I tend to agree with you. Guru Dev was definitely up for a joke - listen to the satsangs, his audience are almost wetting themselves. I played the longer one to a Hindi-speaking Indian friend, she just kept guffawing and ho-ho-ing.
--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Comments interleaved below. > > -- Premanand Paul Mason wrote: > > > > The Hindi word 'malamuutra' seems to mean mal+muutra i.e. 'excrement > > and urine'. That is to say, Guru Dev was saying that for nine months > > he was confined in his own filth. Neither translator thinks to > > include mention of this remark. > > I believe the umbilical cord delivers nutrients and > carries away wastes, does it not? Fetuses surely do > not void in utero. > > > > "I lived in the company of you people for nine months. What was my > > > condition at that time? It was reverse. I was tightly bounded from > > > all sides and there were sufferings beyond limits. In this > > > troublesome way I had passed nine months. Those days, I still > > > remember. This is the reason why I do not have the least desire to > > be in the company of women folk." TSTaaGS > > Sounds like a joke. Harsh humor, to be sure, but a joke nonetheless. > Otherwise, I'm to believe that someone I'm told was very compassionate > is holding a grudge against all womankind for having to be born > of woman? > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
