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Page 168 - I am a senior scientist of the Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi. I found my offerings of milk in a temple being mysteriously drunk by the Deities. How can the scientists explain the copper snake absorbing the milk I offered with a spoon kept at a good distance away from it?" Scientific or not, gallons of milk were disappearing with hardly a trace. A leading barrister in Malaysia was dumbfounded when he watched a metal Ganes'a attached to an automobile dashboard absorb six teaspoons...
Page 168 - GANESA, THE ELEPHANT-HEADED GOD of Wisdom, craved a little milk. Upon awakening, he rushed in the dark before dawn to the nearest temple, where a skeptical priest allowed him to proffer a spoonful of milk to the small stone image. Both watched in astonishment as it disappeared, magically consumed by the God. What followed is unprecedented in modern Hindu history. Within hours, news had spread like a brush fire across India that Ganesa was accepting milk offerings. Tens of millions of people of all...
Page 168 - Milk , *:, as suddenly as it started in India, it stopped, in just 24 hours. But it was just beginning elsewhere as Hindus in India called their relatives in other parts of the world. Soon our HINDUISM TODAY offices were flooded with reports from around the world. Everywhere the story was the same. A teaspoonful of milk offered by touching it to Ganes'a's trunk, tusk or mouth would disappear in a few seconds to a few minutes — not always, but with unprecedented frequency. Reuters news service quoted...
Page 100 - It is held by death. But it is the support of that deathless, bodiless Self. Verily, the incarnate self is held by pleasure and pain.
Page 177 - Sweet Offerings Sweet Offerings ILLAIYAR HAS A SWEET TOOTH, JUST like everyone else. For each special püjä to Him, goodies are carefully prepared in a worshipful mood while chanting mantras. Modaka balls are presented, among other sweets, on trays before Lord Ganesa in temples and home shrines in over 120 countries, especially during festivals. Of course, foods for puja are never tasted or smelled during preparation or before being offered. They are enjoyed only after the püjä, as prasäda.
Page 172 - ... does not have a hole. It sucked hundred of pints of milk in a few hours. No milk was seen flowing out of the body, and no mist was formed around the mürtis. What shall we call it, other than Godly miracle? We Are So Close To God By Jay Dubashi, a columnist for New Delhi's Organiser, in which his article first appeared It was a small boy who first alerted me as to what was happening. "Come, come," he said, "Ganeajl is drinking milk.
Page 151 - There are many ways that satsañga groups can be conducted, and there will be established groups with their own routines. New groups just being formed may wish to follow our schedule of twenty minutes of bhajana followed by twenty minutes of scriptural reading or upadesa and then another twenty minutes of bhajana, making a total of one hour. It is customary to have satsañga groups move from one home to another each week or each month, and of course the leader and host of the satsañga that week...
Page 151 - ... on the other. It is always preferable to sit on the floor, for that releases certain forces from within the body that can greatly enhance the spiritual life of man. When we worship in a temple, we receive individual attention from the great beings of the Second and Third Worlds. That is our time for personal communication with the inner worlds, with the inner realms of our own being. But satsañga is different, and that difference should be realized by all present. It is a group religious experience....
Page 172 - ... theories of physics or chemistry, for the theories themselves are changing with the times. But it is not milk that interests me. The miracle was seen not just in India, but almost all over the world, wherever Hindus congregate. And it did not take days, not even hours, probably a few minutes to spread. It shows how close the Hindu community is when it comes to things that affect its identity, even closer than the Internet. There were throngs of Hindus in temples in London and Leicester, New Jersey...
Page 178 - Sprinkle a little water on it and add the salt, jaggery and coconut. Mix together, adding water only as needed. When it is well kneaded and firm, pinch the dough off into as many lime-sized balls as it will make. Roll into balls, or squeeze in the right hand to create a fist-shaped kolukattai. Bring water in the steamer to a boil and arrange the kolukattais in it, wrapped in banana leaves as in recipe #1. Steam until the balls are a light brown in color. Arrange on a banana leaf or tray and serve...