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Vishwa Mangal Gau Yatra

2009-11-24T17:52:33Z

T make aware the common man of India, Vishwa Mangal Gau Yatra is arranged in India. The importance of Gau and its produces and various other aspect will be brought to the notice of the people at large.

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Panchgavya Dhrit(Ghee)

2009-05-27T18:31:59Z

Dhrit i.e. Ghee made of Cow urine, dung, ghee, milk etc. There is special process of manufacturing. It is very useful for many diseases and quite effective. Extensive research is being done at India at various places.

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Holy Cow- Balances economics of farmer

2008-09-12T18:20:47Z

Vishw Hindu Parishad has demonstrated. Plz inquisitive frinds can approach through its website.

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Experience An India Yoga Odyssey

2008-01-11T02:23:44Z

Experience a Transforming India YOGA Odyssey
(February 21 to March 6, 2008)

Just imagine your airplane touching down at the India airport of your choice – Mumbai or Ahmadabad – on Thursday, February 21, 2008. Awaiting you at the airport is your guide, who will escort you by rail or taxi to your hotel accommodations in Surat City, Gujarat State. You will have arrived just in time to take in the World Yoga Championships, either as a participant or as a spectator. If anyone wishes to participate in the Championships the necessary registration forms can be downloaded at www.lifemission.org. The Championships run from February 22 though February 24. (The Championships were primarily founded as a means for encouraging youth worldwide to engage themselves in the ageless science of yoga for the betterment of body, mind and spiritual development in similar fashion that society worldwide encourages youth to participate in common sporting events.)

Following the Championships, you will be escorted to Malav Ashram for a five night stay, which includes three days of “hands on” yogic training under the expert guidance of Acharya Yogendradev, who has taught in North America, Taiwan, and India

And now – the Tours – you will tour the historic spiritual pilgrimage site of Kayavarohan and visit the Brahmeshwar Temple of Lord Lakulish (the 28th incarnation of Lord Shiva). You will spend 5 nights at a beautiful oceanside resort near the city of Div, overlooking the Indian Ocean with its miles of sandy beaches, and visit surrounding points of interest including the renowned Somnath Temple; a lion wildlife reserve, an ayurvedic clinic of a renowned ayurvedic physician where you will be able to observe the natural preparation of ayurvedic medicines and receive a free medical check-up. You will also have the opportunity to visit the temple complex at Rajrajeshwardham, where Lord Lakulish materialized in his divine body on January 29, 2007. Then – another great grace awaits you – you will have the rare opportunity of having darshan with the highly advanced yogi, Swami Rajarshi Muni.*

Now your yoga trip is reaching its end – on March 6, you will be escorted by your guide to your departure airport for your trip home – to reflect on and absorb your many yoga experiences of the past 2 weeks; the multitudes of wondrous Indian sites you've seen; the unmatched hospitality of its people and the many lasting new friendships you've made.

The cost per participant is $ 695.00 USD. This price does not include your transportation costs to and from India, which is entirely your responsibility, as are any required passports, visas etc. This price does include designated tour accommodations and meals in India, and all ground transportation to the Championships and touring sites in India, as well as ground transportation to and from airports at Mumbai or Ahmedabad. Any profits after all costs have been met will be directed to projects for the poor, including schools and hospitals. For further information, go to www.lifemission.org, or email: Acharya Yogendradev, ggvaghela@yahoo.com; or Dennis Konchak, lifema@telus.net; or Hans Splinter, Hsplinter@cogeco.ca.

* Swami Rajarshi Muni is the author of a vast library of nearly 100 titles in four different languages, including ten books in English. Some of the English titles are: Classical Hatha Yoga, Divine Body Through Yoga; Tenets for the Spiritual Life; Infinite Grace (The Story of My Spiritual Lineage), Awakening the Life Force, and Light from Guru to Disciple. For more information, check the Life Mission website www.lifemission.org and www.amazon.com under Rajarshi Muni

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Lakulish Yogasan Championships 2008: Feb. 22; 23; & 24th, - City of Surat, Gujarat State, India

2007-12-10T11:57:06Z

For details and application forms, please refer to: http://www.lifemission.org/ and under "New" go to item #4 and click on "World Open Yogasan Championships".

Please note, to optimize your India trip and your experience of Lakulish Yoga you could attend or participate in the Yogasan Championships and also take in the 3 week Certificate Yoga Training Course being offered at Swami Rajarshi Muni's Malav Ashram from January 30 -February 20th. For details on the training go to http://www.lifemission.org/ and under "New" click on item # 5 " "Overseas Students Annual Yoga Certificate Training Program"

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dust of the cows

2007-05-03T05:36:44Z

Srila Narayana Maharaja: A cow is so much better! Why?

Syamadasa Prabhu: Because they are beneficial for human society.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: Why?

Vanamali Prabhu: They give milk. They offer their milk and themselves to Krishna.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: Why? You should think. Can anyone explain?

Devotee: They are in the mode of goodness.

Brajanatha Prabhu: They are like mother.

Rukmavati dasi: They remind Krishna of Srimati Radharani.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: How?

Rukmavati dasi: When Krishna strokes the cows, He is thinking of the gopis.

Syamarani dasi: Because they are beneficial for Krishna. They enable Him to meet Srimati Radharani in the forest. They give Him an excuse to go out into the forest. When Krishna comes back at night, the dust of the cows gets on His hair and face. This makes Him look so beautiful, that the gopis become more attracted to Him. So the cows are beneficial to Krishna.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: (Pointing to the iguana lizard.)

Syamarani dasi: No, he will not do.

Brajanatha Prabhu: Horses can also do. They can run, and dust comes.

Srila Narayana Maharaja: The horses can come like Kesi. Cows always give milk. They have no dvesa, envy. They do not only support themselves. Their life is always for others, and especially for Krishna, for all the Vrajavasis and for the whole world. If anyone is saranagata, surrendered to Krishna, and is always engaged for the welfare of the whole world, not caring for their own life-then Krishna has to manage them. He also supports the cows, and nourishes them, always following them when they go grazing during His sweet pastimes. With cows He does all this. Without cowherding, how will all these pastimes manifest?

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Gita by A.C BhaktiVedanta Swami Prabhupada

2007-01-10T02:06:49Z

Hello Fellow Bhakta's

Please visit the gita tribe for disscussions on the teachings in gita by A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prapbhupada
link is:

http://tribes.tribe.net/saarthi

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love them forever

2006-12-31T20:34:13Z

The pleasure of Gopal is the one and only aim of the
devotee. Therefore to raise cows, to offer obeisances to them and
to always honour them are considered as a limb of bhakti.
Millions and millions of demigods reside in the limbs of a cow.
Even Krsna and His friends always render service to cows. By
Krsna’s pastimes of herding cows it is proved how much the cow is
worshipable for the devotees. Cows provide nourishment and
sustenance to all by offering their milk, from which ghee and other
products are derived. Because of this great service that they render,
cows are considered to be the mother of human society.
-Sri Bhakti Rasamrta-Sindu-Bindu

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New tribe for sacred cow hare krishna followers called "Prabhupada".

2006-12-02T03:24:16Z

I don't know how much we worship the cow but come to the new tribe and start your own thread and we can discuss it. Please find it and join I am trying to get a lot of people to do so.
thank you

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looking for friendship with Goddess / Mother Earth / India lovers

2006-02-14T02:56:25Z

looking for Shakti / Devi / Shakta Tantra information & contacts

Pranams , Jai Mataji !
Namaskar . blessed sadhakas , here is a Goddess devotee , my spiritual name is Somaadi ,
am a bhakta shakta sadhu , i will travel soon to India
and am looking for some information which i could not find
elsewhere , such as :
anything related to Shakti sadhana , pooja , ashrams , maths , orders ,
genuine teachers and sadhus , temples , maths , places of worship , especially in the nature etc ... also , anything else related with Shakti sadhana / Goddess worship in east and west ( mainly India & Asia , but also any other places , in England for example , anything of dianic orientation and other Divine Feminine links ) .
also , i would be happy to exchange and connect with
serious students , practicants and masters of
Shaktism and devotional Tantra ,
who are totally devoted to Maha Devi . i would love to meet friends and connect with spiritual people who will travel to India or who live there since a while .
especially , i would like to know what exactly are the
similarities and differences between the main Shakta schools ,
such as Dakshinachara , Samayachara , Kaula , Sri Vidya .
very interested in exchange on this .
please help me in any way , if you wish .
many thanks , blessings and best wishes , brother Somaadi , eternally HER servant
OM SHAKTI --------- OM TAT SAT
personally at : ambaji_777@hotmail.com

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may GODDESS return ....

2005-12-27T17:09:50Z

Blessings to all , may The Great Mother Goddess of endless names and forms activate and manifest Her holy Shakti I AM presence in us and outside us , may the gregorian new year 2006 mark Her glorious return !!! thank you for .... being ! best wishes , a starseed lightworker & Goddess devotee
Jai Maa

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Krishna Followers Go on Hunger Strike against Expulsion

2005-11-15T00:24:36Z

Krishna Followers Go on Hunger Strike against Expulsion
The conflict related to construction of Krishna Followers Temple gained momentum Saturday. Moscow authorities voiced intention to take out the allotment allocated for building the Vedic Culture Temple, Krishna followers responded by a hunger strike.
More than 500 people went on a long-term hunger strike Saturday, November 12, 2005, said Sergey Andreev, leader of the Moscow community of Krishna followers, in a move to preserve the allotment allocated in Moscow for the temple construction.

As a religious organization, Hare Krishna was officially acknowledged in Russia in 1988. Now the country has 106 registered communities of Krishna followers and over 300 parishes.

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov sealed the ruling on constructing cultural premises for Krishna followers in Moscow in January 2004. The document sanctioned construction of the Vedic Center on the area of 1.05 hectares at 39 Leningrad Ave. to replace the two-store building demolished in Khoroshevkoe Avenue. To oppose construction, the orthodox followers staged a protest rally and vowed “to lie under bulldozers at the constriction site, “as this premise will desecrate Moscow,” they said.

As a result, Luzhkov called off his ruling on October 7. “We think the authorities may proceed with decisive actions to expel Indian and Moscow Vaishnavs from habitable land, in which they have invested a lot,” Andreev said. “We are truly concerned. We may be on the street deprived of even a temporarily temple.”

by www.kommersant.com

Russian Article as of Nov. 14, 2005

www.moscowtemple.org/

www.veda.ru/

proposed temple

www.veda.ru/

http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=626116

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don`t eat meat......

2005-10-08T23:32:52Z

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/health/05cow.html
To Prevent Mad Cow Disease, FDA Proposes New Restrictions on Food for Animals
By Donald G. McNeil Jr.
The New York Times

Wednesday 05 October 2005

The Food and Drug Administration proposed new rules yesterday to prevent the spread of mad cow disease by banning brains and spinal cords from older cows in all animal feed.

"This reduces a very, very low risk to even lower," said Dr. Stephen F. Sundlof, the agency's director of veterinary medicine, in announcing the changes.

But the rules are not as strict as those the agency proposed last year and never adopted, and critics promptly denounced them as inadequate.

The new proposal still allows chickens, pigs and other noncattle animals to be fed material that some scientists consider potentially infectious, including the brains and spinal cords of young animals, and the eyes, tonsils, intestines and nerves of older ones.

Cows can potentially ingest that material because they can be given chicken feed and droppings swept up from the floors of poultry farms, scrapings from restaurant plates, and a calf milk replacement made from cow blood and fat. In the rules proposed in early 2004, poultry litter and plate waste would have been banned.

The FDA and the meat industry are "totally committed to continuing the practice of feeding slaughterhouse waste to cows," said John Stauber, the author of "Mad Cow USA." (1997) and a critic of the meat industry who has called for a ban on feeding all animal protein to livestock.

The major meat processors that also own rendering plants, Mr. Stauber said, want to keep exporting cheap protein or feeding it to their own animals and have lobbied hard to keep the right to do so.

Michael K. Hansen, an expert on prion diseases at the Consumers Union, called the new proposed rules "completely inadequate." Britain, he said, "took many halfway steps in their efforts to eliminate mad cow disease and failed to stop it," and managed only to cut new cases to the low current levels by eliminating all mammal protein in the foodstuff of animals used for food.

Dr. Sundlof, of the FDA, said removing the brains and spinal cords of older cattle would remove 90 percent of potentially infectious matter from all animal feed.

Since June 2004, he said, the United States Department of Agriculture has tested 484,000 cattle for the disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and only one animal born in the United States has tested positive.

His agency, he said, also considered the cost to industry. Getting rid of just brains and spines from older cattle, he said, would create only 64 million pounds of waste that renderers would have to burn or bury, and would cost only about $14 million.

Getting rid of the vertebrae, spines, spinal nerves, eyes, intestines and other potentially infectious parts of all cattle - including the meat that nerves remain attached to - would create more than two billion pounds of waste, which he said would be an environmental problem and a big expense for the industry.

Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association, said he was disappointed by the FDA's proposal to ban brain or spinal cord from animals not seen by meat inspectors.

Renderers typically pick up dead or dying animals from farms for about $25, he explained, strip off the hide and cook all the rest down into meal and fat to be sold as animal food or even for paint or linoleum.

A slaughterhouse can split a fresh carcass and vacuum out the soft brain and spinal cord, he said, but renderers pick up animals that are bloated or in rigor mortis. The extra costs of removing organs "may take away the economic incentive," he said, "and carcasses will be disposed of illegally."

In 1997, the FDA banned feeding ruminants like cattle and sheep to other cattle and sheep, with a few exceptions like calf "milk replacement" made from cow blood.

But the ban is widely acknowledged to be imperfect. Some farmers deliberately or accidentally give their cows ruminant feed. Equipment used by rendering plants processes both ruminant and nonruminant feed, which can mix.

The rules proposed yesterday, Dr. Sundlof said, will not be adopted until sometime next year, after a comment period ends on Dec. 19.

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Hathor

2005-07-27T16:51:41Z

I am really drawn to this Goddess, I have an image of her I have meditated on and it calms and soothes me immensely. Just the past year, she has really begun to show herself to me. She is beautiful. Anyone else here drawn especially to her?

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Cows Unite!

2005-06-08T04:20:10Z

http://www.3dweb.no/galleri/stuestolbm/bilder/anim1.swf

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Mother Cow's Amazing Blessings

2005-05-08T20:54:45Z

Please visit HareKrsna.com for a new collection of more than 2,000 Indian vegetarian recipes. The vast majority of these Krsna prasadam recipes feature the multitudinous nectar foodstuffs given by Mother Cow. Please enjoy, and always chant:

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare | Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

www.harekrsna.com/practice/...adam/recipes/recipes.htm

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Transcendental Names of Krsna's Cows

2005-04-21T21:56:57Z

Here are some of the names Lord Krsna gave to his cow friends:

From general groups of cows (red, yellow, white, and black, etc.), there are names given according to the cows’ color:

DhavalI=white
HaMsI=swanlike (white?)
CandanI=like candana (yellowish? reddish?)
GaGgA=Ganges (again, whitish, or gold)
MuktA=pearl-white, or "free"
AruNI=dawn-colored
KuMkuma=vermillion
SarasvatI=the goddess of learning, etc., or a kind of (reddish?) flower ZyAmalA=blackish
DhUmalA=smoke-colored
YamunA=bluish as the river of the same name
PItA=yellow
PiGgalA=tawny, golden-brown, etc.
HaritAlikA=yellow-green, or yellowish

Here are some names given according more to the cow’s physique or ornaments:

CitritA=colorful, speckled, painted, pretty, etc.
Citra-tilakA=with colorful markings that resemble tilaka
DIrgha-tilakA=having long tilaka markings
Tiryak-tilakA=with wide, or horizontal tilaka
MRdaGga-mukhi=Head shaped like a mridanga
SiMha-mukhI=lion faced

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Cow from Calcutta

2005-04-21T05:28:01Z

(I recently posted this in another group, but it will be enjoyed here too, I hope)

This is an essay entitled "Cow" which was written by a student in the course of completing the "Indian Civil Services Examination". Supposedly, the student passed the exam. You have to love the gender blending description of this essay. :)

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CALCUTTA's Telegraph has got hold of an answer paper of a candidate at the recent UPSC examinations. The candidate has written an essay on the Indian cow:

"The cow is a successful animal. Also he is quadrupud, and because he is
female, he give milk,but will do so when he is got child.He is same like
God,sacred to Hindus and useful to man.But he has got four legs together.
Two are forward and two are afterwards.

"His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. What can it do?
Various ghee, butter,cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth.
Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally.

"His motion is slow only because he is of asitudinious species. Also his
other motion is much useful to trees, plants as well as making flat cakes in
hand and drying in the sun. Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding
after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in
the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass.

"His only attacking and defending organ is the horn, specially so when he is
got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons
to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great
velocity forwards.

"He has got tails also, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the
other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies which
alight on his cohoa body whereupon he gives hit with it.

The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch. So the grasses head is not
crushed. At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts
his eyes like his relatives, the horse does not do so.

This is the cow."

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The holy cow and her holy milk

2005-04-21T05:09:06Z

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.17.3

gāḿ ca dharma-dughāḿ dīnāḿ

bhṛśaḿ śūdra-padāhatām

vivatsām āśru-vadanāḿ

kṣāmāḿ yavasam icchatīm

SYNONYMS

gām — the cow; ca — also; dharma-dughām — beneficial because one can draw religion from her; dīnām — now rendered poor; bhṛśam — distressed; śūdra — the lower caste; pada-āhatām — beaten on the legs; vivatsām — without any calf; āśru-vadanām — with tears in her eyes; kṣāmām — very weak; yavasam — grass; icchatīm — as if desiring to have some grass to eat.

TRANSLATION

Although the cow is beneficial because one can draw religious principles from her, she was now rendered poor and calfless. Her legs were being beaten by a śūdra. There were tears in her eyes, and she was distressed and weak. She was hankering after some grass in the field.

PURPORT

The next symptom of the age of Kali is the distressed condition of the cow. Milking the cow means drawing the principles of religion in a liquid form. The great ṛṣis and munis would live only on milk. Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī would go to a householder while he was milking a cow, and he would simply take a little quantity of it for subsistence. Even fifty years ago, no one would deprive a sādhu of a quart or two of milk, and every householder would give milk like water. For a Sanātanist (a follower of Vedic principles) it is the duty of every householder to have cows and bulls as household paraphernalia, not only for drinking milk, but also for deriving religious principles. The Sanātanist worships cows on religious principles and respects brāhmaṇas. The cow's milk is required for the sacrificial fire, and by performing sacrifices the householder can be happy. The cow's calf not only is beautiful to look at, but also gives satisfaction to the cow, and so she delivers as much milk as possible. But in the Kali-yuga, the calves are separated from the cows as early as possible for purposes which may not be mentioned in these pages of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The cow stands with tears in her eyes, the śūdra milkman draws milk from the cow artificially, and when there is no milk the cow is sent to be slaughtered. These greatly sinful acts are responsible for all the troubles in present society. People do not know what they are doing in the name of economic development. The influence of Kali will keep them in the darkness of ignorance. Despite all endeavors for peace and prosperity, they must try to see the cows and the bulls happy in all respects. Foolish people do not know how one earns happiness by making the cows and bulls happy, but it is a fact by the law of nature. Let us take it from the authority of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and adopt the principles for the total happiness of humanity.

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'Dharma and Bhumi discuss' from the Srimad Bhagavatam

2005-04-21T05:07:45Z

SB 1.16.18: The personality of religious principles, Dharma, was wandering about in the form of a bull. And he met the personality of earth in the form of a cow who appeared to grieve like a mother who had lost her child. She had tears in her eyes, and the beauty of her body was lost. Thus Dharma questioned the earth as follows.

SB 1.16.19: Dharma [in the form of a bull] asked: Madam, are you not hale and hearty? Why are you covered with the shadow of grief? It appears by your face that you have become black. Are you suffering from some internal disease, or are you thinking of some relative who is away in a distant place?

SB 1.16.20: I have lost my three legs and am now standing on one only. Are you lamenting for my state of existence? Or are you in great anxiety because henceforward the unlawful meat-eaters will exploit you? Or are you in a sorry plight because the demigods are now bereft of their share of sacrificial offerings because no sacrifices are being performed at present? Or are you grieving for living beings because of their sufferings due to famine and drought?

SB 1.16.21: Are you feeling compunction for the unhappy women and children who are left forlorn by unscrupulous persons? Or are you unhappy because the goddess of learning is being handled by brāhmaṇas addicted to acts against the principles of religion? Or are you sorry to see that the brāhmaṇas have taken shelter of administrative families that do not respect brahminical culture?

SB 1.16.22: The so-called administrators are now bewildered by the influence of this age of Kali, and thus they have put all state affairs into disorder. Are you now lamenting this disorder? Now the general populace does not follow the rules and regulations for eating, sleeping, drinking, mating, etc., and they are inclined to perform such anywhere and everywhere. Are you unhappy because of this?

SB 1.16.23: O mother earth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, incarnated Himself as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa just to unload your heavy burden. All His activities here are transcendental, and they cement the path of liberation. You are now bereft of His presence. You are probably now thinking of those activities and feeling sorry in their absence.

SB 1.16.24: Mother, you are the reservoir of all riches. Please inform me of the root cause of your tribulations by which you have been reduced to such a weak state. I think that the powerful influence of time, which conquers the most powerful, might have forcibly taken away all your fortune, which was adored even by the demigods.

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buraq and kamadhenu--same same?

2005-04-17T19:41:26Z

wow. i just found an image of BURAQ who was the magical creature who flew Mohammed into creation. she was a horseycow creature with rainbow wings and a peacock tail with a goddess's face. she is almost IDENTICAL to kamadheni, the hindu cosmic wish-fulfilling cow who milks shiva's lingam.....anyone about either of these two and their possible connection?

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Lord Krsna Invites Us

2005-04-07T08:57:17Z

Lord Krsna Invites us-back to home, back to Godhead.
This is the original home of every living entities.here every word is a song and every step a dance.have a glimpse of Krsna`s abode.The Golak Vrindaban.

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holy shit

2004-05-01T22:49:17Z

ever wonder where holy shit comes from? ever imagine how magic mushrooms come from holy cow droppings?

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KAMADHENU..the wish fulfilling cow

2004-04-21T03:36:28Z

hey all...i'd like to offer a story about one of my favorite divine bovines-kamadhenu. she is from the hindu creation story, created right out of the churning of the ocean. she is the celestial, wish-fulfilling cow!!! she has rainbow wings, a peacock tail, and lakshmi's face. she also has her very own wish-fulfilling tree that she hangs out at and she is available to ALL of us to grant us all of our secrets in our hearts. jaya kamadhenu!!!

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