Avinash

There are particles which travel faster than light. The Tachyon.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

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Tachyons are hypothetical.

Why is it that the names of ancestors given in Valmiki Ramayan are not the same as given in Bhagavatam?

Please see if these links help you: -

http://musicmazaa.com/hindi/devotionalsongs/audio/Tulsi+Ramayan+Shri+Ramcharitmanas.html

http://musicmazaa.com/hindi/devotionalsongs/

http://www.yogausa.com/audio-ramayan-chopaiya-mp3.htm

First one is correct.

As religious scholar Huston Smith noted, when we see that our current life is simply part of many, many lives of our own and part of the great reality we put less significance on the moment.

I can argue another way. If we see that we will not have any life after this current life, then we will not worry about whether we are good or bad in this life. We will enjoy this life to the fullest by whatever means. Since we know that we may get another life, therefore we will be good so that our good karma makes our future life good.

Should you really do that? I am of the opinion that you should not because if you drink that water, then you will get diseases.

Imagine that you were aware of Mahabharata story from the start till where Arjuan lays down his arms and says that he shall not fight. Suppose you did not know anything after that. This means you were not aware what reply Krishna gave. You were not aware whether He asked Arjuna to fight or He supported Arjuna in his decision not to fight. You were not even aware whether the war happened or not. I mean you were not aware of anything in Mahabharata after Arjuna laying down his arms.

If somebody asked you whether Arjuna's decision not to fight was right or wrong, what would you answer? And what reason would you give in support of your answer?

I know it is difficult to imagine such a thing because you already know that Krishna convinced Arjuna to fight. But please try.

drkpp,

Your answers do not look proper when the system does not have unicode font installed. Therefore, I think you should add in all your answers that one should have unicode font. Or, it is better if you put this in your signature. To give an example, consider your transliteration of Vinod. The correct is that the matra of i should appear before V but in your answer it appears after V. The result is that the answer looks something, which has no meaning in Devanagri. But, if I install Unicode font, then it looks proper.

Any unicode font will not do. The font must support the codes for Devanagri.

In the same page, you will find a button with text "Free Demo". Click it to download free trial version of the software.

Please visit

http://www.visharadsoftware.com/visharadtranscriptorhelp.html

There you will find detail of a software product called Visharad Transcriptor. It transliterates a word from Roman script (which is used in English) into Devanagri script (which is used in Hindi,Sanskrit). Since English is not a phonetic language, therefore same word can be pronounced. The software displays various possible pronunciations. There is a speaker button, clicking which, you can hear a particular pronunciation. That way, you can understand if you have selected correct pronunciation.

I am willing to sell this software together with its source code. Then, you can make whatever modification you like into it and you can sell any number of copies of it to whoever you like and at whatever price you like. The software will be completely yours.

Can we say that after giving bhog to deities, we should keep them covered?

I have heard some people say that you should not keep the puja room doors closed or the puja area veiled with curtains even at night. Is this true? Please reply.

Science says universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. But, if Maha Vishnu has to inhale it some day, then it should contract.

If material universe is eternal, then material space and time are eternal. If material universe is not eternal, then material space and time are also not eternal. Spacetime continuum is a part of universe.

Is material universe eternal?

I think that the web page, which says 2.3 billion years, assumes that the current Manu is 8th Manu, though correct is 7th Manu.

Time period of 1 Manu = (1000/14)*4,320,000 years = 0.31 billion years

Adding this to 1.97 billion years, we get

(1.97 + 0.31)billion years = 2.28 billion years = 2.3 billion years approximately.

LoveroftheBhagavata is right.

The four yugas together are called a Mahayuga.

1 Mahayuga = 4,320,000 years

One day of Brahma is called one kalpa.

1 Kalpa = 1000 Mahayugas

Also, there are 14 Manus in 1 Kalpa.

This means 1 Manu reins for 1000/14 Mahayugas

6 Manus have already come and gone.

The time period of 6 Manus = 6000/14 Mahayugas

= (6000/14)*4,320,000 years

= 1.85 billion years

Of the seventh Manu, 27 Mahayugas have completed. Of the 28th Mahayuga, Krit yuga, Treta yuga and Dwapar yuga are over. Of Kali yuga, approx. 5000 years are over.

Total duration of 1 Kali yuga = 432,000 years

This means that, of the seventh Manu, time period elapsed

= 28 Mahayugas - 1 Kaliyuga + 5000

= 28*4,320,000 - 432000 + 5000 years

= 0.12 billion years

Therefore, the current kalpa started 1.85 + 0.12 = 1.97 billion years ago.

Please note here 1 year means 360 day-nights (not 365 or 366).

Cricket huh? I thought soccer was big in India like the rest of the world. Cricket being number one is rather worrisome but to each his own I guess.

In India, there is craze for cricket. Nothing comes close to it. In fact, some people are so fanatic about cricket that it looks like some religious fanaticism.

If there is cricket match between India and Pakistan, then the interest in the match can go to any level.

Please post mantras/stotras/kavachas to worship Krishna, Vishnu, Narasimha, Shiva, Ganesha, Durga, Laxmi (and others if you feel).

It is important to first clarify what is reality. I can see my a book on the table in front of me. Does the book really exist or is it my illusion? If somebody asks me, I will say "Of course, it exists."

But how am I so sure? Why can't it be illusion? Now that I mentioned illusion, let me take a typical example of illusion. Sometimes in the dark, I feel that there is somebody else in the room. No matter how long I look in that direction, I feel that there is somebody. I switch on lights and I find that I am alone in the room. That other person was my illusion. There was some object and in dark, I mistook it as a person.

But it is important to keep in mind that before switching on the lights, I really thought that it was another person. That is what my senses told me. Switching on lights proved that my senses had not given me correct information.

My senses are telling me that there is a book on the table. How can I be so sure that this time, it is not an illusion?

You may think those kids are starving, but I can say, just from the pictures, they look a lot healthier than a lot of my children's classmates.

I have not seen your children's classmates. Therefore, I will not say anything about them. But I have spent lots of time in Orissa for doing geological and geophysical surveys. In the process, I met local people there. I can say that tribal kids in Orissa are really very poor. In fact you will find lots of such poor people in India. I personally have seen such poverty in Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Please do not go by their photographs. May be these children were given nice looking clothes to wear before being photographed. It does not mean that they have lots of clothes.

If it is true that lots of your children's class mates are less healthy than the tribal kids in Orissa, then those classmates of your children and these kids in Orissa both need to be given proper nourishment.

As for poverty, it's very relative isn't it? It has everything to do with how wealth is measured. I may make a comfortable salary (though I work for government and not private industry), but by the day before my next paycheck is due, I'm lucky if I still have $200 in my bank account. After paying for health care (which we almost never use), taxes, child care, auto insurance, food, rent, etc., there's almost nothing left.

But there is something called basic necessity. Food is a basic necessity. I am not talking here about eating in expensive hotels. I am talking about eating just enough to survive. There are many poor people in India, who do not get even that much. Those who know me personally say that I live very simple life. But I have known incidents in which a woman was willing to sell her son for an amount, which I very easily spend in one day. It does not mean that the woman did not care for her son. It also does not mean that she did it merely out of greed for money. Rather, she did it because she thought that the buyer of her son will be able to give her son food to eat daily. I also have read an incident in which a mother was willing to give her son for adoption for free. The reason is again the same i.e. she thought that she could not give enough food to her son, so let somebody else adopt her son, so that he can at least survive.

There are many children in India who do not get even the cheapest food, which is enough for them just to keep them alive. That is why, dying out of malnourishment is not any strange news here. It is sad but it is true. Poverty is relative. But these children are really poor.

Who's rich and who's poor? Those who have a taste for the Holy Name are the richest of all.

You are talking about symantics here. Giving taste for the Holy Name is good. But, for chanting the Holy Name also, you need to be alive. And why treat Holy Name and food as mutually exclusive? Giving Holy Name does not mean keeping one starving.

Why did he worship Radha-Krishna secretly? Why not openly? I mean it is not a crime that he had to do it secretly?

Could someone please Translate my name Paul into Hindi.

In Hindi sweet is "madhur" and peace is "shaanti".

Thus, sweet peace = madhur shaanti

Here is how you write Stephen in Hindi: -

syephen.bmp