see if he is going to buy it up. My neighbor said the guy had a thick wad of cash in his hand. (money the honey?)(not funny)

When I lived in England, where the little old ladies are spry and walk everywhere, I used to recognise American tourists on Oxford Street near the temple, not just because of their highly unflatteringly revealing tight polyester slacks (the women I;m talking about) but more because of their pear shaped bodies and strange thighs, and their bellies. I would wait for then to pass and their accents would verify this. A few years later, grand old architectural Oxford street had added the garish addition of a McDonad's. Peta jumped right in and fought a battle that they won after several years.

What a wonderful report, Audaryalila! Please pleae do feel this thread, if you feel inclined and have the time. Also I loved the report from Bh Jerry, and I remember reading a really ecstatic article by him some months ago on some site about harinam. Different reporters bring out different angles of vision, which hints at the unlimitedness of the glories of the Lord. I loved your descriptions of the Rahtayatra lecture by HH Tripurari Maharaj, as well as the focus, as you always do, on the beauty of unity in all our wonderful diversity. A friend phoned and said she went half the way of the parade but, being disabled, walked back to get her car, intending to drive it to the site where all the pandals are. She figured the parade would be over by the time she fot the car there. But on seeing that the kirtans and procession were still going strong, daring devotee that she is, she drove right around the blockades in the park, in full view of uniforms, some of whom, one pointing and saying something to another. But they didn't stop her. I thought that was so cool. So she drove with her young kids in tow behind Balaram's cart! And also got to take fantastic photos (as she always does, of Rath fests) from that vantage point, especially the ones showing all three carts, like when they round a bend. I can just picture it. If I can get her to send me copies I will post the pictures here. I asked, but it's the kind of thing that may have to wait on a visit from either one of us to the other. I just think it's great how Krishna let her have this way of participating in the procession. Post more nectar please, little bits, big bits, anything!

That was really great being able to see those photos so soon after SF Rathayatra already. I was there in spirit. Here, I distributed barat prasad with tomato sauce, all organic, to many happy people in Mt Shasta's city park. Just sat at a picnic table where everyone gathers their water from the spring, and people just came over. I was also blessed to have visits the next day from devotees on their way back up to Seattle and Montreal from that festival. I understand that very few "oldtime" devotees were there this year.

This is a great discussion. I can't wait to see the replies from some of our intelligent knowledgeable forumites here, I myself feel inadequate to the task. But my wee contribution is: reflection on samsara, the seemingly endless wheel of karma, birth and death and rebirth, which indeed can only be stopped by divine mercy. That's why we chant Hare Krsna. That stops the cycle of repeated births and deaths due to the karmic reactionary cycle your respondent described. Of course that does not answer your question, but I think this is an important side note. What about Krsna being witness? He is always there directing us with our utmost interests in mind, but we (or most of us maybe) don't know how to listen much yet. I like that painting in the Bhagavad-gita of the two birds in the tree...

This is a great discussion. I can't wait to see the replies from some of our intelligent knowledgeable forumites here, I myself feel inadequate to the task. But my wee contribution is: reflection on samsara, the seemingly endless wheel of karma, birth and death and rebirth, which indeed can only be stopped by divine mercy. That's why we chant Hare Krsna. That stops the cycle of repeated births and deaths due to the karmic reactionary cycle your respondent described. Of course that does not answer your question, but I think this is an important side note. What about Krsna being witness? He is always there directing us with our utmost interests in mind, but we (or most of us maybe) don't know how to listen much yet. I like that painting in the Bhagavad-gita of the two birds in the tree...

With all those views, and no replies until this one, I guess everyone wants the same thing. /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif

I know someone who recently got a sex change and I would not dream of calling him, I mean her, an "it". /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif Okay?

The balcony may be, but what about the peanut gallery? What is an unwashed parrish? Is this a Canadian expression? Is it something to do with a neglected church? I packed my dictionary and am very curious about this expression.

The garlic idea sounds effective. I also thought: what about ear candling? This helps a lot of people, draws out toxins and buildup etc. Some candles are made with herbs. Best I know of are the beeswax kind, a bit more costly than parafin but worth it.

Oh yeah, the disaster. I was more thinking about the inventive thinking a la high technology. /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif

I figured it had to be simple like pressing curd, and the site also showed that it is. India has it more together as far as keeping things simple, no big complicated equipment and stuff. Great knowing about the T-shirt cloth.

I know you did not direct this thread to me, but I agree whole-heartedly with this list. And don't forget What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Benny and Joon I know i can count on a good film if Johnny Depp is in it, judging from his choices of roles. Dead Man is a masterpiece. One of those movies that go by unnoticed because of its brilliancy and depths. Definitely not a commercial product. I also thought Fear and Loathing was a masterpiece. A slice of life of the era it represents, it is a classic. I see it also as a perfect, hilarious, outrageous vehicle for showing the ills of drug abuse.

Poster: atma Re: no big deal (hee hee) I like your approach, Atma. You say a lot with few words. Garacandra, I bet you are from Atlantis at some point. /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif

Cool. Did you get a chance to read how you do your own presses, etc, with jars and whatever? (just so you don't try to go out and buy something specially)

http://www.harekrsna.com/pancha/tattva.htm

Thanks for setting me straight on that one, Stonehearted. It's kind of scary when my memory fails me. Great point, Jndas prabhu. There is the solution for babies and neckbeads. It is kind of like cats. Dogs you can put collars on with no problem but cats have to have a special elastic thing built in to a section of the collar, so they can wiggle out if caught on a branch or something. The collar is too tight if you can't slip some fingers between it and the neck. Babies also need to be continually checked to see that the beads aren't too tight. They grow soooo fast in the first year or two.

Here is the recipe for mozzarella from the site that shows how you don't need all that special stuff and can in fact do better for your self and the size of your fridge. http://www.mindspring.com/~chevrefeuille/cheeserecipe.htm?

I have noticed this many times among devotee children who have been brought up mostly in the countryside, away from cars, with plenty of freedom and safety to run and play where they choose. What I notice is that when they get to a built up place, for shopping or maybe when they relocate, they have no traffic savvy, and are like puppies let loose for the first time. I have seen too many close calls for this problem to be ignored, and I have also seen very mild admonishments from the parents when a child runs out when a car is coming. I was very liberal with my daughter, easy going about things like spills, and accidents, etc. she had a very gentle upbringing, at least on my side. but I drew the line at this traffic thing, and was very stern and informative about it to her, so that by the time she was two I was secure in knowing she would never step off the sidewalk without holding my hand. The first time a child does this the parent should be very firm and make a big deal about it, with love, and make sure the child knows how risky it is. If they are introduced to twon traffic at an older age, they can have this explained to them with instructions about looking and waiting, etc. This may sound elementary, but some may be surprised at the lack of "sophistication" shown by many children I have seen in this situation. They are smart, and old enough, but don't seem to have a clue, and this has always bothered me.

A lt of us devotee parents pierce our baby's ears. I did, and she still has the same holes. I think studs should always be used, though, on into childhood, and not hoops or danglies, that could get caught on things or pulled during a fight (Krsna forbid /ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif ). Mostly I think that common sense goes hand in hand with caring and loving, so that parents are equipped with a lot of it, in seeing to their children's safety. But still we miss things too, so maybe it is a good idea to have this video.

I am wondering if ewaring beadbags could be a problem. I know a devotee whose two and a half year old broke her neck and died instantly while going down a slide, because the strap to her little shoulderbag, that held her snack, got caught on some thing at the top of the slide. This was not a bead bag, but the same thing could happen either way.

Isn't one strand enough? I thought two was for first initiates and three for brahmin initiates but I am not sure about this.

I also read on at least two different sites that ordinary so-called cheesecloth, that I was saying I have and you can get anywhere, is not good enough for cheese (or at least the hard cheese), because of its coarse weave, and the weave being so far apart. One place calls the cheesemaking quality of cloth butter muslin.