Shashi

Originally posted by dasa:

"While these findings go against the notion that processed fruits and vegetables have lower nutritional value, this may create a new image for processed fruits and vegetables," says Liu. "Ultimately, this could increase consumers' intake of fruits and vegetables and could possibly reduce a person's risk of chronic disease."

 

 

They should be comparing cooked tomatar with raw tomatar that is left in 36 degrees celsius condition in a mild acid for a couple of hours as tthis is what is happening in the person's gastro intestinal tract. When they are be able to simulate the "cooking" that happens to a raw food in the gastro intestinal tract and then test the accessibility of the nutrimnets of the tomatar so "cooked" then we will be getting a fairer comparison.

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Originally posted by Rati:

OK, we can't stand the suspense any longer. Please, please reveal what the first prize is.

It is being a big box of CUCUMBERS.

But oh my goodness gracious me they are being all gone bad by now. I will be throwing them out but first I am saving the cardboard box they were rotting in.

Originally posted by abhi_the_great:

Isn't it contradictory to say the world is brahman and illusion at the same time?

AbhiJi, it is being known as "simultaneously one and different" as proposal by the Mahaprabhu Krishna Chaitanya. Very difficult for the understanding because it is being only realised in the state of the liberating realisation.

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Originally posted by Shashi:

you are doing very nicely now. variety is the spice of life.

First prize must be going to Abhi.

Well done Abhi!

 

 

So is not somebody wanting to ask me "What is for the first prize"?

you are doing very nicely now. variety is the spice of life.

First prize must be going to Abhi.

Well done Abhi!

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Is it that you are all eating too many cucumbres because there is being too much of the repeating here. When I am coming to this topic again I am wanting to be seeing some different pwoints being risen. Otherwise I will be having no more choice but to be reporting your behaviours to the top.

Originally posted by Sirona:

Dear friends,

knowing that the Bhagavad Gita also recommends meditation I have joined a Buddhist group because I absolutely wanted to meditate together with others. My problem is not primarily that they are Buddhists but that they are selfish people I do not like to spend my time with, and that they teach odd things about sexuality, attachment to a certain guru by profession that I have neither trust nor faith in, and a general spirit that runs contrary to my personal sentiment of bhakti. I have no alternative to go if I want to meditate in a group and I am not sure whether it would be better to drop the meditation issue at all. In this situation I have no feeling about what Lord Krishna wants from me or would recommend me to do. So I am asking you what you consider to be the best - staying in or dropping it?

SironaJi, if you are not able to be having the respect for the group to be discussing with them your questions directly then your question on what to be doing is already being amswered.

One must be first meditating with the Guru before one is meditating with the group. If Guru is not being there or anywhere near then one may first be meditating with the Guru Roop. For this any picture of Guru will do nicely.

Pranams.

Originally posted by Avinash:

Isn't it true that far more people saw Krsna's two handed form than those who saw His cosmic form? After all, the two handed form was also seen by Kauravas, and by many kings who used to fight Krsna. But none of them saw His cosmic form. Only Arjuna saw. Does it not make the cosmic form rarer?

Masterji! I am just now thinking the cosmic form is being rarer as you say and therebuy most indigestable whereas the supreme form is being well done and therefour more relishable.

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I was once living with natural healing woman who was quite old and she was being one colour threpist also I was overcoming the hepatitis from India and she asked me see in my third eye the deep red like cherry colour for the liver. So I am making one vizualiztion for you being as one suggestion by way of example only.

As you are breathing in to count of 4 imagine you are scenting something in Braj like the sscent of wet dust or the tulasi rani or even some floweres. Then hold the breathinh for a count of 4 and imagine that whatever it is you smelling has been touched by Lord on His walkings and rovings. As you are now breathing out imagine that the scent is the scent that is coming from His deep red dhoti which touched whatever you have smelled and let this colour permeate you liver for a count of 8 or more. Do this 12 times at leat 3 times a day.

I am hoping this example is not causing the offenses to your spirit but if cannt accept please try some other visual involving the deep red with the 4:4:8+ breathing cycals.

Let us all be the breathrens in the devotion.Jaya Hanuman!

Originally posted by JRdd:

But I wouldn't mind having more money too. I suspect that's just because I'm not a real devotee, just practicing to be one.

 

Jayaradhe

 

 

Sister Prabhu I am thinking you are a real devotee muskaraiding as a matirealist because you are having all the trappings of the devotees including the modesty which as you know is the suttlest and most perilous trap.

Originally posted by JRdd:

Actually last night I was thinking

(and this is only because my income suddenly dropped significantnly

this month (more than a third of it, so I am not feeling sufficiently

secure to make a general offer to make tapes for everyone here),

that maybe somone can donate for some blank tapes, and someone else

for postage, and I can make copies and send them to whoever asks.

I am noticing this much in many persons that as the spiritual outcome

increases the material income decreases.

Someone in my family is telling me that Mata Laxshmi becomes jealous

of devotees when they are becoming too dear to Krishna.

could this be true?

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Originally posted by JRdd:

I have been feeling so bad at not being able to do more for my Deities, so much so that I could hardly look at Krsna's face without feeling guilty and selfish and ashamed. This was impeding both my connection and service with Him. It's just false ego. Krsna is not looking for perfection. Just sincerity.

Jayaradhe

Jayaradhe prabhu, perhaps, is not your shame being the pervarted reflection of Lord's shame for allowing your suffering under the conditions you are finding your good self?

If we are greatfully accepting even our minus situations as being the blessing from Lord, He becomes no more ashamed and then will be looking at us again and then we will be feeling the connection once more.

Jayaradhe prabhu if you are not finishing this painting still it must be becaise peace is not come to our world still. that is not your doing. Pranams.

Originally posted by JRdd:

Hare Krsna.

No I am a different person from JSR.

I am Jayaradhe dasi (Jayaradhe one word, as given to me by Srila Prabhupada).

It might be tht its is being the name which will be following you back to Braj. Perhaps?

Such wondering and insitefull writings JRdd prabhu

Jayaradhe Mataji you said your liver is nearly all going. It is being said the the liver is holding ones anger. So I am thinking as soon as your anger is all gone Lord will be there to take you. Until then you must have been praying like the baby because just now it is like you are talking as the saints. Perhaps Hanumanji will be bringing you some nice fruits soon. I will pray also.

Abhi: "Krishna KRISHNAAAAAAAAA!!"

Krishna: "Abhi nahin. Jao !"

Are the lights being on but there is nobody in house?

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Originally posted by gHari:

Seven reincarnations - this sounds different than the knowledge presented in Ramana's Vedas. What is the source of this idea?

 

Does your school of knowledge accept that man is God? Or is man a separate entity somehow?

 

The non-dual Advaita interpretation of the Vedas expressed by Shankara and Ramana, which is the lesser of the five major schools of thought arising out of the Vedic scriptures, is considered by each of the other four Vaisnava understandings to be very problematic for the soul. Three of the other schools accept Advaita, but not exclusively non-dual - that is, we are all part of God, but, the soul exists separately as well; it is real; it can interact with the Supreme Being. Thus bhakti (devotion) is possible; indeed it is the only real occupation of the soul.

 

The other four schools see non-dual Advaita as the annihilation of the soul by merging into God, and therefore warn against any contact with the destructive ideas of the strictly Advaita philosophy.

 

I guess the easy way to spot this suicidal attitude is to ask two questions of the teacher:

<ul>Are you God?

Might you be God tomorrow?

 

Anyway, I do not find any limit (minimum or maximum) on the number of reincarnations we face in Krsna's knowledge presented in the Bhagavad-gita. I take His word as Absolute. With your deep interest in yoga, I'm sure you read the Bhagavad-gita which is the source of all yogas, so I am very interested in knowing your source for that seven reincarnation number.<font color="#dedfdf">

 

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gHari Prabhuji, shame on you, you are never mentioning the dvaita vedants of Madhavaji which is being a major school. Are you forgetting?

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Originally posted by Tarun:

Ideally, cows r supposedly allowed to die/pass away naturally.

Then there's no vikarma/killing.

Tonight we used 7-8 mrdangas, about half clay/leather.

I brought my fiberglass one along.

How 'bout leather shoes?

I think if we already have them it's a greater sin to just throw them away.

Better to use what we already have; just don't buy anymore.

Tarunji my feeling is being that you are rashnalicing and so answering is hot and cold. I am wanting the nice answer from Mataji.

Originally posted by suryaz:

Well Shashi I can ask:

 

Could your judgment not be based on a gamble????

 

 

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When it is coming to the question of who is Srila Prabhupad my judgement is being that when it is comes to the Gurus Prabhupad is IT. Mataji Suryaz I make emphasise there is not being any gambling in this judgement. When you are coming foolly upon the Hindu parthways you will be understanding why SP is IT. This way IT is not being anymore the impersnal pronoun.

Originally posted by Jagat:

The only elegant solution to the gender neutral pronoun problem would be to create an entirely new pronoun, but I have seen no serious effort in this direction.

 

 

If you can help me out with suggestions, Suryaz, I welcome them.

 

Jagat

Oh Jagatji what about the word IT to be also covering the persons? My younger brother is suggesting a variety to it as ET.

Originally posted by gHari:

Whatever words were used or misused, I'll bet Krsna enjoyed the love and the food offered to Him.

 

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Sorry prabhuji but I am not able to bet with you. our family Guruji having prohibited the gambling as well as meating and intoxicating and unmarried loving.

Originally posted by suryaz:

Good night Beemasane and good night gHari.

I need to prepare the evening prasad now.

 

 

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In our culture bhoga is becoming prasad only after Lord is accepting it. So how is Smt Suryaz can prepare the evening prasad? Is it she is keeping Lord in the kitchen and commanding him to accept her cookery?