on 4/17/05 8:26 AM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A chum told his wife that if she wanted a shiva > lingam in the house, they had to commit to oiling > it every day, as if it were a living entity requiring daily care.
At the Vedic Studies Conference in New Delhi in 1980 or so, someone bought a nice, expensive Shiva Linga and showed it to Maharishi. Maharishi told the guy to give to him, saying that it could be harmful for him to own it if he didn't take care of it properly. > > Conversely, I heard somewhere that it's a bad idea > to keep a statue of an avatar, deity or saint around > the house as a mere decoration, acquiring dust. A few years ago Maharishi told everyone to turn in their deity statues, for the same reason given above. Not everyone gave them to the TMO. I heard the Chicago Hindu temple was suddenly flooded with them. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
