on 5/21/05 11:14 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am not cynical about Vedic knowledge at all, but what are 200 > Purusha, who could not prevent (with their mighty emanations) a legal > battle in Boone that resulted in their getting kicked off Heavenly > Mountain cuz the Ks were disaffected with the movement, supposed to > accomplish in one of the most violent atmospheres on earth?:
Maybe it was the Hand of God that kicked them out so they could go to Lebanon where they are more sorely needed. Christ's Divinity couldn't earn him an inn room in which to be born, but he was born in exactly the right place. You know the Indian story with the repeated punch line, "Everything God does is for the best."? From http://www.rainsnow.org/wod_everything_happens_for_a_reason.htm: There was once a great Prime Minister in India who understood that everything that happens does so according to the will of God, and that all the places, moments, and events of one�s life are, therefore, sacred. Whenever a father would say something like, "My son has died," this Prime Minister would say to him: "Great. It�s fine. Everything that God does is for the best." If a woman came crying to him, "My husband has passed away," he would tell her, "It�s all right. Don�t worry. Everything that God does is for the best." The people reacted with violence and indignation against him. They considered him to be crazy and insensitive, and continuously schemed to drive him out of power. One day the royal barber was shaving the king, who had fallen asleep in his chair. As he proceeded to cut the king�s nails, the barber�s hand slipped, and he accidentally cut off one of the fingertips of the king. The enemies of the Prime Minister realized that this misfortune presented them with a marvelous opportunity to teach him a lesson. They went running to see him, and as soon as they had located him, exclaimed, "Prime Minister, Prime Minister, the barber has cut off the king�s finger!" The Prime Minister, as they expected he would, replied: "It�s all right. It�s fine. No problem. Everything that God does is for the best." The Prime Minister�s enemies, who had heard just what they wanted to hear, then ran back to the king to tell him what his trusted adviser had said. Outraged, the king called the Prime Minister before him, and shouted: "Idiot! You�ve been eating my food and living from my wealth, and now you have the nerve to say that it�s good that my finger�s been cut off?!" And he ordered his soldiers to throw the Prime Minister into prison, and told them to give him nothing to eat except stale, hardened bread. "Now you�ll get a firsthand chance to see that everything God does is for the best," he told the Prime Minister, mockingly. The Prime Minister remained sitting in his cell, calmly reciting the name of God. He did not act as one afflicted by misfortune, and later, when people went to visit him and ask him how he was doing, he replied: "Very well. God put me here, and it�s good." Several days later, the king went out on a hunting expedition into the woods. During the course of his journey, he encountered a band of fierce outlaws, whose chief was a worshipper of the Goddess Kali. The bandit chief was required to sacrifice a person of importance to his Goddess, and for this reason, he audaciously kidnapped the king, himself, and dragged him to a temple to be slain. But upon carefully inspecting the captive king in order to see if his body was whole, since they could only offer a perfect specimen to their Goddess, they discovered that the point of his finger had been severed, and told him: "Your body is imperfect. It is not pure enough to be offered to the Goddess. You are not worthy." They therefore released the king, who realized that were it not for the fact that he had lost a finger, he would have lost his head. Remembering what the Prime Minister had told him - "Everything God does is for the best" - he realized that the adviser he had just recently thrown into prison had been right, after all. The king, returning quickly to the capital, ordered the prisoner to be set free, and when the Prime Minister appeared before him, the king told him of his adventure, and said: "In my case, it was, indeed, good that I lost my finger, but, what, I ask you, was the benefit to you, that you were put into prison and given only dry scraps of bread to eat?" The Prime Minister, at no loss of words, replied: "Your Majesty, if I had not been locked up in prison, and left behind, I would have gone hunting with you, and since my body is intact, the bandits would have sacrificed me to the Goddess." And he concluded with his habitual refrain: "Everything God does is for the best�" 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/
