How do you pronounce the capital A in shAstra?  ahhhhhhhhhhh?


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 From: cardemaister <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:52 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Wisdom of Chopra...
 

  
That's possible, but my bet is they are just near homonyms 
like for instance English 'father' and 'farther', 
or 'be' and 'bee'... :o

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote:
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> I can see how they're similar:  Knowledge cuts through ignorance.
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>  From: cardemaister <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:02 AM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Wisdom of Chopra...
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii_99@> wrote:
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" <babajii_99@> wrote:
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> > > > One of the 'Downfalls' of the path to Enlightenment...
> > > > Is that the ego, in it's last desperate attempt to remain control, gets 
> > > > completely out of hand, and the individual can fall to the 'Dark Side' 
> > > > attacking others, and bringing a lot of negagive attention to 
> > > > oneself...I assume this is what happened to Carlson...
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> > > There's nothing rotten in that, but he's Carlsen, with an 'e',
> > > and thus *perhaps* Danish or Norwegian ancestry, not Swedish... :D
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> > Yeah, so who cares?
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> At least all of us correct spelling freaks... ;D
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> As an example from Sanskrit:
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> shastra       2 n. knife, dagger, sword, weapon i.g.
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> shAstra       n. instruction, precept, rule, theory, a scientific or 
> canonical work.
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