VALENTINE'S DAY
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Basab
Thank you, Abhijit. I agree that the pic with the wig was a good one, but then, these days I am looking for my valentine, so thought of putting a proper picture of mine.
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Basab
Aseem,
Why do you make an issue about a small thing like virginity!
Why do you make an issue about a small thing like virginity!
aseem82 wrote:Just imagine a situation, I am about to give final affirmative to her parents. There are around family members.
I say "Hello uncle, Yes I have found my soul mate. I will be glad to be her partner. Hey wait a minute, i forgot one final question to her!!!"
All members looked into each other eyes as if surprised.
I turned to my prospective soul mate " Hey will you maintain the vow of celibacy after marriage? Are you a virgin?
This surprises her and her father faints.
But instead she barks at me "woof! woof!..grrrr"...Well this is sure sign of not being virgin!!!
But if she looks into my eyes, I sense her innocence in her eyes and comes forward to hold my hands. Wow, finally my real soulmate!!!
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Basab
Keep your standard to yourself because this discussion board has a standard of its own, which it will stick to.
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Basab
I hope the daring man will get a caring wife.
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Basab
Thanks, buddy. I hope I get a caring wife. I really wish I get married to someone who has a strong influence of Moon on her chart.
About combinations for love marriage, there is only one combination I know of, and that is, the connection between the 5th and 7th house/lord.
About connections for multiple affairs and arranged marriage, well, difficult to say. I mean, I don't know the specific combinations. I see a chart overall and give my prediction.
About combinations for love marriage, there is only one combination I know of, and that is, the connection between the 5th and 7th house/lord.
About connections for multiple affairs and arranged marriage, well, difficult to say. I mean, I don't know the specific combinations. I see a chart overall and give my prediction.
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shinu.mehrotra
Dear Romeos,
Love is only perishable item if looked from the physical aspects of it but very enriching, happiness and feelings of completeness from the heart point of view. Everyone should get married from heart point of view and it is only then one knows the love of God. It is in perfecting love between a couple that they can see what God's love is like.
Love is only perishable item if looked from the physical aspects of it but very enriching, happiness and feelings of completeness from the heart point of view. Everyone should get married from heart point of view and it is only then one knows the love of God. It is in perfecting love between a couple that they can see what God's love is like.
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Basab
Hi Shinu,
I believe in 'love at first sight' like a true Romeo, but in first sight, you just get to see how the person looks, not how she is nature-wise.
I believe in 'love at first sight' like a true Romeo, but in first sight, you just get to see how the person looks, not how she is nature-wise.
shinu.mehrotra wrote:Dear Romeos,
Love is only perishable item if looked from the physical aspects of it but very enriching, happiness and feelings of completeness from the heart point of view. Everyone should get married from heart point of view and it is only then one knows the love of God. It is in perfecting love between a couple that they can see what God's love is like.
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Basab
Anupamji,
As I have told you before also, I don’t see my horoscope to get answers to my life. Why should I do the mistake of trying to understand my life from my horoscope when I know I am not an expert in astrology! ‘Little knowledge is dangerous’ it is said, and I have learned the harsh truth of that saying a few times in my life in a bitter way—when I had expected my horoscope to give some good results in certain planetary periods, and the reverse had happened. Well, sometimes we want destiny to defy logic, but it never does that, and so, nothing happened as I had seen in my birth chart.
I will not also bring the defense of predestined destiny in answering my question as to why I took to spirituality because logic is enough to show it.
Yes, I agree with you that many when they go through lean phases in their life take to alcohol, drugs or women in their frustration, but peace still eludes them. Now, coming to why I didn’t get myself into any of those things, well, there is a simple reason behind that: I have always been morally upright and have looked down upon those people who take to those vices. So there was never a question of my taking to them.
If you ask me, I didn’t take to spirituality earlier, even though my life was extremely difficult. At that time I tried to accept it with this belief that it was my destiny, and honestly speaking, that is still the belief I keep, that is still the way I try to accept my life even today: that it is my destiny. Spirituality has, I will honestly tell you, not helped me anyway in accepting my life. It’s very peaceful, very comforting, to read on spirituality, but it doesn’t help me more than that.
But my point here is, why the suffering to drive me into spirituality? I don’t think forcing someone to something ever helps. And even though I have read spiritual books constantly for the last 2 years, it has not changed my mindset one bit from what it was earlier. This shows how God has failed to achieve His mission of forcing me to love Him and forget everything for Him.
To sum it up, I will say only one thing: I was forced to get into a situation where I had two choices: either to take to alcohol, drugs, women or to take to spirituality. That doesn't show the spiritual bent of mind in me, but shows my good morals coming into play here, which made me choose the latter option.
The true test to finding out whether I have a spiritual or materialistic bent of mind is to make me choose either a successful materialistic life or a succesful spiritual life, and then, we will know what I truly wish for. But destiny never plays a fair game with any of us. Yes, the law of karma is the fairest law of all, if seen from the perspective of previous lifetimes, but then, it is the most unfair law of all if seen from the perspective of this life, and I will see from the perspective of this life because I can see this life only, not what I have done in my other lives. I know this seems like child's talk, but then, this is what I will always say, even if God gives me all the logic of past life samaskaras and past life karmas because I am a normal human being, who cries when he is hurt and smiles when he is happy. Everything else is pretension and compromise and acceptance, as I see it, to save oneself from getting hurt, but then, I don't pretend because I know I can pretend to be happy, to have grown spiritual, in front of everyone, but I will be lying to my own self that way.
As I have told you before also, I don’t see my horoscope to get answers to my life. Why should I do the mistake of trying to understand my life from my horoscope when I know I am not an expert in astrology! ‘Little knowledge is dangerous’ it is said, and I have learned the harsh truth of that saying a few times in my life in a bitter way—when I had expected my horoscope to give some good results in certain planetary periods, and the reverse had happened. Well, sometimes we want destiny to defy logic, but it never does that, and so, nothing happened as I had seen in my birth chart.
I will not also bring the defense of predestined destiny in answering my question as to why I took to spirituality because logic is enough to show it.
Yes, I agree with you that many when they go through lean phases in their life take to alcohol, drugs or women in their frustration, but peace still eludes them. Now, coming to why I didn’t get myself into any of those things, well, there is a simple reason behind that: I have always been morally upright and have looked down upon those people who take to those vices. So there was never a question of my taking to them.
If you ask me, I didn’t take to spirituality earlier, even though my life was extremely difficult. At that time I tried to accept it with this belief that it was my destiny, and honestly speaking, that is still the belief I keep, that is still the way I try to accept my life even today: that it is my destiny. Spirituality has, I will honestly tell you, not helped me anyway in accepting my life. It’s very peaceful, very comforting, to read on spirituality, but it doesn’t help me more than that.
But my point here is, why the suffering to drive me into spirituality? I don’t think forcing someone to something ever helps. And even though I have read spiritual books constantly for the last 2 years, it has not changed my mindset one bit from what it was earlier. This shows how God has failed to achieve His mission of forcing me to love Him and forget everything for Him.
To sum it up, I will say only one thing: I was forced to get into a situation where I had two choices: either to take to alcohol, drugs, women or to take to spirituality. That doesn't show the spiritual bent of mind in me, but shows my good morals coming into play here, which made me choose the latter option.
The true test to finding out whether I have a spiritual or materialistic bent of mind is to make me choose either a successful materialistic life or a succesful spiritual life, and then, we will know what I truly wish for. But destiny never plays a fair game with any of us. Yes, the law of karma is the fairest law of all, if seen from the perspective of previous lifetimes, but then, it is the most unfair law of all if seen from the perspective of this life, and I will see from the perspective of this life because I can see this life only, not what I have done in my other lives. I know this seems like child's talk, but then, this is what I will always say, even if God gives me all the logic of past life samaskaras and past life karmas because I am a normal human being, who cries when he is hurt and smiles when he is happy. Everything else is pretension and compromise and acceptance, as I see it, to save oneself from getting hurt, but then, I don't pretend because I know I can pretend to be happy, to have grown spiritual, in front of everyone, but I will be lying to my own self that way.
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Basab
Aseem,
You are indeed a very mature person. About your adding me on facebook, yes it is one of those stories that makes one believe more strongly that everything is predestined, indeed. I had read a couple of your posts here before you added me, but I never thought in my life that we would be chatting on facebook and become best of friends. I was quite surprised when you added me, but then, I remembered very clearly that it was you from here because your old picture here, wearing a hat, had quite impressed me and made me wonder who is this cowboy in India?
Yes, we had the most amazing chatting that anyone can even think of, and though we fought, we had some real masala talks on facebook as well as here, and time really flied, the last few months. Yes, I will too cherish your company and will always remember the wonderful chat we had the last few months. If someone had got it recorded and published it as a book, I can bet that it would have been the bestseller of all times.
Yes, destiny is predestined, and God's coming to the rescue is also predestined, I feel.
You are indeed a very mature person. About your adding me on facebook, yes it is one of those stories that makes one believe more strongly that everything is predestined, indeed. I had read a couple of your posts here before you added me, but I never thought in my life that we would be chatting on facebook and become best of friends. I was quite surprised when you added me, but then, I remembered very clearly that it was you from here because your old picture here, wearing a hat, had quite impressed me and made me wonder who is this cowboy in India?
Yes, we had the most amazing chatting that anyone can even think of, and though we fought, we had some real masala talks on facebook as well as here, and time really flied, the last few months. Yes, I will too cherish your company and will always remember the wonderful chat we had the last few months. If someone had got it recorded and published it as a book, I can bet that it would have been the bestseller of all times.
Yes, destiny is predestined, and God's coming to the rescue is also predestined, I feel.
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Basab
Aseem,
If everything is predestined, then there is no scope of doing new karma. I do say that destiny is predestined and by that I mean that we are reaping the sweet and sour fruits of the karma of our previous lives, and about the karmas we are doing in this life, we will get the results of that in the next life. So in this life destiny is predestined even if we do new karmas. Or maybe it is like this that some effect of this life's karma will be experienced in this life itself, but it is so minor in comparison to the whole of the result of the karmas done in the previous life, that it's okay to say that destiny is predestined if not thought of literally.
About poor people being benefitted by charity, it is possible that it is the good karma they have done in the previous life, which is getting them benefit now, but I can't say whether that is exactly the case.
About Mahatma Gandhi being killed, well, I guess it was predestined as it is said that Gandhi himself had a feeling of his coming death and he had given small hints of that even through his activities. Why God chose him to be assasined, if it is to be thought that way, well, who can know the plan of God. One needs to reach his position to understand Him.
If everything is predestined, then there is no scope of doing new karma. I do say that destiny is predestined and by that I mean that we are reaping the sweet and sour fruits of the karma of our previous lives, and about the karmas we are doing in this life, we will get the results of that in the next life. So in this life destiny is predestined even if we do new karmas. Or maybe it is like this that some effect of this life's karma will be experienced in this life itself, but it is so minor in comparison to the whole of the result of the karmas done in the previous life, that it's okay to say that destiny is predestined if not thought of literally.
About poor people being benefitted by charity, it is possible that it is the good karma they have done in the previous life, which is getting them benefit now, but I can't say whether that is exactly the case.
About Mahatma Gandhi being killed, well, I guess it was predestined as it is said that Gandhi himself had a feeling of his coming death and he had given small hints of that even through his activities. Why God chose him to be assasined, if it is to be thought that way, well, who can know the plan of God. One needs to reach his position to understand Him.
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Basab
Aseem,aseem82 wrote:but how we know we are doing new karmas?
If we don't do karmas then how have we created our destiny? If we don't do any karma we won't have any destiny as destiny is the result of the karmas we have done in our previous lives. And then if we don't do any karma, then what is the need to be spiritual as sooner or later the old karmas that we have done will get burned off and we will get salvation without any effort of our own.
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Basab
Aseem,aseem82 wrote:So when you say that everything is predestined, you don't believe in the next 2-3 births?
I answered this question of yours in my previous-to-previous post. Let me write the portion from there which answers your question:
I do say that destiny is predestined and by that I mean that we are reaping the sweet and sour fruits of the karma of our previous lives, and about the karmas we are doing in this life, we will get the results of that in the next life. So in this life destiny is predestined even if we do new karmas.
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Basab
Well, there maybe is, but I don't know about it.
aseem82 wrote:is there any way to distinguish new karmas from karmas from previous lives in this life?
