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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?

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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

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