Murali_Mohan_das

Very nice!!!!

What if the narcissist in question is a parent who neglects his/her child(ren)? Aren't narcissism and greed related? Isn't a narcissistic person more likely to be greedy than a devoted, selfless person?

Embedded: <embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5786471797807353867&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed> Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5786471797807353867&hl=en As the anniversary of the sannyas of Sriman Mahaprabhu approaching, Sripad Janardan Maharaja tells of the Lord's pastimes leading up to, during, and following that holy day.

I guess. The Lord makes rules He won't break? It's not worth an argument, to be sure. Time will tell.

Thanks for the tips. I'll try to keep them in mind. Of course, I need to go back and review (or view for the first time) the ABC's.

How about, "Just accept Prabhupada as your personal Lord and savior and He will take away all your sins"?

So, then, tell me which ABC's I ought to present.

Oh, don't thank me, I'm easily embarassed that way. I'm glad you can see the point I was trying to present, though. The thing is, our attachment to what we see (or think we see, since, as science has shown, so much of what we think we see is really our brain/mind filling in the gaps between what our eyes actually see) is often what keeps us from transcending the mundane plane. Best wishes to you!!

You've got all the answers (and a lot more free time than I have).

Why would you think that? Is the mundane better, or more "real" than the spiritual?

Do the eternal shastras, as they have been revealed to Veda Vyas for our illumination, contain descriptions of other chatur-yugas, or cycles of the four yugas, or are they limited to our own? If it's the latter, how can we say that each manifestation is like every other? As for what's important, isn't the most important concept on which to focus that the Lord is free and independent of any limitation? Is it possible for any scripture to detail every pastime of the Lord? That the Lord is the Divine Autocrat *is* the ABC's.

Divine service/seva. It is its own reward.

Certainly, psychiatric Krishna Consciousness is a much more sound science than mundane psychiatry. http://www.motherjones.com<wbr>/news/feature/2003/11/ma_565<wbr>_01.html and

It's amazing how much a little punctuation can change the meaning, isn't it?

But, if the Deities drink all the milk (physicallly), there won't be any prasadam left for the hungry devotees!!

Please *do* keep writing, socrati. I like very much what you have said so far. Mahak, how many stars did you count in the Milky Way? To me it just looks like a big curtain of light in the night sky, but they say it is made up of countless starts.

Srila Prabhupada has soooo much common sense, doesn't he? He just cuts through all the mental crap like a knife. I've been arguing these points with some hard-core meat-eaters on another site. They dogmatically insist that animals have no rights because they cannot stand up and demand their rights in the Queen's English (or something silly like that).

So, the Lord is bound by what He revealed to Vyasdev? The Lord cannot do as He wishes? If that is the case, then He is not very great, is He?

"You can gain benefit from everywhere. It exists within one's mood of devotion; benefit's nature is like that." - Srila Govinda Maharaj

If Srila Prabhupada (Bhaktisiddhanta) was willing to bring in meat for guests accustomed to eating meat, why would he or his disciples object to using the term "Hindu" to attract favorable persons to Krishna Consciousness?

When we have been granted some realization, we see everything as the mercy of the Lord (even being eaten by that tiger). Until then, we are stuck in polluted, relativistic thinking. By chanting the names of the Lord sincerely, we can clean the dust-covered mirror of the mind. As John Lennon said, "There's no problem, only solutions."

I missed this reply somehow. You assumed I was talking about you as the kshatriya and me as the Brahmana. Actually, I was speaking hypothetically. However, isn't there the story of the great king (can't remember his name) who gave some cows to a brahmana? One cow wandered off and back into the herd of the king. The king accidentally gave the same cow (along with others) to another brahmana. When the first brahmana took offense, wasn't the king quite humble, perplexed and concilliatory in his response? Doesn't this story reveal the attitude of the pure kshatriya to the Brahmanas?

The rest was good, but this says it all. The Lord is fully present in His Holy Names. Science can never hope to capture the Lord.

Did you know, there's a difference between a dragon and a dragoon? From Wikipedia:

Hey, I grew up loving Asterix the Gaul!!!! You can't tell me the French don't have a long and illustrious history stretching back into antiquity!!