by Dinesh.Srivastava » Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:19 am
@ "BOY"
Your copy and paste of thousands of words from google search , preaching morality and ethics , quoting political writers and what not .... means nothing to me .... just sounds of air in a hollow shell
Good day all,
I have been accused of doing a cut and past job . yes That is true . I have cut and paste things from the Net before, and I will do it again of the need arises . But I can proudly say, For every 10 lines I have cut and Past, I have typed a 100 lines on this forum.
the whole astrological community is about cut and paste. We have to work on existent yogas, fundamentals and dictums. I am no Parsahara, Nor am I VarahaMihira That I can come up with some dictum of my own and write a thesis on astrology .. There are treasure troves of Yogas out there, what is wrong in cutting and pasting them on L.O.V.A. ?
I ask anybody on this forum. If you can find one paragraph which I have written on "The Nakshatras" thread, any where else on the internet Then I will stop writting on this forum . The objective of that thread was to get 6 books on the Net . Tomorrow, Some one will pick what I have written on that thread, and then Post it on another web site . And I will be happy when that is done because knowledge is spread . That is what the Internet is about . To spread information .
P.V.N.R. ji, created a software that has been picked up by half a million people to date. Even if he had charged a 1000 Rs ( Parashara light costs 20 k) he would have made a cool 50 crores . Why has he given it for free ? So that Knowledge can be spread . Why are his classes up on the net ? So that other people who do not have direct access to him can gain his knowledge. If some one quotes P.V.N.R. ji , is he not cutting and pasting P.V.N.R. ji's Work . What is wrong if cut and paste something which I think would benefit our community ? I have always quoted the original source of the information and also paid due regards to the author of any book or internet web site I refer to .
Why do we pay a price for a book we purchase ? Firstly its for the author efforts to compile information, then the cost of editing and the marketing . Take for example "Light on life" By "Dr Robert Svoboda". When he quotes Phala Deepika, is he not cutting and pasting the slokha on the book ? What is extra is his commentary . But his commentary will be within the premise of The slokha which is in Phaladeepika . He cannot step out of the boundary and create his own or bend the dictum or modify it in any way . If we cut and paste again and again , its because Astrology is always going to remain sacrosanct to the 26 odd classical texts. When in doubt we will always run back there and we will always quote the same slokas again and again for generations to come .
People who criticise others should always remember that it's easy to sit back and pass negative comments at others . It is one thing to cut and paste . It is another thing to know what to cut and paste . Arm chair critics are like the scum of this earth . They do nothing , don't let other do anything , and if the others succeed in doing something , they criticise and poke fun at them . When challenged to produce some results , they happen to be busy with other things and dont have the time to sit day and night . But otherwise they have all the time in the world to pick holes in other peoples work .
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