--- In [email protected], coldbluiceman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sparaig wrote: > > > Alex Stanley wrote: > > > > > spare egg wrote: > > > > > > > > cold blu ice man wrote: > > > > > > > > As no "pundit" worth his salt would > > > > > > > > make a claim > > > > > > > > (or allow another to > > > > > > > > make a claim) that would insinuate > > > > > > > > a group of pundits > > > > > > > > chanting "Vedic verses" could > > > > > > > > change the course of human events. > > > > > > > What is a mahayagya, O Sagacious One? > > > This: http://alex.natel.net/misc/ww2_yagya.jpg ???? > > Namaste Sir Alex John Stanely Ji.., > i must politley inform you that the photo you are lokking at is the-- > Khumba Mela taken in 1944 on the banks of the Jamuna/Yamuna river. > > The oldest Mela, the Khumba Mela, is held once every 12 years at the > junction of the three sacred rivers (Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati) > and attended by more than 40 million people. Now the dates of the > Khumba Mela are set to the specific location using astrological > calculations based upon the placement of planet Jupiter, also there > are ardha-Khumbas held every 6 years on the Jamuna River. > > ..."The Kumbha Mela takes place every four years in rotation at > Haridwar, Prayag (Allahabad), Nasik and Ujjain, according to the > placement of Jupiter in the Zodiac. A modern innovation, there are > also popular half-melas, ardha-kumbhas, every six years at Haridwar > and Prayag. It is at Prayag, where the Yamuna River joins the Ganga, > that the largest number of human beings in history gathered--15 > million on February 6, 1989. Haridwar, logistically less convenient, > managed ten million on April 14, 1998. Still, that's five times this > year's two million Muslim pilgrims who journeyed to Mecca for the > Haj, the second largest gathering..." > http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1998/9/1998-9-11.shtml > > Now AJ Ji..,what were lead to believe that photo is?? > > > According to Steve Perino, > > no pundit worth his salt would make the > > claim that would > > insinutate a group of pundits chanting > > Vedic verses could change the course of human > > events.... > > i won't address poor Sir Lawson Ji until his doctors have screened > him for paranoia & delusional behavior. > But having said that- if indeed that was a "world peace" gathering > in Prayag in 1944(which i am not sayning it was).. > It sadly did not have the desired effect as how many estimated > millions died during Summer 1944 and Summer 1945 in WWII?? > > How many a-bombs did we drop on Japan in the Summer of 1945? >
I never commented on the efficacy of such programs, merely on your claim that they are not traditional. I ask again: what is a mahayagya and... what is it FOR? Hint to lurkers: google "mahayagya" 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
