mahak

yeah, go get em, Srimati Lilith

well, hes the guy I hang with. I didnt go to the phillipeans two years ago.

yeah, now you gotta beg to not be poor again,m this is where we are in the superior position. You just got a backpack full of rocks. I went from $500 per hour to $53,000,000 in debt, in the blink of an eye. The debt was liquidated by the judge who sentenced the one I owed to 40 years in the federal penetentiary. Then I made $40 per hour with all the nuclear waste one could want, then to $2,000 a year, paid for by yall (thanx, guys). Now, Im 50 Gs per annum, and broke along with all the rest of the middle class here in a-maya-kkk-a. I cant help it, if Im lucky - dylan, idiot wind

I took early retirement, but went a few times in 78-79, LA when I wanted a good laugh, Laguna when I just wanted to see the deities (there werent any in LA, just statues in front of the paundrakas on their multiple toilet seats). Some stayed to enjoy the comedy act, some had to run. The ones running away were often chased by nice people deluded by false idol worship and service to Kali Cela. Most of my rtvik friends just couldnt get a spot on top, so they rebelled. But some who stayed were focused, did not let anything distract, for these I have my soft spot for ISKCON. haribol, ys, mahaksadasa

there is a tex mex term, tabula rasa. Seen it written in novels and other stuff, but didnt bother to define.

the flavor of the world is a pervereted reflection of the flavor in Vaikuntha. Therefore, the flavor of gross matter is not comparable to the flavor of vaikuntha. Your analogy is useless. I droppede out at the initiation ceremony. What drove me here is not the issue, some via pot, some via prostitute, some via bhogi yogi, none worthy. But one must become wise, or will leave, drop the lifeline. Maybe Ill go back to the lilith or sophia phase. Wisdom is what is needed, and given, so dont worry bout our value, we are insignificant, cant even claim to be the most fallen, or as arlo says, dont even got a street to lay down in so a truck can run us over. The deal is, what now, brown cow. Whatcha think, madman melvin??? mahak

thanks, theist, I knew he said it somewhere:deal: But it wont do no good, because he said bhaktivinode never said anything his guru didnt say, but his guru didnt say jesus, and he did. Never is a terrible word, never use it.

but I do use quotes, but you dont read em.

it is of no consequence, I already conceded the point. The word rasa, used in the Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu, is understood by different persons differently because the exact English equivalent is very difficult to find.

It seems that if they can have books of lists for everything including the names of all the hollywood stars dogs, an accurate eulogy page could be nice. Maybe the devotee hospice group could do this work better. I like em. It where I can remember sudama, bahudaka, tusta, puru, all our friends who seemingly have marched off into history. These disciples of Srila Prabhupada deserve samadhis, thay gladly donated their youth so prabhupada could spread this movement, we must never forget. All of em. hare krsna. mahaksadasa, the grave digger servant of Lord Yamaraja.

dem tears. Far and few in between, has something to do with flavor. Relish, bro, arrival of next samadhi is uncertain. Read "lil dhruva". The tears go away, but we can lub dem tears in separation, like lil dhruva, haribol, mahaksadasa

no apology for that, but I do use quotes sometime. Sometimes I paraphrase, but its up to you to see if Prabhupada comes thru me, or if it is just me. I hate quote machines, but this doesnt mean I think quotes are bogus. Used properly (and sparingly), they are quite valid and very nectarian, as seva bhakta did above. haribol, ys, mahaksadasa

NOD Ch 20 The word rasa, used in the Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu, is understood by different persons differently because the exact English equivalent is very difficult to find. But as we have seen our spiritual master translate this word rasa into "mellow," we shall follow in his footsteps and also translate the word in that way. The particular loving mood or attitude relished in the exchange of love with the Supreme Personality of Godhead is called rasa, or mellow. The different types of rasa, when combined together, help one to taste the mellow of devotional service in the highest degree of transcendental ecstasy. Such a position, although entirely transcendental to our experience, will be explained in this section as far as possible, following in the footsteps of Srila Rupa Gosvami. Without relishing some sort of mellow, or loving mood, in one's activities, no one can continue to perform such activities. Similarly, in the transcendental life of Krishna consciousness and devotional service there must be some mellow, or specific taste, from the service. Generally this mellow is experienced by chanting, hearing, worshiping in the temple and being engaged in the service of the Lord. So when a person feels transcendental bliss; that is called "relishing the mellow." To be more clear, we may understand that the various feelings of happiness derived from discharging devotional service may be termed the "mellows" of devotional service. mahaksadasa: Okay, I used a more timely word for the same thing. But I will concede to my guru maharaja and use the word "mellow", which is following in his footsteps, because he concedes to the word used by his spiritual master, instead of my word "flavor". But my point is intact despite the semantics. More importantly, the above discussion of transcendental mellow is all that needs to be pointed out. (unless something else comes up:eek4: hare krsna, ys, mahaksadasa

Haribol. The above is not from Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada NEVER made such a list, such a dry dictionary. This spam you posted is a compilation by someone else who thinks that such a dictionary is necessary, allowing some to skip all over srila prabhupadas writings in order to glean out an argumentative point. The list is valuable to a writer, as dictionaries, thesauri, grammer books, etc, as a tool on the desk. You deny that rasa means flavor? Okay, so your dictionariesnt do you much good. Flavor means taste, taste is something shared. Try this, use your dictionary to find a description of the taste or flavor of a strawberry. Pretty useless tool, eh? Mine is better, taste one, because no words will help. This is rasa, something experianced. Now you say Im no good, that my words are valueless because I dont publish dictionaries or footnot to hell all my writings, but "Flavor" has no definition other than the experiance of such flavor. You have a bad scanner, not enough gigabytes, because flavor is adequately discussed in terms of the experience of rasa. mahaksadasa

such vision, thanks sevabhakta.

whats you point, wasting all that space with your spam. Rasa means flavor..

its a miracle. next Ill post angela, the statue in the local park. Ill call her a gopi. Or better yet, say she is mother mary. They do a lot of that in PI, eh?

offending Lord Jesus as well. Their whole plea, to us, is that we are individuals with RECIPROCAL PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with Krsna. By merging them the way you have done is not childlike innocence, it is concoctive and reeks with opposite meanings than those taught by both individual acaryas.

I can easily accept multiple explanations. In Bhagavad Gita, Krsna tells arjuna of multiple ways of perfection. I object when disciples say that Srila Prabhupada was even with a trace of duplicity. Arjuna accepts Krsna, he doesnt say "c'mon, be straight. Which one, dammit?" Santa rasa is perhaps mis-named as a rasa, because in the definition of rasa, there is a very clear indication that there is a RECIPROCAL PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. This is the beginning stage of bhakti, this entering RASA. Just as five types of liberation are automatically offered the devotee, one of these five, to merge into the form of the Lord, is rejected and seen as suicide by the devotee. Similarly, of the five rasas, one of them is not accepted as bhakti yoga, because there is no RECIPROCAL PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP attached to santa rasa. There is no rendering of service, nor is there acceptance of service, in that mode. That said, santa rasa does seem to exist in the vaikuntha planets, but this is always subject to debate by vaisnavas who see things in such a transcendentally enlightening way. Try follow me on this. Take Tulasi, for instance. Some IMHO absurdly say is santa rasa, but I reject, because Srimati Tulasi is directly involved in madurya rasa. Srimati Tulasi devi is between the hands of Srimati Radharani and the feet of Lord Krsna, there is no more ultimate position than that held by Srimati Tulasi devi. Some accuse the flute as santa rasa, but this is false understanding because the flute tastes the lips of Krsna even more than do the gopis. The grasses, rocks, cows (some even say the cows are santa rasa, when everyone knows the cow is krsnas mother.) So, santa rasa may exist on goloka, but some devotees dont accept this because they look at things in another light altogether. Their definition of rasa is RECIPROCAL PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, and even the rocks of Goloka posess consciousness of bhakti, beginning at servitude, not neutrality. Paramatma realization is the transition phase. It is the path of the mystics, and initially, they mistake the self with the superself. It is only when they see the difference between the two, only when they understand the rudimentary concept of acintya bheda bheda tattwa, this is when bhakti takes place. Subservience takes place, and Lord Nityananda reciprocates by invoking guru tattwa. So, we can HONESTLY (not argumentively) conclude that within paramatma realization, it begins as impersonalism, and concludes with bhagavan. Very fluid, if you ask me, no hard cutoffs between brahman-paramatma-bhagavan (like between my songs), but very fluid movement. Quite artful, all glories to Lord Nityananda Prabhu, the pure bhakti yoga of the paramatma-vadi. The disciple responded to the query of Srila Narada Muni: "I saw Lord Narayana, ad gave him your message. He was relaxing, his feet being massaged by Srimati Laxmidevi. In his hands, he held a needle in which he was threading elephants through it eye." As far as a santa rasa in brahman realization, this may be true, but there are no other rasas there, so why have the only rasa rejected by the vaisnava in the only liberation rejected by the vaisnava spoken of so much by vaisnavas? haribol, ys, mahaksadasa

ya dont know bo????

Despite the misinformation being put out about santa rasa here on these forums. there is no santa rasa in brahmana realization. Santa rasa means to appreciate the divinity of the Supreme Person, but there is no self to appreciate in brahman. Santa rasa takes place in paramatma realization. Fron here, mysticism takes place, appreciation of God in his all pervading aspect takes place. But santa rasa is not really a desirable position for a devotee. Devotee means active servant, so the beginning of bhakti, bhagavan realization, is beyond the threshhold of santa rasa. One who has realized the superself within is still in a self-serving mode, enjoying the buzz of self realization. A bhagavan-vadi, or bhakti yogi, is never self-serving, his whole business is service of another, Sri Bhagavan. However, when the bhakti yogi meditates on supersoul, he notes the presence of Lord Sesa Balarama, Lord Nityananda, and Guru. This Paramatma realization is actually Bhagavan realization, because service is reciprocally rendered, and this bhakti yoga is also known as guru-tattwa. Hare Krsna, ys, mahaksadasa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbI5K0AzNHI&feature=related audience has no reaction. maybe it was in the stain on that vitamin they took. hers another on my top ten list http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTV8xBoAWK0&feature=related

Back in the day, that we must give up frivolous sports. So, we, as discerning students of the professor, must define "frivolous". The word means that there is no value, so we give up all sports that have no value. Srila Prabhupada wants us to be fit, not overweight pale blobs sitting on soft cushions studying shastra. No, we gotta be able to run from the cops, the dogs, the jackals. We have to be able to catch a rattlesnake with our bare hands and bite its head off if necessary. Srila Prabhupada always recommended water sports to his disciples. Maybe in chicago, no one heard of this, but in hawaii, we bodysurfed, at least once a week under sudama swamis presidency of that temple. Under goursundara, we kept fit, no slobs at new nabadvipa during that time. Golf, croquet, poker, car racing, billiards, dominoes, these are frivouous, and have no value. But baseball sharpens ones eye-hand coordination, there are no slobs playing soccer, football is truely ksatriya stuff. (I played on thanksgiving, our annual game with our autistic clients. 57 is too lod, my fingers lost the stickum, and an overweight autistic lad put on me was about the best defender I ever faced, talk about attention to his assigned task). So, when one gets a directive, ask the giver of that directive if ya dont understand. I did, I do. No blobs allowed in thisa movement, we must honor the temple of God, the form we have been given to act on His behalf. hare krsna, ys, mahaksadasa

Boring game, no scoring. Who are unlikely soccer players and other sports as well. Bob Marley was professional grade, as was his wailer mate, Peter Tosh. Fidel Castro had one dream as a teen, to play baseball for the Yankees. I played little league, and four of my teammates became devotees. Dayaniddhi das was the clean up hitter, I was a shortstop, out in center was Ravananthakura das. The fourth did not get initiated, got nammed instead. Jeff Burroughs and Bobby Gritch became major leaguers, but they didnt get interested in Krsna.

what got your goat, GV. Such nitpickin. Im glad MY spiritual master wasnt such a strange bird. Also, if he wanted to remove all vestiges of that little boy, why is he AC Bhaktivedanta Swami. nitpickers. Thank god (small g, just a position, not a person, bro) Narada Muni did not play this game with Vyasadeva. He revealed his past quite willingly to Vyasa to show possibility of advancement, from a lost little boy freshly orphaned to the great person who can also be rightfully called Sri Bhagavan. Haribol, ys, mahaksadasa