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sant it is you that is "talking through emotions" and you are trying to project that on me. Try to read carefully what I actually say. I never said who I believed lived or did not. I already said that believing someone lived and believing that they are relevant are two different things. Then you start talking about if someone existed or not. I do not want to debate that with you since someone already has debated that with you. I do not care if someone who is irrelevant to my beliefs and practices existed or not. Many people existed in ancient times - it does not mean that they attained any kind of realization or that there is any good basis for believing they performed miracles or that any of the other mythology associated with that personality has any factual basis. Forgive me but I do not know how to be more clearer than I have been.

Believing someone lived and believing someone is relevant are two different things. Actions speak louder than words and the deities that Hindus think are relevant are the ones they propitiate in fire sacrifices. They often give lip-service to the deities of foreigners because that is the way many Hindus choose to practice gentleness.

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I reject it as irrelevant - as do billions of other people all over the world. The Indian subcontinent has not been well served by this myth.

An American Family Tragedy and Sathya Sai Baba www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLhl5X0SlR4

I assume those excerpts are from the Ramayana. Were there any parts that you liked? What scripture/s do you recommend instead - if any?

Even you imply that what you are saying sounds confusing. You are either completely confused or pretending to be so. Sanatana Dharma has nothing to do with faith systems which developed outside of Bharat Varsh (except in some cases they have borrowed from the Dharma). Sri Adi Shankara, who as a small child left home to singlehandedly revive the Dharma from the morass it had fallen into had to make very clear-cut distinctions in order to wake Indians up as to what was Sanatana Dharma ... and what was not. Discrimination is wisdom. from EncyclopediaOfAuthenticHinduism.org: Q. What is a myth, and why so many myths of different cultures have similar stories? A. We should now understand what a myth is. Myth is the imaginative fiction of the minds of the ancient natives of a country who believed that there were some kind of nature gods who were involved in the creation, maintenance and destruction of the world, and in some way they also influenced the social life of the people... (Article 6) http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/recommended-websites/452867-http-www-encyclopediaofauthentichinduism-org-index-html-post1137838.html?highlight=21+Intriguing+Questions#post1137838

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 OREGON CITY, Oregon - A 15-month-old girl whose parents belong to a congregation that shuns doctors appeared to be malnourished after her death from pneumonia, a medical examiner testified Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of her parents. Raylene and Carl Brent Worthington of Oregon City are members of the Followers of Christ Church and are accused of manslaughter and criminal mistreatment in the March 2008 death of their child, Ava, who didn't get a doctor's care. The state medical examiner said she could easily have been treated with antibiotics for her pneumonia. The trial opened on Monday, with the lawyers for her parents saying they thought the girl was getting better as they and other members of the church went through faith healing rituals - such as anointing her with oil and the laying on of hands. After the girl's death, her body was examined by Clackamas County Deputy Medical Examiner Jeffrey Mayer. On Tuesday, Mayer said he went to the girl's bedroom and saw a humidifier and fan running and a TV tray containing a red liquid he assumed was wine and olive oil. He said both are commonly used by members of the congregation. Mayer said the girl appeared to be malnourished, with protruding ribs and weight "not consistent with peer weight." Mayer also testified about a cyst-like growth found on the girl's neck, which prosecutors say was caused by her lymphatic system struggling against the infection. "I have never seen anything like that in my experience," he said. Mayer testified that his office had a good relationship with the church, dealing frequently with the members because they do not have attending physicians present when they die. It's up to his office to sign the death certificate, he said. He said about 200 people, whom he assumed to be church members, had gathered at the home just east of Oregon City when he arrived to examine the body. Also at the court hearing, Mayer played taped interviews he had with the Worthingtons the night their daughter died. The parents told him the girl had never seen a doctor and not been given any over-the-counter medication. In the interview, Raylene Worthington said she noticed the swelling on Ava's neck getting substantially larger during her daughter's final days. She also said Ava developed a cough and it worsened. Carl Brent Worthington said his wife was with their daughter on the bed when Ava died. "I ran to the bedroom," he said. "They said she had quit breathing." Asked during the taped interview if he called for help, he said he did not. When asked why, he said: "She was already gone. I anointed her." http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?cat=news&referrer=email&id=20090630/4a499bd0_3426_1335020090630-191433432

I was once acquainted with a sadhaka who had great involvement with that. They consider the Swamiji there subor- dinate to Shree Maa - although they are apparently husband and wife as he explained it. To know more here is their group: and of course their website is shreemaa.org as has been mentioned. re: namakarana I have only read www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/hbh in which the Swami argues that the name change should also be legal - drivers license, passport, everything. I would be interested in other opinions/writings on that.

Thanks Vrindavan, I will try it.

I just try each one separately and see how it affects me. Onion doesn't seem to affect me the next day but when trying to chant Sansrkit the next morning after I have consumed garlic I can taste and smell something foul. Therefore I will not purchase it any more unless needed for some medicinal purpose. I haven't tried hing yet so I will see how that one goes.

Dairy cows have to be repeatedly impregnated to keep up their milk production. What is to be done with all the male calves which are born as a result of those pregnancies? The answer is that they are kept in tiny veal cages so that they can not move during their entire short and miserable lives - keeping their muscles soft so that the veal is tender. I would love to get some milk from cows that I know are protected ... however to just go to the market and buy some milk - organic or not - is to be complicit in veal production. That is simply a fact. If you have verified knowledge of a milk producer that never supports the veal or beef industry then please let me know and I will support them. I don't think Shree Vishnu wants me to offer Him the milk of tortured cows any more than He wants me to offer Him the veal which is a direct byproduct of that milk production. Cow torture is not cow protection. http://www.milksucks.com/dump.asp

I have given up garlic because it causes halitosis but I am still interested in scientific evidence of other detriments of garlic. Also what can I use to most closely approximate it without causing bad breath? I have heard someone say that hing will give onion taste but what about garlic taste?

They also have this phenomenon in Tibetan Buddhism. I read about this in the book Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama. He offers a detailed explanation of this phenomenon and explained how and why he consults with people like that regularly to inform him on different matters. I personally don't trust anything like this.

Ginger was suggested as a substitute for garlic and I will have to see how that tastes - ginger bread in place of garlic bread? One consideration is that garlic can be had in large quantities very cheaply in the spice department of WalMart. Ginger is much more expensive. I could find no independent corroboration for this claim: I did find this through a Google search: http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2007/february/garlic.html That study was funded by he National Institutes of Health; there is no mention of garlic being a poison; "garlic can still be a valuable part of the diet". I don't think that any of the previous studies funded by the supplement makers themselves reached the conclusion that garlic is poison. Frankly I don't think Dr. Robert C Beck, DSc is credible at all.

I have always gotten good answers directly from her organization. Amritapuri Information Center inform@amritapuri.org

Notwithstanding all that has been said, the Los Angeles Coroner (who did the autopsy) has said that he needs 4 - 6 weeks for the toxicology tests to complete before he announces the "official" cause of death.

Devi Mandir Discussion list of Swami Satyananda Saraswati of the Devi Mandir. Topics focus mostly on worship of the Divine Mother. www.indiadivine.org/audarya/forum83 Shakti Sadhana For discussions on Devi (the divine mother goddess), her worship and sadhanas. www.indiadivine.org/audarya/forum27

Paramahansa Yogananda and others find the sacred texts, icons and terminology of Sanatana Dharma very useful in moving their agenda forward. http://www.indiadivine.org/audarya/spiritual-discussions/454139-india-great-god-one-post1147169.html#post1147169

I have no doubt that all the great powers (Russia, China, US) have underground facilities as a contingency in case nuclear war strikes. However, speaking as a person who comes from a Seventh Day Adventist family (my oldest brother is an church elder) I wouldn't consider any Adventist a reliable source of information on conspiracies (and I do believe that conspiracies happen). They constantly talk about, imagine and feed on apocalyptic scenarios and IMO would welcome any of them coming to pass in order to feel validated.

I guess people will write a blog on anything!

Apparently he suffered cardiac arrest. He was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital and was in a coma for a short time before succumbing. No one knows when Death will claim him.

Was the Vedic period before the Pandavas? I believe there was worship of the Shiva Lingam during the time of the Pandavas but I don't know if that is considered a kind of murti.

Actually I have read Paramahansa Yogananda's translation of Bhagavad Gita. His purports are very interesting - they talk alot about 'Christ Consciousness'.

Please post some pictures of this colony.