--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of nablusoss1008
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:59 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Don't Eat Frogs
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > When you die ? It has already happened; a person dedicated to slandering
> > Saints is already "enjoying" his karma.
> > Just came back from seeing one. Sri Karunamayi. Nice experience. Nothing
> > about her to attract slander.
> >
> > While you're at it, tell us what happened to Rama, Lakshman,
> > > and Sita after they died. When they were in exile, they shot and ate
> deer.
> >
> > But not frogs.
> > 'Cause there's not much meat on them. But you still haven't told us why
> > eating them is such a sin. Do the Vedas say so? Maitreya? Or is this one
> of
> > your own personal edicts?
>
> Your problem is that you do not have access to any real Saints anymore
> because they will never again take you seriously after all the slandering
> you have committed.
>
> You don't have a real Saint to ask this question to and never will, but I
> will answer it on behalf of them based on what several Saints have said and
> written: If you eat a Frog you will spend time in intense Tamas after having
> left the body.
> If you ate a Frog not being aware of their sacred status you will still have
> to experience intense Tamas for a while (and so will I) but it will not be
> very long, just "longish".
>
> If you in your hippe-days ate a Frog, it will not harm you much since you
> did not know the sacred status of Frogs. I ate two Frog-legs myself in San
> Fransisco in 1969 and womitted afterwards, not knowing anything about the
> sacred status of Frogs (I was 13 years old). But if you today as much as
> think of eating one you'll be in big trouble.
> Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't heard of this before. Not inclined to
> eat them anymore. They're a somewhat endangered species. Dying off due to
> climate change.
>
Frogs seem able to tolerate temperature extremes pretty well so I would sooner
blame pollution.
