"What's in a name?"

[Guest guest]

You are thinking of a line from William Shakespeare.

He was the 17th Century English equivalent of

Kalidasa. :-)

 

-- Len

 

 

--- sankara menon <kochu1tz wrote:

> aren't we being rather touchy about a word that will

> not in anyway offend? As someone said "whats in a

> name" *smile*. (I am not very letterature concious

> and I think old age is catching up with me. So I

> forget where the quotation is from). Each person

> names things according to where he was broght up and

> what words are used there I think.

>

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I guess you are referring to a rose smelling as sweet by any other

name. And the same can be said of garbage :-P

 

I looked up "priest" in the dictionary and it actually said the word

has Jewish history, too, so I guess it's a general usage term. Yes,

I was airing my Catholic baggage, sorry! I have definitely noticed

many similarities between Catholicism and Hinduism. DB acknowledged

this and mentioned a Catholic nun he met who agreed with this. So it

must be true ;-)

 

I was reading online the other day that yoga predates Hinduism, and

I do tend in the yoga direction, though I find some Hindu deities

very inspiring. And I love Amma's message of love and compassion as

God; she says there is no need to worship any god if you have a

loving, compassionate heart. And she also says: "That childlike

innocence within you is God."

 

But I'm not one to judge if ya'll want to be led astray by "the

smooth tongues of priests..." This is a joke, and a quote from

Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical book/film Oranges Are Not the

Only Fruit (an excellent BBC production from years past).

 

 

 

, Len Rosenberg

<kalipadma108> wrote:

>

> You are thinking of a line from William Shakespeare.

> He was the 17th Century English equivalent of

> Kalidasa. :-)

>

> -- Len

>

>

> --- sankara menon <kochu1tz> wrote:

>

> > aren't we being rather touchy about a word that will

> > not in anyway offend? As someone said "whats in a

> > name" *smile*. (I am not very letterature concious

> > and I think old age is catching up with me. So I

> > forget where the quotation is from). Each person

> > names things according to where he was broght up and

> > what words are used there I think.

> >

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