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--- NMadasamy <nmadasamy

wrote: This message was posted [see msg 819 ]by Devi_Bhakta loooooooong time

ago. He ended with : "The scholar Devdutt Patatnaik observes, "The cult of the

virgin is popular in many parts of India. It is believed that when a woman

does not enjoy the company of husband and children, her creative energy

bottles up inside her and becomes destructive. This bottled energy is feared

and hence worshiped."Well --that's not very politically correct, is it? Anyone

care to comment? Discuss?"

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Funny, after reading this, I picked up THIS news article on MSN...

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Woman sentenced to five years for poisoning young son with salt Feb. 25, 2005

 

Provided by: Canadian Press

 

LONDON (AP) - An attention-seeking mother who killed her son by putting salt

into his intravenous drip was sentenced Friday to five years in a British

prison.

 

Petrina Stocker, 42, was convicted Thursday of killing her nine-year-old son

David by putting 18 teaspoons of salt into his hospital drip.

 

Prosecutors said Stocker suffers from Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, a

psychological disorder in which parents cause illnesses in a child to draw

attention to themselves.

 

David Stocker was treated at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2001 for

loss of appetite and lethargy. Lawyers said doctors had become concerned

that Stocker was making her son ill, but that she kept a bedside vigil which

prevented them from discovering what was wrong with the boy.

 

Prosecuting attorney Nicholas Hilliard said Stocker put blood into the boy's

urine samples and manufactured vomit samples, as well as interfering

with his intravenous drip. The boy died in August 2001.

 

"The episode of salt poisoning was the last in a series of acts done in an

attempt to fabricate aspects of David's illness and to produce manufactured or

misleading symptoms," he said.

 

Passing sentence at London's Central Criminal Court, judge Gerald Gordon said

"there has to be some force, incomprehensible to me and most people, driving a

mother to behave towards their own child as you did to David."

 

The hospital's chief executive, Dr. Jane Collins, said security has been

reviewed since the boy's death.

 

"Our surveillance policy can be considered lacking in some ways," she said.

"What we didn't do was to make sure everything going into David, i.e. the feeds,

could not be tampered with in any way whatsoever."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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During this year Maha Shivarathri celebrations back here at

Singapore,the Brahma Kumari society had set up an exhibition of the

Kumaris whereby they gave darshan to devotees,i was quite busy with

the prayers that i couldnt see what it was all about.

 

 

 

 

 

, "NMadasamy" <nmadasamy@s...>

wrote:

>

> Sorry I forgot to give the interpretation :

>

> IcchA Saktir umA KumAri.

>

> 1] as in Siva Sutra [KsemarAja] : The will power of the yogi who

is

> in communion with Siva is UmA [splendour of Siva] who is KumAri.

>

> 2] In BhAskararAya's Commentary :The energy of desire is UmA, the

> Unmarried.

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Madhava Prabu wrote:During this year Maha Shivarathri celebrations

back here at Singapore,the Brahma Kumari society had set up an

exhibition of the Kumaris whereby they gave darshan to devotees,i

was quite busy with the prayers that i couldnt see what it was all

about.

 

 

What does the Brahma Kumaris got to do with the KanyaKumari or

Kumari Pooja?

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Well what i saw was girls dressed up as Ambal & people recieving

blessings from them...isnt it Kumari Pooja?

 

 

 

, "NMadasamy" <nmadasamy@s...>

wrote:

>

> Madhava Prabu wrote:During this year Maha Shivarathri celebrations

> back here at Singapore,the Brahma Kumari society had set up an

> exhibition of the Kumaris whereby they gave darshan to devotees,i

> was quite busy with the prayers that i couldnt see what it was all

> about.

>

>

> What does the Brahma Kumaris got to do with the KanyaKumari or

> Kumari Pooja?

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