mrs.moore

"Softness of the heart is compared with honey, with butter and with nectar. And the condition of the mind is compared with sunshine. As honey and butter become melted even in slight sunshine, so soft-hearted persons become easily melted. Nectar, however, is by its nature always liquid. And the hearts of those who are in pure ecstatic love with Krsna are by nature always liquified, just like nectar." (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 31)

never heard this before. very poetic. melty melty.

a vaisnava is someone who worships vishnu.

some vaisnavas prefer to worship vishnu in his form of the god rama. some worship him in his half-lion-half-man form called nrsmhadeva. others prefer the other forms of vishnu.

gaudiya vaisnavas follow chaitanya mahaprabhu. gaudiya means bengali.

their favourite form of vishnu is krishna .

the term hare krishnas was applied to members of the hare krishna movement after prabhupada took his teachings to the west in the 60s and then founded iskcon.

nowadays, not all hare krishnas are iskcon members.

hare krishnas are gaudiya vaisnavas.

gaudiya vaisnavas believe that krishna is the origin of vishnu.

most vaisnavas and hindus believe krishna comes from vishnu.

thankyou guruvani.

driving in india is not funny.

there's another restaurant now (forget the name of it offhand). it's in a posh new ashram just round the corner from iskson. a bit rich, but it seems clean, and the rotis are good.

i think there's a devotee who cooks and does take-aways, pizzas, packed lunches and things like that in the pepsi building.

or you could buy a small gas stove and cook your own spaghetti or rice or veggies. it'd be lighter on your tummy.

buy dosas in the shop on the lane opposite banke bihari. get buttermilk from near there too. mmmmmm......

sat isobgol is disgusting! if you get diarea, fast and drink cokes for a couple of days.

hmmm. so, do you think this could have anything to do with the fact that certain mantras (brahma gayatri/gopi bhava) are given to men only?

hmmm. it must be really annoying.

do you chant the maha-mantra much?

sometimes if someone's talking to you and you just keep chanting they get annoyed and go away.

all of the above.

some women have very hard and even cruel hearts. can they chant brahma gayatri mantra to help make their hearts soft?

some men have very soft hearts. some men are are effminate, and some are weak. should they then not chant brahma gayatri?

is it to do with anatomy? then what about intersexuals (hermaphrodites)?

and again: how can any mantra meaning savitur as mahaprabhu (CC Mad 8.226p) dry a heart?

what was prabhupada's reason for giving the mantra?

and you, redsox, will have to find your own guru for your questoins

[srila Narayana Maharaja:] The brahma-gayatri, the first of the gayatri mantras, will dry your heart.

[Devotee:] What do you mean?

[srila Narayana Maharaja:] Ladies don't utter this first mantra.

how can any mantra meaning savitur as mahaprabhu (CC Mad 8.226p) dry a heart?

what exactly causes these women's hearts to dry up??

what does dry up mean?

[Devotee:] But our Srila Prabhupada gave it to us.

[srila Narayana Maharaja:] He did not wish that you continue it for all time.

does this suggest that the other gayatri mantras are to be continued for all time? are they? the maha mantra is, isn't it.

The acaryas in the Gaudiya-sampradaya... from the time of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu say that only male persons can receive that mantra.

why do they say that?

[Devotee:] But [bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada] gave it to ladies and men.

[srila Narayana Maharaja:] He had a special reason to do this at that time, but he did not want this to continue perpetually. Because you believe he still wants you to chant that first mantra you should do so, but give more emphasis on the other mantras – like guru-gayatri and guru-mantra.

maharaja said this in 1992. do his women followers still chant their brahma gayatri mantras 15 years on?

redsox: i believe this was a reply to those questions... it was the conclusion of an exchange in which she had previously been instructed about this heart-hardening/drying effect.

my friend's guru wrote to her about why women aren't given brahma gayatri mantra, and her guru tole her:

"The nature and constitution of ladies is most favourable to render loving, sweet services, but if they engage in unfavourable practices, the effect will be reversed and they will develop opposite qualities. They will become filled with false ego and the desire to control others, and moreover, they will want to demand respect. If you want to develop all these qualities you may chant brahma gayatri."

qu: why can't women chant brahma gayatri?

a: because it makes them heard-hearted if they chant it during menstruation!

qu: but what about women who don't menstruate (like elderly vaisnavis)?

a:

qu: when is a human body ever really pure then? what if a man has a sticky plaster on his finger? can he chant brahma gayatri?

qu: um. what about prabhupada....?

... Srila Bhakti Ballabha Tirtha Maharaja, who is giving class very soon at 8:30 P.M. Tonight I will hear from him and stay at his matha overnight, before I return to SBVNM's matha in Janak Puri, Delhi.

are you staying in the janakpuri math?

do they rent out rooms?

where is tirtha maharaja giving class?

Genuine Guru can only "control" the disciple by love and affection, in the same way the Srimati Radharani "controls" or directs her sakhis.

so, what's it like being controlled by love and affection? is it nice?

A cowherd boy also has human form.

yes but not gross material human. just human-like.

it's a spiwitual form. made of sparkly otherworldly magical stuff. ;)

this is good:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2006/1689941.htm

Om apavitra-pavitro-va

sarva-vastam gato api va

yah smaret pundarikaksham

sah bhayabhyantara suchih

sri visnu srivisnu sri visnu

women who have their periods ARE NOT UNCLEAN.

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• if you feel yucky, take lots of rest.
  
• pray as much as you want.
  
• don't disturb the other people with their temple rituals.

and why don't you eat mushrooooms?

yes but duryodhana was just a nasty bad man.

he wasn't in any position of absolute so-called guru.

yummmmmy chocolate krishna.

but wait... whom do you offer chocolate krishna to?

radha?

oh! you mean...

Big O notation or Big Oh notation is a mathematical notation used to describe the asymptotic behavior of functions. Its purpose is to characterize a function's behavior for very large or very small inputs in a simple but rigorous way that enables comparison to other functions. More precisely, the symbol O is used to describe an asymptotic upper bound for the magnitude of a function in terms of another, usually simpler, function. There are also other symbols o, Ω, ω, and Θ for various other upper, lower, and tight bounds. It has two main areas of application: in mathematics, it is usually used to characterize the residual term of a truncated infinite series, especially an asymptotic series, and in computer science, it is useful in the analysis of the complexity of algorithms.

or was it the mystical symbolism of the first letter of the om-sign....?

According to the teaching, there is harm in killing anything, including vegetables which BTW are also jiva souls.

yeah. i still think the ultimate diet would be fruit and nuts and milk-from-a-happy-cow. so you don't have to kill anything.

sorry