Please introduce yourself to the group

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arrivederci

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priestess said:

arrivederci

what

arrivederci
A noun
1 adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long

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Hi Tapati, I hope that the memories about M did not disturb you so much. Since I never met him, I had no idea about his character...

However, believe or not, (unfortunately) but he maybe doing well in B. People over there are really friendly and they tend to overlook the marks of the "unknown" past of the newcomers...

But Karma will not.


Nevertheless, Sarva Mangalam! "happiness to everyone"!

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harisarandas said:

Hi Tapati, I hope that the memories about M did not disturb you so much. Since I never met him, I had no idea about his character...

However, believe or not, (unfortunately) but he maybe doing well in B. People over there are really friendly and they tend to overlook the marks of the "unknown" past of the newcomers...

But Karma will not.


Nevertheless, Sarva Mangalam! "happiness to everyone"!

Sometimes I get tired of waiting for his karma to catch up, though I cling to the faith that it will.

His not even contacting his daughter was the last straw. I'd think even if you don't have money to spare you'd want to call and see how she's doing, hearing that she's having a hard time and doesn't have a home. (She did finally get a place to live. We got evicted for taking her in and we-her stepdad and I-did as much as we could financially to help out.) If he's doing well in Brazil, teaching martial arts, you'd think he could help her out, she could still use some assistance. It would go a long way to make amends for his past abuse and neglect of her.

Please don't think that you alone brought this up--I was already fuming from his failure to help Ramya and some biographical writing I've been doing that involved the abuse and homelessness I experienced while living with him. So it was fresh in my mind. It's easier to get past what he did to me, but hell hath no fury like a mother who's watched her children suffer at someone else's hands!

[sartre]

I have been watching the activity on this board for some time now, and decided to descend from my existential tower of stolen and wasted moments in time to comment on some of the things being written here. I do not have much to offer by way of consolation to the membership or insight into infinity, eternity, omniscience or omnipresence, but I do have some practical experience of the futility and inherent frustration of human existence, being one of the species.

If you do not like what I have to say, then do not hesitate to express yourselves. Suppressing that urge may only increase your angst, and certainly there is enough of that to go around these days, no matter what neighborhood you inhabit.

Hail the Caitanya Symposium! May it beat its drum loudly and reverberate through cyberspace like the rumbling of a million growling jungle beasts in a roar of primal outcry!

[sartre]

Looks pretty desolate around here today. Hopefully everyone is enjoying their too short weekend. I am not really enjoying mine so far. It could be worse. It could be much worse. Then again, it could be better. It could be much better. At least the weather is pleasant, except for the humidity. I have had to splash cold water on my face several times already.

Romila Thappar's two volume book on the history of India has some interesting background material on the medieval period. I finally pulled it out of a box in the garage and started reading it. It appears that there is much more of an Islamic influence on the Indian bhakti movements of that period than perhaps most people realize. Maybe Caitanya took his cue for the rejection of the caste system from the Shiaites.

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Welcome Sartre!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas in here, make yourself home.


Ys,
Hari Saran

[subaldas]

I've read of Sufi influences on CV. Also, due to Moslem control, there was a shift from the more heroic, statesman Krishna of the Mahabharat to the more romantilc, erotic Krishna of Braja leela. The Hindus may have lost control of government, and probably society, but they still had control over their bedrooms. This along with the development of Radha from what one writer termed a romance novel heroine to the Supreme Goddess. Plus the introduction of tantric and sahajiya ideas equals a developing, adaptive tradition which now needs to adapt to its new Western environs and thought.

[tommy]

My name is Kanai Thakura Das. I am an orphan, brought up by Tibetan monks in Shamballa. By the age of 12 i learned and master mystical arts from Dr.Strange, art of poisoning from Fu Manchu, was with Sir Raymund Hillary in Himalayas on the track of Yeti, and i was the one to find the skullcap for him. I have learned Kendo, ninjutsu and fencing(art of putting the fence up around your new house).
In a free time i listen to prog rock, kraut rock and i collect action figures from David Hasselhoff.

I am on this Forum because Nitai Das is one of my favourite people of all time. I learned from him mystical art called: Escaping from Hall of Mirrors, later i was with Sifu Radhapada who also taught me same art.
I very much like Nitai das techniques of Vale Tudo CV which has helped me many times on different Forums.
Without Master Sifu Nitai Das i will be dumb, deaf and blind today.
That is why i am here, to perfect myself more and learn more.

[Nitaidas]

Welcome Kanai Thakur,

I blush at your encomiums, or I would if I thought you were serious ;D. We have far greater spirits that visit this forum than little me. There is Subaldas who is wise and has much to teach us. There is Harisaran das whose enthusiasm and inquiring mind keep us in motion (often doing something like the bossa nova). There is Madanmohan Das, an inexhaustible source of scriptural citations (and usually translated correctly). There is the King of Cobras whose hiss is worse than his bite. We now have a new buddy in Buddy-sattva, our future buddy or buddy-to-be. Occasionally a goddess and a priestess appear before our eyes and then vanish. JD33 reminds us it is all about experience at regular intervals. And then there is the ethereal Gerard who puts in his two-cents every now and then. I haven't the heart to tell him that his two-cent coins are now worth much more. Anyway, welcome to the party. Pull up a chair, have some food and drink. Once you are drunk we will discuss.

[sartre]

Did you get to interview the yeti when you were with Hillary, Mr. Thakur? Did he have a Tibetan accent? Does he carry around a big comb with him for constant grooming of all that long fur?

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tommy said:

My name is Kanai Thakura Das. I am an orphan, brought up by Tibetan monks in Shamballa. By the age of 12 i learned and master mystical arts from Dr.Strange, art of poisoning from Fu Manchu, was with Sir Raymund Hillary in Himalayas on the track of Yeti, and i was the one to find the skullcap for him. I have learned Kendo, ninjutsu and fencing(art of putting the fence up around your new house).
In a free time i listen to prog rock, kraut rock and i collect action figures from David Hasselhoff.

I am on this Forum because Nitai Das is one of my favourite people of all time. I learned from him mystical art called: Escaping from Hall of Mirrors, later i was with Sifu Radhapada who also taught me same art.
I very much like Nitai das techniques of Vale Tudo CV which has helped me many times on different Forums.
Without Master Sifu Nitai Das i will be dumb, deaf and blind today.
That is why i am here, to perfect myself more and learn more.

What? You didn't meet Lobsang Rampa?

[squeegee]

Squeak, squeak, squeak.

Eeeeuuuu, ooooiiiieeee.

Just clearing your windshields, you driving maniacs.

Oh, I forgot. I was supposed to introduce myself to the group. Hi group.

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Welcome on board, Squeegee.

[kingcobra]

Hey squeegee. A little more elbow grease, please. My windshield is really grungy today.

Pull up a chair, grab some snacks (jd33 has some prasad from his many altars), and sit back and enjoy the fireworks.