Tarun

3 swimming pools. One for the 3rd kind.

John the Baptist, RAmanujAcarya, Tesla, Lord Chaitanya MahAprabhu, MadhvAcarya, Noah, Henry Ford, Ben Franklin, Babe Ruth, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Mozart, Gandhi, St. Francis of Assisi, Charley Chaplin, Rockefeller, Carnegie. If it wasn't for Noah, we'd all be aquatics. Eternally. Only 2 choices then: fresh or salty.

We began to notice Halos as kids while playing "Hide'n'go Seek". Naturally, each time we'd repeat, "Ready aura not, here I come..."

Sans sufficient swimming pools, how can we ever hope to experience: "gopIbhAva rasAmrtabdhI laharI"?

VNN no longer has Forums so I'm putting this here. I do recall Bhaktim Heather from 439 Henry Street, Brooklyn 1971. She would sometimes first comment, then cry, during Istagosthi. She used to pray for sincerity. She underwent a great loss back then. She was married to Muralivadana, the transcendental photographer. She received 1st initiated from PrabhupAd in July 1971.

Good point Melvin. For example your name, Melvin. Is that your real name? Are you familiar with your namesakes? I/we've been conditioned to think of a particular Melvin... So as soon as we hear that name we might wonder... How would a kIrtan led by Melvin sound? How 'bout a GItA lecture given by Melvin? Melvin's Vedik Tape Ministry? Yes, I've heard that Our MahAprabhu would cover his ears & pray to ViSNu whenever someone would address Him as God.

sukhArthI cet tyajed vidyAM, vidyArthI cet tyajet sukham sukhArthinaH kuto vidyA, kuto vidyArthinaH sukham || If you want comfort, abandon learning; If you want learning, abandon comfort. How can anyone who wants comfort acquire learning? And how can anyone enjoy comfort who wants to learn?

VedAnta sUtra sUtra 1.1.1 athAto brahma-jijnAsA sUtra 1.1.2 janmAdy asya yataH sUtra 1.1.3 zAstra yonitvAt sUtra 1.1.4 tat tu samanvayAt sUtra 1.1.5 IxaternAzabdam So far we agree. Or do we?

Do you mean Panini's bhASya? No. But if you hum a few bars, I can fake it.

The following quotes were taken directly from actual medical records as dictated word for word by our local hospital's allopathic physicians. (you can't make these up, no matter how hard you try) 1) *By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped, and he was feeling much better. 2) *Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year. 3) *On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it had completely disappeared. 4) *The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1983. 5) *The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed. 6) *Discharge status: Alive but without permission. 7) *Healthy-appearing decrepit sixty-nine-year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful. 8) *The patient refused an autopsy. 9) *The patient has no past history of suicides. 10) *The patient expired on the floor uneventfully. 11) *Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital. 12) *The patient's past medical history has been remarkably insignificant, with only a forty-pound weight gain in the past three days. (40 in 3 days) 13) *She slipped on the ice and apparently her legs went in separate directions in early December. 14) *The patient was in his usual state of good health until his airplane ran out of gas and crashed. 15) *She is numb from her toes down. 16) *The skin was moist and dry. 17) *Patient was alert and unresponsive. 18) *When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room..o..o..o.

Swami KitchenAnanda runs a tight ship. He advises his grhastha students to do likewise. ***Some exclusive quotes from his recent lectures & 'mourning' walks reveal so: 1. "A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen and this kitchen is delirious." 2. "No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes." 3. "A husband is someone who takes out the trash and gives the impression he just cleaned the whole house/ashram." ***A sample of Swamiji's humility: 4. "If we are what we eat, then I'm easy, fast, and cheap." 5. "A balanced prasAdam diet means an offered cookie in each hand." 6. "Thou shalt not weigh more than thy temple's refrigerator." ***Swamiji's humble advice to others: (what he could recall from Christ's Sermon on the Mount) 7. "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." ***And as far as using time wisely: 8. "A clean house is a sign of a misspent life." 9. "Help keep our mandir kitchen clean - eat out." ***Inspiring words for married couples: 10. "Housework done properly can kill you." ***Proof of his expert cooking: 11. Countless number of people have eaten from our Deity kitchen's and gone on to lead normal lives. ***His future plans 12. My next mission branch will have no kitchen –just vending machines. All my disciples should open up similar centers.

YazodAjI: I watched a film about Vukovar. Maybe you also saw? Horrific. Like the end of civilization. I have family from Omishaj, OtaKrk. TEARS: Just to further prove our own U.S. government's total disinvolvement & absolute utter innocence, Bushwhacker's Administration has decided to hire and transport "Little Anthony & The Imperialists" to Kabul. Why? To sing, to do a command performance just outside Bin Laden's cave. Yes Folks, in an attempt, a last ditch effort to avoid battle, bloodshed, unnecessary violence, to try and lure him out by his own volition, like Pied Pipers, they'll be singing such Imperialists' Cave-dwelling Terrorist favorites as: 1) "I'm on the Outside Looking In" (I don' wanna be, I don' wanna be, I don' wanna be, left on the outside if there's war... 2) "Tears on My Pillow" pain in my heart caused by you (or someone you know) 3) Take Me Back (in that cave with you) 4) It Hurt So Bad (to see you again) 5) Shimmy Shimmy Coco Pop, Shimmy Shimmy Pop goes the Weasel (if we don't think of somethin' fast).

ZrIpAd Bhaktivibudha Boddhayan Mhrj just informed me my Mayapur bike was stolen from under GopinAth Gaudiya Math's staircase. Multiple Choice Question: what are your opinions: a) Was it an inside job (antaranga-zakti), done by a sAdhana-siddha? b) Was it an outside job (bahiranga-zakti), done by a nitya-baddha? c) Or was it marginal (tatastha-zakti), done by a karma-mizra bhakta?

Some of the WTC 'missing' are not really missing. They're hiding. Some of the WTC 'missing' didn't even go to work that day. They were tipped off. Their clever spouses are wheeling and dealing with insurance agents as we speak. They stand to gain so much. All their hidden partners have to do is lay low till sundown. With $millions$ as their motive it won't be so hard. Mayor Giuliani should pass an emergency law (and sing along): You're nobody till somebody finds you, You're nobody till somebody cares. (identifies your corpse) You may be dead, your spouse may claim the world and all its gold. But gold won't bring you happiness if your soul is sold. Kaliyuga is getting worse you'll never change it. As sure as those Twin Towers fell from above!!//-_ Your nobody till we find your body! So tell your spouse forget $it$ push to shove. So tell your spouse forget $it$ if we don't! (at least find your finger)

ZrIpAd Bhaktivibudha Boddhayan Mhrj said just a few days ago that Alachua is, in some ways, better than VrndAvan. He explained so: "Now so many are coming to Vraj to make business, have family life. So much $Western$ laxmi coming in attracts swindlers, thiefs. Alachua is much more peaceful than Vraj to perform your bhajan. So many vaisnavas living nearby. Not so crowded like Vraj." He gave a few more reasons. On the way up from Alachua Tuesday afternoon, we passed by The Quadragon (formerly The Pentagon). It's Southside was no doubt "Holeyer Than Thou". The rest (its other 4 sides) looked okay. Remember Saigon? Well we were looking at One Saigon (One side-gone).

I saw this "Spiritual World Guide" video. Not too bad. A little jumpy through that 12 forest section. If you/she ever does a remake, she'll have to include a 13th: Talivan. If both RadhA and Baladev expand from KRSNa, how can They control Him? And what about MohinI-mUrtI? She's the best of all!

Why do you say Duryodhan had no relation to BalarAm Prabhu? What about SubhadrA's hand in marriage?

Fast balls, curve balls, screw balls, spit balls, sliders, sinkers.

Om Om! Aum Aum! Yes Yes!

Within the range of old and fresh prasAda-seva, I'd have to agree.

Dear CCji, Good. Then maybe you can explain to us all the 24th and 1/2 syllable which almost caused ZrIla VizvanAth Cakravarti ThAkur's suicide.

I'm in New York. No tears in my eyes. Why?Because I know who's behind it all. Same ones CNN keeps interviewing. Same ones who tried to send us to Nam instead of HarinAm. Just another snowjob. Don't forget your longjohns, galoshes, wintercoat, gloves and warmest hat. December 7th came early this year. Father B forewarned us it would some 10 yrs ago.

Oh what are those difs? Do you know this song: Jaya RAdhA GirivaradharI...? It's last 2 lines go something like this: Taruna carane mana manjira bhaoye ZrI KRSNa dAsa ... There's your bhaoye. Go for it.

Caitanyacandraji: I assume you're interested in studying Sanskrt. Here are a few simple Words of Wisdom: satyaM vada = Speak truth. I typed capital m = M because it's nasalized m with dot on top. dharmaM cara = Act according to virtue = Do your duty. Again I typed in capital m = M, for same reason. matRdevo bhava = Treat mother as God (demigod). matr = mother, devo = demigod, bhava = becomes. bhava and bhAva are very different. Ergo, on internet we capitalize (or not) to make distinction.

CCji: no one knows Sanskrt; everyone knows Sanskrt. It's a gradual process, step by step. Just a question of trying, leaning forward ever so slightly. I may know more than someone, Jagatji knows more than I do, someone else knows more than he does. Differences don't inhibit any one individual's progress. That's KRSNa/MAyA's test to see whether we're looking inside or outside.