gHari Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 After forty years. Should I blow their minds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krsnanatha Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 There is the verse in Srimad Bhagavatam which states that places of pilgrimage are the result of saintly souls appearing there. (Canto 1, Part Three, Chapter 19, Text 8). While you may plea in humbleness that you are not a saint this verse also refers to "Great minds and thinkers" which I can attest you show the symtoms of. Go and give what you can. The persons we grew up with are somehow plucked from the countless trillions of souls in the universe so there must be some past connection (former family members, friends...even former foes.) Go and give some chance for someone(s) to become as fortunate as you have been. This was an instruction I received from one of my Siksha Gurus. I had offered some thanks to him for his guidance and kindness toward me. His response was: "Please, simply do what ever you can to make others as fortunate as you feel you have become." Gaura Haribol, Gaura Haribol, Nitai Gaura Haribol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krsna Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Go dressed as a Hare Krishna! /images/graemlins/cool.gif /images/graemlins/cool.gif /images/graemlins/cool.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulapavana Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 go and observe the actions of kala, the black snake of time... it can be a very sobering experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Govindaram Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 They have this site in the Uk, you can check and see what your old school peoples are doing now, I mean not everybody is there as you gotto sign-up, but it amazing to see how people we thought would never become anything, now are better off even more than yourself. can't remember the site, but I spent hours {lol} looking at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 I finished high school sporting a sikha. Man that was wild. One Friday I leave with hair grown down my back and the next Monday I come in a sikha. I figure I culture shocked their _sses but good. No one recognized me at first but they were too shocked to say anything. They just stared and kept ten paces back.LOL Fair is fair. They had been doing that to me for several years. gHari, may I suggest sikha, dhoti, tilak, beads and a Columbine Rules t-shirt with a black rain coat overlay? Don't forget the Doc Martins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Govindaram Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Send them all in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 I keep no pictures but just picture Alfed E. Newman shaved up with that silly smirky grin. That's real close. I want a picture of gHari dressed as I suggested above. that would be priceless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gHari Posted May 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Ol' gHari has never gotten zee sikha dew, ever, never. That will be his last coiff I'm sure. If I go and I likely should, it will be simply neckbeads, although my Ratha Yatra Prabhupada and Nitai-Gaura t-shirt with Syamasundaras on each arm would be nice. We'll have to see how compassionate and magnanimous I am that day. But really I think the God-thing is a soft-sell in that environment. After all, they're likely all into religion to some extent or other. But I will be chanting, quietly at least, of that we can be sure. I can't lose my job, so I have nothing to lose by a few well-placed profunditudes from ancient India here and there, now and then. Maybe we'll tell the gHari story - that's certain to be a best seller - The Transformation of Gary into gHari, or "JUST STOP - JUST DO IT - GET REAL", found on every coffee table in America. I'll bet the old boys are still wondering what happened to that theistic Hare Krishna guy from high school. I can't even imagine a vaishnava showing up in high school. We were so sweet though, we would have gained great benefit. A few years after me, and they would have strung 'em up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingentity Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 I would love to see that!! I will have to remember this for myself (just sub the dhoti with a sari). This is too funny...you obviously live in Berkeley!! gHari, may I suggest sikha, dhoti, tilak, beads and a Columbine Rules t-shirt with a black rain coat overlay? Don't forget the Doc Martins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 That and way too many acid trips. Some of which I never came all the way down from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingentity Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 that's probably why I get such vivid pics when I read these things! /images/graemlins/grin.gif way too many acid trips. Some of which I never came all the way down from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Of course it helps alot to have neighbors that look like that all around me. I live close to Telegraph Ave. There was this guy who had six or seven shikas on his head. He keep the rest of his head nicely shaved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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