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Dear MJ - thank you for the wishes. The black string was a Raksha kavach - for protection, most of Indian wrists are adorned with myriad of these strings - usually black and red. Anyway I don't believe in it so I discarded it the day after but wore it for a while to honor my mom's sentiments. On Jan 20, 2013, at 6:26 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com wrote: Ravi, I had posted out so couldn't wish you a happy birthday on the day itself - my wish for you is that however good your birthday was, everyday be that good for you. If I may ask, what is the black string around the wrist for? Happy Birthday one day late MJ From: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today's my birthday On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:08 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Hope you have a good birthday, Ravioli. Your extended family looks very entertaining. When you get some time tell us how birthdays are celebrated there. Does your mom drag you to the temple? Do you perform a nine-graha puja? How many lifetimes before you no longer need a human body such a this to celebrate surfing on the ocean of prana - awake and unfettered? Thank you Empty baby for your wishes. My nephews got me cake, candles, coke and celebrated my birthday Western style :-). I got 2 new outfits from my sisters my mom. My mom is used to my irreverent ways and didn't insist on any temples - she made a half hearted attempt and after I excitedly remarked that the Gods would be happy to have my darshan abandoned it. She just tied a black string on my wrist, put some vibhuti/kumkum and oil on my head earlier this morning. Only one lifetime for me Empty. Devi sends her love, but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Love, Ravi. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Thank you dear Obba - normalcy returns 22nd afternoon. On Jan 21, 2013, at 7:26 AM, obbajeeba no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Happy Belated Birthday, dear Ravi on here! I got you covered elsewhere! When you coming back to these States? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Ah, Moon in Uttara Bhadrapada here so directly opposite yours (-: From: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today's my birthday John, Thank you. Very good guess on the Moon but 2nd pada in Kanya and being the 19th Sun in Capricorn. On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:59 AM, John jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Ravi, Let me guess your Chandra lagna. You were born with the Moon in the third pada of Chitra nakshatra. Correct? And the Sun was in Sagittarius? Happy birthday, in any case! JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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I love the bodhisattva Kwan Yin. from your post on Perennial Philosophy: While Perennial Philosophy is useful for breaking the fixity of conceptual views, in the minds of people without direct transmission of the foundational dimension of these traditions, it ends up as a summary.Inner-field versus outer-field is already the basis of most human concepts and delusions. my question: is direct transmission always necessary? Or is direct experience another option? From: emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:43 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today's my birthday Ravi sez: ... but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Rebel … Ravi ... Rebel! Against the tyranny of the three guna-s. Against forgetting your many lifetimes here - pleasured by somnolence. And yes, I have many lifetimes left ... that why I took bodhisattva vows. I took them from teachers of multiple transmission lineages. As a result, endless lifetimes await me ... but they are just collections of time and space. 1. The number of beings is endless … I vow to save them all. 2.cCravings, hatred and delusions are inexhaustible … I vow to extinguish them all. 3.PPaths to reality are innumerable … I vow to accomplish them all. 4. Supreme awakening is ultimate … I vow to realize it. Even here in the West, we've had this tradition for 2500 years. Haven't you ever read Plato's cave analogy? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:08 PM, emptybill wrote: Hope you have a good birthday, Ravioli. Your extended family looks very entertaining. When you get some time tell us how birthdays are celebrated there. Does your mom drag you to the temple? Do you perform a nine-graha puja? How many lifetimes before you no longer need a human body such a this to celebrate surfing on the ocean of prana - awake and unfettered? Thank you Empty baby for your wishes. My nephews got me cake, candles, coke and celebrated my birthday Western style :-). I got 2 new outfits from my sisters my mom. My mom is used to my irreverent ways and didn't insist on any temples - she made a half hearted attempt and after I excitedly remarked that the Gods would be happy to have my darshan abandoned it. She just tied a black string on my wrist, put some vibhuti/kumkum and oil on my head earlier this morning. Only one lifetime for me Empty. Devi sends her love, but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Love, Ravi. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Ravi, I had posted out so couldn't wish you a happy birthday on the day itself - my wish for you is that however good your birthday was, everyday be that good for you. If I may ask, what is the black string around the wrist for? Happy Birthday one day late MJ From: Ravi Chivukula chivukula.r...@gmail.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today's my birthday On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:08 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Hope you have a good birthday, Ravioli. Your extended family looks very entertaining. When you get some time tell us how birthdays are celebrated there. Does your mom drag you to the temple? Do you perform a nine-graha puja? How many lifetimes before you no longer need a human body such a this to celebrate surfing on the ocean of prana - awake and unfettered? Thank you Empty baby for your wishes. My nephews got me cake, candles, coke and celebrated my birthday Western style :-). I got 2 new outfits from my sisters my mom. My mom is used to my irreverent ways and didn't insist on any temples - she made a half hearted attempt and after I excitedly remarked that the Gods would be happy to have my darshan abandoned it. She just tied a black string on my wrist, put some vibhuti/kumkum and oil on my head earlier this morning. Only one lifetime for me Empty. Devi sends her love, but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Love, Ravi. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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John, Thank you. Very good guess on the Moon but 2nd pada in Kanya and being the 19th Sun in Capricorn. On Jan 20, 2013, at 4:59 AM, John jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Ravi, Let me guess your Chandra lagna. You were born with the Moon in the third pada of Chitra nakshatra. Correct? And the Sun was in Sagittarius? Happy birthday, in any case! JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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On Jan 20, 2013, at 8:13 AM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Ravi sez: ... but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Rebel … Ravi ... Rebel! Against the tyranny of the three guna-s. Against forgetting your many lifetimes here - pleasured by somnolence. And yes, I have many lifetimes left ... that why I took bodhisattva vows. I took them from teachers of multiple transmission lineages. As a result, endless lifetimes await me ... but they are just collections of time and space. 1.The number of beings is endless … I vow to save them all. 2. cCravings, hatred and delusions are inexhaustible … I vow to extinguish them all. 3.PPaths to reality are innumerable … I vow to accomplish them all. 4. Supreme awakening is ultimate … I vow to realize it. Even here in the West, we've had this tradition for 2500 years. Haven't you ever read Plato's cave analogy? Oh Empty this was so wonderful that I ran up excitedly to Devi but she just asked to shut up and make love to her. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:08 PM, emptybill wrote: Hope you have a good birthday, Ravioli. Your extended family looks very entertaining. When you get some time tell us how birthdays are celebrated there. Does your mom drag you to the temple? Do you perform a nine-graha puja? How many lifetimes before you no longer need a human body such a this to celebrate surfing on the ocean of prana - awake and unfettered? Thank you Empty baby for your wishes. My nephews got me cake, candles, coke and celebrated my birthday Western style :-). I got 2 new outfits from my sisters my mom. My mom is used to my irreverent ways and didn't insist on any temples - she made a half hearted attempt and after I excitedly remarked that the Gods would be happy to have my darshan abandoned it. She just tied a black string on my wrist, put some vibhuti/kumkum and oil on my head earlier this morning. Only one lifetime for me Empty. Devi sends her love, but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Love, Ravi. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Share sez: my question: is direct transmission always necessary? Or is direct experience another option? Abrahamic traditions favor fidelity oaths to their gods and theological formulations. Sorta like the mafia. Transmission is for priests and monastics during ordinations. Ordination may give experience but that is not its purpose. The Orthodox and Cathholic Liturgy is a theurgic (god-working) rite, which originally had an experiential value but now is mostly a formulaic ritual demonstrating one's participation in the the club of believers-alike. Direct transmission occurs person to person, although it may be embodied during the conduct of a sacred rite. The catholic church was always suspicious of the gnostic overtones of someone's experience since it was totally subjective and often emotionally excessive. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: I love the bodhisattva Kwan Yin. from your post on Perennial Philosophy: While Perennial Philosophy is useful for breaking the fixity of conceptual views, in the minds of people without direct transmission of the foundational dimension of these traditions, it ends up as a summary.Inner-field versus outer-field is already the basis of most human concepts and delusions. my question: is direct transmission always necessary? Or is direct experience another option? From: emptybill To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:43 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today's my birthday  Ravi sez: ... but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Rebel ⦠Ravi ... Rebel! Against the tyranny of the three guna-s. Against forgetting your many lifetimes here - pleasured by somnolence. And yes, I have many lifetimes left ... that why I took bodhisattva vows. I took them from teachers of multiple transmission lineages. As a result, endless lifetimes await me ... but they are just collections of time and space. 1.   The number of beings is endless ⦠I vow to save them all. 2.cCravings, hatred and delusions are inexhaustible ⦠I vow to extinguish them all. 3.PPaths to reality are innumerable ⦠I vow to accomplish them all. 4.    Supreme awakening is ultimate ⦠I vow to realize it. Even here in the West, we've had this tradition for 2500 years. Haven't you ever read Plato's cave analogy? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:08 PM, emptybill wrote: Hope you have a good birthday, Ravioli. Your extended family looks very entertaining. When you get some time tell us how birthdays are celebrated there. Does your mom drag you to the temple? Do you perform a nine-graha puja? How many lifetimes before you no longer need a human body such a this to celebrate surfing on the ocean of prana - awake and unfettered? Thank you Empty baby for your wishes. My nephews got me cake, candles, coke and celebrated my birthday Western style :-). I got 2 new outfits from my sisters my mom. My mom is used to my irreverent ways and didn't insist on any temples - she made a half hearted attempt and after I excitedly remarked that the Gods would be happy to have my darshan abandoned it. She just tied a black string on my wrist, put some vibhuti/kumkum and oil on my head earlier this morning. Only one lifetime for me Empty. Devi sends her love, but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Love, Ravi. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Happy Belated Birthday, dear Ravi on here! I got you covered elsewhere! When you coming back to these States? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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EB wrote: Direct transmission occurs person to person, although it may be embodied during the conduct of a sacred rite. The catholic church was always suspicious of the gnostic overtones of someone's experience since it was totally subjective and often emotionally excessive. Share: Emptybill I admit I'm laughing here because how could the Church recognize only one end of the process? IOW they recognize the giving end of the process, but not the receiving end. Seems very unbalanced to me (-: From: emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 4:10 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today's my birthday to Emptybill Share sez: my question: is direct transmission always necessary? Or is direct experience another option? Abrahamic traditions favor fidelity oaths to their gods and theological formulations. Sorta like the mafia. Transmission is for priests and monastics during ordinations. Ordination may give experience but that is not its purpose. The Orthodox and Cathholic Liturgy is a theurgic (god-working) rite, which originally had an experiential value but now is mostly a formulaic ritual demonstrating one's participation in the the club of believers-alike. Direct transmission occurs person to person, although it may be embodied during the conduct of a sacred rite. The catholic church was always suspicious of the gnostic overtones of someone's experience since it was totally subjective and often emotionally excessive. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: I love the bodhisattva Kwan Yin. from your post on Perennial Philosophy: While Perennial Philosophy is useful for breaking the fixity of conceptual views, in the minds of people without direct transmission of the foundational dimension of these traditions, it ends up as a summary.Inner-field versus outer-field is already the basis of most human concepts and delusions. my question: is direct transmission always necessary? Or is direct experience another option? From: emptybill To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:43 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today's my birthday  Ravi sez: ... but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Rebel … Ravi ... Rebel! Against the tyranny of the three guna-s. Against forgetting your many lifetimes here - pleasured by somnolence. And yes, I have many lifetimes left ... that why I took bodhisattva vows. I took them from teachers of multiple transmission lineages. As a result, endless lifetimes await me ... but they are just collections of time and space. 1.   The number of beings is endless … I vow to save them all. 2.cCravings, hatred and delusions are inexhaustible … I vow to extinguish them all. 3.PPaths to reality are innumerable … I vow to accomplish them all. 4.    Supreme awakening is ultimate … I vow to realize it. Even here in the West, we've had this tradition for 2500 years. Haven't you ever read Plato's cave analogy? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:08 PM, emptybill wrote: Hope you have a good birthday, Ravioli. Your extended family looks very entertaining. When you get some time tell us how birthdays are celebrated there. Does your mom drag you to the temple? Do you perform a nine-graha puja? How many lifetimes before you no longer need a human body such a this to celebrate surfing on the ocean of prana - awake and unfettered? Thank you Empty baby for your wishes. My nephews got me cake, candles, coke and celebrated my birthday Western style :-). I got 2 new outfits from my sisters my mom. My mom is used to my irreverent ways and didn't insist on any temples - she made a half hearted attempt and after I excitedly remarked that the Gods would be happy to have my darshan abandoned it. She just tied a black string on my wrist, put some vibhuti/kumkum and oil on my head earlier this morning. Only one lifetime for me Empty. Devi sends her love, but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Love, Ravi. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Here's a multi-lifetime birthday cake for you...one candle for each human incarnation:
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Happy Birthday Ravi! (I'm so jealous that your're in India!) http://youtu.be/DtjCXPxhMuc --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. Wishes, wishes! (Hope your day was as full and happy as you could have wanted and that every day from yesterday onward will be deep and true and full of love.) I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Happy Birthday, Ravi, and many many more!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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OMG! This is too crazy funny. From: laughinggull108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 6:19 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today's my birthday Happy Birthday Ravi! (I'm so jealous that your're in India!) http://youtu.be/DtjCXPxhMuc --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Hope you have a good birthday, Ravioli. Your extended family looks very entertaining. When you get some time tell us how birthdays are celebrated there. Does your mom drag you to the temple? Do you perform a nine-graha puja? How many lifetimes before you no longer need a human body such a this to celebrate surfing on the ocean of prana - awake and unfettered? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Do you really think that's a good idea? [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tJApxyy8WJA/UOlvf6oASRI/A0U/D5Bt28Tg5\ Rs/s1600/Nithyananda-Birthday-cake-on-fire-2.jpg] ending up in a Strange Cosmos [:D] [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BwBpXYXw-E4/UOlvWjBfttI/A0I/1wwASKfuA\ NQ/s400/Nithyananda-Birthday-cake-on-fire.jpg] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfc-Yn43Qegfeature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfc-Yn43Qegfeature=player_embedded --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Here's a multi-lifetime birthday cake for you...one candle for each human incarnation:
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Thank you Barry - that's a real nice cake. I am too narcissistic to believe in past or future lives but I appreciate the gift :-) On Jan 19, 2013, at 3:09 PM, turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Here's a multi-lifetime birthday cake for you...one candle for each human incarnation:
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On Jan 19, 2013, at 9:58 AM, raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi Happy Birthday, Ravi. Party on! http://youtu.be/r_arxeY8vEM Thanks dear raunchy - nice video.
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Thank you LG - a cute, hilarious video :-) On Jan 19, 2013, at 7:49 PM, laughinggull108 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Happy Birthday Ravi! (I'm so jealous that your're in India!) http://youtu.be/DtjCXPxhMuc --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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On Jan 19, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Ann awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. Wishes, wishes! (Hope your day was as full and happy as you could have wanted and that every day from yesterday onward will be deep and true and full of love.) Thank you dear Ann. Love, Ravi. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Thanks Jim. On Jan 19, 2013, at 9:49 PM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Happy Birthday, Ravi, and many many more!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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with a little help from a friend [;)] [http://www.recado-virtual.com/scraps/birthday-in-hindi/7.gif] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/18/2013 07:13 PM, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi aapko janmdin mubaarak ho!
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, laughinggull108 wrote: Happy Birthday Ravi! (I'm so jealous that your're in India!) may help you out with some cake suggestion,too chocolate: [http://www.delish.com/cm/delish/images/vU/fleur-de-lisa-gold-hindu-god-\ eplephant-head-cake-xl.jpg] Alternating layers of blood orange and mocha cake filled with alternating layers of Irish Cream Mousse and Blood Orange chocolate truffle ganache!: [http://www.celebrationgeneration.com/BlogPics/GanacheGanesh.jpg] http://youtu.be/DtjCXPxhMuc --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:08 PM, emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Hope you have a good birthday, Ravioli. Your extended family looks very entertaining. When you get some time tell us how birthdays are celebrated there. Does your mom drag you to the temple? Do you perform a nine-graha puja? How many lifetimes before you no longer need a human body such a this to celebrate surfing on the ocean of prana - awake and unfettered? Thank you Empty baby for your wishes. My nephews got me cake, candles, coke and celebrated my birthday Western style :-). I got 2 new outfits from my sisters my mom. My mom is used to my irreverent ways and didn't insist on any temples - she made a half hearted attempt and after I excitedly remarked that the Gods would be happy to have my darshan abandoned it. She just tied a black string on my wrist, put some vibhuti/kumkum and oil on my head earlier this morning. Only one lifetime for me Empty. Devi sends her love, but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Love, Ravi. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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That's nice - thank you meru :-) On Jan 20, 2013, at 12:07 AM, merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: with a little help from a friend --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: On 01/18/2013 07:13 PM, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi aapko janmdin mubaarak ho!
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Ravi, Let me guess your Chandra lagna. You were born with the Moon in the third pada of Chitra nakshatra. Correct? And the Sun was in Sagittarius? Happy birthday, in any case! JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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Ravi sez: ... but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Rebel Ravi ... Rebel! Against the tyranny of the three guna-s. Against forgetting your many lifetimes here - pleasured by somnolence. And yes, I have many lifetimes left ... that why I took bodhisattva vows. I took them from teachers of multiple transmission lineages. As a result, endless lifetimes await me ... but they are just collections of time and space. 1.The number of beings is endless I vow to save them all. 2. cCravings, hatred and delusions are inexhaustible I vow to extinguish them all. 3.PPaths to reality are innumerable I vow to accomplish them all. 4. Supreme awakening is ultimate I vow to realize it. Even here in the West, we've had this tradition for 2500 years. Haven't you ever read Plato's cave analogy? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: On Jan 19, 2013, at 11:08 PM, emptybill wrote: Hope you have a good birthday, Ravioli. Your extended family looks very entertaining. When you get some time tell us how birthdays are celebrated there. Does your mom drag you to the temple? Do you perform a nine-graha puja? How many lifetimes before you no longer need a human body such a this to celebrate surfing on the ocean of prana - awake and unfettered? Thank you Empty baby for your wishes. My nephews got me cake, candles, coke and celebrated my birthday Western style :-). I got 2 new outfits from my sisters my mom. My mom is used to my irreverent ways and didn't insist on any temples - she made a half hearted attempt and after I excitedly remarked that the Gods would be happy to have my darshan abandoned it. She just tied a black string on my wrist, put some vibhuti/kumkum and oil on my head earlier this morning. Only one lifetime for me Empty. Devi sends her love, but your rebellious ways guarantee multiple lifetimes for you. Love, Ravi. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: Please don't feel shy and pass along your wishes. I celebrated at 12:00 AM India time with my family. Love, Ravi Happy Birthday, Ravi. Party on! http://youtu.be/r_arxeY8vEM
