regardingrecipes and rudraksha beads .....

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Well, thanks for asking these questions Adi_Shakti. I am a chef, so I

cook whole menus of things professionally here in New Orleans,

Louisiana. However, if you know our food here in the South then

healthy or sattvic would never be seen on our menus. I mean, I love

healthy, sattvic food and for myself and wife I do cook this, but for

me mostly cooking is a job. It's not always very fun, in fact it's

usually total pressure coming from all angles at once. I believe

being a chef is considered as stressful as being an air traffic

controller and policeman and fireman. Very stressful. But sure, I

have some good recipes for you and I will place a few in the folder

soon. A good one is butternut squash wonton stack with toasted

pumpkin seeds and warm maple vinaigrette. Another, roasted vegetable

stuffed tamales with smoked green tomato salsa verde and three

cheeses.

About rudraksha - here's the place online which I sell from

www.rudraksha-ratna.com . I am a local distributor for the Southern

US. Please note that in the related items area are Shaligrama and

Lingas from Narmada. In the picture on the site I own all of those

very lingas except the two largest. For huge Narmada lingas I drive

to a shop in Los Angeles and bring them back because shipping from

Chennai is even more expensive. I can really obtain anything as I

have a few very helpful people in India who can get kusha grass

meditation matts, hatha jodis, swetark ganapatis, yantras of any

sort, and more.

How to tell real from fake rudraksha beads? Well the best bet is that

when you wear them they calm the body and center the mind. Later some

sidhis develop. Exposure to many types of rudraksha is the best way

to tell about whether they're real or not. I have been "into" them

since a teen when in Fairfield, Iowa, at Maharishi International

University (when I was a student there) a store had many of them and

I used to "play" with them alot. I had seen all of the different

ones except for the exotic extra huge size and trijuti. See these at

above site in collector's section. So I know because I had seen most

all of them what are real or fake. There are other beads called,

"mudraksha" which are made of stuff. I'll never forget when I once

took a hundred strands of five faced beads and wore them all at once

when I was young. I saw and meditated with them for a few minutes

and prior to that I was a stiff person physically - I had never been

able to touch my toes, but after I was able to come palms to the

floor, which I still can do. Perhaps noone believes but so what? A

hundred strands of 108 beads at once is a powerful experience. I

typically wear about three hundred beads of every face or mukhi. Ms.

Neeta at Rudra Center calls me the Rudraksha King because I wear not

one or two of each face but ten or twelve or so on.

I swear by rudraksha as a means of Siva to provide diksha. I feel the

need for no human diksha where I have a representative rudraksha for

the deity. Because rudrakshas remove all sins and promote all holy

aims in life.

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adi_shakthi16

Saturday, February 23, 2002 7:34 AM

regardingrecipes and rudraksha beads .....

dear eve, i just read your post. you say you spend 10hours a day

cooking. what kind of food items you cook ? as you know, we have a

database in this group where we invite members to share the names of

books they read, the cds they listen to and also the 'recipes'! i am

myself co-authoring cookbook for diabetics- a low calorie , fat free,

less carbohydrates kind of recipes- purely vegetarian.... could you

share some of your recipes with us... please? also, what kind of

tantrik items do you sell? do you have a web page where you masrket

these items? rudraksha beads as i know them are very expensive - i

bought mine when i was in varanasi two years ago but my priest told

me that me that i was 'duped' as they were not real 'rudraksha'

beads. could you please tell me how to recognie a real from a fake

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