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From Srila B.P.Puri Maharaja: The Bhagavata says that whether you go looking for the qualities or the faults, it all comes down to the same fault-finding spirit. It has condemned the practice: para-svabhava-karmani na prasamsen na garhayet visvam ekatmakam pasyan prakrtya purusena ca...

Name Occupation Type Charlotte Ross actress vegetarian Chelsea Clinton Daughter of President vegetarian Chris Lambert pro skateboarder vegetarian Chrissie Hynde Singer (The Pretenders) vegetarian Christina Applegate actress vegetarian Christine Elise actress vegetarian...

Name Occupation Type Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam vegetarian Edwin Moses Olympic champion vegetarian Elizabeth Burkley Actress vegan Ellen G. White seventh day adventist vegetarian Elvis Costello Musician vegetarian Epicurus Philosopher vegetarian Eric Stoltz actor...

Name Occupation Type Adalita Srsen vocalist-(Magic Dirt) vegetarian Adam Carson Drum player (AFI) vegetarian Alan Moore writter (marvelmen) vegetarian Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian vegetarian Albert Einstein scientist vegetarian Alec Baldwin Actor vegetarian...

Name Occupation Type India Arie singer vegetarian Isaac Bashevis Singer Author vegetarian Jack Dangers Musician (Meat Beat Manifesto) vegan Jade Puget AFI vegetarian Jamie Thomas pro skateboarder vegan Jane Weidlin Go-Go vegetarian Jane Velez-Mitchell tv news journalist vegetarian...

Name Occupation Type Natalie Portman Actress vegetarian Natalie Merchant Singer vegetarian Nellie McKay singer vegan Nicky Cole walked to North Pole vegetarian Niels Tijssen dutch actor vegan Nigel Hawthorne Actor vegetarian Ocean singer vegan Orlando Bloom actor vegetarian...

I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren't many options. But, now, it's a growing trend because the economics are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those...

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals. -Martha Stewart I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded...

If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero. -Dr.Walter Willet The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because...

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable. -Thomas More Gambling, eating meat, wine-bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these seven things in this world...

You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They always say, Because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her. -Ellen DeGeneres Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor...

"It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust." -Aviva Cantor "More and more we realize that the vegetarian diet is a good idea." -Dr. Edward Martin "Thousands of animals(now...

From the following passage it can be clearly understood that the stage of hearing about one's spiritual identity comes prior to smarana-dasha, or the stage of remembrance. According to both Bhaktivinoda and Jiva, the stage of remembrance has five successive stages (smarana, dharana, dhyana...

Further notes from Bhaktivinoda's Harinama Cintamani, chapter 15, verses 64-68 with Bhaktivinoda's own footnotes. - - - - - krame varaNa dazA prApti rAdhA-kRSNa aSTa-kAla yei lIlA kare tAhAra zravaNe lobha haya ataHpare lobha ha-ile guru-pade jijJAsA udaya kemane pAiba lIlA kaha mahAzaya...

Harinama Cintamani, chapter fifteen, verses 59-60 and Bhaktivinoda's footnotes: - - - - bhAva sAdhane paJca-dazA ei ekAdaza bhAva sampUrNa sAdhane paJca dazA lakSya haya sAdhaka jIvane zravaNa varaNa Ara smaraNa Apana sampatti e paJca-vidha dazAya gaNana Five stages in the cultivation of the...

Bhaktivinoda's Caitanya Siksamritam, 6.5 (p. 237-238): - - - - "If anybody possesses greed for the path of raganuga, he will pray to his good religious preceptor, who, after examining his relish, will determine the type of bhajana suited to him and give him acquaintance of his siddha-deha...

A siddha-pranali consists of the guru-pranali, a channel of gurus, in their siddha-forms (manjari-svarupas). One’s own guru, his guru, and the subsequent gurus traced back to the associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu form the guru-pranali, or guru-parampara. In due course of time, a guru in the...

The false ego, ahankara hides the soul, allowing karma to enslave the soul in the quagmire of the gunas. Karma glues the soul to the gunas. Ahankara places us in the car. Karma steers that car onto either a cow path, a city street or a superhighway. These roads are the gunas. Karma represents...

Regarding Nostradamus here a few interesting quatrains worth noting: Quatrain 75, Century X Tant attendu ne reviendra jamais Dedans l Europe, en Asie apparoistra Un de la ligue yssu du grand Hermes, Et sur tous roys des orientz croistra. ----- Long awaited he will never return In Europe, he...

Before applying tilaka, one should have taken bath and acamana, and be seated on an asana (sanctified seat). I may describe these aspects separately, if you wish. There are different Vaisnava tilaka shapes; use the tilaka design of your own parivara (generally given by the guru at the time of...