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If you have seen some of your neighbors who don't cheat, it doesn't mean their entire race is pure. If you find some of your hindu neighbors cheating, doesn't mean the entire hindu population are cheats. One should NOT generalise about a race based on his experience with some people of that race. People of this age cheat for their survival. This is the age of 'Survival of the FITTEST'. This cheatin mentality has to be removed. If you go and watch people in a typical downtown of a city in India, you will find many cheaters, no matter to what race they belong. Majority of the terrorists are muslims. Doesn't mean the entire muslim population is bad. If you've found some hindus to be narrow minded, it doesn't mean all of them have this mentality. Same applies to people of RSS and VHP. I personally saw RSS morning meetings which are called 'shaka'. They teach discipline, good character building, patriotism etc. In some areas, you will also find people of other races attending shakas. Iam not trying to generalize and conclude that it is a very perfect organization. In the upper echelons, you may find hate campaign against certain races. We needn't generalise them. Indeed, they hate every other sin, irrespective of the race of the people who commit them. Unfortunately, majority of these happen to be muslims. Hence it became like a hate campaign against them. Try finding and hating the SINs, NOT the sinners. Weeds are there in every community and these are the ones that need be wiped out. -Prasad.

<p align="center">Punjab Airways!!</p> Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! This is your captain Banta Singh welcoming you to 'Punjab Airways.' We apologise for the four day delay in taking off, owing to bad weather and some overtime I had put in at the bakery. This is flight 126 to New Delhi. Landing in Delhi is not guaranteed, but we will end up somewhere in the East. And if luck is in our favour, we may even be landing on your village! 'Punjab Airways' has an excellent record for safety. In fact, our safety standards are so high that even terrorists are afraid to fly with us! I take great pleasure in announcing that starting this year, over 50 per cent of our passengers have reached their destination. For the ones that don't quite make it, 'Punjab Airways' staff have all the requisite experience for consoling the kith and kin. Our stewardess Bubbly will be happy to brief you on our out-of-court settlement policies. If our engines are too noisy for you, on passenger request, we can arrange to turn them off! To make your free fall to earth, pleasant and memorable, we serve complimentary tea and biscuits, provided you have paid for the coupons twice! For our religious passengers, we are the only airline who can help you find out if there really is a God! We regret to inform you, that today's in-flight movie will not be shown as we forgot to record it from the television. But for our movie buffs, we will be flying right next to Air India, where their movie will be visible from the right side of the cabin window. Smoking is not allowed in this aeroplane. Any smoke you see in the cabin is only the early warning system on the engines telling us to slow down! Life jackets are positioned under your seats and free bathing costumes are made available to the aunts and swimming shorts to the uncles, for emergency jumps! In order to catch important landmarks, we try to fly as close as possible for the best view. However, if we go a little too close, do let us know. Our enthusiastic co-pilot sometimes flies right through the landmark! Kindly be seated, keep your seat in an upright position for take-off and fasten your belt. For those of you who can't find a seat belt, kindly fasten your own belt to the arm of your seat. And for those of you who can't find a seat, do not hesitate to get in touch with a flight attendant for your suitcase. Sorry, but I won't be flying with you today because I have to attend my nephew's wedding. But please make yourself at home and help yourself to a visit to the cock pit. Thank you for choosing 'Punjab Airways'. Have a nice journey!

Why are those people soo crazy about football. Much more than the craze Indians have towards cricket. Are they okay?!? I watch to see how craze those people are! TOUCHDOWN!!! & celebrate as if they've reached heavens & achieved everything and their whole life is taken care!. Our university football coach is paid over $1.5 million/yr. -Prasad.

dear anveshan, nice to see you post. well, nobody is stopping you to eat whatever you like. You are free to have your own choice but just remember we are only trying to remind you of something known as karma or laws of nature- (An Infallible Justice). You may believe it or not, you may just try to speculate about it. No body is stopping you to speculate. There is something called 'prarabdha karma' out of the three types of karma. You may be least bothered to know what IT is. But ultimately IT is the thing which determines who you shud become next- any of those 84lac species of life or a person who transcends all of them. You may not believe the traffic rules in your state and say I can do whatever I like. What is then the difference between a dog and a man? If you flout the rules, then you will be punished according to the state laws, which you might have never heard of or least bothered to know. In the same way, it is your destiny based on 'karma' which you are acquiring thru your actions. The choice is yours... -Prasad.

I've recently come across a site wherein a muslim (from Islam ResearchFoundation, India) tries to justify meat-eating. He invited a jain philosopher (from Indian vegetarian congress) to debate with him (in public) and it appeared he was somehow able to defeat that philosopher. I thought it'd be better if people here in this forum could challenge his points. The muslim was able to quote from all the scriptures (including hindu scriptures) thru his memory while justifying it and the poor philosopher based all his points purely from a health perspective as per jain philosophy. I thought may be some devotees here can refute his arguments which don't show even a whit of proper understading of the vedic philosophy. The debate was for about 5hrs (splited into five parts). You may watch all those before you post. Please do post your comments so that we may find PROPER refutations and stop those corrupting preachings. Already extensive damage has been done to the vast public by the dawahs (moslim preachings) on such topics by such people. Note: In the middle of this web page: http://www.irf.net/irf/videogallery/index.htm (Debate: Is Non-Vegetarian Food Prohibited or Permitted) there is a recorded video of that public debate. The webpage is scripted such that un-registered people cannot watch it for more than 1 minute and then it'll prompt you to register with that site (which most people hate). I've found a trick wherein you can watch it fully without registering. Simply follow this procedure: Immediately after the page (with video) loads up, block the cookies by going to Tools->Internet options->Privacy-> & place the slider to its highest position. This will block further cookies (which are used by the scripts) from loading and prompting for registration. Thats it. Don't forget to place it to default setting after you finish watching, as it is needed for many websites including these forums. PS: The campaign is not for hate against muslims but hate against meat eaters. Also hate against the sin, NOT the sinner. weeds are there in every community/religion.

I've recently come across a site wherein a muslim (from Islam ResearchFoundation, India) tries to justify meat-eating. He invited a jain philosopher (from Indian vegetarian congress) to debate with him (in public) and it appeared he was somehow able to defeat that philosopher. I thought it'd be better if people here in this forum could challenge his points. The muslim was able to quote from all the scriptures (including hindu scriptures) thru his memory while justifying it and the poor philosopher based all his points purely from a health perspective as per jain philosophy. I thought may be some devotees here can refute his arguments which don't show even a whit of proper understading of the vedic philosophy. The debate was for about 5hrs (splited into five parts). You may watch all those before you post. Please do post your comments so that we may find PROPER refutations and stop those corrupting preachings. Already extensive damage has been done to the vast public by the dawahs (moslim preachings) on such topics by such people. Note: In the middle of this web page: http://www.irf.net/irf/videogallery/index.htm (Debate: Is Non-Vegetarian Food Prohibited or Permitted) there is a recorded video of that public debate. The webpage is scripted such that un-registered people cannot watch it for more than 1 minute and then it'll prompt you to register with that site (which most people hate). I've found a trick wherein you can watch it fully without registering. Simply follow this procedure: Immediately after the page (with video) loads up, block the cookies by going to Tools->Internet options->Privacy-> & place the slider to its highest position. This will block further cookies (which are used by the scripts) from loading and prompting for registration. Thats it. Don't forget to place it to default setting after you finish watching, as it is needed for many websites including these forums. PS: The campaign is not for hate against muslims but hate against meat eaters. Also hate against the sin, NOT the sinner. weeds are there in every community/religion.

thanks gauracandraji, How do we use counter beads while using them in the bag? thanks, -Prasad.

Sometimes if you don't have beads, you can chant using the divisions on the fingers of right palm. Heres the procedure: <p align="center"></p> Use your thumb to point to the divisions... Start counting from 1 and continue till it reaches the last division on the forefinger (10). Continue from 11 and reach the starting point in a reverse way. This way, you will be covering 20 in a single loop. You can count the number of loops using fingers of your left hand. After 5 loops, you can cover 8 divisions and then you will be completing a full round (108). One should not cross over lower divisions of middle finger.

Letter to: Mahatma Gandhi -- Cawnpore 12 July, 1947 Mahatma Gandhijee Bhangi Colony New Delhi. Dear Friend Mahatmajee, Please accept my respectful Namaskar. I am your unknown friend but I had to write to you at times and again although you never cared to reply them. I sent you my papers "Back to Godhead" but your secretaries told me that you have very little time to read the letters and much less for reading the magazines. I asked for an interview with you but your busy secretaries never cared to reply this. Anyway as I am your very old friend although unknown to you I am again writing to you in order to bring you to the rightful position deserved by you. As a sincere friend I must not deviate from my duty towards a friend like your good self. I tell you as a sincere friend that you must immediately retire from active politics if you do not desire to die an inglorious death. You have 125 years to live as you have desired to live but you if you die an inglorious death it is no worth. The honour and prestige that you have obtained during the course of you present life time, were not possible to be obtained by any one else within the living memory. But you must know that all these honours and prestiges were false in as much as they were created by the Illusory Energy of Godhead called the maya. By this falsity I do not mean to say that your so many friends were false to you nor you were false to them. By this falsity I mean illusion or in other words the false friendship and honours obtained thereby were but creation of maya and therefore they are always temporary or false as you may call it. But none of you neither your friends nor yourself knew this truth. Now by the Grace of God that illusion is going to be cleared and thus your faithful friends like Acarya Kripalini and others are accusing you for your inability at the present moment to give them any practical programme of work as you happened to give them during your glorious days of non-co-operation movement. So you are also in a plight to find out a proper solution for the present political tangle created by your opponents. You should therefore take a note of warning from your insignificant friend like me, that unless you retire timely from politics and engage yourself cent per cent in the preaching work of Bhagavad-gita, which is the real function of the Mahatmas, you shall have to meet with such inglorious deaths as Mussolini, Hitlers, Tojos, Churchills or Lloyd Georges met with. You can very easily understand as to how some of your political enemies in the garb of friends (both Indian and English) have deliberately cheated you and have broken your heart by doing the same mischief for which you have struggled so hard for so many years. You wanted chiefly Hindu-Moslem unity in India and they have tactfully managed to undo your work, by creation of the Pakistan and India separately. You wanted freedom for India but they have given permanent dependence of India. You wanted to do something for the upliftment of the position of the bhangis but they are still rotting as bhangis even though you are living in the bhangi colony. They are all therefore illusions and when these things will be presented to you as they are, you must consider them as God-sent. God has favored you by dissipating the illusion you were hovering in, and by the same illusion you were, nursing those ideas as Truth(?). You must know that you are in the relative world which is called by the sages as Dvaita i.e. dual- and nothing is absolute here. Your Ahimsa is always followed by Himsa as the light is followed by darkness or the father is followed by the son. Nothing is absolute truth in this dual world. You did not know this neither you ever cared to know this from the right sources and therefore all your attempts to create unity were followed by disunity and Ahimsa. Ahimsa was followed by Himsa. But it is better late than never. You must know now something about the Absolute Truth. The Truth with which you have been experimenting so long is relative. The relative truths are creations of the daivi maya qualified by the three modes of Nature. They are all insurmountable as is explained in the Bhagavad-gita (7/14). The Absolute Truth is the Absolute Godhead. In the Katha Upanisad it is ordered that one must approach the bona fide Guru who is not only well versed in all the scriptures of the world but is also the realized soul in Brahman the Absolute--in order to learn the science of Absolute Truth. So also it is instructed in the Bhagavad-gita as follows:-- tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena sevaya upadeksyanti tad jnanam jnaninas tattvadarsinah (4.34) But I know that you never underwent such transcendental training except some severe penances which you invented for your purpose as you have invented so many things in the course of experimenting with the relative truths. You might have easily avoided them if you had approached the Guru as abovementioned. But your sincere efforts to attain some Godly qualities by austerities etc surely have raised you to some higher position which you can better utilize for the purpose of the Absolute Truth. If you, however, remain satisfied with such temporary position only and do not try to know the Absolute Truth, then surely you are to fall down from the artificially exalted position under the laws of Nature. But if you really want to approach the Absolute Truth and want to do some real good to the people in general all over the world, which shall include your ideas of unity, peace and non-violence, then you must give up the rotten politics immediately and rise up for the preaching work of the philosophy and religion of ``Bhagavad-gita'' without offering unnecessary and dogmatic interpretations on them. I had occasionally discussed this subject in my paper ``Back to Godhead'' and a leaf from the same is enclosed herewith for your reference. I would only request you to retire from politics at least for a month only and let us have discussion on the Bhagavad-gita. I am sure, thereby, that you shall get a new light from the result of such discussions not only for your benefit but for the benefit of the world at large--as I know that you are sincere, honest and moralist. Awaiting your early reply with interest. Yours sincerely, Abhay Charan De. Enclosure--one leaf from Back to Godhead

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shvuji,Is it a better idea to give utmost importance to those tiny differences and fuss about them? BTW, Iam aware of the posts & I neither know anyone personally here nor am I teaming with anyone here. -Prasad.

dear shvuji, It seems you are bent upon disgracing acaryas of ISKCON. There are sites that refute those allegations. you may want to refer to: http://www.gosai.com/dvaita/madhvacarya/Caitanya.html (THE DIVINITY OF SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU) and FYI, Sri Vishwesha Tirtha Swamiji himself glorified Srila Prabhupada saying "just as Bhagiratha brought the Ganga to India, Swami Prabhupada brought the Bhakti-Ganga to the whole world." http://www.gosai.com/dvaita/madhvacarya/index.html [THE VALIDITY OF THE PARAMPARA] Check the letters from various Asta Mathas in this regard: http://www.gosai.com/dvaita/udupi/index.html Can we not try to appreciate the similarities between various schools of philosophy? -Prasad.

thiestji, yes, sometimes dreams become so obvious that they are far from reality. they become lucid dreams and the dreamer can easily make out & see them as an observer. I've experienced this sometimes. Also, when I screw up some things in reality, then I wish they should have been part of a dream. But damn! those things have already been screwed up -in reality : (. I've also experienced similar ones and such dreams appear to be good ones based on this page: http://www.indiadivine.com/agni-purana7.htm -Prasad.

madhavji, I recd thru email. -Prasad.

How Coke and Pepsi are HELPFUL To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola. To loosen a rusted bolt : Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for sometime. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl. Sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. To remove grease from clothes : Pour a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola/Pepsi will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from car windshield. WE DRINK THIS STUFF! OFF COURSE TO CLEAN OUR SYSTEM TOO. AFTER ALL WE ARE PAYING FOR IT. For your information The average pH of soft drinks, e.g. Coke & Pepsi is 3.4. This acidity is strong enough to dissolve teeth and bones! Our human body stops building bones at around the age of 30. After that it shall be dissolving the bones every year through the urine depending on the acidity of the food intake. All the dissolved calcium compounds get accumulated in the arteries, veins, skin, tissue and organs, which affects the functioning of the kidney assisting in formation of kidney stones. Soft drinks do not have any nutritional value (in terms of vitamins and minerals). They have higher sugar content, higher acidity, and more additives such as preservatives and colorings. Some people like to take cold soft drinks after each meal, guess what's the impact? The Impact Our body has an optimum temperature of 37 degrees for the functioning of digestive enzymes. The temperature of cold soft drinks is much less than 37, sometimes quite close to 0. This lowers the effectiveness of the enzymes and puts stress on our digestive system, digesting less food. In fact the food gets fermented. The fermented food produces bad smelling, gases, decays and forms toxins, which are absorbed in the intestines, get circulated in the blood and is delivered to the whole body. This spread of toxins can lead to the development of various diseases. Few Examples Two months ago, there was a competition in Delhi University "Who can drink the most Coke?” The winner drank 8 bottles and died on the spot because of too much carbon dioxide in the blood and not enough oxygen. From then on, the principal banned all soft drinks from the university canteen. Someone put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi and in 10 days it got dissolved! Teeth and bones are the only human organ that stays intact for years after death. Imagine what the drink must be doing to your soft intestines and stomach lining! The famous ad in India rightly says 'Jo chahe Ho Jaye COCA COLA ENJOY! '. -Prasad.

Vraja- The music group www.vraja.com . Sounds beyond time... you can listen to some samples @ www.vraja.com/samples.htm Iam not sure how often they perform. Its based in Mumbai, India. -Prasad.

madhavji, thats an important thing worth cnsidering when islamic jehadis are attacking innocent kafirs. There is no end to philosophical altercations and the need of that hour would be to fight unitedly no matter what philosophy you follow. Lord Krishna never instructed Arjuna to tread the path of non-violence always -- and every school of philosophy agrees to this. When the duty requires one to protect himself & his surroundings, he should act accordingly. But religion should never cause war and majority of the wars like world wars were fought purely for material gains. -Prasad.

My deepest condolences to the family of srimate jayaradhe dd. jaya radhe mataji, I have an association only with your articles and posts in various sites. Wherever you are, may I request you to please inform the Lord to make my devotion more stronger towards him. The pole of devotional service is slippery for me to climb, please ask him to make this fallen soul have more grip towards the Supreme Lord's devotional service. srimate jayaradhe ki jay! [ http://www.geocities.com/theopenheart/ ] Hare Krishna. -Prasad.

jndas prabhuji, could you pls explain Sri Ramanuja 's visisthadvaita philosophy compared to Caitanya Mahaprabhu's acintyabheda-bheda-tattva philosophy. I learnt that some people from Madhvacharya's line (dvaita philosophers) feel at odds with Caitanya's philosophy. They reject his lineage from Madhvacarya because of his difference with dvaita philosophy. - Prasad.

theistji, well, I just heard that as soon as the person died, the glass bursted. Iam not sure about the time between his death and glass burst. Also I heard the soul leaving through mouth making a hissing sound. I was told about this after my grandmother passed away few yrs back. -Prasad.

>>Movement isn't evidence of the souls presence. Movement can be caused by chemical reactions, electrical stimulation, etc. The soul has already infused that matter with energy, which takes time to difuse. seems to be a valid statement. -- I remember watching some old telugu movies wherein two actors change their bodies using a dead being. First, the hero recites something and his body collapses and he (his soul) goes into the dead being (which can be an animal). Then the second actor recites something and goes into the hero's body. Finally the conscious dead being recites and moves to the body of second actor. [similar to variable swapping in PROGRAMming] Such tricks are performed when the hero wants to get into the palace of queen and he cannot go with his current body. He takes the help of a servant known in the palace to gain entry. Though the hero appears as a limping servant, his character stays as the hero while the original hero's body acquires the character of the servant. This may be fictitious thing but the thing that appeared true to me is that the soul carries the character, based on the consciousness which is due to karma. Such mystic films were popular among masses when I was a child but later dikchak-dikchak movies became famous in Tollywood ! -Prasad.

I heard from someone that once people kept a dying man inside a thick glass to observe what exactly happens during death. (may be a euthanasia case). After some time they found the glass box getting burst after the man has died. So, may be there is tremendous force while the soul is leaving the body along with the air. -Prasad.

The wriggling iteslf means that there is consciousness in the body, which means there is soul in it. So, the question still remains unanswered. May be the soul is an external one temporarily trapped in the dying part of earth worm. -Prasad.

1. Don't tell people everything you now ..... -Prasad

Sri Vaishnava philosophy is based on visistadvaita and Gaudiya vaisnava philosophy is based on Achintya Beda Abeda Tattva ("philosophy of simultaneous, inconceivable oneness and difference"), a system of Vedaanta revived by Shrii Chaitanya Mahaaprabhu. Popular Srivaishnava Acaryas include chinna jeeyar swamiji ( www.chinnajeeyar.org ), etc. Popular Gaudiya Vaishnava Acaryas include Srila Prabhupada from ISKCON, Acaryas from other schools like chaitanya saraswat math etc. In this page http://www.wva-vvrs.org/ (to the lower right end corner), you can learn about various Vaisnava Acaryas. In addition to the above links, you can see this link for more info about Advaita, Visistadvaita and Dvaita - http://www.srivaishnavan.com/faq_advaita.html -Prasad.