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  1. Jaskaran Singh

    Why Krishna is Blue

    No, silly (I know I shouldn't speak like that to my elders, but it's the internet so who cares, :p). Anyway, nIlagrIvaH is in the shrIrUdram as well (verses I pasted and translated are recited from 1:19-1:52): vQjBQJqi0Ak
  2. Jaskaran Singh

    Why Krishna is Blue

    If you want to get really technical, shiva actually has five "colors," since each mukha represents a different tattva...
  3. Jaskaran Singh

    Why Krishna is Blue

    Does his color matter?.... asau yastAmro aruNa uta babhruH suma~NgalaH| ye chemAgM rudrA abhito dikShu| shritAH sahasrasho'vaishAgM heDa Imahe||1.7|| This "sun" (i.e. shiva) rises as copper-red (aruNa), then golden brown (babhruH), of highly auspicious from, the (other) thousands of rudra-s...
  4. Jaskaran Singh

    Daily darshan

    kAmAkhyadevI mandir, guwAhAtI, assAm (one of the four Adishakti pITham-s):
  5. Jaskaran Singh

    Can the Shudras study the Vedas....

    Now that is what we call baseless neo-Hindu conjecture.
  6. Jaskaran Singh

    Can the Shudras study the Vedas....

    praNAm, Both really, I remember there being a verse in the ashvalAyana gR^ihyasUtram pertaining to only dvija-s being allowed to recite the veda-s, and chhAndogyopaniShad 5.10.7 also gives one the impression that varNa is birth-based. A shUdra can act like a brAhmaNa, sure, but it's not his...
  7. Jaskaran Singh

    Can the Shudras study the Vedas....

    Moved from other thread: I don't want to get into an argument, but you're being silly. All I am saying is that per varNa dharma, i.e doing your duty as per ones varNa, a shUdra is not supposed to be reciting veda-s or doing sandhyAvandanam, just as I being a kShatriya am not in a position to be...
  8. Jaskaran Singh

    What makes a Hindu a Hindu - Version 2

    You mean like copy-paste verbatim from my original post? tathAstu...
  9. Jaskaran Singh

    Would you like to contribute to a text about how Hinduism views Jesus (and perhaps others)?

    I believe that buddha is an avatAra of bhagavAn, so could you please show me where you believe I have spoken "ill" of buddha? I don't remember ever having done so. Also, if you believe that me calling Jesus a preta is speaking ill of him, then that's your opinion. However, I do believe that he...
  10. Jaskaran Singh

    What makes a Hindu a Hindu - Version 2

    That's not what your quote from sivAnanda saraswatI said though,, you wrote "...who follows the Varnashrama Dharmas, he who worships the Avataras and studies the Vedas, is a Hindu.” It's not just in the smR^iti-s though, the view that shUdra-s should not recite the veda-s is present even...
  11. Jaskaran Singh

    What makes a Hindu a Hindu - Version 2

    I know plenty of shaiva-s who don't worship avatAra-s, does that make them non Hindu? Also, if you follow varNAshrama dharma, shUdra-s cannot recite the veda-s and therefore by default cannot perform sandhyAvandanam. Are you saying that shUdra-s are not Hindus? :rolleyes:
  12. Jaskaran Singh

    Question about Gayatri Mantra

    No, it must be 9000 times a day, plus one, or > 9000 times per day. Just kidding, :D.
  13. Jaskaran Singh

    What makes a Hindu a Hindu - Version 2

    This is the only part of your statements which I don't quite understand, majjanam is an important part of snAnam regardless of whether the water is flowing or not (although I agree that it's better if the water is flowing, like in a nadI), so wouldn't it be preferable to bathe and then pour...
  14. Jaskaran Singh

    Nauroz Mubarik

    You just reminded me of ahorAtre pArshve (day and night are your sides) from the puruShasUktam, :p: 2ayvRqxVi4E
  15. Jaskaran Singh

    Navroze Mubarik

    No, it's not Aup, you know how I know? There's already two threads about Nawrooz in the Baha'i forum which state it's on March 20th - 21st, see here and here. Now can you stop wishing people happy "Nawrooz" when been nine days since then?
  16. Jaskaran Singh

    online Kirtan party

    [B] praNAm, I didn't notice your message before, sorry about that. Anyway, I just erased the t=11. Don't worry about the [B] tags, they aren't necessary, I just like to bold things. Only put the stuff after v, but don't include the stuff after the #, nor the # sign itself in the tags, so for...
  17. Jaskaran Singh

    Nauroz Mubarik

    Why that reminds me of a marAThI song from the 1941 (I think?) d~nAneshvar movie: Tnhs9bTPfMU Sorry, couldn't resist... Also, all of those words most likely come from saMskR^itam, since "ja" is slightly closer phonetically to "cha" than "za." Edit: Actually, on second thought, I wouldn't...
  18. Jaskaran Singh

    Nauroz Mubarik

    Technically the "naw" in nawrooz come from the Avestan word nava, not the nava in saMskR^itam. It's natural for Avestan to have have a word (nava) which is a cognate with the corresponding saMskR^ita word (nava, navIna, etc) because they both come from the same proto-Indo-European root-word...
  19. Jaskaran Singh

    Nauroz Mubarik

    praNAm Aup, Why use mleccha (Persian and Aarabi) terms (in your title) when their "New Year's Day" already passed? :p Anyway, have you ever tried pachadi, it tastes really good (I love South Indian food): ccrucZPQpCU
  20. Jaskaran Singh

    online Kirtan party

    praNAm, Put that stuff after v= in (youtube)....(/youtube) tags (except with brackets, i.e. [] rather than parentheses). So for your video, you would write it like "IajM-tLxPFc"
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