Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Speaking of puja

[Ravi Chivukula]

Another joker that I had the pleasure of watching while I was in India -
http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/fake-godman-bala-sai-baba-emerges-dresses-and-acts-like-sai-19732.html

These fraudsters are regularly exposed on Indian TV - Something good to
come out of all that investment by Christian Missionaries and 700club.
When's your time - Amma baby? You have played the game really well so far.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:11 AM, merudanda <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote:
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> > > The Police, Donna Summer, Members Only jackets, and guys with perms -
> > lol
> > Here in the top photo (Mr Lenz) had the hair and the couture. The one in
> > the red sweater could be Clinton about 35 years ago wearing an afro wig.
> > The middle shot looks nicely androgynous. And he looks pretty cool in
> > leathers in the photo on the right although he appears to be touching
> > one of those contraptions that creates the electro static charge that
> > makes one's hair stand on end. In Fred's case, though, it is probably
> > the force of the cosmos directing the hair follicles.
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> http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sai-Baba.jpg][image:
> http://barrypittard.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/09saibaba1.jpg]
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> Oh the 80's, what a
> > pinnacle of style and elegance. I think it was only superseded by the
> > 70's.
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> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote:
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> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
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> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams"
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> > > > > > > > Puja is all about placement and positioning.
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> > > > > > turquoiseb:
> > > > > > > Maharishi invented the TM technique,
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> > > > > > Apparently the Rama guy used to put up a photo of Sri
> > > > > > Chinmoy and called it 'the transcendental'. LoL! And
> > > > > > Rama's students would perform a puja and meditate for
> > > > > > an hour. Go figure.
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> > > > > Richard, I truly pity you, having to make up shit
> > > > > like this to justify your pitiful existence there
> > > > > in the shithole universally known as Texas. :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > It's *not* as if I feel any obligation to the NPD
> > > > > asshole known as Rama. It's just that I feel pity
> > > > > for anyone who needs to use his pitiful spiritual
> > > > > history to justify the lack of their own.
> > > > >
> > > > > The Rama guy *despised* Sri Chinmoy. That may or
> > > > > may not have been a product of his own paranoia and
> > > > > self importance...I don't know. All that I do know
> > > > > is that he would have been the last person on Earth
> > > > > to do anything that would honor Chinmoy's memory.
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> > > > > To his credit, there were NEVER any ceremonies or
> > > > > pujas or other honorific ceremonies ever performed
> > > > > during the entire time I studied with Rama. That is
> > > > > NOT to say that he was a Good Guy -- he wasn't --
> > > > > simply to suggest that that he was functioning on a
> > > > > somewhat higher plane than the Hindu supremicists
> > > > > of the TMO, and yourself. :-)
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> > > > I think what put him on that higher plane, and so obvious once you
> > actually look, was Rama's lid. That "do" of his could only characterize
> > one who is clearly ahead of the rest of us. Although vintage 80's it is
> > timeless and absolute in its very essence.
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