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*Karma Cola*
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Posted : Aug 8, 2005 17:58
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On 2005-08-08 11:28, h2so4 wrote:
Damn, I am a slow reader!
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It took my mother 1 whole year to completely understand and read the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead'. Its not the pace that counts , its the understanding which is the real accomplishment.
Right now i'm rading somethn different. 'Kite Runner'!! Anyone heard of it ?
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acidity
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Posted : Aug 8, 2005 18:44
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Actually, I read only while going to bed. After the days work - the eyes are hardly open for 10-15 minutes. Thus I am able to comprehend only 2-3 paragraphs.
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sorceress
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who is Kite Runner by
hmmm
the next book i read would be Crime and Punishment
i've not read russian litrature at all.
but am very int.
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acidity
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Posted : Aug 9, 2005 09:52
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the next book i read would be Crime and Punishment
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By and whats it about?
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sorceress
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Posted : Aug 9, 2005 10:28
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
its a classic
talks about early russian society hiarchy, and the govt.
with that backdrop the story is about this mad ass man who thinks he can get away with a crime for he is as smart as Einstien.
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cosmic gill
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Posted : Aug 9, 2005 13:21
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
based in afganistan.......takes u from the final days of Afghanistan’s monarchy to the present.
1 powerful read must say.......
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acidity
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Posted : Aug 9, 2005 13:26
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
its a classic
talks about early russian society hiarchy, and the govt.
with that backdrop the story is about this mad ass man who thinks he can get away with a crime for he is as smart as Einstien.
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Thx. Let me know once you finish it. I might try it too after I finish the autobiography.
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*Karma Cola*
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Yeah.. just started 'Kite Runner' and its pretty good. Light tho, but good. 
Anyways, the following is part of my research paper for my English class and i thought maybe u gusy wud be interested...
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In the hindu outlook, death maybe thought of as a separation of the subtle body from the physical one. After death, the subtle body identifies with its consciousness and consistent with its individual 'karma' will identify with another appropriate physical body. Hinduism's holiest text, the Bhagavad Gita, compares death to changing of clothes:
"As, after casting away worn garments, a man later takes new ones, so, after casting away old bodies, the embodied Self encounters new ones" ( Bhagavad Gita 2:22, Coward 74).
At the time of death the Self, embarks on a journey , the destiny of which is determined by its aquired merits or demerits.
The Hindu perspective also offers a number of possibilities of this destiny.
If our lives have been brutish and our thoughts cruel and destructive, our journeys take us to regions of darkness or a rebirth in a subhuman form, most likely as a plant of animal. But in contrast to western religions this period is not indefinite. When the effects of the actions or karma has been exhausted we return to human form to continue the onward journey.
A second possibilty is to be reborn as a human, which is the common fate of a virtuous person whose merits and demerits are evenly balanced.
The third possibility, is the attainment of the heavenly world. Life in this heavenly world is immensely pleasurable but also not indefinite. This world is purely for those virtuous persons who desire a reward for their virtue. When the fruits of these virtuous actions are exhausted, such individals are reborn in the human sphere. This heavenly world is purely for enjoyment and offers no opportunity for Self - growth.
The fourth possibility is the journey to the world of the creator - brahmaloka. From this world there is no return to mortality. However, this realm offers the individual spiritual growth and is also a path to gradual liberation of the soul.
The fifth possibility and arguably the most important, involves no journey at all. It is the destiny of those in this life to attain their complete identity - or 'nirvana'. Such rare persons are considered to be wholly liberated even in the body. At the time of death, the eternal liberated self abides in its own nature ( Coward 84, 85).
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Posted : Aug 10, 2005 18:45
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On 2005-08-09 10:28, sorceress wrote:
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
its a classic
talks about early russian society hiarchy, and the govt.
with that backdrop the story is about this mad ass man who thinks he can get away with a crime for he is as smart as Einstien.
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crime and punishment:I couldnt end this one.
Fyodor Dostoyefsky-the basement
very good one ,after reading that book I was looking at people from one step higher and put them in gategories...almost 15 years before.
sad book, how a short poor man was looking at the tall and strong ones of high society...hard life.
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psycoactive psybeing
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SILENCE IN THE BEGINNING N SILENCE IN THE END |
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sorceress
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Posted : Aug 12, 2005 10:00
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i saw an amazing film called Pai yesterday.
amazed on the number of things the movie spoke about... from Kabahla to cosmos to stock brokerage to computer conciousness to llife to death to god
words too cease now.
@ Gopendra
Fyodor Dostoyefsky has a very very different style of writting.
i have not read all his works but all that i have read is well appriciated
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acidity
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Posted : Aug 12, 2005 16:09
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amazed on the number of things the movie spoke about... from Kabahla to cosmos to stock brokerage to computer conciousness to llife to death to god
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Aahhhhhhhh....Brilliant movie from a brilliant director. Its little hard to grasp in the beginning with all the talks about numbers etc etc etc.
Brilliant...brillliant..brilliant....from the same director as Requiem for a Dream!
RFAD is a must for psy lovers! Truly trippy
Btw, its called Pi not Pai 
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sorceress
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Posted : Aug 12, 2005 16:31
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ooops...
guess i should have smoked that extra splif before th movie 
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Posted : Aug 12, 2005 17:08
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ooops...
guess i should have smoked that extra splif before th movie
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shouldn't have or should have?
no more spiffs 
btw the books a heavvvvy read!!
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sorceress
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Posted : Aug 13, 2005 11:14
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i saw the ressurrection of my guru... the chapter comes in llike a storm and unviels some of the greatest knowledge. am inspired.
@ Karma Kola - the three bodies that he mentions are they all on this plane??? here again the similar question excites me is it really after death experience they are mentioning or it is just a state of mind here on earth...
@ exotic... which book u talking about
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