--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Temple Deities Reported Again to Be Drinking Milk Offerings > www.hindustantimes.com <http://www.hindustantimes.com> > NEW DELHII, INDIA, August 24, 2006: Thousands of people tonight thronged > temples across Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana and Punjab to watch Deities > of Goddess Durga and God Siva drinking milk offered to them by devotees. In > a rerun of similar incidents claimed to have taken place across the country > in 1995, a large number of people queued up outside temples in Mathura and > nearby holy cities of Vrindavan and Govardhan in UP, Vadodara in Gujarat and > Kurukshetra in Haryana and Ludhiana in Punjab following claims that the > Deities are taking milk offered to them. "A cup of milk was offered to > Durgaji in Rama Nand Ashram Goverdhan this evening and she was not only > pleased but has drank all.It is a good omen and the future of the country is > bright," noted Saint Mahamandaleshwar Krishna Das Kanchan Maharaj said in > Mathura. (HPI note: The 1995 "Milk Miracle" in which Lord Ganesha consumed > milk was witnessed by thousands of devotees in countries around the world, > as well as video-taped.) >
**************************** This is all crap generated by people living at high levels of stress, hoping for divine relief -- stone idols naturally absorb liquids: "It was almost a repeat of a similar spectacle witnessed in 1995 when blind faith led millions of Hindus to offer milk to Lord Ganesha in temples across India and even abroad. The current incident is suspected to have been prompted by reports of seawater around a Muslim dargah in Mumbai turning "sweet". However, experts term the "milk-sipping" phenomenon a "hoax" that has worked simply due to people's "blind faith." Lucknow University Geology professor M.P. Singh said: "It is very natural for any stone idol to absorb any liquid - and the older the stone, the more it absorbs." V.K. Singh of King George's Medical University here termed it as "nothing other than capillary action". He told IANS: "Only if people had the sense to realise that beyond a point, all the milk that is poured on deities simply flows away." Significantly, even Swami Muktitanand, the head of Ram Krishna Mission, a devout Hindu organisation, dismissed the supposed phenomenon as "baseless" and "unscientific". He said: "Spirituality should not be totally devoid of scientific basis or understanding." Lucknow District Magistrate Ramendra Tripathi termed it a "hoax" and declared that action would be taken against "rumour-mongers". But people continued to rush to temples in their neighbourhood." http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=9732 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/
