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There will be a civil war of epic proportions of the likes the fed will lose on all fronts if they enact this legislation. Many lives will probably be lost but liberty has no other choice when stuffed in a cage and beat with a big stick. I am not calling for this one bit they are. I am not cheer leading this on here either but they are.
IMO Lee was one of the most brilliant military commanders of all time. I put him up there with men like Hannibal, Rommel and Nelson.
No two reason not much they can do and if they try Obama will cut off Federal funds we been down this road before.
daring Uncle to either sue (as happened in Arizona) or not enforce the Federal law as seems to be what is happening
in the pro MJ states.
As much as I am an O fan, he is now being quite inconsistent in his approach. He needs to either smack the
MJ legalizing states down (even though I'm for a liberal drug policy) else he will be giving up too much Federal authority.
It will be hard to go to the Supremes and claim Federal supremacy on anything after letting the MJ stuff slide.
What this means is that Uncle may well have manipulated itself into a position in which states will gain
tremendous power from having legalized MJ; and they may gain more if DOMA goes down in the SC, too.
These two issues really turn on how The Supremes will ultimately handle the matter. And decisions made on
both issues will influence if not directly affect any state laws on guns which might go against Uncle's laws.
Note, I don't much approve of state's rights, wish the 10th were "amended" out of existence etc. and that
a stronger supremacy clause were added to the constitution, but that's just my viewpoint. Reality is that
DOJ needs to be more consistent in policy and not pick battles selectively. And before you all bop me and flame
me, isn't state's rights the reason NY, IL, CA, and NJ are pains in the back side for us when we travel?
We can't let our thinking go to after laws are enacted. Our energy must be focused on how to stop this all together. Unity and voice now can slow the train. Some small things may get passed but we must hold legislators accountable immediately. They will not willingly fire themselves and they know if enough are angry that will happen..
My big fear is the gov will be more subtle.. Going for AR's, magazines, and registration for now. These just make sense they will say and do not take guns or harm rights. Then after that slips in they will go for the final drop. That's when you need states and push back! Once guns are registered it is only time until forced confiscation.
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Dreaming while awake (not lucid dreaming, this is the other way around)
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Posted 11 May 2005 - 11:02 PM
In the mornings I have noticed when I am being woken up I am still in my dreams.
For instance this morning I was still in my dream in the manner that I was trying to find the second part of "getting out of bed" and I had no idea what the meaning of the phrase was, nor where I could find it and I had the understanding that I already had the first part of "getting out of bed" not knowing what the first part was either. Both parts were somehow part of my last dream and I am not sure where I was looking but I was definately trying to figure it out what and why and how, etc.
How I remember this happening is sometimes I will realize what I was just thinking then say wait wow no thats not right getting out of bed is this, 2 parts, what was I thinking.
It is usually part of whatever I was dreaming about.
Does anyone know anything about this?
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Posted 27 April 2006 - 08:23 AM
When I'm woken up in a morning, my dream doesn't end. I'll be aware that I need to get up.. but don't actually understand how to do that. Usually I end up performing some quest in my dream thinking it will allow me to get up.
I can talk to people in this state, but won't remember any of it.
It's really annoying, I'm constantly being accused of being lazy for it, but I'm not in a state where logic applies
It usually takes about 30 mins before I come round to reality after waking up.
(Oh yeah.. I'm currently being tested for narcolepsy.. looks like it will be since the symptoms match.. maybe that could have something to do with it)
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Posted 27 April 2006 - 10:33 AM
I don't think the other two fall in this disease though. Maybe it's just daydreaming. Maybe you're tired and need some rest.
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Posted 27 April 2006 - 11:18 AM
When it occur, I used to try very hard and repeat big breath to wake myself up, it's useful. I found out that even you lose any controll of your muscles, you can't talk, yell, move your head... but except your breathing muscle, maybe it is because that muscle being controlled by intentionally or automaticly by our brain (I forgot how scientical words to express it). So maybe next time you can try it out.
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Anyways, as someone not being a first to be part of the " The Other Side". Recently I was half way there in a great experience with friends in a remote cabin. I don't know if I can mention the substances used in this forum, Salvia was a semi part of that trip, but anyhow, I really got what I wanted out of that weekend for the first time.
So heres my point to look for cheap trips or semi hallucinations, don't be too excited, this may only apply to people who get Sleep Paralysis every now and then:
I usually get that thing called " Sleep Paralysis", it goes back centuries to the "old hag tale", about an invisble presence sitting on your chest being unable to move,it use to freak me out when I was younger, but now being in my mid 20s I am positive its all part of my simple bodily functions. Although recently I heard stories of this sleep disorder reaching a higher degree which is frightening where the bedroom door opens and you actually see a blue demon come inside the room when you can't move, paranomally speaking. Well to get back on the topic, its when your body won't function and your mind is fully engaged, and your stuck in your bed not being able to move. This usually happens before and awaking from sleep.
So what I do to avoid a bad trip is do this during the day. In my 8-12am work schedule, I come home moderately tired. Heres the points.
1.Eat enough to make you sleepy. For some reason I can fall asleep better in the afternoon vs most average nights.
2. So just lie down, assuming your gonna take a nap for about an hour.
3.So just lie there, and once that feeling comes when your about to knock out, take advantage of that. This is the chance if you choose to expereice this instead of being afraid.
4.This is not really a dream, because you can actually pay attention to the room you are in.
5. So being not able to move, just pay attention to your 5 senses. What usually starts off for me is when I am about to drift off, you can feel some kind of presence in the room,and you feel like some weird gravity is pulling you out of your bed, and its pretty kool. I usually hear like a siren, or something trying to pull me.
6.It's all a game of that sense when your going to have that nightmare and you wake yourself up, rather than staying in your dream". Thats what it is, but this time your not dreaming, you just can't move, all you gotta do is just hang out and try to pay attention to whats going on so you can remember it later, which is hard like when it comes to dreams. I thought I share this, seems to be safe and free of consequences. Recently I had this uncoventional trip that can last for like a long 5 minutes.
I have had this dream trip so many times, I am for real. Its kind of like those wierd dreams where you are impressed you can remember that weird flying Alien in your dream with disco lights around, stuff like that. Well anyways, I guess I have Narcolepsy.
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Posted 1 September 2007 - 03:08 AM
First of all, it isn't narcolepsy. I do have ME, but that doesn't explain this (and other's with ME don't seem to experience it).
I do know one other person who goes through a similar thing, although not as strongly. He gets sleep paralysis while waking up, I get it while going to sleep.
The main link though, is that we both have incredibly vivid dreams, mine are often lucid.
Recently i've been slipping into dream during the process of getting to sleep aswell, i'll be resting in bed, and all of a sudden, i'll think i'm doing something.. in my bed usually, for example.. talking to people on my laptop..
after 30 seconds max i'll realise i'm dreaming and snap out of it.. the reason i wouldn't say i've slipped into sleep at this point, is that at the same time as dreaming, i'm aware of what's going on around me.. the two conciousness' just seem to run separately at the same time :S
Another thing that seems to be unique to me is my creativity going into overdrive before sleep, i'll conjure up new faces and places in my mind instantly with incredible detail..
As for a cause for this, I have no idea. I'm hoping that it's a result of having ME, or at least being worsened by it.. ME does affect sleep in different ways.. will have to see if it changes any as i progress through mickel therapy.
Messily written, hadn't planned it out.. but someinfo there might be helpful
Oh, on the second page of google results I found out what it is.. "Hypnagogia"
Certainly accounts for the frequency of lucid dreams I have..
And although mine are more dreamlike than what that article suggests, it is a very similar description to what someone above wrote..
I'm surprised this was so hard to find
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Posted 2 September 2007 - 05:54 PM
A good example is fashion. When the new styles appear, these magic articles of cloth give the wearer strength and poise. When you look back at the power clothes of the past, some of it looks quite silly, i.e., polyester leisure suits. Typically one sees that connection only after they awaken from one collective dream and have entered a new one. People show all the signs of being awake while interacting in a collective dream. Maybe the principle of sleep walking apply; it is better not to wake them.
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Posted 4 October 2007 - 03:20 AM
A good example is fashion. When the new styles appear, these magic articles of cloth give the wearer strength and poise. When you look back at the power clothes of the past, some of it looks quite silly, i.e., polyester leisure suits. Typically one sees that connection only after they awaken from one collective dream and have entered a new one. People show all the signs of being awake while interacting in a collective dream. Maybe the principle of sleep walking apply; it is better not to wake them.
I think fashion generally is more about human boredom with aesthetics, than with a cultural delusion, or daydream. People have, for quite some time, craved for fashion, design, architectural, etc, change for the sake of change. Obviously we could live quite well and without a problem if we all dressed in blue overalls, or just practically (not fancily) for an environment. Fashions are just, well, nice, but not a true necessity.
I think delusion comes into it when you see someone dressed like an outlaw biker for example. The delusion is Im tough, nothing can beat me, I will fight to the death, Im immortal. When of course, in reality, they are as frail as you and me.
Or, an overweight middle aged woman, dressed like she is a 17 year old love goddess, in skin tight jeans and top, for example.
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Posted 16 March 2008 - 06:35 AM
I don't really understand the whole concept of the human mind, I've hallucinated once when I was 6 and still don't understand how or why I saw what I did... any explanations on why this may occur?
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in fact it`s That common, that in the army, you cannot be held responsible for any actions taken within 1 minute of waking up!
why do you think the Drill Sgt uses a long stick to wake you with?
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We've got a new "Think Again" column called "Olympic Coverage or Cover Up," here. Take a look at the last two paragraphs even if you don't care about that for the latest in "heckuva job, Brownie"-style Bush appointments.
Earlier this week at The Nation, I wrote about Tom Brokaw's assertion that John McCain won the Republican primary because of his "indomitable will" -- Brokaw opined that McCain was "the most authentic ... he wasn't trying to reinvent himself." I pointed out that McCain's victory was predicated on massive changes in positions on many issues -- 74 by Steve Benen's count -- and so it was an inaccurate thing for Brokaw to say; one of the best examples of the press's blindness to McCain's shifting policy positions.
Now, again this week, Brokaw has offered yet another paean that unsubtly encapsulates another journalistic weakness many have for McCain. Right after Bill Clinton finished speaking, Brokaw had this to say (video):
BROKAW: Well, look, for Bill Clinton, and for anyone in the Democratic Party for that matter, it's a very tricky case taking on John McCain and trying to rough him up. When John McCain was sitting in a prison in Hanoi, Bill Clinton was writing letters to his ROTC commander and trying to get out of the draft, which he did successfully.
One could talk extensively on the conservative record of supporting the military (for just a small example, see our Think Again column from this spring), but let's highlight the obvious and immediate problems with this statement.
Bill Clinton went out of his way to repeatedly commend McCain's service -- his only attacks were on policy and judgment matters, which have nothing to do with military service.
Saying "anyone in the Democratic Party" would have such a problem makes one wonder why NBC sent Brokaw to Denver if he wasn't going pay attention to the stage. Last night featured a stream of current and former soldiers speaking as Democrats.
One such person was John Kerry, also a Vietnam veteran, who was on his way to the stage as Brokaw spoke.
Again, Brokaw is no longer in semi-retired irrelevance: he is the current host of Meet the Press and is present at virtually every major political event covered by NBC News. These kinds of clueless statements about John McCain leave us unsurprised that Brokaw still spends most of the week in a cabin in Montana, and hopeful that he'll decide to just stay there.
Geroge Zornick writes: Politico is fronting a story today about Obama by Carrie Budoff Brown, which is full of conventional-wisdom fluff. The blurb on the front page reads: "Self-assurance has carried him to the pinnacle of American politics. But skeptics believe confidence can curdle into arrogance," and that's all you really need to know about the story. If you want to see how Budoff Brown gets 2,000 words out of that, go nuts.
I'll just point out this quote, high up in the piece:
At a San Francisco fundraiser earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Obama "a leader that God has blesses [sic] us with at this time."
It's meant to display the arrogance of the candidate and his followers, and is rather popular in the media -- see here, here, here, and so on.
Do you recall any such declarations of arrogance from the media in the past two elections? You know, when this stuff was being said:
- "This was Providence. ... Anybody looking at the 2000 election would have to say it was a miraculous deliverance, and I think people felt it again this year." -- Charles Colson, Nixon adviser
- "God gave this President and this President's Party one more chance. God heard the fervent prayers of millions of values voters to keep His hand on America one more time." -- Paul Weyrich, Heritage Foundation founder and Washington Times columnist
- "Thank God that George Bush is our president." -- Rudy Giuliani
- "George Bush is a leader for our times. When we sing 'God Bless America,' it is a prayer, and I believe this person is part of God's answer." -- U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman
- "'I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it." George W. Bush
I could have gone on, but my Googling fingers got tired.
The silly season on guessing the Democratic vice presidential nominee is thankfully over, and the Republican version has been truncated by convention coverage. Truncated -- but still here. Behold the reporting from ABC News:
Romney was followed to the airport by a grey unmarked Chevy SUV with police lights. Two men wearing suits using ear pieces were in the driver and passenger seats.
Aha! Although:
They did not appear to follow Romney into the terminal.... [and] while the men following Romney with ear pieces stoked further speculation about whether he has come under protection in advance of a vice presidential announcement, it should be noted that the vehicle following Romney did not have Maryland plates.
ABC's Bret Hovell reports that everywhere McCain has gone in the country with Secret Service protection his SUVs have had Maryland plates.
Oh, but:
On the other hand, ABC's Ann Compton notes that Barack Obama's Secret Service vehicles do not always have D.C. or Maryland plates.
The plot thickens. The ABC News team is on it.
(Note: It looks like ABC took down the license plate speculation...)
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There's a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but also about honor. I wonder if you could define honor for us?
Read it in my books.
I've read your books.
No, I'm not going to define it.
But honor in politics?
I defined it in five books. Read my books.
What did the Democrats accomplish this week, and can they deliver real change while still playing old fashioned Beltway politics? In the historic moment of the first African-American nominee for President, Bill Moyers sits down with Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and University of Pennsylvania professor of political science Adolph Reed Jr. to discuss the promises from the DNC and expectations of Barack Obama. Also on the program, Bill Moyers speaks with political analysts Merle and Earl Black, who've tracked the American electorate for years. They will discuss how American demographics -- particularly votes from the Southern and the swing states, such as Ohio and Pennsylvania -- will influence the campaign and the election.
From the SEIU: The Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) will hold their first Take Back Labor Day Festival September 1st, at the foot of the Republican National Convention. Events will kick off at noon at Harriet Island Regional Park with a family area and other activities. The concert will run from 3-7 p.m. with musicians The Pharcyde, Mos Def, Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Atmosphere, Billy Bragg, and Tom Morello & friends. Joining the performers for the afternoon concert will be SEIU leaders Andy Stern and Anna Burger, progressive syndicated talk show host Thom Hartmann, and other special guests.
One of the very best political documentary films of the year -- and one that is terribly relevant to this election campaign -- is about a man who died in 1991. Here at the Impact Film Festival I just saw Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, "a powerful and strangely moving account of how sewer tactics became business as usual in the modern Republican Party," so writes Joe Conason here. And he's right. The movie also features the Alterman family cat -- or one of them, the good one, truth be told -- "Duke" in extended sequences ...
Name: Richard Gallagher
Hometown: Fishkill, NY
Dear Eric,
I did a little research on the people quoted by Associated Press reporter Mike Baker in his hit piece on Elizabeth Edwards.
Brad Crone, the "Raleigh-based Democratic consultant," owns a company called Campaign Connections which produces direct mail and other advertising for some Democrats in North Carolina.
If you click on his client list, you will see names that most people outside of North Carolina will not recognize, and it appears that he never worked for John Edwards.
Betsy Wells is the chairman of the Cleveland County (NC) Democratic Party. Cleveland County is a rural county with a population of approximately 100,000. Wells worked for the Edwards campaign in New Hampshire in 2004, where she passed out North Carolina peanuts.
Chris Lehane, the only other person Baker quotes by name, has indeed been a real political consultant on a national level, but as you point out Lehane's comments are not even remotely critical of Mrs. Edwards.
Why do I have the feeling that Baker wrote his story first and then searched for quotes from some Democrats (no matter how obscure) who would support his thesis?
A quick Google search shows that Mike Baker has been writing about the campaign, the Edwardses, and Washington generally for the AP for some time. Wouldn't that mean his editor, who should be ashamed, is the AP's Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier?
Don't hold your breath, in that case.
Name: Ian
Hometown: Los Angeles
All day long on America Online, I saw that stupid story on Elizabeth Edwards and thought, who in god's name could be criticizing her? When I finally read it I thought, who the hell is reporting this? It's not news. It's not reporting. It's barely disguised gossip. So after reading Dr. A's piece above, I sent the AP a letter. Not that it will do any good.
Name: Steve Thorne
Hometown: Somewhere in California
Ben Stein was a speech writer for Nixon. If you watch the video of Nixon's little talk to the White House staff before leaving for good (and you can take that "good" any way you wanna), you can see Ben Stein in the back with a look that can only be interpreted as "Say it ain't so!" Now, if he couldn't figure out why Nixon was resigning, he's too stupid to be quoted anywhere.
Name: Dean Oakwood
Hometown: Oxford, MI
Two ironic moments occurred tonight (Aug 27) that relate to Fox News:
1. As John Kerry stood at the podium and berated the tactics of Bush and Karl Rove, Fox News was running commercials, perhaps in an attempt to protect their golden boy insider from on-air criticism. CNN showed the speech.
2. As the DNC ran the tribute video about American Soldiers, Fox News was again running ads or had commentators talking. And as a double-amputee Iraq veteran took the stage to talk about how Obama will care for the soldiers and make the right decisions about soldiers and wars in the future, Fox was again running ads or had monotone Brit Hume boring its audience. CNN ran the video and speech.
Now that's fair and balanced news right there.
Name: W. Lewis
Hometown: Cincinnati
I try to keep up with the news but I'm confused. Is the Democratic Party in disarray and split or are they in goose-step obedience? Sure, some may say it depends on the minute and day (that "some" is unattributed and may in fact be me) but it's beginning to look like the conspiracy laden phrase "This is good news for McCain" jokingly used by some bloggers after every event presumably positive for Democrats is actually the theme for the MSM and beyond.
Enthusiastic crowds of voters are either a "fan" base or like North Korean Communists.
Obama running as the Democrats' nominee is actually hubristic and "rock star" like.
Obama having just one home but in an upper middle class neighborhood is actually elitist.
Michelle Obama gives an amazing speech introducing herself to the electorate on a big stage, yet actually the Democrats squandered an opportunity to bash McCain.
The list goes on ... I understand why surrogates for the opposition push this. I just don't understand how it also seems to become the lead story for so much of the media.The header you pointed out, " 'Ferris Bueller' actor unimpressed by Dems," seems to reach beyond what even The Onion does and of course is "good news for McCain."
What next? "'Oprah' stagehand says Obama presumptuous" after Obama shows a lead in polls with white working class men over 70?
I'd say I'm at wits end but I believe I reached that mile marker long ago. Which, of course, is "good news for McCain."
Name: Don Hynes
Hometown: Portland OR
Thank you for your and Media Matters' ongoing work to clarify the accusation, innuendo and slander that passes for "news" in our post Reagan era.
Perhaps the attack dogs bred in Lee Atwater's puppy mill seem comical to those who keep their heads above the purposefully bred climate of cynicism, distortion and slander, but this corruption to our civitas caused the last eight years of apocalyptic hell for the nation of Iraq, further economic collapse for the disadvantaged and working classes of the United States, assault on the global environment at its weakest moments, and the rest of the global list infected by the Bush plague.
As the poet William Stafford wrote:
"the signals we give -- yes or no, or maybe --
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep."
Your signals are very clear, Eric, and are of profound importance.
Name: Richard
Hometown: Los Angeles
So Springsteen is now saying on his web site that he won't be performing tomorrow [August 27] in Denver at the stadium. Were the rumours of his appearance ever accurate?
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Calls for empathy and compassion toward oppressors and abusers are popular in American Christianity. I think this is true of a variety of branches of Christianity, although more conservative branches may express this empathy differently from more liberal branches. Not really surprising--after all, Jesus told us to love our enemies. Jesus said "Father, forgive them." Jesus was always being moved with compassion.Empathy and compassion can be great things. But after leaving fundamentalism, I … [Read more...]
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I'm currently reading through Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. In the chapter I'm reading, Parker shares some thoughts about several different theologies of suffering and what these theologies say to and about survivors of abuse.One of the theologies Parker addresses is the "moral influence" theology of suffering (pg. 41). This theology states that by accepting violence, as Christ did on the cross, we can appeal to the conscious of our oppressors and change t … [Read more...]
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Content Note: Discussion of suicide and depressionMy husband (fiancé at the time) went to a Five Iron Frenzy show last year, shortly after the band reunited and started touring again. When we walked out of the concert venue, we both started to say something at the same time, then stopped, and laughed."You first," I said."No you.""Alright. I was just thinking that Five Iron Frenzy kind of makes me believe in God again. Maybe being a Christian doesn't have to be horrible. What were … [Read more...]
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Today, I'm guest posting at Suzannah Paul's blog on the topic of Embodied Faith. This is a really important topic to me--the idea that my faith matters to my body and to the experiences I have in my body has been so healing and freeing for me. So, I hope you'll check out my post and the other posts in Suzannah's series on Embodied Faith!Here's a quick preview: What theological insight can I gain from my body and from my bodily experiences?In my depression, I can meet with the suffering … [Read more...]
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Brad Garton (born 1957) is an American composer and computer musician who is professor of music at Columbia University.
He has written, or helped to write, a number of computer music applications, including Real-Time Cmix,[1] music synthesis and signal processing language for real time composition. He received his doctorate in composition from Princeton University.[2] Garton is director of the Computer Music Center, Columbia University, formerly the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.[2]
Garton grew up in Columbus, Indiana.[3] His father, Robert, has served more than 30 years as a Republican in the Indiana state Senate, including a long term as Senate Pro Tem.[4] Garton majored in pharmacy as a Purdue University student, but spent much of his time on music. Billing himself as "Mr. Science",[5] Garton provided sound effects and keyboards for the band Dow Jones and the Industrials in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He also produced many acts, making a heavy contribution to the Indiana music scene, and with Richard K. Thomas founded Zounds Studios, which continues to produce music and sound for theater.[2] He talked about his life and his formation as a musician in an interview with Peter Shea in December 2007.[6]
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The primal power (Maya) of the Lord itself gets modified to form creation. This modified Maya is called as nature or prakrti. The Lord can control nature with His Maya. Everything in creation follows certain natural rules. These include the rules discovered by science and those which are not yet discovered by science. Nature functions mechanically and independently as per these rules. It does not need continuous supervision of the Lord through His power, Maya. Individual souls, being part of creation, are subject to these rules of nature and dependent on them. Maya, on the other hand, acts according to will of the Lord. It is at the disposal of the Lord. He may, using Maya make effects on nature that are beyond the usual rules of nature. Therefore Maya is also called as the super-natural power. When God uses His super-power, Maya, on nature, we perceive it as a miracle. E.g. Water normally flows downhill under the influence of gravity. This is a natural law. Now the Lord could use Maya and make it stand still. This would be called a miracle. Such interference of the Lord's Maya (super power) with natural laws is called a miracle.
The miracle shows that the entire creation is just the will of the Lord (cchamatram prabhoh srstih). Maya underwent modification to become creation by the Will of the Lord. Miracles prove that creation functions independently according to the laws of nature only because of the Will of the Lord. At any point, the Lord can use Maya to circumvent the natural laws and control creation as per His Will. The Lord also has the power to destroy creation at the end of the cycle of creation. The miracle is a practical demonstration to preach this divine concept. Thus, miracles are a tool to preach divine knowledge.
The power to perform miracles is extremely dangerous in the hands of human beings. No person other than the ringmaster can control the lions in the circus. The lions will kill any ordinary person. Similarly the power to perform miracles will ruin a devotee. Some individuals perform severe penance and obtain certain limited superpowers from the Lord. These powers can be controlled only by God. No individual can completely control them. The possession of such powers creates egoism in a person. He uses them to perform miracles and get fame. He wants to be worshiped by the world as God. However using miracles for such a purpose certainly destroys the person. In the epics, we have stories of demons performing severe penance to get superpowers from God. They get the powers and use them for selfish ends. Finally the same powers lead them to their destruction.
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Kartaviyarjuna, was a beloved devotee of Lord Datta. He had tremendous superpowers. He thought that he was invincible and became egotistic. Blinded by his ego, he could not recognize Parasurama, who was backed by the Lord's power. The result was that he was defeated and killed by Parasurama. Now Parasurama became egotistic and his pride was broken by Lord Rama, who was an incarnation of the Lord. Lord Rama too was once defeated by Hanuman, who was an incarnation of Lord Siva. Hanuman performed several marvelous miracles. Yet he was free of selfishness and pride. This is because he was an incarnation of the Lord. He was the ringmaster who could control the lions of miracles without being hurt by them.
When the Lord comes down in human form, sometimes it is essential to perform some miracles for the sake of certain deserving devotees. For the highest devotee, miracles are not necessary. They believe in the Lord even without miracles. For the lowest devotee or a person who is not a devotee and one who is not likely to turn to God anyway, miracles are of no use. Miracles are necessary only for devotees who are in between these two levels; those who mostly have faith but sometimes have doubts. Krsna did not show His Divine Cosmic Form (Visvarupam) to Radha, who was the highest devotee. Duryodhana was the other extreme. Even though the Lord showed Him the Divine Cosmic Form, he did not change. He continued with his evil ways and fought the war against the Lord. The miracle of showing the Cosmic Form was useful only in the case of Arjuna, who was generally very devoted to the Lord, but at that moment had some doubts.
The human incarnation of the Lord performs miracles to prove that God exists in that particular human body. However superpowers and miracles are not the essential identifying characteristics of God. They are only associated characteristics. As mentioned earlier, superpowers can be given to any person, good or evil, if he does adequate penance and asks the Lord for the boon of those superpowers. Therefore if someone has certain superpowers, it does not necessarily mean that he is a human incarnation of God. The crown of a king is an associated sign of the king; it can be given to anybody. Suppose a king is very generous and gives his crown in donation to a beggar. The beggar cannot be called the king just because he possesses the crown. However the physical form and features of that king are his essential identifying signs. They cannot be donated to anyone. Where they are the king always is.
When devotees or even demons perform rigorous penance for getting superpowers, the Lord grants them the powers. Suppose a child pesters his father or a golden ring. The father, in frustration gives it to the child. Some thugs see the ring on the child and kill him to get the ring. The Lord is the Father of all souls in creation as per the Bhagavad Gita (Aham bija pradah pita) When His children act stubborn and insist on getting those powers, the Lord reluctantly grants them their wishes. Unfortunately, they are unable to handle the powers and are destroyed by them.
When demons or ordinary persons, who have superpowers, perform miracles for their selfish ends, a lot of people are fooled into thinking that those persons are incarnations of God. However, great sages do not get fooled easily. They do not accept a person as an incarnation of God just by seeing his miracles. Real devotees of the Lord too are not impressed by such miracles. Sita did not accept the evil Ravana in spite of his miracles. On the other hand, Lord Rama, who was an incarnation of the Lord, never performed miracles in public. In his life time He performed only one miracle in the presence of Sage Visvamitra and His brother, Laksmana. Both of them were deserving devotees. The miracle that He did was that He touched a certain stone by his foot and that stone became a lady called Ahalya, right before their eyes.
On several occasions, even when there was an emergency, and performing a miracle would be justified, Lord Rama, desisted from performing it. On one such occasion, Lord Rama's brother, Laksmana, was knocked unconscious by the attack of a deadly weapon in the war. He was sure to die if he did not get help soon. Yet Rama, who was an incarnation of the Lord, did not do any miracle. Hanuman, who was also an incarnation of the Lord, but in that incarnation had taken the role of a servant of Lord Rama, had to perform a miracle. He flew to a certain mountain, a thousand miles away, picked up that mountain and got it to where Laksmana lay. The doctors were able to go up the mountain and search and obtain a particular rare divine herb that could save Laksmana. When Laksmana was saved, Lord Rama wept with joy. To a casual onlooker, it might have seemed that Hanuman was the Lord and Rama was his servant, whereas the reverse was true. In this divine drama, the king had forced the servant to sit on the throne, while he himself acted as the servant.
Great scholars and sages of the past did not give any importance to miracles. When Lord Sankara entered the house of Mandana Misra even though the door was locked, the sages, Vyaysa and Jaimini were present there. They were not at all surprised by the miracle. In fact, Mandana Misra, who was a scholar, got angry and scolded Sankara for entering his house like that. Later the same Mandana Misra entered in a scholarly debate with Sankara. The debate lasted for twenty one days. At the end of it, Mandana Misra was defeated. He recognized Lord Sankara as an incarnation of Lord Siva and became His disciple. His recognition was not based on the miracle that Sankara performed but on His divine knowledge, which was revealed during the course of the debate. This divine special knowledge is the real form and essential identifying sign of God according to the Veda (satyam jnanam anantam brahma). It is inseparable from Him. Most people, if they had been in the place of Mandana Misra, would have fallen at the feet of Sankara as soon as He performed the miracle. Who is interested in divine knowledge? Their aim is only the power of the Lord; not the Lord Himself. All they want to do is to tap that power and utilize it for solving their worldly problems. This path is called as pravrtti. People who follow this path do not care for the real form of the God. They are also not interested in being near and dear to the Lord. All they are interested in is getting their own work done.
Suppose a person wants to get his work done from a government office. All he needs is to get the signature and approval of the officer. He is not interested in meeting the officer, talking to him or befriending him. Since he is only concerned with getting the officer's signature, it is adequate to give the relevant documents in the hands of the officer's assistant or secretary, who can have them signed by the officer. Once the job is done, he will not even remember the name of that officer. If such a person actually happens to meet the officer, he will show false respect and politeness to the officer. He will put up an act of being friendly with the officer. The only reason he does so is because he wants to get his work done. He is a follower of the path of pravrtti. These followers of pravrtti show false love and devotion to the Lord only in order to obtain some selfish benefit. The ape-king Sugriva, was devoted to Lord Rama for the sake of getting his lost kingdom back. He promised to help Lord Rama in return. After that work was completed, he went back to his kingdom and forgot about Lord Rama.
A real devotee wants only God and not His power. This path is called as nivrtti. He does not aspire for any selfish benefit from the Lord and neither does he care for any miracles. Thus miracles are not required for a true devotee. A true devotee has only one bond with the Lord. He is detached from all other worldly bonds; even the bond with his own life. Radha was so madly devoted to Lord Krsna that she never cared for her own body. She fell on the burning sand in summer and died crying for Krsna. She only desired the Lord. For her there was no necessity of miracles.
In case of more ordinary devotees, who are interested in solving their worldly problems, the Lord uses his superpowers to remove their difficulties and bring happiness to them. However He does so with the hope that the devotees will gradually be transformed from the path of pravrtti to the path of nivrtti. The devotee who is extremely agitated or disturbed due to some worldly problem needs some respite. The Lord will provide it by using His superpowers. He rearranges the cycles of the deeds of the person. According to the law of karma, a person has to enjoy or suffer the results of his actions. The difficulty that the person is facing at present is the result of some bad deed performed by him the past. The Lord uses His super powers to postpone that bad result to the future and prepones some future good result to the present time. However due to the rearrangement there is a loss incurred. The bad result of the present time, which was postponed, gathers interest and grows in magnitude while the good result which was preponed to the present time reduces in value. It is like a penalty for a premature encashment of a fixed deposit.
Ultimately there is no escape from the law of karma. All that such a rearrangement does is that it gives the person an opportunity to turn towards God. God expects the devotee to take this opportunity. He expects that once the problem is solved and the devotee has some peace of mind, that he will give up his attachments and self-centered desires and turn to God. The devotee, unaware of this whole invisible technology, thinks that in response to his prayers, God cancelled the bad result (problem) and created good. In fact, it is only a rearrangement.
Now if the devotee, after getting his immediate problem solved, changes and follows the path of nivrtti, then the Lord actually transfers the bad results of His devotee's sins on His human body and suffers for the devotee's sake. Canceling the results of sins of an individual altogether, is a grave violation of the law of karma. The Lord does not allow such a blatant violation of the rules of nature. Therefore He suffers for His devotees' sake. If the son of a policeman commits a traffic offence, the father cannot let the son go scot-free. As a father, he wishes to protect his son but as a policeman, he is bound to uphold the law. Therefore he will pay the fine for his son's mistake. This is the way of the Lord.
A real devotee will never accept that the Lord suffers for his sake. Therefore, the Lord suffers for His true devotee without his knowledge. Although He mostly suffers secretly, He demonstrates this phenomenon of transferring of devotees' sins on His body, in a few cases. In incarnations of Datta like Jesus, Sai and many others, the Lord suffered in this way.
Undeserving devotees, whose love for the Lord is false and are only concerned about getting rid of their own problem, plead and cry to Him to solve their problems. They try to exploit the Lord and pressurize Him into giving boons and removing their pains. They do not understand that in doing so they make the Lord suffer. Some, who know it, just do not care as long as their job gets done. The Lord is the Ocean of Compassion. His heart melts quickly when He sees His devotees in pain. There is a danger that He may even take up the suffering of undeserving devotees on Himself. In order to avoid His exploitation by pretenders, the Lord keeps the control of taking up His devotees' sins in the hands of His most sincere servant, Kalabhairava. Thus even if the Lord is forced by pretenders to take away their sins, Kalabhairava will not allow it. If the Lord yells at Him for disobeying Him, Kalabhairava will yell back. This is the meaning of the very word Kalabhairava. If the servant pays heed to the Lord's reprimand at that time, the Lord will dismiss the servant when returns back to heaven. His job is to make sure that the Lord is not made to suffer for some undeserving soul. He will allow only the transfer of sins of the most deserving devotees. The Lord gives Kalabhairava such instructions before coming down to earth, since the Lord knows that this earth is a very dangerous place, full of false devotees.
Lord Krsna brought back to life, the son of His teacher Sandipani. However He did not do any such thing when His own sister's son, Abhimanyu, died. In fact when His own sons died, He watched them in silent pain but did not interfere in the cycle of karma. Ignorant people think that the Lord cancels the punishment of sinners by using His super power. If He did such grave violations of the law of karma, all the great sages and divine angels, who are constantly meditating on the Lord, would be shocked. These great souls are highly evolved devotees and are very dear to the Lord. The Lord will not do anything to shock them or disturb their meditation on Him. He will not let His own image in their hearts get tarnished. Moreover the law of karma has been created by the Lord Himself. Violating it is an insult to the Lord. The Lord will not act in any manner so as to insult Himself.
The Lord in human form will try as far as possible to avoid performing miracles. People are attracted by miracles. They approach Him and pressurize Him to do miracles for the sake of their selfishness. They will exploit the Lord for their selfish benefits. This too leads to the violation of the law of karma. There is another important reason why the Lord does not do miracles. If He did a lot of miracles then everyone would believe that He is the Lord. However if He rarely performed miracles or not performed any, then the faith of those who claim to be His devotees would be tested. Only the real devotee will believe in Him, when the Lord does no miracles. This devotee identifies the Lord based on His essential characteristic of Divine Knowledge. He does not care for any miracles. He does not aspire for any benefit from the Lord. He does not expect the Lord to violate the law of karma for His sake and last of all he will not tolerate that the Lord should suffer for his sins. He will only focus on serving the Lord through his own efforts (sacrifice of work for the Lord) and wealth (sacrificing the fruit of work for the Lord).
If the Lord in human form performs miracles then it would be only too obvious to people that He is the Lord. Then they would serve Him even if their faith were not total. There would be no way of differentiating a true devotee from a pretender. The answer to a mathematical problem in an examination is never revealed. If it were revealed, then all students would score cent percent marks. There would be no way of distinguishing and rewarding the good students. However if the Lord were to totally behave like a human being, then no one would pass the test. No one would be ever be able to identify Him. Therefore He reveals Himself partially. It is like a hint given to solve a mathematical problem. He appears as a mixture of man and God. Thus some people are able to identify Him and pass the test while others are unable to identify Him and fail the test. He behaves like God in order to attract people to Him. Then He behaves like an ordinary human being to filter out false devotees.
The whole universe itself is a miracle. It is the modification of His Mind. Maya is the mind of the Lord. The mind is His energy or power. This power is the 'substance' out of which the entire universe is made up. This Maya (mind) is the water and all the objects of the world are only waves in this Maya. Since the Maya is inseparable from the Lord, you could generally say that the Lord (Brahman) is modified into the world, remembering of course that the Lord does not actually get transformed into the world. When you imagine of a certain city, the city takes form in your mind. You are not modified into the city. Only your mind is modified. As your mind changes, so does the city change. Your mind is under your control. So that city of your imagination is also under your control. Maya, controls all creation. The Lord controls Maya. Therefore the entire creation is under the full control of the Lord. The wish of the Lord itself is Maya. All the miracles are only the wishes of the Lord. The Lord may wish to follow certain rules. In such a case, there is no miracle. But when the Lord wishes to break a certain rule, a miracle happens.
Again, one should remember that the power to do miracles can be granted to anyone. Therefore it is not an unambiguous distinguishing characteristic of the Lord. Super powers are associated qualities, like ornaments of a person. The person may choose to wear ornaments or not to wear them. Some incarnations may display a lot of miracles while others may display few or none. Lord Krsna exhibited a lot of miracles but Lord Rama did not.
A cow should be recognized by its physical characteristics, not by the presence of the cow-bell in its neck. The bell can be put in the neck of any other animal as well. The Lord should be recognized by the Divine Knowledge that He posses. This Divine Knowledge has the capacity to produce infinite bliss and infinite love for the Lord in your heart. Thus knowledge, bliss and love are the essential signs to identify God.
Miracles may sometimes be useful to distinguish the Lord from an ordinary scholar. However, some scholars may also perform miracles. Ravana was a scholar and also performed the miracles. But his knowledge could never generate infinite love and infinite bliss in the heart of anybody. A scholar, who preaches spiritual knowledge to us, may generate a trace of love and bliss in our hearts. Some people may even get fooled into thinking that the scholar is an incarnation of God. Here we must remember that the bliss and love that a scholar produces in our heart is very limited in quantity and intensity. What the Lord produces is infinite bliss and love. Therefore true divine knowledge that generates infinite love and infinite bliss in your heart is the only characteristic sign of the Lord. The Lord performs miracles only when absolutely necessary. Ordinary souls who have superpowers, perform miracles for cheap exhibition and fame. Ravana was a demon and he performed many miracles for his selfish interests and fame. Lord Rama, on the other hand avoided performing miracles unless there was a dire necessity and even in that case, he performed them discreetly. Lord Krsna did not perform any miracle in the war, except in the case of hiding the sun, which was necessary to save the life of Arjuna. In fact, He made it appear as if a cloud had covered the sun. Miracles are a violation of natural laws and justice (dharma). The Lord avoids breaking these rules since no good administrator likes to break his own rules. Even if he breaks them for the benefit of an exceptional devotee, he will do so discreetly, otherwise even undeserving devotees will bother by Him to do the same for them.
It is correct that Swami performed these miracles. When I say Swami, who do I mean? The name of this human body is Venu Gopala Krishna Murthy. By body, I mean, the composite of three bodies (outermost physical body, inner subtle body and innermost casual body). Swami means the Lord. The Lord dwells in this human body. Datta means the Lord given to the devotees through human body. For most of my devotees this human body is transformed into Lord. Therefore, for these devotees there is no human body. Only the Lord exists. This Lord, they call as Datta Swami or Swami. I declare to such devotees, that I have performed these miracles.
Some other devotees think that I am a mixture of both Swami and human body. Some others think that Swami is in heaven and His power alone has entered my human body. For these two types of devotees, I say that Swami (Lord) performed these miracles and not this human body called as Venu Gopala Krishna Murthy. In any case, Swami (Lord) alone performed these miracles. This is what the readers should remember. The human body cannot be given the credit for the miracles. It is only a medium required for the Lord to interact with people in the world. If this point is forgotten, the reader will be attacked by jealousy. This disease of jealousy is like a viral fever, which will take down the strongest person in no time. It will result in another disease called egoism. The devotee who is free of jealousy (asuya) is called Anasuya. The devotee who is free of ego is called Atri. Lord Datta, or the human incarnation of the Lord is available only to the devotee who is both Atri and Anasuya.
Datta is the human incarnation, who is present in your time, before your eyes for receiving your service. You get this extremely rare opportunity because you prayed for it. Divine (energetic) forms of the Lord such as Brahma, Visnuand Siva are also Datta but only for souls who are in energetic forms themselves. A soul in an energetic body can perceive the Lord in an energetic body. Humans on earth, who are in physical bodies, can perceive the Lord only in a physical body.
Now all human incarnations of the Lord are Datta, however we have to understand an important point. Incarnations, who lived in the past such as Rama, Krsna, and Jesus were Datta, but only to human beings who lived in that time. You are not able to perceive, interact with or serve past incarnations of the Lord, so they are not Datta for you. You have to find that human incarnation of the Lord who is present in your time, in front of your eyes, with whom you can interact and whom you can serve.
You are unable to recognize and accept the Lord Datta, even before your eyes because of two factors.
1. The body of the Lord is the same human body as yours and likes repel each other.2. You are able to see human incarnation right before you without any difficulty. He simply comes before you without any fanfare or fuss. This leads to casualness and negligence, owing to which the devotee is unable to recognize the human incarnation as God Himself.
Rama and Krsna were objects of such negligence and casualness in their times. People around them thought that they were mere human beings who were related to them as brothers, sons, husbands or friends as the case may be. As humans are prone to neglecting the Lord in His human incarnation, so are souls in energetic bodies, towards the Lord in an energetic body. Daksa, was a soul in an energetic body. He did not recognize that Lord Siva, who is the Lord in an energetic body, was the Lord Himself.
Therefore, unless you fully realize the meaning of Datta and unless you believe that the Lord performed these miracles through the human body, you cannot enjoy the miracles. In fact, initially, Swami was against performing miracles, because such exhibition invariably attracts undeserving and shallow devotees by the thousands. Swami would rather be a merchant, who possesses a few rare diamonds of devotees, than being the owner of stone quarry with heaps of useless gravel and pebbles.
However a certain devotee, who loved and served Swami like a mother, continuously pressed Swami for two years, to show some miracles. At last Swami agreed and showed some miracles. Some devotees recorded these miracles and wanted to publish them as a book so that ordinary human beings will be attracted to Swami. At least for the sake of miracles, they would approach Him and would be uplifted and benefited in course of time. However Swami refused to publish His miracles. The reason is that miracles will attract people who are interested in the power of God in order to solve their selfish desires. Such people do not really love God. Even if God uses His super powers to satisfy a certain burning desire of such devotees, new desires will sprout up in them. When they find an avenue to satisfy their desire, all desires will become burning desires and demand immediate satisfaction. There is no end to this. They will go into an infinite regression of entertaining and growing desires and solving them at the Lord's expense. Fire is never satisfied by pouring oil (ghee) into it. It flares up even more. ("na kama?"). Yet My devotees persisted. Finally Swami agreed to publish the book on miracles. It was titled "Mahima Yamuna" or 'Miracles, the Black River Yamuna".
The black color indicates the ignorance of the shallow devotees, who are attracted to miracles. They are not real devotees. When Swami gives a vision to such a devotee, he sees a brilliant light. This radiance is the same radiation that comes from the sun or a powerful electric bulb. It is not different at all. It is as good as seeing the shining sun. Sunlight and the light in that vision are one and the same. They are both created by the Will of the Lord. Therefore, the realized soul sees the entire universe, which is full of brilliantly shining bodies as the greatest miracle of the Lord. He does not want to see any other lights, which are far smaller and duller.
Every human being is fond of seeing the Lord in a radiant form rather than in a human body. The ordinary human form is very boring for humans. Therefore humans like to see other human forms as forms of light on the television screen. The human body is made out of five elements (space, air, fire, water and matter). Light energy (fire) is only one of them. The human body is a mixture of light and other elements. Now the way most people would like to see God, is in the form of only one element, light.
A shirt made out of terylene (an artificial yarn) is a status symbol in some places, whereas, locally grown cotton is considered ordinary. Suppose most people wear a terycot shirt, which is a blend of terylene (an artificial yarn) and cotton. They all yearn for a pure terylene shirt. Now even if the prime minister comes wearing an ordinary terycot shirt, he will not be respected. On the other hand an office-boy wearing a pure terylene shirt will be greatly respected. This shows the shallowness of those people, who decide the worth of an individual based on his external shirt rather than his internal value. The terylene shirt represents the energetic body which is made up of one element alone; light. The human body is compared to the terycot shirt which is a blend of the element light, and other elements. Thus, Krsna, the Lord in a human body is neglected by human beings. Even a ghost, which is an ordinary soul, which has taken up an energetic body after death on earth, is respected. The reasons why people are so attracted to energetic forms are:
1) Energetic forms are quite different from the human body
2) The energetic body can have peculiar forms like having three heads and six hands etc.
3) The energetic form appears only for a very short while
Compared to energetic forms, the human form of the Lord thus has disadvantages. Therefore, people are prone to negligence and casualness towards human incarnations of God. This is what Krsna says in the Bhagavad Gita, "avajananti mam "... Initially Arjuna was not convinced that Lord Krsna was the Lord, since he could only see Lord Krsna's human body. When Arjuna saw the energetic body of Krsna(Visvarupam) he was finally convinced. Yet afterwards, he doubted again thinking that maybe the vision was only an illusion. This proves that miracles can only temporarily convince devotees.
In cinema halls in India, the lower level of seats called 'stalls', are cheap and are ocupied by people, who are least interested in the finer aspects of the movie. Their primary objective is watching the cheap cabaret dances, which are so common in Indian movies. They just want to hoot, pass comments and enjoy themselves. People with finer tastes usually occupy the 'balcony' seats, where the crowd is generally more interested in the main aspects of the movie such as the story line, performance of the actors, cinematography, etc. They do not care for the cabarets in the movie.
Divine knowledge and devotion constitute the main aspects of Divine Cinema. Miracles are like cheap cabaret dances; they are thrown in, here and there, to attract low-class devotees. The balcony-class in spirituality contains very few scholars and devotees. They are only interested in knowledge and devotion. Their goal is not achieved by getting visions and miraculous healings. So they are not interested in the miracles.
People think too highly of miracles. However, what they should enquire into is what benefit they get from visions? Suppose you watch a king in a royal parade through the streets. You may feel happy that you saw the king. But beyond that temporary elation, what actual benefit do you obtain from having seen the king? Merely seeing him does not mean that he is pleased with you. If he were pleased with you, it would be an actual benefit since he would shower riches on you and grant you positions and titles of power and prestige. Hence it is more important that the king be pleased with you than merely having seen the king. Even if you had never seen the king, but if he were highly pleased with you, you would derive benefit from him.
Similarly, seeing visions of the Lord should not be our aim; our aim should be to please the Lord. The powerful demon, Ravana saw Lord Siva in visions. Yet he met with an untimely death along with his entire family. Rama, on the other hand, did not get any vision of Lord Siva, but lived long. Siva is considered to be the Lord of longevity and the One, who prevents untimely death. He is the Conqueror of the Death (Mrtyunjaya).
People get illnesses or problems as results of sins committed by them in the past. Whenever Swami removes illnesses or solves a problem of devotees, people think that Swami, as the Lord, (or the Lord through Swami) cancelled their sin using some special powers and therefore, the problem was solved. But this is not the truth. The sins of people cannot be simply cancelled. The problem or illness that the devotee is suffering from, is converted by Swami into some illness of His own body. He suffers for the sake of his devotees. This is the reason why Swami goes to several places for a few days; so no one notices how much He is suffering and from what illness.
Therefore, real devotees do not like to have visions, which are of no use to them. They also do not like to get their problems solved because they know that the procedure of solving problems of devotees, involves the Lord suffering for the devotees' sins.
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Gearing up for her weekend, Drew Barrymore was spotted out and about in downtown Manhattan earlier today (October 9).
The "Charlie's Angels" chick looked cute and casual as she pranced around New York City, sporting a printed shirt with black denim jeans, purple Converse All-Stars, and a pink shoulder bag.
Kicking off another day of work duties, Drew Barrymore was spotted pepping up with a beverage boost in New York City on Thursday (October 8).
Joined by a male friend, the pair went to 'Think Coffee' before Miss Barrymore headed off to a "Saturday Night Live" rehearsal session.
Just recently she made her directorial debut in the film "Whip It," and now Drew Barrymore says it's time for a vacation.
But apparently, taking time off is difficult for the 34-year-old, as she hasn't been on holiday in three years. The actress says, "My flaw that I'd like to make peace with is to take a vacation."
Fresh off of a red carpet night on the town, Drew Barrymore was spotted being dropped off at LAX Airport in Los Angeles to catch an outbound flight on Wednesday (September 30).
The "Charlie's Angels" actress donned a pair of red shades as she hopped out of her chauffeured ride - ready to continue along with her "Whip It" promotional duties.
She's no stranger to high-profile industry events, and last night (September 29) Shenae Grimes was spotted at the Los Angeles premiere of "Whip It."
The "90210" hottie looked amazing as she arrived at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre, sporting a black and cream striped dress teamed with two-strap Mary Jane heels.
Still working hard on the promotional trail, Drew Barrymore was spotted at the Los Angeles premiere of "Whip It" last night (September 29).
The "He's Just Not That Into You" actress celebrated her directorial debut at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, sporting a shiny black dress with red velvet heels.
Continuing her seemingly-endless promotional tour, Drew Barrymore was in Toronto for a press conference about her new movie "Whip It" today (September 15).
The "He's Just Not That Into You" babe looked funky and fun as she chatted about her directorial debut at the Sutton Place Hotel as part of the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
She's been on a non-stop press tour for her new movie "Whip It" and last night (September 13) Drew Barrymore premiered the film at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The "Charlie's Angels" babe looked lovely as she posed for the paparazzi along with Ellen Page and Kristen Wiig outside the Ryerson Theatre.


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The latest news is that the BlackBerry Storm3 on-again, off-again project is back on-again. Now featuring the code name of "Monaco", the Storm3 is expected to bring some new features to 'Berry users such as a front-facing camera for video-chat. Earlier this month we reported on a list of possible specs for the handset. Besides the camera in front, other new features for the Storm franchise could include an optical trackpad, something lacking from the first 2 Storm models. The OS could be one developed by recent acquisition QNX, whose software will be powering the BlackBerry PlayBook, and the clickable SurePress keyboard will be gone.
The window for getting a model out in time for the holidays is rapidly closing, it it isn't already shut. But considering that the "Monaco" could have been in the works for a few months already, don't be surprised if RIM tries to salt the clouds one more time in an attempt to bring out the BlackBerry Storm3.
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Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784)
Read the rest of Wheatley's Biographical Sketch from Media House International
Born in 1753 in Africa, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped and sold at a slave auction at age seven to a prosperous Boston family who educated her and treated her as a family member. Rescued from an otherwise hopeless situation by the sympathies of the Wheatley family, Phillis learned English with remarkable speed, and, although she never attended a formal school, she also learned Greek and Latin.
Phillis Wheatley received her freedom and married a free black man in 1778 but, despite her skills, was never able to support her family. Although she died in complete poverty, subsequent generations would pick up where she left off. Wheatley was the first black writer of consequence in America; and her life was an inspiring example to future generations of African-Americans. In the 1830s, abolitionists reprinted her poetry and the powerful ideas contained in her deeply moving verse stood against the institution of slavery.
To the students at the University of Cambridge in New England (Harvard), she wrote:
While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write,
Students, to you 'tis given to scan the heights
Improve your privileges while they stay,
The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers)
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Pub. Date: December 1989
Format: Textbook Paperback, 339pp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Volumes of compelling and rare works
of fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, essays, and journalism written by
19th century black woman.
The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have come to dominate the larger Afro-American literary landscape. Yet the works of the writers who founded and nurtured the black women's literary tradition--nineteenth-century Afro-American women--have remained buried in research libraries or in expensive hard-to-find reprints, often inaccessible to twentieth-century readers.
Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, rescued the
voice of an entire segment of the black tradition by offering thirty volumes of
these compelling and rare works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography,
essays, and journalism. Responding to the wide recognition this series has
received, Oxford now presents four of these volumes in paperback. Each book
contains an introduction written by an expert in the field, as well as an
overview by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the General Editor.
Individually, each of these four works now in paperback--including The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke, Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, Six Women's Slave Narratives, and The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley--stands as a unique literary contribution in its own right. Collectively providing a rich sampling of the range of works written by black women over the course of more than a century, they pay tribute (now long overdue) to an extraordinary and influential group of Afro-American women. These new editions will enable teachers, students, and general readers ofAmerican literature, history, Afro-American culture, and women's studies to hear at last, and learn from, the lost voice of the nineteenth-century black woman writer.
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Pub. Date: February 2001
Format: Paperback, 272pp
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston
on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis
Wheatley. Struck by Phillis' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys
provided her with an education that was unusual for a woman of the time and
astonishing for a slave. After studying English and classical literature,
geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the
age of 14, winning much public attention and considerable fame. When Boston
publishers who doubted its authenticity rejected an initial collection of her
poetry, Wheatley sailed to London in 1773 and found a publisher there for Poems
on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.
This volume collects both Wheatley's letters and her poetry: hymns, elegies, translations, philosophical poems, tales, and epyllions-including a poignant plea to the Earl of Dartmouth urging freedom for America and comparing the country's condition to her own. With her contemplative elegies and her use of the poetic imagination to escape an unsatisfactory world, Wheatley anticipated the Romantic Movement of the following century. The appendices to this edition include poems of Wheatley's contemporary African-American poets: Lucy Terry, Jupiter Hammon, and Francis Williams.
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It's mid-November, time for athletic departments to celebrate fall seasons and prepare for winter ones.
That's no exception for Homer-Center, which is holding its football banquet this evening.
Not until after the Wildcats get out of practice, though.
Homer-Center's season, of course, is still in progress. The Wildcats are in the unique position of having an in-season celebration due to their rousing success extending the schedule well into the fall.
"First time since I've been here," seventh-year Homer-Center coach Greg Page said. "It's one of those things they book a while in advance. We're going to go and have a good time (tonight), get a good meal and be around a lot of people that have supported us and been our closest supporters: parents, family members, boosters. It's going to be a celebration."
Homer-Center (11-1) is preparing for its first District 6 Class A championship game since 1994, when it faces Bishop Guilfoyle (10-2) at 7 p.m. Saturday at Altoona's Mansion Park.
"Usually your banquet's something at the end of the season where you reflect and look back," senior running back Mike Newhouse said. "This banquet's going to be special. We're going to be talking about the season. We're still in it. It's going to mean a lot. It's crazy."
"Usually you celebrate the end of the season," junior quarterback Aaron Berezansky said, "which is nice, but we're going to just go have a good time and look forward to the game on Saturday."
Homer-Center doesn't give postseason team awards, but it does honor all of its seniors at the banquet. The difference this time is the Wildcats will have a chance to honor them with at least one more high school game in their careers.
"We honor them and recognize everybody," Page said. "We just kind of enjoy ourselves and have a good time."
"Usually we go there, the season's over, you're saying goodbye to your seniors," junior running back Ean Lee said. "The seniors are taking their presents and stuff, but now we're just going to talk about the game on Saturday, before the banquet we'll get prepared for Saturday again, just like we're going to do all week."
Homer-Center, the second seed in the district, defeated Bishop Carroll, 28-7, at home last Saturday in the semifinals. The night before, fifth-seeded Bishop Guilfoyle routed top-seeded Portage, 42-10, to secure its spot in the title game, held annually at the field that happens to be the Marauders' home.
Bishop Guilfoyle has won 10 straight games after opening the season with losses to Bedford and Richland. The Marauders are in their first district championship game since 1991, when they lost to Saltsburg in the Class A final. They beat United to win the Class AA title in 1987.
Homer-Center has two District 6 Class A titles, having beaten Bellwood-Antis in 1994 and Bucktail in 1985.


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