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Maitreya

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  1. Probably Washington park.An eccletic assortment of peoples gathering together there.
  2. LOL! good one animesh.Thank you for not rapping my knuckles with your stick.
  3. Haribol leyh, He knows no other way.Never expect Satyaraja to agree.If he does it is just to set up another point of arguement. On VNN when shown to be incorrect in something[as we all experience]he would just go back and edit his post so that what he had said that had been shown to be incorrect disappeared and the revised corrected version would now be there like it had been all the time. He can't do that here but one will become very dizzy trying to follow this morphing game of his. Hare Krishna
  4. By using the stick to write in the sand I hope.Ok I got it now.Ghandi Ghandi Ghandi,I won't forget now.
  5. Hey sabrina, I don't know geography either.And i received the same rebuked for mispelling Gandhi's [or is it Ghandi's name].I'm not sure which it is but our friend animesh will surely tell us. Also on this board are people with diverse viewpoints.Mostly we all met here and few have even seen each other. On the other thread I asked where you husband is stationed.Is he on the Enterprise?
  6. Maitreya

    War

    One has to take birth according to one’s activities of life. And after finishing one term of activities, one has to die to take birth for the next. In this way one is going through one cycle of birth and death after another without liberation. This cycle of birth and death does not, however, support unnecessary murder, slaughter and war. But at the same time, violence and war are inevitable factors in human society for keeping law and order.Bg 2.27 purport So retaliation is both certain and necessary,but modern warfare is so cowardly.The big brains sit far far away in safety and place the commands that result in the deaths of civilians as well as military targets on the far side of the world. All the big time military strategists study Sun Tzu's The Art of War.Wouldn't it be nice if Bhagavad-gita As It Is was required reading at West Point as well? Maybe some stalwart book distributor will take up station at the front gate of West Point Military Academy with some Gita's in his/her bag. Hare Krishna
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    Hello

    Chris, When you cast your net into an ocean like this you are sure to pull up a wide variety of fish. You ask nice straight forward questions and sometimes receive only riddles as a response. But I have noticed some are trying to offer answers in a way that will be most benfical for you. Always use your discrimination. One thing is that Hara[Hare]is a call to Radha for shelter.Durga or Kali is Her expansion for relating to the material sphere. So all is included in the Hare Krishna mantra. Hare Krishna MC
  8. Solid advice for any situation,in happiness or distress.
  9. At this very monment there maybe 50,000 people dead or laying in the rubble of the buildings in New York. And he equates the mentality that caused that with Srila Prabhupada?
  10. My apologizing in advance JNdas as you may choose to delete this. F U Satyaraja.You cyber terrorist F [This message has been edited by Maitreya (edited 09-11-2001).]
  11. I have read Srila Prabhupada's books.Yet every time I pick one up there is something new.Too much to every possibly assimilatein one paltry lifetime. But we have to be a little generous to others that find the similar in the works of other Gaudiyas Vaisnava's. I could easily understand someone reading mainly Jaiva Dharma for their whole life for instance. Someone else may focus on Prabhupada's Krishna Book and let his consciousness take up residence in those wonderous pages. It is a very large feast that the Lord's kindly devotees have brought us to.The only thing lacking is our ability to digest quickly enough.Thankfully we are eternal. Hare Krishna
  12. Maitreya

    War

    Durga devi Intensifies Dance Abortion and animal slaughter reactions coming back to Earth.Updates: Mayor Guiliani says: ''I have a sense it's a horrendous number of lives lost.'' Bush says military on high-alert status. Apparent Terrorist Attack Hits NYC, D.C. .c The Associated Press NEW YORK (Sept. 11) - In one of the most audacious attacks ever against the United States, terrorists hijacked two airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of blows Tuesday that brought down the twin 110-story towers. A plane also slammed into the Pentagon, bringing the seat of government itself under attack. Thousands could be dead or injured, a high-ranking city police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Authorities had been trying to evacuate those who work in the twin towers, but many were thought to have been trapped. About 50,000 people work at the Trade Center and tens of thousands of others visit each day. American Airlines said its two hijacked planes were carrying a total of 156 people. Two United airliners carrying a total of 110 passengers also crashed - one outside Pittsburgh, the other in a location not immediately identified. ''This is perhaps the most audacious terrorist attack that's ever taken place in the world,'' said Chris Yates, an aviation expert at Jane's Transport in London. ''It takes a logistics operation from the terror group involved that is second to none. Only a very small handful of terror groups is on that list. ... I would name at the top of the list Osama bin Laden.'' President Bush ordered a full-scale investigation to ''hunt down the folks who committed this act.'' Within the hour, the Pentagon took a direct, devastating hit from an aircraft. The fiery crash collapsed one side of the five-sided structure. The White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol were evacuated along with other federal buildings in Washington and New York. Authorities in Washington immediately began deploying troops, including an infantry regiment. The Situation Room at the White House was in full operation. And authorities went on alert from coast to coast, U.S. and Canadian borders were sealed, all air traffic across the country was halted, and security was tightened at strategic installations. ''This is the second Pearl Harbor. I don't think that I overstate it,'' said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. In June, a U.S. judge had set this Wednesday as the sentencing date for a bin Laden associate for his role in the bombing of a U.S. embassy in Tanzania that killed 213 people. The sentencing had been set for the federal courthouse near the World Trade Center. No one from the U.S. attorney's office could be reached Tuesday to comment on whether the sentencing was still on. In the West Bank city of Nablus, thousands of Palestinians celebrated Tuesday's attacks, chanting ''God is Great'' and distributing candy to passers-by. American Airlines identified the planes that crashed into the Trade Center as Flight 11, a Los Angeles-bound jet hijacked after takeoff from Boston with 92 people aboard, and Flight 77, which was seized while carrying 64 people from Washington to Los Angeles. In Pennsylvania, United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, crashed about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh with 45 people aboard. United said another of its planes, Flight 175, a Boeing 767 bound from Boston to Los Angeles with 65 people on board, also crashed, but it did not say where. The fate of those aboard the two planes was not immediately known. Evacuations were ordered at the United Nations in New York and at the Sears Tower in Chicago. Los Angeles mobilized its anti-terrorism division, and security was intensified around the naval installations in Hampton Roads, Va. Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., was evacuated. At the World Trade Center, ''everyone was screaming, crying, running, cops, people, firefighters, everyone,'' said Mike Smith, a fire marshal. ''It's like a war zone.'' ''I just saw the building I work in come down,'' said businessman Gabriel Ioan, shaking in shock outside City Hall, a cloud of smoke and ash from the World Trade Center behind him. Nearby a crowd mobbed a man on a pay phone, screaming at him to get off the phone so that they could call relatives. Dust and dirt flew everywhere. Ash was 2 to 3 inches deep in places. People wandered dazed and terrified. The planes blasted fiery, gaping holes in the upper floors of the twin towers. A witness said he saw bodies falling and people jumping out. About an hour later, the southern tower collapsed with a roar and a huge cloud of smoke; the other tower fell about a half-hour after that, covering lower Manhattan in heaps of gray rubble and broken glass. Firefighters trapped in the rubble radioed for help. ''I have a sense it's a horrendous number of lives lost,'' Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said. ''Right now we have to focus on saving as many lives as possible.'' ''Today we've had a national tragedy,'' Bush said in Sarasota, Fla. ''Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.'' He said he would be returning immediately to Washington. The crashes at the World Trade Center happened minutes apart, beginning just before 9 a.m. Heavy black smoke billowed into the sky above one of New York City's most famous landmarks, and debris rained down on the street, one of the city's busiest work areas. When the second plane hit, a fireball of flame and smoke erupted, leaving a huge hole in the glass and steel tower. John Axisa, who was getting off a commuter train to the World Trade Center, said he saw ''bodies falling out'' of the building. He said he ran outside, and watched people jump out of the first building. Then there was a second explosion, and he felt heat on the back of neck. WCBS-TV, citing an FBI agent, said five or six people jumped out of the windows. Witnesses on the street screamed every time another person leaped. People ran down the stairs in panic and fled the building. Thousands of pieces of what appeared to be office paper drifted over Brooklyn, about three miles away. Several subway lines were immediately shut down. Trading on Wall Street was suspended. New York's mayoral primary election Tuesday was postponed. All bridges and tunnels into Manhattan were closed. David Reck was handing out literature for a candidate for public advocate a few blocks away when he saw a jet come in ''very low, and then it made a slight twist and dove into the building.'' Terrorist bombers struck the World Trade Center in February 1993, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others. ''It's just sick. It just shows how vulnerable we really are,'' Keith Meyers, 39, said in Columbus, Ohio. ''It kind of makes you want to go home and spend time with your family. It puts everything in perspective,'' Meyers said. He said he called to check in with his wife. They have two young children. In New York, ''we heard a large boom and then we saw all this debris just falling,'' said Harriet Grimm, who was inside a bookstore on the World Trade Center's first floor when the first explosion rocked the building. ''The plane was coming in low and ... it looked like it hit at a slight angle,'' said Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice president, the network reported. In 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25, a twin-engine bomber, crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in dense fog. In Florida, Bush was reading to children in a classroom at 9:05 a.m. when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispered into his ear. The president briefly turned somber before he resumed reading. He addressed the tragedy about a half-hour later. AP-NY-09-11-01 1250EDT
  13. Recently I had a conversation with a good soul, dedicated to Srila Prabhupada, who became a little angry with me for suggesting that it was acceptable to read books other than those written directly by His Divine Grace. But I find statements in Srila Prabhupada's books like this one from CC. TRANSLATION CC Adi 5.203 By the mercy of Sanätana Gosvämi I have learned the final conclusions of devotional service, and by the grace of Sri Rüpa Gosvämi I have tasted the highest nectar of devotional service. PURPORT Sri Sanätana Gosvämi Prabhu, the teacher of the science of devotional service, wrote several books, of which the Brhad-bhägavatämrta is very famous; anyone who wants to know about the subject matter of devotees, devotional service and Krsna must read this book. I am not sure who translated it into English but an on-line copy is available at:Bhaktivedanta Memorial Library http://www.users.qwest.net/~aryan/SNM/ Hare Krishna [This message has been edited by Maitreya (edited 09-11-2001).]
  14. JRDD said: Yes,JRdd makes a point here that hasn't been expressed.The line must be drawn and kept.Big change here couple little changes there and it won't be recognizable as Lord Caitanyas movement. Keep the standard consciously and clearly just where Srila Prabhupada set it. I haven't lived up to it for any prolonged periods of time.But just knowing where it is has given me a meauring tool that has been very valuable in my own inner work.I don't want the ideals to come to me, I must go to them and accept them on their terms. Until then well at least I'm getting some sukrti banked. My impression is that BDas hasn't given himself %100 to the idea either but is just exploring.I hope I am right in that. Hare Krishna MC
  15. No, read the article.Any Afghan that converts to another religion is subject to death.Who the hell do these jerks think they are?People should be able to change their minds as they wish, back and forth, right or wrong.
  16. No I have seen it, and see it.But it is not just the Eastern European devotees. Someone who lives in a temple paid for by the congregation shouldn't have to be asked to do some basic chores. I won't detail some of the pathetic situations I have seen.
  17. Contact?This out to be interesting?More new inventions? Give us the gist peter.
  18. Maitreya

    Hello

    Now meaning 4? No more! No more! Close to this store.
  19. Brahma, Yes that would succeed in pleasing the homos in SF.But would it please Krishna and His devotees that have spoken so strongly against homo marriages?NO!No need to becpme all things to all people. One doesn't need to be married to chant, so where is the gain?I see none.Let them chant as they are, no problem. I live in Berkeley so I know what is going on in SF.It is disgusting.gay pride week and the filthy gay parade.Why do we need to bend over for them?I won't. Your willingness to compromise on this issue in opposition to Srila Prabhupada's clear statements on the matter are frightening brother. And while calculating this thing have you considered how many you might alienate when it became known that the Hare Krishna's were now recognizing homo marriages? Best we don't change anything. Hare Krishna, MC
  20. Maitreya

    Hello

    Sorry Chris, For in playing this game, Your thread led amiss. Back to topic
  21. Maitreya

    Hello

    You speak now of lightAs an external source. Like a flashlight or torchlight; then I say,"Of course".
  22. Maitreya

    Hello

    Meaning 2 is alright As far as it goes. But the Light still shines from those Holy Toes.
  23. Maitreya

    Hello

    Your meaning has no realtion To your first proclamation. Yet standing alone it is sound.
  24. Maitreya

    Hello

    Talasiga, you can do better than that,you can make it right. Krishna though black, is the source of all light.
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