tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525555749566270532.post6138767843439082235..comments2024-03-08T14:23:55.017+05:30Comments on India Retold: THE 'CLEANSING' BATTLE FOR DELHI BEGINS.Vinod_Sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14654167848186778789noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525555749566270532.post-81225509458888063862008-04-12T13:51:00.000+05:302008-04-12T13:51:00.000+05:30Hi Georg,Since you have stayed in India, I was ass...Hi Georg,<BR/>Since you have stayed in India, I was assuming that you knew some of these things.<BR/><BR/>You have read my post on Gauranga Baba and even commented on it. <BR/><BR/>A 'Mantra' is a sacred word or set of words, a formula that one is supposed to chant mentally or even aloud. Or, as in the case of Tibetan Buddhists, rotate a prayer wheel with the mantra written inside, each rotation Vinod_Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14654167848186778789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525555749566270532.post-1322688758945767552008-04-11T20:58:00.000+05:302008-04-11T20:58:00.000+05:30Hallo Vinod,Goddam, old friend, you are talking to...Hallo Vinod,<BR/><BR/>Goddam, old friend, you are talking to a bloody foreigner.<BR/><BR/>Not the faintest idea what "Gauranga Baba" is or means. Is this Baba a kind of luxury babu or the Pope of the Buddhists? <BR/><BR/>And Mantra initiation? For me, a Mantra is something you talk endlessly about without coming to a conclusion or a kind of poster with a wheel in the middle, all in garish fluo Georghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379915142029115257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525555749566270532.post-67548521277840426102008-04-10T21:25:00.000+05:302008-04-10T21:25:00.000+05:30Hi Georg,Dr,BR Ambedkar, the original dalit leader...Hi Georg,<BR/>Dr,BR Ambedkar, the original dalit leader who revolted against the oppression of dalits by upper caste Hindus, had asked dalits to leave Hindu religion in which they had been so inhumanly discriminated. The choice was between Christianity, Islam and Buddhism and he chose Buddhism. As far as I know, it was because he felt that by adopting the other two religions, there would be a "Vinod_Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14654167848186778789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525555749566270532.post-30696708927241155572008-04-10T13:10:00.000+05:302008-04-10T13:10:00.000+05:30Bonjour Vinod,Simply by reading your posts I'll fi...Bonjour Vinod,<BR/><BR/>Simply by reading your posts I'll finish by being knowledgeable about Indian politics.<BR/><BR/>As you describe this it seems to be far more vicious that politics here in France, Germany, Belgium or G.B..<BR/><BR/>Recently, I was reading an article about Mayawati. It seems she is following Buddhist rules of life though she is Hindu. You never mentioned this.<BR/><BR/>And Georghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379915142029115257noreply@blogger.com