Greetings to all new members, and a personal thoughts.

[Guest guest]

I like to extend a warm welcome to all our new members. Thank you for

accepting our invitation. In fact the right person that we should

thank is Devi Bhakta who have labouriously spend the time sending in

invitation to potential members to our group. I guess I am much more

of a passive one, I hardly send in invitation but to only people I

know or chatted with in the chat rooms or over the messenger.

 

All members are welcome to invite whomever they think might benefit

by joining our group. As Devi Bhakta have remarked, the invite group

invite function is only made accessible to the moderators, but

members can use this url :

 

/join to send it to

their friends.

 

Some friends have email me asking about my weekend, as I have been

silence over the weekend. It have been a rather good one despite

some "sad" happenings. Had the Shri Angala Parameshwari Pooja

on

Sunday in the Kaliamman temple in Singapore and met up with my good

friend : Zzripe. Sorry no pictures for this pooja. It was just a

simple and private pooja for Angala Parameshwari Devi : Special

Homam , Abishegam thereafter a special pooja. For those who want to

know what is Homam and Abishegam, you can take a look at our homepage

photo gallery. I have several snap shots of these rituals :

 

http://www.shaktisadhana.org/Photo%20Gallery/Homam1.html

http://www.shaktisadhana.org/Photo%20Gallery/Abishegam/AB1.html

 

We ( my other half and me ) drove back a rather "sad"

persons. Trying

to make up what to feel : "sad" and "disappointment".

 

 

I hear stories of hate, jealously, anger, physical abuse and much

more. I always thought that perhaps death will bring people together.

Death will open our eyes to the living, but apparently it did not.

Quarrels between mother/son, between own brothers, between in-laws

(mother/daugthers in law, sister in laws ). The saddest thing is when

the children are also being drag in. They spoke words of hate in

front of the children. How sad !!

 

But perhaps it's the environment. They don't really

understand or

can't see for themselves, because they are caught up in the

cycle.

Are we

being irresponsible, if we decide to distance ourselves ?

 

Came online for awhile, checked my emails, loads of them including

some hate mails. Read several, and my instincts tell me : No more as

I know what it contains. So I just delete them without opening it

up. And all other mails that contain so much negativity, why keep

them when they will just emitted negativity and drain our energy

away. But one word bugs me : "…. You are being influence by

Nora". I

feel sad at this word. Its not the word itself but the context of it.

 

These words are used against an intelligent man. A man of position

and charisma. I feel sad, for the man in general. It tells me that

this man and ( indirectly many other man ) have no brains of his own.

He is a feeble minded and a gullible man as such he is so easily

influence by a person like me. It makes me SAD !!!

 

As we go on discussing about feminism and in our quest to stand up

for equality, isn't it time for us, too look at ourselves. Why do

we always blame others for our weakness? Why do we demand fairness

and equal rights, if we ourselves couldn't practice the same with

our

own gender? Why should the men give us respect if we ourselves do not

show that we deserve this respect? And the main question that we

should asked each and every one of us, especially the woman, what

have we done so far to help our own woman. Actions should speak

louder than words.

 

Some words just came to my mind ;

 

"When men rises and soars to the skies, he tends to forget GOD,

but when he crashes, he remembers GOD. Things like this makes us sit

down and reflect. This is perhaps GOD calling us to answers the

realities right here on earth." Anonmymous

 

 

Om rajat-krpayai namah

 

Salutations to HER who is gloriously compassionate.