Guest guest Posted March 28, 2001 Report Share Posted March 28, 2001 You don't look Indian maharaj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2001 Report Share Posted March 28, 2001 and you don't look -- oh you have no picture, nor anything else about you in your profile. so, how do you feel about self-realization? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2001 Report Share Posted March 28, 2001 Well, I might feel better if I could schedule a private session with you-----digambara of course. How much do you charge for that sort of enlightenment maharaj? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2001 Report Share Posted March 28, 2001 om namah sivaya!<br><br>so, yet again i am asked to digress from the topic of the board. i will try as always to answer your question but stay at least within shouting distance of ashtanga.<br><br>the website you inquired about is pretty thorough -- picture, background, artwork, thoughts on this and that. even an animated text version of the ashtanga. kind of a full portrait -- an extensive presentation of what one might expect upon meeting me in person. you'll notice a long list of links regarding the digambara tradition you mention, but that was gone over here long ago. <br><br>having a website is really kind of fun -- you tell about yourself honestly and people sort of ... respond. you might try it sometime. lightening doesn't strike.<br><br>now then, if your intent is hostile, i can only wonder why. in the context of the mass gay baiting here one might hazard a guess. whatever, kind of interesting that when the ashtanga yoga conversation gets a little stagnant, just mention the word "gay" and one hitherto unheard from anonymous hero after another appears out of nowhere, slingshot ready. <br><br>living in a very gay section of an otherwise generally tolerant city, it is only on message boards that i occasionally encounter this nonsense, and then only from anonymous screen names which may represent troubled individuals, committees or organizations. who would ever know? but the rhetoric is always from the same script.<br><br>the christian coalition and its many right-wing affiliates are as unhappy about the popularization of yoga as they have traditionally been about gay rights. i heard pat robertson fretting on television recently something like "and did you know that hindus pray to statues of an elephant-headed god? and they call that heathen superstition a religion!" i've been told a segment of this club left to form a more sattvic place. i can understand that. certainly all the many ashtanga practitioners i have known personally have been -- without exception -- lovely, sattvic, peaceful.<br><br>anybody interested in the indian/hindu gay experience might like this link:<br><a href=http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/interview/050399in.htm target=new>http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/interview/050399in.htm</a><br>e\ xcerpt:<br>"I did my diploma in religion and comparative theology from the Ramakrishna Math where I trained to be a monk. I also discovered my gay nature there and was given sensible counseling for it by the monks. 'Accept it as natural. Whatever occurs in nature is natural though it may not be common,' advised my counselor, Swami Harshananda."<br>-- Ashok Row Kavi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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