500 Reasons why you're my best friend

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Reasons why you're my best friend

#001 - I can tell you anything and you won't be shocked.
#004 - When I'm really down you cry with me.
#023 - I'd trust you with my life and you'd trust me with yours.
#033 - We have private jokes.
#038 - I take pleasure in your competence.
#051 - I know your moods so well that I know exactly when to press you to tell me what's wrong- and when to leave you in peace.
#052 - You're honest but tactful. Usually.
#054 - If I'm way out of line, you tell me.And when I'm doing a good job, you tell me that too.
#065 - You think I'm smart, capable, clever and pretty. You're my one-woman cheering section.
#094 - Sometimes we're under a lot of stress and we snap at each other.Look, these things happen between friends. We get past it.
#098 - You send me encouraging e-mails at critical moments and I send them to you, too.
#109 - You stop me firmly when I start apologizing for things that aren't my fault.
#110 - You bring your problems to me and let me help you solve them.
#122 - We don't look alike and we don't sound alike- but we think alike on all the important things and that's what counts.
#124 - You make room for me in your life, even when your life is crowded and busy.
#125 - I'm not embarassed to cry in front of you.
#128 - I admire your self-control: You actually think before you speak.
#132 - I appreciate how you ferret out my secrets when I really want to tell you but can't quite bring myself to do it.
#139 - No one else gives me the total attention you do, when I have a problem or just need to talk.
#142 - I never felt that any of our arguments or disagreements would end our friendship.
#160 - When I'm procrastinating hopelessly, you give me the push I need to get going.
#175 - You know my dark side and I know yours. No judgments.
#183 - I don't have to watch what I say when we're talking, the way I do when I'm talking with certain other people. And you know who I mean.
#209 - Somtimes you give me tough love when I really need gentle love- but I know that's because you're worried about me.
#215 - There are a few dicery things lurking in my past and you're the only one who knows about them- but you don't hold them against me.
#226 - You love to laugh.
#230 - You're better than a sister: No sibling rivalry.
#248 - You laugh at my jokes.
#249 - You always know the right thing to say.
#252 - Sometimes you don't have time for me. That might make me sad or hurt for a while, but hey, you'll be back.
#274 - Your love for me is as unconditional as mine is for you.
#300 - One hug from you is worth 10 from any other friend.
#366 - You never get clingy, but you don't mind if I occasionally do.
#460 - You're an angel on my shoulder.
#463 - We take pride in each other's accomplishments.
#466 - We've hit a few rough spots, but with love and patience we smoothed them out.
#477 - Secrets are secrets and we'd never reveal each other's.
#486 - The good, the bad and the ugly- we've been through them all and we're still friends.
#500 - You may misbehave, I may misbehave, but best friends accept best friends, misbehavior and all. That's how it is.

Yours

Dinesh

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Krishna Prasadam - Moraya upma, baked potatoes and salad

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All varna and no ashrama makes a devotee a dull boy ;-)

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All varna and no ashrama makes a devotee a dull boy ;-)

Varna should be centered around ashrama, otherwise it is a disaster. Ashrama is the shelter for the conditioned soul. In the ashrama worshipping and satisfying Vishnu is the primary goal.

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Don't ever smell the food you cook for offering

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By smelling we contaminate the food or any substance that we offer to The Lord. It's for this same reason we are not supposed to smell the flowers or the incense before offering.

After offering of course it is transcendental and we can pass on the flowers to be smelled by devotees.

Sankhya:

Metallic objects are cleaned by earth(sand/clay)

Wollen cloth is cleaned by simply drying up in the air

Body is purified by taking bath.Mind/Soul is purified by Mantra/chanting the Holy names of The Lord.

Rain water is purified by stagnation for 10 days.

Large water bodies such as rivers or running Water are not contaminated.

Small water bodies or ponds are contaminated by regular usage.

Earthen pots and few other objects covered by dirt are purified over a period of time when exposed to sunlight.

Usually objects that are made of earth are cleaned by water or air.

All purification happens over a period of time and so time is also a major factor in the purification process.

By thinking of The Lord constantly, the mind and soul can be kept pure always.

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I am not this dream

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From Śrīla Prabhupāda: "So here is the recommendation. Try to become Krsna conscious. And then you'll not be disturbed with all these external, ephemeral changes of the material world. Not only of this body, practically..., practically one who is advanced in spiritual life, he's not agitated by the so-called political upheavals or social disturbances. No. He knows these are simply external, ephe... Just like in the dream. It is also a dream. The... Our present existence, it is also dream, Exactly like we dream at night. In dreaming, we create so many things. So this material world is also a gross dreaming. Gross dreaming. That is subtle dreaming. And this is gross dreaming." "I am not this dream" 72/11/21 Hyderabad, Bhagavad-gita 2.15

Courtesy: Kalachandji Katha

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Dinesh

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