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December 23, 2006

Greetings from the Santa Claus BDM - merry Christmas!

December 23, 2006

Vaishnavas who abuse other Vaishnavas, hopefully this website will solve that situation! Also sad to see that ISKCON calls abusers Vaishnavas.

Doesnt the very term "Vaishnava" exclude all possibilities that this can be a person whose character is doubtful? Just like is there any resource group to help high court judges who became involved in criminal activities?

High court judge support and abuse resource group. According my limited common sense, a high court judge who becomes involved in criminal activity cant be called high court judge anymore, what to speak of sending such a person to some recovery therapy in order that the occupation as high court judge can be continued.

Anyway here the new internet portal:

Vaishnava Support and Abuse Resource Group

http://www.vsarg.org/home

December 21, 2006

Hi,

http://www.tierramerica.net/2000/1126/acent.html

wonder how true this is...

This article against the cow was written by an ips correspondet, Mario Osava:

http://www.ips.org/about/editorial/latam_correspondents.shtml

which is basically the promotion agency of global Argentina Steakhouse,

http://www.theargentinasteakhouse.com/

Methane produced by cows is of a different chemical structure and causes fertility whereas industry generated Methane is difficult to break down and almost not bio-degradable.

December 20, 2006

Present Iran is home to 30,000 Jews who are doing fine, and do not plan to emigrate to Israel which is in constant war. They receive preferential treatment. Though the world media has churned out thousands of news items connected to the Conference, they were practically identical, containing local official condemnation and the predictable Jewish reaction. Practically none of the reports and talks given in Tehran ever made it to the mass media.

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By Israel Shamir – December 19, 2006

Introduction

A conference freely discussing the Holocaust took place in Tehran and attracted much attention, providing revisionists with an opportunity they have long been denied. See my article below – but before, let me mention a few exciting materials re the Conference:

1. One of the best is the confrontation between David Duke and Wolf Blitzer. If you enjoyed George Galloway fighting Sky News and beating the broadcaster at her game,( or transcript) you will enjoy Duke. He has guts, this delicate man with his lapdog! It is tiresome to hear of his youthful fascination with KKK: Pound and Yeats were fascinated with Hitler; Jack London was a believer in white supremacy and Manifest Destiny; so what? Duke is definitely not a basket case; he is a brave man in the world full of cowards.

2. If you are interested in brass tacks of revisionism, you can read a talk by Faurisson, the dean of French revisionists while Jewish antizionist view was presented by Rabbi Cohen.

3. There is a well-written essay by my countryman Gabriel Ash. His views are not ours: he condemns the Iranian hosts ("the clowns") and the revisionist guests ("buffoons"), pays lip service to conventional paradigm (“pathetic conference”), attacks Duke (“white supremacist”), but understands the ugliness of holocaust cult.

Winning cartoon by Moroccan Derkaoui Abdellah in the Holocaust cartoon contest held in Iran recently.

Click here to see other prize winning entries to the contest.

They Met in Teheran

By Israel Shamir

The Teheran Holocaust Conference caused quite a storm in the world media. One might ask: what’s so special about that? There are so many holocaust events and holocaust museums and holocaust festivals, sometimes attracting presidents and prime ministers galore, so why did the Teheran (or Tehran) conference draw so much attention and criticism; why were the White House, Frau Merkel, the Vatican and the EC willing to take some valuable time to condemn this small gathering in far-away Iranian capital?

The difference is that all other gatherings were amen-sayers accepting the official version provided by Jewish organisations as the Holy Writ given to Moses on Mt Sinai. The official version of the Holocaust goes even farther than Writ: you may deny Immaculate Conception and Resurrection of Christ, you may besmirch Muhammad, but if you have any doubt that six million of Jews were executed by Germans in gas chambers within the framework of a total annihilation project you may find yourself in a jail in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and other ‘free’ countries. The Teheran Conference is the first one ever to deal critically with the sad events of the World War Two.

One does not have to be a fan of Hitler to approve of the conference. What is a souse for a goose is souse for a gander. The Jews do not hesitate to deny their atrocities. The Guardian reported that they targeted “the respected French TV correspondent, Charles Enderlin, whose Palestinian cameraman filmed 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura being shot and killed, as his father tried to shield him at the start of the second intifada. Enderlin accused Israeli troops of shooting and killing the boy. French supporters of Israel went online to claim the report was a distortion based on faked footage. His network, France 2, responded with legal action and, last month, in the first of four individual cases, a French court found the organiser of a self-styled media watchdog website guilty of libel.

"Another online target has been the TV footage of bloodshed on a Gaza beach earlier this year. A Palestinian girl was seen screaming as she saw the bodies of dead family members killed by what Palestinians allege was Israeli shellfire. When [stewart Purvis, the editor-in-chief of ITN] mentioned the impact of these pictures at last week's conference, members of the audience shouted "staged". One person came up to him afterwards to suggest that the family had somehow died somewhere else and that their bodies had been moved to the beach to be filmed. Where, for instance, was all the blood? He pointed out that he had seen everything that the cameraman had shot and that some pictures were too gruesome to be shown.”

More importantly, every freedom-of-speech loving liberal should regret that even important historians are not free to express their views on the Holocaust issue. David Irving is in jail, and this week Germar Rudolf was taken to a German court chained hand and foot after he was deported from the US for publishing his book doubting the official Holocaust dogma. Such a taboo clamours to be broken. I wrote of it at length in 2001, as the first conference scheduled to take place in Beirut was cancelled by the Lebanese yielding to severe pressure of the US. Then as now, the revisionists had much hope tthat their case would finally be heard.

It did not happen. If the conference organisers believed they could break the taboo and reach millions, they were mistaken. Though the world media has churned out thousands of news items connected to the Conference, they were practically identical, containing local official condemnation and the predictable Jewish reaction. Practically none of the reports and talks given in Tehran ever made it to the mass media. The conference participants were smeared as ‘racist antisemites’ though there were quite a few Jews, venerable Rabbis in their black hats and long coats, revolted by the Zionist privatisation of the World War tragedy.

If anything, the conference proved that the holocaust dogma is a basic tenet in the great world-embracing brainwashing machine of mass media described by Noam Chomsky as “the manufacture of consent Stalin could only dream of … whose discipline, and uniformity, are really impressive”. This media syndicate is the enemy of free people everywhere, and it carries on a relentless war against Iran and other independently-minded nations.

Just one case: a Jewish-owned Canadian paper, The National Post claimed that “in a move reminiscent of the Nazis forcing Jews to wear a Star of David insignia, Iran’s parliament has reportedly passed a law requiring Jews to wear colour-coded badges”. This was a sheer lie: Iran is home to 30,000 Jews who are doing fine, and do not plan to emigrate to Israel. They receive preferential treatment, and nobody forces them to wear a badge or anything else. The Post withdrew the canard a few days later, and apologised, but this news item was repeated ad nauseam in thousands of papers and blogs, while the apology remained on its sixth page.

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December 19, 2006

Phantom Limb Pain

<center>As more and more U.S. vets come back from Iraq and Afghanistan with missing limbs, increasing attention is being paid to a puzzling phenomenon: Young soldiers feel agonizing pain in a part of their body that no longer exists</center>

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CONSUMER HEALTH INTERACTIVE

It was only a couple of weeks after Christian Bagge came home from the war in Iraq that the torment began. Lying in his hospital bed at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Bagge suddenly felt a crushing pain in his feet.

His feet, however, were not there. After the 23-year-old National Guard soldier's unit was hit by two bombs on an Iraqi road in June 2005, Bagge woke up in a military hospital in Germany with one leg amputated above the knee and the other below the knee.

It was when the Texas hospital began to wean Bagge off narcotics that the mysterious pain began. "It came on suddenly and feels like someone is smashing my toes with a hammer," says the Oregon-born youth.

What Bagge was experiencing is called phantom limb pain (PLP), a puzzling condition that's receiving increased attention as more and more U.S. vets come home from Iraq and Afghanistan with missing limbs.

A mysterious pain

As reported in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, almost all amputees feel at least some sensations in the missing limb. At first, the phantom limb feels intact, even movable. While a few lucky patients merely feel mild tingling or sensations of heat or cold, 60 to 80 percent of amputees suffer actual pain.

Phantom limb pain sometimes mimics the pain that afflicted the limb before it was amputated. In other cases, it creates new agony unlike anything a person has ever felt before. Some patients with the condition even feel as if the missing limb has been twisted or distorted into impossible positions. In Bagge's case, the pain was severe. "On the pain scale of one to 10, I'd say it was a six or a seven," he says. "But then again, my '10' is getting both of my legs blown off."

James Roper, M.D., is the chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he has worked with hundreds of amputees over the years. "The most common description of phantom pain is that it's like a severe cramping, as if someone's foot is being crushed in a vise," says Roper. "Other patients tell me it's like a red-hot, searing, burning, or a sharp shooting pain." Many times the brain seems to reproduce the pain the patient felt in that limb before it was amputated. "I'll have veterans tell me, 'It feels like when I first got shot,' " Roper says.

Phantom limb pain usually shows up within days of the amputation. However, some people first feel the pain years or even decades after losing a limb. One patient, described in a 1999 issue of the journal Pain, felt new pain in a lower leg that hadn't existed for 44 years. It's no wonder a 2004 report from the American Pain Foundation called the condition "one of the most mysterious forms of pain known in medicine."

But progress has been made. Not long ago, people with phantom limb pain were often told that they were either imagining things or going crazy. While many questions remain, there's no longer any doubt that phantom limb pain is a physical problem arising from the severed nerves that once connected the missing limb.

Here's a leading theory, as best researchers can explain it: The nerves remaining in the stump continue to send messages to the brain, and the brain scrambles to process the information. As explained by the American Pain Foundation, the brain has a hard time fathoming the loss of a limb, so it tries to re-create the limb using the nerve signals as a guide. For reasons that nobody understands, the brain often translates those signals into pain. It's as if the brain needs strong, impossible-to-ignore reassurance that the limb still exists.

"The experience of the pain is just as real as if the limb were still there," says Roper "But the truth is, there isn't a very good explanation yet as to exactly what causes it."

Zeroing in on treatment

At this time, there is no single treatment for phantom limb pain. Doctors typically have to sort through many different possibilities to find the best approach for each individual patient.

Christian Bagge and his doctors tried many different treatments, and most of them were not very effective, according to the Oregon native. "We tried tons of stuff: hot and cold baths, heating pads, self-massage, electrical nerve stimulation, and drugs," he says. "Some of the stuff that worked for other guys didn't work for me, and vice versa." While the hot and cold baths seemed to work and self-massage helped as well, Bagge says his worst pain usually came on at night. At that point, narcotic pain medications were his first choice.

Treatment can be extremely challenging, according to Roper. "We're a lot better off than we were after World War II," he says, noting that advances in research, better pain medications, and state-of-the-art prosthetics have greatly helped today's amputees. "But there is still much room for improvement."

According to reports from the American Pain Foundation, medications that calm nerves are a standard treatment. Options include anti-seizure drugs such as carbamazepine (Tegretol, Epitol) or tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline. Some painkillers, including opioids and lidocaine, may also be effective. Often it’s a trial and error process to find what works best, and there are several drugs within these categories of medication that can be combined for effective pain relief.

Medications can be combined with alternative pain-relieving therapies, including transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), acupuncture, or biofeedback. While these techniques haven't been thoroughly tested for how well they relieve phantom limb pain, a small 2005 study published in Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback suggests that biofeedback can bring relief.

Besides pain-relieving therapies, overcoming phantom pain usually requires psychological treatment. Losing a limb, after all, is a traumatic and life-changing event for anyone, and patients need social support as they gradually return to their lives. According to Roper, patients have a better chance of success if they work with a team of specialists, including doctors, surgeons, psychologists, and physical and occupational therapists. Also crucial: well-fitted and functioning prosthetics.

"Based on my experience, the people who do the best in recovery seem to be the ones who have a whole team working with them and do everything they can to get active again," Roper says. "They're most likely to engage in the activities that are meaningful to them and provide them enjoyment in life. It's truly amazing what the human spirit can overcome."

Unfortunately, many amputees are still living with unnecessary pain. A 2006 study published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation found that 53 percent of all patients with phantom limb pain -- 38 percent of them with severe pain -- hadn't received any treatment at all.

Long-term prognosis

Most phantom sensations, including pain, tend to become less vivid over time. Many patients say that it feels like the phantom limb gradually shrinks.

For Christian Bagge, the episodes have decreased in both intensity and frequency. Whereas they used to stop him in his tracks several times a day for 10 minutes at a time, now they come on mainly at night, and only a couple of times per week.

"I think I've just gotten used to it," says Bagge, who is now 24 and walks -- even runs -- on prosthetic legs. He still receives physical therapy at the Brooke Army Medical Center and takes mild pain relievers for his nighttime pain. "I have pain during the day, but it's manageable. When you're busy doing other things, you can forget it about it. But at night, when everything is quiet, that's when the pain dial gets turned up."

The day we spoke to Bagge was the day he had officially retired from the National Guard. He plans to go back to college, maybe even law school one day, and aims to return to his teenage (pre-military) vocation of playing drums in his brother's Christian rock band -- if, he says, he can get his prosthetic legs to keep the beat. For now, he and his wife are building a new house in San Antonio, and Bagge has been booked as a motivational speaker for several gigs around the country.

Asked why he thought his phantom pain had diminished, Bagge turns to his dreams. "My theory is that my brain has finally started to accept that my limbs are gone," says Bagge. "The military psychologist here -- you know, the one every guy who comes back from war has to go to -- says that when you start dreaming about your prosthetics is when your brain really accepts it."

"And now I've started to dream that I'm running, even flying, with these legs."

-- Chris Woolston, MS, and Paige Bierma, MA, are contributing editors at Consumer Health Interactive. Bierma has reported for Health+Safety, HealthLeaders, and other medical publications. Woolston has written for WebMD, Health, Hippocrates, and other health and science publications. He is the co-author of Generation Extra Large: Rescuing Our Children from the Obesity Epidemic (Perseus, 2004).

References

Interview with Christian Bagge, former Oregon National Guard member, Iraq war veteran, and amputee

Interview with James Roper, M.D., Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Alabama.

Nikolajsen, L. and T.S. Jensen. Phantom limb pain. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2006. 87(1): 107-116.

American Pain Foundation. Questions and answers: Phantom limb pain. February 2006. http://www.painfoundation.org/page.asp?file=QandA/Phantom.htm.

Cleveland Clinic Phantom Limb Pain. December 2006. http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/3600/3692.asp?index=12092&src=news

Rajbhandari, S.M. et al. Diabetic neuropathic pain in a leg amputed 44 years previously. Pain. 1999. 83: 627-629.

Hanley, M.A. et al. Self-reported treatments for lower-limb phantom pain: descriptive findings. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. February 2006. 87(2): 270-277.

Harden et al. Biofeedback in the treatment of phantom limb pain: a time-series analysis. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. March 2006. 30(1): 83-93.

Reviewed by Michael Potter, MD, an attending physician and associate clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who is board-certified in family practice.

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December 18, 2006

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Ex-soldiers break `silence' on Israeli excesses

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Haroon Siddiqui – Toronto Star December 17, 2006

A young Israeli was in Canada last week raising ethical questions about the conduct of Israeli soldiers in the Occupied Territories.

Yehuda Shaul was born in Jerusalem to an American mother and Canadian father (from Toronto). Shaul went to school in a West Bank settlement and served in the army from 2001 to 2004. He did a 14-month stint in Hebron, guarding about 650 settlers living among approximately 150,000 Palestinians.

He is one of the founders of Break the Silence, a group of ex-soldiers speaking out about what they saw and did during their tour of duty in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

At 6-foot 1-inch, the heavy-set Shaul cuts an imposing but engaging figure with his beard, ponytail and the kippa. He smiles easily.

He had a lot to say during a vegetarian kosher lunch we shared in my office with his Toronto host, Judith Wiseman.

He came here after a tour of six American cities. In Toronto, he spoke at the Winchevsky Centre of the United Jewish People's Order and at the Quaker House. Then he was off to London, Ottawa and Montreal.

He recounted the moment when, three months before being released from the army, he was alone and wondering what he would do upon returning to civilian life.

It struck him, he said, that he had become "a monster," doing things that were not right. "It was a frightening moment."

He spoke to fellow soldiers. "They were feeling the same: `Something's rotten here.' Israelis don't know what goes on here, and we must tell them.'"

Within three months of being discharged in March 2004, Shaul and friends mounted an exhibit, Bringing Hebron to Tel Aviv. It had powerful photos and video testimony by 64 soldiers showing and describing the treatment meted out to Palestinians by the troops as well as some of the settlers.

There were pictures of Palestinians bound and blindfolded. There was a photo of a settler carrying an assault rifle with a decal on the magazine clip: "Kill 'em all, Let God sort 'em out." Another was of graffiti on a wall: "Arabs to the gas chamber."

The exhibit drew 7,000 visitors and much media coverage.

Other soldiers who had served in the West Bank and Gaza came forward. More photos were gathered, as well as about 400 audio and video testimonies.

In them, soldiers talk about the total power of the occupiers over the occupied — throwing Palestinians out of their homes; making them stand for hours for disobeying the curfew or trying to bypass a checkpoint or even smiling or arguing at the wrong time, Shaul said.

"We can play with them. This is the mindset from which everything flows."

In Hebron, Shaul manned a machine gun. "It can shoot dozens of grenades a minute up to a distance of about 2,000 metres. We'd shoot 40 or 50 a day ...

"We had three high posts, two where we had kicked the Palestinian families out of and the third was a Palestinian school which we had closed down.

"The idea was that anytime they shoot, we shoot back.

"But the machine gun is not an accurate weapon. You just shoot in the direction of the target ... We have no idea how many we killed. I hope no one."

Shaul said some acts "flow from being afraid or being bored. You are there eight hours a night at the post. You just aim and shoot the water tank."

Or, "when you drive your tank or your APC (armoured personnel carrier), you bump into a streetlight. As you turn a corner, you bump into a wall. It's fun ... It's all about you. Nothing else matters ... Palestinians are no longer human."

Initially, Break the Silence members did not speak to foreigners, to avoid "airing our dirty laundry." But they have since changed their policy.

Two members toured the United States last year. Two exhibitions have been held in Geneva and Amsterdam.

"We provide the tools for people to understand the deeply woven moral corruption and numbness of what we do (in the Occupied Territories). It's like a slide; once you start going down, you keep going down.

"There's no such thing as a benign or an enlightened occupation. You can't be an occupier and not be an occupier."

Shaul's overall message:

"The issue is not the right of Israel to exist but rather, does it have the right to occupy Palestinian lands and control civilians as it has for 40 years?"

Shaul said he has been well-received in North America, even though some did criticize him.

But, "you can't really criticize me because I am an Israeli who has served in the army."

He's much more: a courageous citizen of Israeli democracy.

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December 18, 2006

some try to do exactly that: stop a succession with a book.

but let us stay focused:

Is maintaining a disciplic succession one of the major scriptural injunctions in the Vaishnava tradition?

yes or no, hopefully with some shastric basis to justify our position.

Yes, Krishna says YES - although it sometimes gets interrupted and has to be reconnected! But that's the procedure of passing on vedic knowledge and was installed by Lord Krishna Himself.

evam parampara-praptam

imam rajarsayo viduh

sa kaleneha mahata

yogo nastah parantapa

"This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost."

Bhagavad-gita 4:2

December 17, 2006

Ok I think I have it right.. every month starts on a new moon.. So the 20th of December is the first of Pausha. Now I just dont know what day of the week it is.. The first of Pausha falls on what day of the week?

I would still like a copy of your Calendar Avinash

I just have send you a calender, is this what you're looking for?

December 17, 2006

Maybe the BBT editors are morons..............

They would probably rather quote verses like below, where Lord Chaitanya defines what is a Vaishnava, initiated or not initiated:

Upon hearing this, Satyarāja said, "How can I recognize a Vaiṣṇava? Please let me know what a Vaiṣṇava is. What are his common symptoms?"

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied, "Whoever chants the holy name of Kṛṣṇa just once is worshipable and is the topmost human being.

"Simply by chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa once, a person is relieved from all the reactions of a sinful life. One can complete the nine processes of devotional service simply by chanting the holy name.

"One does not have to undergo initiation or execute the activities required before initiation. One simply has to vibrate the holy name with his lips. Thus even a man in the lowest class [caṇḍāla] can be delivered.

"By chanting the holy name of the Lord, one dissolves his entanglement in material activities. After this, one becomes very much attracted to Kṛṣṇa, and thus dormant love for Kṛṣṇa is awakened.

"'The holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa is an attractive feature for many saintly, liberal people. It is the annihilator of all sinful reactions and is so powerful that, save for the dumb who cannot chant it, it is readily available to everyone, including the lowest type of man, the caṇḍāla. The holy name of Kṛṣṇa is the controller of the opulence of liberation, and it is identical with Kṛṣṇa. When a person simply chants the holy name with his tongue, immediate effects are produced. Chanting the holy name does not depend on initiation, pious activities or the puraścaryā regulative principles generally observed before initiation. The holy name does not wait for any of these activities. It is self-sufficient.'"

(CC Madhya 15.105-110)

December 17, 2006

To give an example of how Srila Prabhupada became the FIRST acharya to do a certain thing, I would like present this....

"Therefore, although I am a sannyāsī I sometimes take part in getting boys and girls married, although in the history of sannyāsa no sannyāsī has personally taken part in marrying his disciples."

For the full context, refer to this.....

Anyone in the West who presently considers Krishna consciousness his/her religion but decided to join a camp which rejects Srila Prabhupada's position as genuine teacher of bhagavat-dharma, the knowledge of attaining the ultimate goal of life, should at least remember one thing - that without Prabhupada they would be presently in the nowhere - fully absorbed in kali-yuga action and reaction, right on the path to hell.

December 14, 2006

The truly weird thing is that Guruvani aka Ksamabuddhi was with Sripad Bhakti Sudhir Goswami Maharaja during the early days of the Sridhar Maharaja movement, The Mahamandala, during the mid-eighties. At that time in San Jose California all the members of the 62 S. 13th St. Math, including Ksamabuddhi, preached the precepts found in Srila Sridhar Maharaja's book "Sri Guru and His Grace" (published in San Jose). Reliable sources tell me that the New Raman Reti ISKCON temple in Alachua Florida, near where Ksamabuddhi lives, is something right out of Rod Serling's, "The Twilight Zone". We must have pity on Ksamabuddhi because just being in proximity to the Alachua temple or merely observing the antics in that community is enough to drive anyone nuts. <NOBR></NOBR>

What's often forgotten is that Prabhupada's books, teachings and letters can be read today by everyone but Prabhupada's success of attracting so many people to KC was his own personal effulgence. People joined because of his personality surcharged with vibrating spirituality. He was firm as a rock and able to unite all those different type of people with thousands of different type of opinions. Since Prabhupada's physical presence is no more the uniting force among worldwide Vaishnavas this very uniting power is totally lost and instead all the different views and opinions run wild, out of control. Not only when it comes to sastrical questions, questions how to properly run a Vaishnava institution but even more dramatic when it comes to organize with united power to fight the opponent/demoniac forces of Lord Chaitanya's world-wide Sankirtan mission.

This went so far that it is often not even noticed anymore how global Vaishnavism is well directed put checkmate at so many important places by hidden forces - Vaishnavas kicked into isolation and helplessly overcome by anarthas. This is fact, anyone can see.

How to replace a charismatic spiritual leader? First we have to understand that presently there's not such a powerful pure devotee on this planet who's able to unite all those different camps under one roof. This understanding would be the first important step to further advance the coalition of global Vaishnavism - of again becoming a huge happy&productive family of Krishna's devotees.

December 13, 2006

that's a mighty nice way to refer to ecclesiatical career gurus who can't accomplish anything except loitering around ISKCON in a chronic case of institutional over-dependence.

Tripurari Maharaja and Jagat Guru Maharaja are the only two disciples of Srila Prabhupada that I know of that have shown that they can accomplish anything on their own merit without using ISKCON as a crutch.

I have a lot of respect and appreciationg for devotees like them.

posted Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:54:00 -0800

Question: What is the position of devotees who had been approved by Srila

Prabhupada and were waiting to receive initiation from him but had not

yet received initiation when he departed? Are they considered direct

disciples of Srila Prabhupada?

Tripurari Swami: The basic idea is that the will of the Vaisnava is the substance of

initiation. Because Srila Prabhupada agreed to initiate them, they are

his disciples. This is, of course, in consideration of the fact that

his system of initiation often involved accepting a disciple and then

having the formalities of initiation carried out by one of his senior

disciples, who acted as the priest (rtvik). In such cases the substance

of the initiation took place on his giving his consent. At that time

the disciple heard the diksa mantras from Srila Prabhupada on tape,

while the other formalities of initiation were carried out by the

rtvik. This was the opinion of Pujyapada Sridhara Maharaja, whom Srila

Prabhupada sent us to for insight into these matters.

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Q. I am interested in becoming one of your students. I regularly attend

programs at the International Society for Krsna Consciousness (Iskcon)

and have friends there who are supportive of my decision to seek

initiation from you. Can you assist me?

Tripurari Swami: I will be honored to assist you in your spiritual pursuit, but you

should be forewarned that I am not a member of Iskcon and that some

Iskcon members are hostile to my students and myself to the point of

not allowing those affiliated with me to visit their temples. Therefore

if your spiritual life, as you understand it, is dependent on

association with Iskcon members, becoming my student may at times cause

you conflict. If, on the other hand, you feel that your spiritual life

is dependent on my guidance and you are prepared to pursue that at any

cost, then any hostility you may experience from members of Iskcon will

not be an issue.

Further information on this issue can be found in the following Sangas:

Iskcon, Exile, and the Conflict of Vows

http://www.swami.org/sanga/archives/pages/volume_three/m134.html

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Q. Some members of another Gaudiya institution have told me that

hearing about Krsna consciousness from you is not a good idea for me

and my family as we are so "new" to all of this. However, I am

attracted to your teachings, so I am going to seek out what I feel is

truly helpful to me, regardless of what they say. My question is: What

can a working person like myself possibly do to serve a guru? What form

might this service take?

Tripurari Swami: I am happy to know that I have been helpful to you in your spiritual

life. Regarding your question, hearing and chanting are the main

service and as a working person you can also serve the mission by

contributing financially towards its maintenance and expansion.

Householders often have responsibilities that make it difficult for

them to render service directly to the mission of Sri Guru and

Gauranga. Still, there will be special opportunities for service that

arise from time to time, and when they do, you should take them

seriously. We live for such opportunities.

In conclusion, I must say that I am encouraged by your response to the

negativity you have experienced regarding your connection with me. Be

certain that this negativity has absolutely no spiritual basis

whatsoever. It is purely misplaced sentiment, sentiment that is not

philosophically grounded in the transcendental precepts of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

December 13, 2006

This is world events forum, anytyhing goes here, however misguided.

I sure wish that folks woulkd realize the implications of their desires to rid the world of calamity. We see a nutcase in leader4ship, sao we want to kill all those who are under such oppression, while the leader often has protection. Just look at the monster Pinochet, who was allowed to die of natural causes. The Shah, Pol Pot, these guys are never one of the skeletons buried in mass graves they cause. Ahmadinajack is the same way. Hes a demon for sure, but how many innocents will die because of him. Iran is not my enemy, I have solidarity with all these folks.

America is not my enemy, Israel is not my enemy, Islam is not my enemy, but the leaders will surely make us all die a horrible death.

mahak

Our Vienna Rabbi Moishe Aryeh Friedman joins the Iran meeting and somehow causes quite some agitation among many.

Iran meeting questions Holocaust and gas chambers

Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:37 PM GMT

By Parisa Hafezi

Rabbi Moishe Aryeh Friedman

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran staged a conference on Monday to debate the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers, prompting charges it was encouraging the denial of the killing of 6 million Jews from 1933 to 1945. The leader of the powerful anti-Zionist Viennese Jewish ultra-orthodox sect, Rabbi Moishe Aryeh Friedman, has made headlines for himself once again. Last time he did it by associating with neonazi Holocaust deniers. The Rabbi, whose credentials have been questioned, has formed an alliance with the Hamas. According to an article in Ha'aretz:

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Palestinian Authority Refugee Minister Atef Adwan and Austrian orthodox rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman pledged Friday to work to build ties between Hamas and anti-Zionist Jews.

Adwan, of Hamas, and Friedman told The Associated Press their meeting in the Swedish capital heralded a "joint coalition" between their groups.

Adwan also said the two hoped their meeting would lead to plans for humanitarian aid to flow from Friedman's congregation in Vienna to the West Bank.

Friedman flew to Stockholm from Vienna on Thursday to meet Adwan, who has been on a weeklong visit to Sweden, attending a conference on Palestinian refugees and meeting Swedish lawmakers.

Friedman said his congregation would "do everything in practical terms to help the Palestinian people," including sending money and food to the West Bank.

"We will support them in ways that others have failed to do," Friedman said, but declined to give details.

Friedman is chief rabbi for hundreds of anti-Zionist orthodox Jews in Vienna but is shunned by Austria's 7,000-member Israelite Religious Community because of views that are repudiated by most Jews and also, in some cases, embraced by far-rightists.

Friedman also denies Israel's right to exist and has said Zionist Jews share the blame for the Holocaust, which he sees as punishment for straying from God's path....

While few Jews share Friedman's views, Adwan said he hoped the meeting would "send a message ... that we can in fact live with each other. That [Jews] can accept the Palestinians as their mates, as their friends and as their neighbors, and we will accept them as the same."

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Friedman also announced plans for a conference of more than 100 Muslim, Jewish and Christian religious leaders in Vienna in June, during the week that U.S. President George W. Bush visits the Austrian capital for a U.S.-European Union summit..

What part of the above is the most maddening? For me it is:

Friedman also denies Israel's right to exist and has said Zionist Jews share the blame for the Holocaust, which he sees as punishment for straying from God's path....

Perhaps Friedman is our punishment for not obeying the injunction "And ye shall expunge the evil from within thy midst," (uvaiarta hara metochacha) beginning with Friedman.

Ami Isseroff

Guests at the government-run event, titled "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision", included Westerners who have cast doubt on the Holocaust -- some of them from countries that have made it a crime to deny it happened -- as well as a few Jews.

"The aim of this conference is not to deny or confirm the Holocaust," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said. "Its main aim is to create an opportunity for thinkers who cannot express their views freely in Europe about the Holocaust."

The two-day conference at a Foreign Ministry institute was inspired by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who since coming to power in August 2005 has sparked international condemnation by terming the Holocaust a "myth" and calling Israel a "tumour".

Ahmadinejad has said he wants to encourage scholarly debate and examine the justification for Israel's creation.

American David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, praised Iran. "There must be freedom of speech, it is scandalous that the Holocaust cannot be discussed freely," he said. "It makes people turn a blind eye to Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people."

"SICK" Israel, the United States and a leader of Iran's own 25,000-strong Jewish community condemned the conference. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called it "a sick phenomenon that shows the depth of hatred of the fundamentalist Iranian regime". Continued

December 13, 2006

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Aids in India has reached a level which is rather an epidemic situation:

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Estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India, end of 2005

<TABLE class=statisticstable_special><TBODY><TR><TD class=statisticstable_col>Group</TD><TD class=statisticstable_col>Living with HIV/AIDS</TD></TR><TR><TD class=statisticstable_row>Adults and children

</TD><TD class=statisticstable_data>5,700,000</TD></TR><TR><TD class=statisticstable_row>Adults</TD><TD class=statisticstable_data>5,600,000</TD></TR><TR><TD class=statisticstable_row>Women</TD><TD class=statisticstable_data>1,600,000</TD></TR><TR><TD class=statisticstable_special>Adult HIV prevalence estimate</TD><TD class=statisticstable_special>0.9%</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

These are UNAIDS/WHO estimates.<SUP>3</SUP> Adults are defined as people aged 15 or above. These estimates include all those with HIV infection, whether or not they have developed symptoms of AIDS.</B>

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<TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=2 width="100%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=header colSpan=5 height=26>AIDS CURES THE INCURABLES</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=5 height=154>Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the causative agent for AIDS. HIV is a sexually transmitted disease. Infection is aided by Lange Hans cells in mucosal epithelial surfaces which can become infected. Infection is also aided by the presence of other sexually transmitted diseases that can produce mucosal ulceration and inflammation. The CD4+ T-lymphocytes have surface receptors to which HIV can attach to promote entry into the cell. The infection extends to lymphoid tissues which contain follicular dendritic cells that can become infected and provide a reservoir for continuing infection of CD4+ T-lymphocytes. HIV can also be spread via blood or blood products, most commonly with shared contaminated needles used by persons engaging in intravenous drug use. Mothers who are HIV infected can pass the virus on to their fetuses in utero or to infants via breast milk.

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December 12, 2006

<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Source: My Way News</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD vAlign=top>Published: December 12, 2006 Author: MATTI FRIEDMAN</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD vAlign=top></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>JERUSALEM (AP) - A slip of the tongue by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about Israel's nuclear policy ballooned into a domestic crisis Tuesday for the Israeli leader, who came under criticism from across the political spectrum.

In an interview with a German television station broadcast Monday, Olmert appeared to list Israel among the world's nuclear powers, violating the country's long-standing policy of not officially acknowledging that it has atomic weapons.

Asked by the interviewer about Iran's calls for the destruction of Israel, Olmert replied that Israel has never threatened to annihilate anyone.

"Iran openly, explicitly and publicly threatens to wipe Israel off the map," Olmert said. "Can you say that this is the same level, when you are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as America, France, Israel, Russia?"

Israel, which foreign experts say has the sixth-largest nuclear arsenal in the world, has stuck to a policy of ambiguity on nuclear weapons for decades, refusing to confirm or deny whether it has them.

The comments came days after incoming Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in testimony to a Senate committee, identified Israel as a nuclear power.

Nuclear weapons in the Holy Land - what else could cause God's wrath to bring bad luck upon this place?

December 12, 2006

Just a couple of years ago US declared war against Afghanistan to successfully remove the Taliban and since on Afghanistan is under supervision of the occupying powers to check the situation and keep the peace. Somehow the occupying power US, UK, have missed to check one little thing:

Afghanistan Opium Crop Sets Record

U.S.-Backed Efforts At Eradication Fail

By Karen DeYoung

Washington Post Staff Writer

Saturday, December 2, 2006; Page A01

Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, broke all records in 2006, reaching a historic high despite ongoing U.S.-sponsored eradication efforts, the Bush administration reported yesterday.

In addition to a 26 percent production increase over past year -- for a total of 5,644 metric tons -- the amount of land under cultivation in opium poppies grew by 61 percent. Cultivation in the two main production provinces, Helmand in the southwest and Oruzgan in central Afghanistan, was up by 132 percent.

U.S. Army Col. Paul Calbos walks through a field of opium poppies in southern Afghanistan. This year's crop set records in the world's leading heroin producer. (By John Moore -- Getty Images)

White House drug policy chief John Walters called the news "disappointing."

The administration has cited resurgent Taliban forces as the main impediment to stabilization and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, and the U.S. military investment has far exceeded anti-narcotic and development programs. But U.S. military and intelligence officials have increasingly described the drug trade as a problem that rivals and in some ways exceeds the Taliban, threatening to derail other aspects of U.S. policy.

"It is truly the Achilles' heel of Afghanistan," Gen. James L. Jones, the supreme allied commander for NATO, said in a recent speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. Afghanistan is NATO's biggest operation, with more than 30,000 troops. Drug cartels with their own armies engage in regular combat with NATO forces deployed in Afghanistan, he said. "It would be wrong to say that this is just the Taliban. I think I need to set that record straight," he added.

"They have their own capability to inflict damage, to make sure that the roads and the passages stay open and they get to where they want to go, whether it's through Pakistan, Iran, up through Russia and all the known trade routes. So this is a very violent cartel," Jones said. "They are buying their protection by funding other organizations, from criminal gangs to tribes, to inciting any kind of resistance to keep the government off of their back."

Any disruption of the drug trade has enormous implications for Afghanistan's economic and political stability. Although its relative strength in the overall economy has diminished as other sectors have expanded in recent years, narcotics is a $2.6 billion-a-year industry that this year provided more than a third of the country's gross domestic product. Farmers who cultivate opium poppies receive only a small percentage of the profits, but U.S. officials estimate the crop provides up to 12 times as much income per acre as conventional farming, and there is violent local resistance to eradication.

"It's almost the devil's own problem," CIA Director Michael V. Hayden told Congress last month. "Right now the issue is stability. . . . Going in there in itself and attacking the drug trade actually feeds the instability that you want to overcome."

"Attacking the problem directly in terms of the drug trade . . . would undermine the attempt to gain popular support in the region," agreed Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. "There's a real conflict, I think."

The Afghan government has prohibited the aerial herbicide spraying used by U.S. anti-narcotic programs in Latin America. Instead, opium poppy plants in Afghanistan are destroyed by tractors dragging heavy bars. But only 38,500 of nearly 430,000 acres under cultivation were eradicated this year.

Because of security concerns and local sensibilities, all eradication is done by Afghan police, and corruption is a major problem at every level from cultivation to international trafficking. Although the drug trade is believed to provide some financing to the Taliban, most experts believe it is largely an organized criminal enterprise. According to a major report on the Afghan drug industry jointly released last week by the World Bank and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, key narcotics traffickers "work closely with sponsors in top government and political positions."

The report drew specific attention to the Afghan Interior Ministry, saying its officials were increasingly involved in providing protection for and facilitating consolidation of the drug industry in the hands of leading traffickers. "At the lower levels," the report said, "payments to police to avoid eradication or arrest reportedly are very widespread. At higher levels, provincial and district police chief appointments appear to be a tool for key traffickers and sponsors to exercise control and favor their proteges at middle levels in the drug industry."

Opium cultivation was outlawed during Taliban rule in the late 1990s and was nearly eliminated by 2001. After the overthrow of the Taliban government by U.S. forces in the fall of that year, the Bush administration said that keeping a lid on production was among its highest priorities. But corruption and alliances formed by Washington and the Afghan government with anti-Taliban tribal chieftains, some of whom are believed to be deeply involved in the trade, undercut the effort.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently noted that "once we thought terrorism was Afghanistan's biggest enemy" but said that now "poppy, its cultivation and drugs are Afghanistan's major enemy."

Eradication and alternative development programs have made little discernible headway. Cultivation -- measured annually with high-resolution satellite imagery that is then parsed by analysts using specialized computer software -- is nearly double its highest pre-Karzai level.

"There is supposed to be a tremendous energy associated with this," Jones said of the counter-narcotics programs, "but it needs a fresh look because . . . we're losing ground.

December 7, 2006

If I remember correctly, the gopis made it quite clear that the "intelligent designer" was not so intelligent, because he couldn't figure out how to make eyes that don't blink.
The blinking of the eyes obstructed their vision of Krishna for a moment, so they didn't see this as a very intelligent design.

Yes correct, this is exactly what the Bhaktivedanta Institut presented in their books for the modern atheistic world population - the design is not intelligent.

December 6, 2006

I can't imagine ever supporting Intelligent Design.
All supporters of Intelligent Design use the Bible and the Creation story to back up their claims. All their evidence goes into proving the Christian story of creation. Whether or not they prove there is an intelligent designer, it won't be a Hindu one.

This could only happen because the Bhaktivedanta Institut didnt follow Prabhupada's order to do what he said. All the publications dont have the effect to make common people undestand the Intelligent Design from vedic point of view. And as soon the Christians found out they took up Prabhupada's spirit and used it to promote their bible content and get the public attention. When you examine their way of preaching with logic and reason - it's all stolen from Prabhupada.

December 6, 2006

I think I have malific influence which gives me lot of problems. I made a bit of an offence years ago by putting a ring of Shani devi (diety of Saturn), in the dustbin (garbage), because I thought why am I wearing this junk. I think that was a big mistake, and I went back to see where it was but it had gone.

What's the best way to overcome it?

The gem alloted with Saturn is sapphire and a sapphire of the proper seize and quality for a ring to counteract a difficult Saturn influence costs about 2000 US dollars. So it is probably not so that you have offended Shani devi because such a ring also has to be installed by rituals. It might be rather the loss of the material value of that ring which was unnecessary.

December 6, 2006

that is if we take the Old Testament's story as believable, and the introduction of circumcision dating all the way to Abraham. Since there are many doubts even regarding whether the much later stay of Hebrews in Egypt was a historical fact, that is a big assumption.

Historians also say that they have no visible proof that the Hebrews being kept as slaves in Egypt confinement. The whole thing is a bit fuzzy - something in between fiction and rumor.

December 5, 2006

it was invented or adopted out of neccessity by the desert dwelling people who never properly cleaned themselves, primarily because water was precious, but also because they were ignorant. it was later written into their religious tradition, as a price for a covenant with their god. the rest is history.

Just yesterday there was a documentation on TV that in the time of the Old Testament the Kingdom of Babylonia wasnt a desert but a tropical paradise - everything green with fruit trees, forests, pasturing grounds, rivers, lakes, waterfalls etc. Only when the demoniac king Nebukadnezar kicked out the Israely people the whole area of the Middle East started to turn into a horrible desert including Egypt and Morocco. In order to set a symbol that this time is over they opened the world's biggest cowshed, the Al Safi Dairy in the middle of the Saudi desert with 32,000 cows and 500,000 l milk per day. Of course the water doesnt come from the natural climate but from 2 miles below, a huge lake under the desert. Unfortunately they arent informed that the killing of mother cow will never change the climate and produce regular rainfall. Al Safi dairy is at the same time a huge slaughterhouse in the middle of the desert!

December 5, 2006

There should be definitely more books written about this subject!

21 Intriguing Questions

<HR color=#000000 noShade SIZE=1>1. When did the first human civilization start?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">(Article 50)

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2. What was the first language of the world?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">(Article 29)

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">The Divineness of Sanskrit language is self-evident. You don’t light up a candle to see the sun; just open your eyes and see it. But if you deliberately shut your eyes then how could you see the sun. Scriptures themselves tell about the eternal Divineness of the Sanskrit language and thousands of learned Saints and acharyas have already proclaimed its Divine authenticity... (Article 11)

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3. How did the concept of the word ‘god’ originate in the West?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">There are varying and unsure theories how the word for ‘god’ was primarily coined in various languages and cultures. But all of them come to one general assumption that they all indicated towards the presence of some kind of nature-spirit or some superior being which was assumed to have superhuman powers... (Article 16)

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4. What is the true definition of God?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">God is eternally Gracious, all-kind, all beautiful, and all loving, etc. (Article 17)

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5. What is a myth, and why so many myths of different cultures have similar stories?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">We should now understand what a myth is. Myth is the imaginative fiction of the minds of the ancient natives of a country who believed that there were some kind of nature gods who were involved in the creation, maintenance and destruction of the world, and in some way they also influenced the social life of the people... (Article 6)

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6. What is the mystery behind the supernatural happenings described in the Puranas and the Upnishads?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">Divine acts and the Divine happenings are beyond material logic. There is no room for quibbling ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ over there. They could be understood with a pure heart and a sincere mind. They relate to three kinds of dimensions and two kinds of spaces...

(Article 57)

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7. How was the universe created?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">There are 12 phases of the creation of the universe... (Article 47)

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8. What are the mistakes in the evolution theory?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">Scientists of the world had no preconceived theory or any definite guideline on which to proceed. Following the principle of trial and error they started working in various fields. Based on their insufficient findings, when they discovered something, they formulated a theory out of their own imagination... (Article 44)

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9. How does the Hindu religion and Hindu scriptures remain unchanged throughout the ages?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">The Hindu scriptures that manifest Hindu religion are the manifestations of the supreme Divine power... (Article 1)

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">The Vedas have three sections: (1) mantra or sanhita, (2) brahman and (3) aranyak...

(Article 3)

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10. What is the age of the Vedas and the Puranas?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">'Eternity' is the word which is detailed to describe their origination... (Article 58)

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11. What is the historical value of the Harrapan civilization?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">Harrapan civilization does not represent the actual Vedic culture... (Article 2)

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12. Who originally mistranslated the Vedas and why?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">Max Müller was a British agent, especially employed (in 1847) to write the translations of the Vedas in such a demeaning way so that the Hindus should lose faith in them... (Article 35)

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13. Who mutilated the history and derogated the religion of India and why?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">The first evidence of the above fact is the personal secret suggestion of Jones (along with a derogative essay) of 1784 to Warren Hastings, Governor General of India, where he explains his plan of how to destroy the religious faith of the Hindus of India... (Article 31)

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">First effort of Jones (1784) and the secret planning... (Article 32)

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">Two more attempts of Jones to destroy the Divinity of Sanskrit language and to mutilate Bhartiya history... (Article 33)

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">Major falsehoods as promoted by the British... (Article 36)

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14. How did the Asiatic Society mislead the whole world?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">The president and the secretary of Asiatic Researches along with their group of people extensively published derogatory books and magazines... (Article 37)

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15. How do the books and encyclopedias on Hindu religion portray a wrong image of Hinduism?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">On Hinduism, several series of books have been published in the past, and recently a new trend has started to publish a series of books in the name of an encyclopedia on Hinduism, but they despise Hinduism... (Article 43)

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16. How to determine the eternal Divine authenticity of Bhartiya scriptures?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">There are three kinds of evidences: documentary, circumstantial and eyewitness. In the scriptural terms they are called shabd (documentary), anuman (inferential or circumstantial) and pratyakch (eyewitness)... (Article 4)

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17. What is the prime theme of the Upnishads?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">The main theme of the Upnishads is to lovingly surrender to the personal form of God and enter into the eternal state of the Divine Bliss... (Article 7)

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">The Upnishads give two facts: (1) The first one is that the soul does not belong to maya or the mayic world because it itself is an eternal infinitesimal Divine entity... (Article 8)

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">The word atma technically means ‘the Divinity’. So, in the Upnishads, except for a few places, the word atma has been generally used for God, the absolute Divinity... (Article 9)

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18. What is the true path to God?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">The religion which eternally exists in God, which is revealed by God, which describes the names, forms, virtues and the abodes of God, and which reveals the true path of God realization for all the souls is called Sanatan Dharm... (Article 65)

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19. What is the theme of the most talked about scripture “Brahm Sutra” in a nutshell?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">(Article 61)

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20. What is the essence of the Gita and the Bhagwatam?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">(Article 67)

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21. What are the indications of a true devotee of God?

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline width=42></TD><TD vAlign=top width="100%">(Article 69)

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December 4, 2006

The last Princess and Prince of the Royal House of Ough live today in total poverty and isolation but still keep their royal pride and prestige although their kingdom had been annexed to the HEIC before the transfer of power to the British Crown in 1858 what turned out to be the Bank of England today. The more politically important members of these families were usually removed to new locations or exiled und the name of introducing communism in India. Some descendants played prominent roles in public life, particularly those who were established in the major cities of Calcutta and Madras. They continued to enjoy rank and titles recognised by the British controlled Government of India and to receive political pensions until independence in 1947. Within a few years, the government of "independent India" persuaded most recipients to surrender their pensions on "patriotic grounds". Payments to the remaining individuals were either stopped or allowed to dwindle to such paultry amounts that they became worthless.

In sum what the Bank of England successfully accomplished in Europe, to destroy monarchy by means of gaining control over creation of money and modern banking, they also repeated the same procedure in India. So to speak, financially, India is the private property of the Bank of England. What role of this secret take-over Mahatma Gandhi had will forever remain unknown.

Alex Ninian: 'SEND me a loaded revolver' wrote Princess Sakina of Oudh to the BBC producer who wanted to televise the history of the Royal House of Oudh. 'I will allow your cameras here but on one condition -- that you send the revolver 24 hours in advance'.

I met the Princess and her brother Prince Cyrus Riza at Malcha Mahal, or Malcha Palace, the 700-year-old mined fort which is their abode. I left the main thoroughfare outside Delhi and followed a narrow single track through an eerie forest of thin spindly trees, close enough together to blot out the sun. In the gloom I came to two metal posts holding a bronze plaque which said 'Rulers of Oudh' just visible over a tangle of tall wild grass and cactus. It bore the family emblem of two fishes and their staring dead eyes added to the macabre feel of the place.

A sinister looking retainer, dressed in a dark uniform with a blue sash and blue and white turban opened the rusty gate. In the dim light I stumbled up a steep rocky path in an uncanny silence until the cracking of dry twigs under my feet triggered off the unearthly din of dogs, unseen but growling, barking and baying, the sound booming and echoing through the trees. I could see nothing but the dense wood until I was suddenly face to face with the building, Malcha Mahal, itself.

Built around 1300. it had been a Muslim outpost and was now a ghostly ruin in the forest. It had one very high single storey of some 30 feet. The red brown stone walls were three feet thick and they were punctuated by huge gothic arches for entrances and smaller ones for windows, but the place had neither doors nor windows. The roof was broken and the building, partly overgrown by vegetation, was open to the elements. In the wet season the rain pours in, ruining the last of the royal carpets and furnishings. In the dry season, snakes invade and have to be killed by the dogs, and in all seasons the place is inhabited by bats, birds and lizards. It had the feel of Blairwitch or Gormenghast.

Unfortunately the BBC never filmed it. It may have been that the request for the gun discouraged them, or it may have been for other reasons, but in their wisdom they never appeared. I learned later that the Princess planned to take her own life in front of the TV cameras as her final historic gesture in a generations-long fight for the family's rights.

With barely a word of introduction the Princess launched into a twenty minute monologue of the saga of the Royal House of Oudh.

The Prince and Princess are the son and daughter of the famous Begum of Oudh, whom Princess Sakina describes in her strong resounding voice as 'Her Highness' and 'The Regnant, The Supreme Being of States, The Strong Head of Wills'. They are approaching their forties, are unmarried and are, tragically, the latest and, perhaps, the last of a tormented line that stretches back hundreds of years.

'We now consider ourselves the Dynasty of the Living Dead', says Sakina, and 'all I desire is to be interred beneath the feet of Her Highness, the Immortal Princess. For us two, everything is bleak and desolate; the Her Highness's dogs are our closest ones, they do not have the deceit of humans'.

The story begins from a mix of history, myth and legend, with claims that they are descended from the Kings of Persia, the Compound of Macedonia and even the Pharaohs of Egypt. They came by horse to India in the Moghul invasions of the Middle Ages and set up the kingdom of Oudh in and around what is now known as Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, just a hundred miles south of Nepal. The Princess had a distinguished face, thin and drawn, set off by long black uncombed hair and she wore a long dark gown down to her feet. She explained that when the British took over, the old rulers lived uncomfortably under them, but accepted the system which allowed them to keep their lands, their wealth and their palaces. Some of the greatest speeches ever made in the British Parliament were those of Burke and Sheridan defending the rights of a Begum of Oudh in the 1780s. In 1857, however, the British deposed the Ruler of Oudh.

'The perfidious British sucked the blood of the Princes of Hindustan like a snake' she continued. 'Then they seized our kingdom. It broke all assurances and agreements. It was the violation of treaties'. She stared and directed her resonant voice into the distance as if to an unseen audience, and modulated her tones like an orator. Whenever she referred to 'Her Highness' she raised her eyes to heaven and her voice to a high register. When she talked of 'the perfidy and treachery of the British and the evil demotic democracies of India and the world' she lowered it to a growl and her voice echoed through the great vaulted chamber. The building has no water, or light or power, and the rooms were almost dark. But where the roof was broken, thin rays of sunlight stabbed through the dark like spotlights and gave a spectral light.

There are many accounts of the reasons for the deposing of the last Ruler in 1857, some of which may be exaggerated. He was depraved, dissolute and drunken and he was emptying the treasury and ruining the kingdom. His 'minder' the British Resident warned him to mend his ways, malting special reference to his 365 concubines, one for every day of the year. On receiving the letter, as an act of defiance, the Ruler ordered his servants that very day to go out and bring in 90 more. It was more than the Resident could stand and he put an end to his rule.

The present Prince, Cyrus Riza, brother of the Princess, had been like me sitting quietly on a stone slab covered with the droppings of I know not what. He was thin, lithe and athletic and was dressed in dark blue trousers and tunic with embroidered trim, and a gold coloured lanyard hung from one shoulder. He spoke up to acknowledge this point of history. 'He indulged in extreme prodigalities, lavish, some lascivious; wanton fountains of intoxication and wines. To keep up their ways, every ounce of precious metal was melted, every precious stone sold. Theirs was a way of lavishness and wanton lusts'.

As he spoke, I looked around the bare stone of the floor, the walls and the roof of the chamber and I saw the bats hanging in the high vault and the nests on the ledges and I felt the spookiness of the place. He spoke in a quieter voice which was almost drowned out by the uncanny barking of the dogs and the screeching of the birds which swooped about our heads.

While the men of the Royal House were weak, the Princesses and Begums were more than strong enough to make up. Immediately after the dethronement the Begum Hazrat Mahal had organised an army against the British and, mounted on an elephant, fought until she withdrew to Nepal. 'She had more nerve than all the men. It is in their blood', said the Prince. 'She was Highness's great-great-grandmother'. This coincided with, and was part of, the uprising in northern India which we know as the Indian Mutiny, and others know as the Indian War of Independence involving the famous siege of Lucknow.

Needless to say this did not help later appeals for restoration of their rights and a family delegation with 140 servants which sailed to England to petition Queen Victoria was predictably unsuccessful. Nonetheless many British figures have supported their cause, not the least being Sir Concord Corfield, the Political Secretary to the last Viceroy, Earl Mountbatten. And Sir Alfred Lyall wrote from India to Whitehall about 'the scandalous cant with which we tried to whitewash this transaction'. Even today there are British lawyers and constitutionalists who say that the dethronement was illegal and unconstitutional. The position of the Ruler, and all the Rulers, was enshrined in the constitution of the British Empire, confirmed by Parliament and the great Empress of India, Queen Victoria, herself. The man who did it was only an official of the East India Company and did not have the authority to do what he did.

The Princess Sakina's soliloquy jumps forward to 1975. For more than a century a succession of strong women descendants dedicated their whole lives to the struggle for their rights. The strongest-willed of them all, Her Highness Begum Wilayat, moved to Delhi, to take the fight directly to the top. As a protest, to shame the government, she occupied, in a blaze of publicity, the VIP reception lounge in the Delhi railway station, taking with her her young family. The government did not wish to be heavy handed, since the Begum commanded some support and an embarrassing stand-off developed. In an unbelievable display of determination, the Begum remained in the station for ten long years, bringing up her family in the waiting room. They never called her 'Mother' only 'Highness', and she never used their names, only 'Prince' and 'Princess'. She refused all marriage proposals for the daughter and encouraged the son never to 'mix with the common run of the earth'. In the station they were visited and given support b y the descendants of the Russian Tsar Nicholas, and the deposed Imperial house of Austria--Hungary.

For ten years negotiations were tried and the Begum was visited by a series of officials and Ministers from a succession of governments. But she remained tenaciously intransigent and continued to bring up her family in the station. The Prince and Princess grew up to the smell of smoke and the sounds of the platform tannoy. Finally in 1984 Mrs Ghandi visited her in the railway station and offered her a home at Malcha Mahal, just outside Delhi, if she would leave the station. The 700-year-old Muslim fort was in ruins, but the promise was made that it would be repaired and restored. Mrs Ghandi summoned the Cabinet Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Rao, and issued the appropriate orders.

I was given a copy of a letter from the Private Secretary of the Home Minister to the Divisional Manager of the Northern Railway, which I reprint in full:

HOME MINISTER

INDIA

New Delhi-11001

December 6, 1984

Dear Shri Raina,

The Home Minister has seen your note of 10th November, 1984, regarding Begum Wilayat Mahal. Home Minister feels that we may agree to the building known as 'Malcha Mahal' being given to her after repairs. The Home Minister is away from Delhi and the appointment for Begum 'Wilayat Mahal can be arranged when he is in town. In the meantime, he has suggested that the repair work may be started.

I am enclosing a copy of this letter to Shri H. V. Goswami, Joint Secretary (UT) in this Ministry.

With regards,

Yours sincerely,

(signed)

(RAMU DAMODARAN)

Shri R. M. Raina,

Divisional Railway Manager,

Northern Railway

New Delhi

But it was a trick. After Mrs Ghandi's death, the powers that be went back on their word and nothing was done.

No repairs have ever been made to this day.

When I had approached the Oudhs by mail from England to ask for a meeting, the response was that I was commanded to attend Malcha Mahal for an audience at precisely mid-day, which I did -- precisely. The need for precision is because the guard dogs are tied up a few minutes before the appointment and released a few minutes after and anyone who mistirnes their arrival will take away a permanent reminder of the visit.

I had written to the Begum in the expectation of meeting her. I was not surprised when the reply came signed by the Prince and Princess because I had known of Her Highness's disdain for dealing directly with the common run of the earth. For the same reason I was not surprised by their reference to the reticence of the Begum. I did not understand, however, references to 'the internal embellishment of the diamonds' or the 'drink of silence'.

During the oration, all was explained. The old Begum had decided upon the final extreme step to defend her honour against the continuing denial of her rights and privileges, so she made up her mind to leave this world in as regal, gracious and dramatic a way as possible. She smashed her royal diamonds and swallowed them, washing them down with a draught of poison from a china bowl. The internal embellishment of the gems, the reticence, the drink of silence. 'Her determination, the strong head of wills was unaltered, unfaltered, unwavering', spoke her daughter. 'History is complete and victorious for Her Highness. Her withdrawal was justified, regnant, stoical, reticent and, above all, stately'. As if in sympathy, and on cue, a wind sprang up blowing in one side of the room and out of the other, and ruffling my shirt as I sat. The Princess continued 'On the marble slab where Highness rested her strong head of wills in regal silence, she left her comb. That comb will remain there for ever and, in remembrance, I will never ever comb my hair again'. Her soliloquy was coloured by word pictures. 'The fish is the emblem of the royal, the eternal, the regnant, House of Oudh, and the eye of the fish never, never, never closes in life or in death'. As she spoke, enormous Great Danes roamed around her stone seat and licked her face.

Now, for the survivors, suffering is the only meaning, the endurance of hardship is the purpose of life.

I was invited to come back two days later at 10 a.m., which I did, again taking care to arrive exactly to the minute. This time the Prince was at the gate and, since the Princess was not up, he invited me to accompany him for a walk in the forest. He told me of the dreaded tribe of bandits -- the Bawarias -- who are renowned and feared throughout India. Through the dappled light and shade of the wood he showed me where they had lurked, disguised as forest workers before entering Malcha Mahal and stealing their gold and silver. He kept a wary eye all around and a retainer followed a few paces behind as a rearguard. He told me to watch my step for snakes, and he showed me the vault which the Prince and Princess had dug out for the body of the Begum with her jewels. He described how the two of them had personally embalmed the body. It was hardly a pleasant stroll in the morning sun.

The Prince explained that he had read that several of their ancestors had been laid to rest, with their finery and jewellery, in tombs, only to have them robbed, vandalised and defiled by raiders. So obsessed did he become by this, that without consulting his sister he had removed the body and consigned it to the flames of a scented wood pyre. He had summoned the Princess only just in time for her to see the last flicker of the flames.

I asked him how they managed to maintain themselves financially. 'It is a little like the treasure well, but not exactly', he replied. 'The treasure well?' 'Yes, it is said that in olden times a royal widow had her inherited gems and jewels kept in a hole in the ground. Every once in a while she was blindfolded and thrust an arm in to take a handful, which would be sold for money to sustain the household. One purpose of the blindfold was so that she could not pick and choose. Another was that she never knew how much was left, and the fear of reaching the bottom discouraged her from being greedy. It's something like that with us, but not exactly'.

Finally I asked about the future. 'If I die, all is clear. Princess will take her own life within hours. She has the strength of the ancient princesses; it is in her blood. But if she dies, I do not have the strength. I do not know what will happen'.

We walked back to the house where the Princess was now standing on the broken steps. I thanked them, wished them well, and bade them goodbye. 'Let us stay in contact', they said rather touchingly. As I stumbled back over the rocks and pebbles down the steep path through the trees, the house disappeared from view as suddenly as it had appeared. I thought that this true history was a thousand times stranger than fiction. It was a harrowing story of adversity, tragedy and torment. It was a portrayal of behaviour so out of the ordinary as to be called manic. But it is also a story of indomitable willpower, and the courage and dignity of the human spirit. The Bengali retainer opened the rusty gate and I took my leave of the Dynasty of the Living Dead.

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