Refuge Prayer by Thich Nhat-Hanh

Refuge Prayer by Thich Nhat-Hanh

At the foot of the Bodhi tree, beautifully seated, peaceful and smiling,
the living source of understanding and compassion, to the Buddha I go for refuge.
The path of mindful living, leading to healing, joy, and enlightenment,
the way of peace, to the Dhamma I go for refuge.
The loving and supportive community of practice, realizing harmony, awareness, and liberation,
to the Sangha I go for refuge.
I am aware that the Three Gems are within my heart, I vow to realize them.
I vow to practice mindful breathing and smiling, looking deeply into things.
I vow to understand living beings and their suffering, to cultivate compassion and loving kindness,
and to practice joy and equanimity.
I vow to offer joy to one person in the morning and to help relieve the grief of one person in the afternoon.
I vow to live simply and sanely, content with just a few possessions, and to keep my body healthy.
I vow to let go of all worry and anxiety in order to be light and free.
I am aware that I owe so much to my parents, teachers, friends and all beings.
I vow to be worthy of their trust, to practice wholeheartedly,
so that understanding and compassion will flower,
and I can help living beings be free from their suffering.
May the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha support my efforts.

let there be spaces

. . . let there be spaces in your togetherness
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you
Love one another, but make not a bond of love
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous but let each one of you be alone
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

- Kahlil Gibran

Don't go back to sleep.

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.

- Rumi

wabi sabi talk

Long time ago, I did a Teacher's Training Program with GenieKids. We discussed many theories in education - learning modes, Multiple Intelligences etc. Also, Ratnesh, our trainer, wanted us to point out some 'Habits of Mind' to the children. One of these was 'Be clear and seek clarity'.

And while miscommunication is (rightly?) blamed for many problems we face, I do believe we can learn to appreciate imperfection in speech.

This was reinforced in me by Manueles, who is in India teaching children how solar cookers are made, among other things. (I really must thank Dinesh and by assoc., Sky, for introducing me to such a variety of people!)

Reinforced, because earlier, I had met Amal, a deaf and dumb artist at an art exhibition.


He wore worn out jeans and sandals with a long blue kurta. A smile ran across his face, seeming happy to do so. He was thin enough to hug without a strain and tall enough for people to see his round, balding head easily.

A pinch of haughtinessarcasm diluted his child-like innocence, but if the Muses failed him, I felt he could easily be a con-artist. Drink in hand, he blended in smoothly.



It was delightful talking to him - mostly gestures and a little writing took us a long way. He told me he taught painting and had travelled the world as an artist and that most people didn't really understand art - but you and me, mone', we are different, weren't we?

When had I been more alert and happy when speaking with someone? Not since I was a babbling child, not understanding what people were saying to me.

And so when Manueles, who is learning English, theorised that by talking in his broken English, he is probably conveying more, I readily agreed. It's because the listener, M. said, makes up more possible meanings in her head when listening to him speak in English, than she would when listening to someone who could articulate better.

So true, inscalfen? How many times are we really intently listening to what someone says? And, how many times, in our non-professional lives, is it important that we 'be clear and seek clarity'?

what's this sabi-wabi

i noticed it first in Chennai. On my way to work with collegues in the minivan, we'd pass a plot of land that was being used for storing garbage. heck, if it was not being used, at least it was being refuse-d :)

anyways, as we passed said plot, most of my co-commuters would whip out small cloth pieces and immediately cover their nostrils with it, evidently to avoid the 'stench'. The 5*5 inches of cotton was as indispensable as when they needed a place to store their mucus they couldn't spit out in public.

I remembered that I used to hate the smell too, but just then I found myself not repulsed by it (recently read two uses of double negatives in two of my fav. authors' books - Chandler and Borges, so I had to...). My persuasions at getting co-comms to participate in any 'experiments' to detect areas in their brains which were stimulated by the smell didn't work.

Turning attention to the other source for experiments, I hypothesised thus: 'my mind is beginning to rot - so it didn't equate rotten = bad'. And then in support without experimentation, i quoted to myself," We rarely accept our demons. Don't we know that Denial is the door to Despair and Doom? ". Then a voice said, "You considered the possibility, dude - so you are better off than most". Wasn't I?

Soon, I found that I was attracted to what was considered as positively un-aesthetic. Even by me! Like in girls, for instance. The most 'ugly' looking girls, I was starting to like. What was going on here - Shallow Hal w/o Mr. Robbins? A friend said - "when one starts liking gadhis(female donkeys), one must marry". I let it pass.

Luckily, I came across this article about wabi-sabi. In short, it's the Japanese funda of finding beauty in transcience or imperfection. Ah-hah, so that's what's been happening to me (another lie for another day). Then I read 'Norwegian Wood' and parts of 'Remains of the Day'. Don't know why the former is considered great. It is good, no doubt. the latter was better but I couldn't finish it.

As this post, unfini.

fun in sin?

I don't know about you - but as of now, I feel there is some fun in sin. or what we consider 'sin'. We can tell ourselves it is 'the society' that has these notions of sin - but if we agree to having 'sin' or 'wrong' in our minds at any level, we are in trouble.

Earlier, I spoke of how Sri Sri says to go beyond gold and good to find god. Today, I got a little more understanding of going beyond the 'good' part.

My conjecture is, and this might very well be an established theory - we like ourselves when we repent. Repentance has a 'good' or 'holy' connotation in our minds. The outward form may be prayer/service to society - anything. As soon as we say to ourselves "I have repented", we are almost doomed to sin again - so we can repent again.

The solution:

a> not to have any doeship
b> not to fall into duality

easier said than done. really.

compiled vs. dynamic

So this is how it is:

All our thought is in terms of what we know. And in metaphors.

And so my _question in life_ was: what should i do in life? I was hoping to get a nice, good answer. Something to shock me a little too. hey - i was different - wasn't i? :)

Two assumptions to note about the question:

1. it is linear - like the pc in a (micro)processor. it assumes that even if there are branches, there will be one taken.
2. it is pre-compiled. i am a program, written by a programmer - pre-compiled and being run. there is no 'free will' - instead there is a way i have to go - of course as i traverse through life, branches will be taken (based on the environment) and this will give rise to 'me' - a doer - a living actor versus a puppet.

With the emergence of dynamic languages, interpreted line by line, there seems to be more of 'free will'. Of course, unless it is a self-modifying program, there is really no change of the execution model at the processor level - but one can see that the characteristics are more visible at the program level - dynamic typing for one means that a variable doesn't have to be of one type in its lifetime... so my big question need not have only one answer :)

need to think more on this!

www.paulgraham.com

Love his site. White background, Navigation + Content on the left.

Love his writing. Go read.

Another one bites the dust

Thursday, 31 Jan

First day of the SANGAM 2008 (The NGO Summit at AOL)- went with the idea of volunteering but i ended up attending more workshops than volunteering. I heard the famous Vandana Shiva talk. And she is good, no doubt. But she went on one extreme, criticizing almost everything without offering many solutions. But she did give this wonderful Native Indian quote:

When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

(Stop and cry now, before proceeding)



The title alludes to a concept (a cherished one) that unfortunately has ended it's stay in my heart. I refer to the use of non-conventional energy sources. Dr. Girish, one of the speakers at the 'Sustainable Utilization of Energy' workshop in the Summit killed it. And I'm glad he did. Not for me the fascination of Reva or solar lighting in my building any more.

Why, you ask, when all the world is talking about stopping the use of fossil fuels and go solar, go wind? Simple, more fossil fuel goes to make the current solar and wind systems than the amount they are able to offset. It will take more than 20 years of consistent use of a solar panel for it to generate the amount of electricity that would have been generated by the amount of fossil fuel that went to make it. And most solar panels don't last those many years nor are they used all the time.

Not only solar/wind, the electric cars that we 'would buy if we have the money' are also not efficient. Electric batteries that drive mechanical devices are less than 25% efficient - which means they use up more fossil fuel than normal petrol cars. Yes, 'we' don't pollute - but the power station that make our electricity are still releasing the fumes!

Shocked? I certainly was. I was really planning to look for a solar battery charged UPS for a single computer (or make one).

The culprit is entropy. There are various definitions of entropy including the simple 'measure of randomness in a system' but the one I like is - 'The amount of energy unavailable for work.'
Solar and wind are high entropy energies - Not enough is available for conversion - at least with current technologies.

Meanwhile, we are better using fossil fuels. Or using bio energy (walking/cycling) - will talk more about it soon.

Is there anybody alive out there?

Very catchy, very anthemic, consequently very concert-friendly and ultimately *very* Boss is his new song _Radio Nowhere_, a song that I heard on Radio Indigo yesterday and again today, riding home after a really fun session with Sky, Dinesh and Rene at Janaastu.

I met the abovementioned trio and Kavitha, at BarCamp Bangalore. Well, actually I'd met Sky a day earlier at RangaShankara, where I acted in a play by David Horsborough called 'The Ungrateful Man'. More on David and the play sometime later.

Sky is doing her Ph.D while not espousing Ubuntu, traveling on grants and in general, learning and teaching lots of things. She taught me to play capoeira at BarCamp and we play everytime conversation flags, which is often the case with me at one end :). She is interesting and vital, this Aussie, with a strong Padmanabha chakra. She doesn't believe in characteristics of blood groups, so I asked her to read this, though there was a better site on the topic earlier.

Kavitha is a professor at UCI. Very enthu about many things and very knowledgeable, K. is a one of the best orator/presenters I have heard. She gave a talk at NIAS that I understood very little of - I was concentrating on the performance more than the content. She also gave me a couple of Sci/Fi books. I will read one of them before she returns :).

Rene is a programmer from Germany - he has set up Community Wireless networks and gave a talk at BarCamp on the same topic and got folks in Bangalore very interested. Also got to know a little about German politics and squatting from him.

TB Dinesh is probably the wackiest of the lot - he had us protesting against the Nandigram violence after BarCamp. We stopped people at Church Street, gave flyers and asked them protest visually, which meant people did some crazy stuff like kick imaginary balls, stare at the moon and dance. All this while the jazz band at JavaCity was playing great 60s/70s music for us. At other times, he runs a software company, an NGO and lectures on Principles of Programming. Whew!

So I guess I can safely answer Springsteen - "Yes, Boss!"

That's music to my ears

It's what I have been listening to that makes me what I am.

Two bands. Two different kinds of music. One outcome - exhilaration.

Mili Bhagat
It's the most exciting sound to come from India since Indian Ocean. Techno-Sufi they like to call themselves. Find them on YouTube or Tyoogle for them.

Emergence: A fusion band from Auroville. Fusion in more ways that one - Sri Lankan/American and many other nationalities form the band. They sing in atleast 3 languages - and they are groovy.
www.myspace.com/emergencemusic

Happy Listening. I'll sign off with what a kiddo at Poseidon told me today - "However hot it be outside, you gotta be cool inside."

The Good, Bad and Ugly inside us

My Dad has told me a few things in life. Apart from bringing me to the Earth in this janma, he has told me some facts of life. Most were borrowed, I feel, not owned. But then he has told me stories.

I don't remember much of my childhood other than the joy on listening to stories he told me. Most of the stories were from the Great Indian Epics. Then I contrived to learn to read :(. And that was the end of the bonding.

However, sometime after my rebel-without-a-cause years, he told me something that I felt came like oil from a sea bed (Bad simile? I know:). He told me how the Mahabharata happens inside us. The Pandavas and Kauravas are reflections of our qualities. The bad ones do outnumber the good :). Like most things we truly understand, this didn't require any proof. I remember thinking 'Dad actually knows something'. Also, confronted with 'my' negativities, it was comforting to hear that at the time :).

Sri Sri, in his inimitable, wise and simple style, says, "You have to go beyond Gold and Good to find God". Offering our actions, thoughts and feelings, both Good and Bad, is not easy, but that is what we need to do. And I am always searching for affirmations of this truism. Luckily, when I went to VP's house after coffee with him on this particularly good non-productive day at office, I learnt about www.vedicscholar.com

It's a great site - and offers a lot of free knowledge based on birth information, including a horoscope, probable career paths and planetary transitions likely to affect you in the coming future. And it told me that I could be And a pimp :). And an astrologer! As if one needs a reason to look at the stars! Go find what's in store for you. The freedom you will feel is great - These bad qualities are not 'mine'. It's really liberating. Along with it also comes the humbling reality - The good qualities are not 'mine'.

Some kind of Wonderful.

Ogden Nash rocks!

On the basis of the quotations alone, he is on par with Shaw, Twain and Wilde.
Simbly wonderful.

Enjoy :)
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.


(And some truths in palatable form)
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

-Ogden Nash
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A good Monday

What a wonderful Monday - heard a lot of Alan Watts - he is super cool. Search for him and listen! He is a wonderful speaker.

In one of his talks he tells about the Yetzer Harra - the irreducible rascal as he calls it... Here is a great article on the same aspect.

Sum Of His Parts
A good word about the evil inclination.
........................
by David Holzel

Beam back with me now to one of the early episodes of the original "Star Trek" series, "The Enemy Within." Pity poor Captain Kirk -- a transporter malfunction splits him in two. Kirk No. 1 is a wild, irrational brute -- pure
id. Kirk No. 2 is gentle and compassionate. He is presumed the real captain, until the crew notice he is unable to make a decision -- fateful or otherwise -- and, in fact, is sinking into paralysis.

All ends well, of course. The transporter is patched together. And so is Captain Kirk. He emerges unified, greater than the sum of his parts, and fit enough to survive three seasons of the TV series plus a half-dozen mostly forgettable movies.

Viewed through a Jewish lens, this episode is an allegory of a man whose yetzer hara, or evil inclination, is split from his yetzer hatov, or good inclination.

Philosophically, we're told we need yetzer hara, because our struggle to overcome it characterizes the Jewish belief that people are endowed with free will.

But there is something more fundamental about our need for yetzer hara: Without it, we'd become the sniveling Captain Kirk, or a Paul McCartney who, liberated from John Lennon's dark scrutiny, is free to write "Silly Love Songs."

"If not for the evil impulse," says the midrash, "no one would build a house, marry, have children, nor engage in trade."

So maybe the evil inclination isn't so bad after all.

Far from a demonic force that needs to be destroyed, yetzer hara represents creativity, ambition and will. It is more morally neutral than its name suggests.

"Yetzer hara is not necessarily evil," says Jeffrey Salkin, a Reform rabbi in New York and author of "Being God's Partner." "It has been called the selfish inclination, and yetzer hatov the selfless piece of us."

Rabbi Steven Lebow, of Temple Kol Emeth in Marietta, Georgia, describes yetzer hara as a person's "dark well of energy. It would be better if we understood it in the Freudian sense of the id," he says.

The trick, according to Judaism, is what you do with what you've got.

"Balance is an integral part of a Jewish lifestyle," Rabbi Salkin says. "Judaism doesn't believe in getting rid of the body, in getting rid of desire. The focus is sanctifying what you do. That's a profoundly humanistic way of looking at the world."

That's why any meal can become a mirror of a service in the ancient Temple -- compliments of a few blessings.

And that's why Judaism neither bans drinking nor encourages drinking freely. Instead, it encourages making kiddush -- the sanctification over wine.

Sexuality often is associated with yetzer hara. But sexuality is neutral, Rabbi Salkin points out. "It is sanctifiable. It includes marriage -- the holy of holies -- and it includes rape."

Others believe the dark well of yetzer hara represents a dread that we never can quite shake: our fear of death. In this view, yetzer hatov is our drive to connect with the eternal. Judaism says this is accomplished by our relation with God.

Yetzer hara is our sneaking suspicion, or out-and-out conviction, that this life is all there is. It pulls us from the holy to the corporeal. To defy death, our yetzer hara stirs us to build monuments to ourselves -- families, businesses, works of art. These, we know, will survive us. (Why else do captains of the starship Enterprise leave detailed mission logs? Why else are there reruns?)

One thing more -- if it's all a question of balance, can there be too much yetzer hatov? Yes, Rabbi Salkin says.

"Too much leads to premature saintliness. If one is overly righteous, one is likely to become suicidal."

It was Rabbi Hillel who, 2,000 years ago, set the balance between the two warring impulses: "If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I?"

It's a lesson James T. Kirk learned early on. After he got himself together.

Bug (ger)!

This is a small post. Had a thought some time back that said "Software bugs and stress in life are connected". This is a brief elaboration of that thought's core idea.

For those who don't know what a bug is - it is simply software not fuctioning as it should.

Bob Kembel did trainings at HCL, where I used to work. During one of these, he told us that to solve a bug, we need to know two things:
1. What should happen (the correct flow)
2. What is happening (the 'buggy' flow)

Stress is also a difference between 'What is' and 'What should'. We keep an idea of what should happen in our lives and when this is not in sync with what is happening, stress is created. This takes various forms: fear, anxiety and so many of the psychosomatic disorders that we see today.

Is there a way that will solve the second problem (in our lives), that might give us insights into how to solve the first? Wait and watch!

Digg this!

It's a nice Monday afternoon. I haven't got any work done yet and (therefore?) I'm feeling happy. And the coffee is making me put this blog down - something I'm doing after a long time.

So, what I'll do is plug some sites that I've been visiting to keep me from work.

1. Coverville is a cool podcast by Brian Ibbott. Although I'm not a big fan of his voice, I really like the stuff he plays (most of the times :). Like this morning, I heard this cover of Def Leppard's 'Photograph' that is surely better than the orig. This was on his first edition of coverville.

2. www.digg.com
(These guys were under pressure but they bow(i)ed to their readers' wishes. gotta love them.

3. Wikipedia:
Ok VP I agree! Wiki is cool.

Cheerio
I'll slog on the bug...

Words spoken by the Elders of Oraibi, Arizona Hopi Nation

"You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.
And there are things to be considered:

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.

Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the
river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all, ourselves.
For the momnet that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we've been waiting for."

So much to say

One of the resolutions of the new year can be - be more consistent blogging - maybe once I get a net connection @ home and I stop surfing TV for something remotely interesting (or titillating), maybe this will happen. Actually, am reading Psycho-cybernetics, which puts the self-image as the driving force of all actions rather than the Will. All this is so interesting!

Anyways, a lot happened and a lot of thoughts but didn't find time to put it down. Got to see Shivamani live in action and he blew me off my feet - literally. Was the only one dancing at Palace Grounds - was laughed at but not much time to ponder that when the root chakra was being pumped by the mad man playing the drums of the world and things from the kitchen and the bathroom. He was admirably complemented by a group of traditional temple drummers from Kerala I think - but not sure - could be K'taka though. But awesome stuff - it was part of Bengalooru Habba '06 (and to think I went thinking TAAQ would be playing!)

Also went for Shakti - very decent stuff and quite the showmen these guys are - but didn't come close to the madness that Shivamani chanelled into his playing... also caught Rajan/Sajan Mishra with Birju Maharaj. The old man wasn't able to move much but the jugalbandi that they did with the bols was quite outstanding - surely a special form of super-sanity is required for such magic.

Neways, will post some more - soon enough, hopefully - and will tell about why the colour of the season is green!

I heart Linux

Really - all you Windoze freaks are just that, you know - dozing your way in cyberspace - doing what the system tells you to do. How about doing it the other way for a change, eh? How about having u'r say on what the program should do - how the program should look and behave? And how about typing in commands for a change - or will u just be frickin-clickin all the time?

Ok - have got sound, a 1024*768 and a keyboard shortcuts for the terminal - Nothing much needed, I'd say - well, Eclipse is good to have for dumb Java that doesn't work on Makefiles (one has to earn to eat!) - Actually I'm hoping MadWifi works too - and then pretty much don't need Windoze (which I unintentionally sent to long hibernation while installing linux). My stars are in ascencion ever since. Read

Also, if you are a programmer, you might want to know if you the real deal :)

Enjoy!

Agar tune mera (iodized) namak khaaya hai OR Common salt and the Bhagvad Gita

So let's get down straight to it - how is salt connected to the Gita? It started when Sri Sri told us some time back about the The Government of India ban on non-iodized salt in the country. In fact, Roger Moore came as a rep from UNICEF for promoting iodization of salt. Sri Sri, a wise man by any standard, was very serious and has taken up this issue with a lot of vigour after a deliberation of 3 months and has asked all of us to protect our right to choose which salt we want to use.

There are many levels to this issue, something that I found out a little talk with my friend Dr. Kunal and then browsing the universal mind (WWW :). Let us consider the problem at the different levels:

1. Health
The enforcers of the ban say that Iodine deficiency causes lack of brain development and will lead to goitre and that salt fortification is a cheap and easy way to ensure that this problem is solved. Universal Salt Iodization(USI) is the term used and you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to see the reference to Big Brother. For the history and effects of USI, the Salt Institute is a good site - but hey, it is obviously industry driven.
Those against the law say that Indians have a high salt diet (ahh Mom's pickles) and forced iodization will make people hyperthyroid. An endocronologist argues quite well against the usefulness of USI - Iodine is quickly lost on cooking and due to high moisture in salt. Hyperthyroidism definitely seems to be a problem, especially in urban areas. But the greatest threat of Iodine seems to be AIDS - if you believe this awesome site

2. Economy
Pro-USI: Iodization of salt is cheap - "only the cost of a cup of tea a year per person". This seems patently false. Iodized salt manufactured by biggies like Tata and HLL are Rs. 10 a packet and 'common' salt that I bought in Bangalore is Rs. 5 (was this shopkeeeper plainly ignoring this law?). In villages, the iodized version is almost three times the vanilla version. No wonder then, that talks of the salt lobby being behind this law are commonplace. But there is an Agent Smith to the Neo here too. (take that article with a pinch of salt, however - it uses the same method that it argues against - emotion - to pitch USI!)

3. Effected populace
The figures are also inconsistent - the pro-USI people say that 254 out of some 350 surveyed districts had goitre problems - and this they say is not limited to the Himalayan belt that is known for the goitre problems. The doctor however says that only 2.5% of Indians are iodine deficient. It seems like you can find what you are looking for :)

4. Values
Sri Sri is now talking of a second salt Satyagraha. Basic freedom (at least in matters of food!) and self reliance are at stake. Next, there will be iron fortified wheat - which again might have to imported - our villagers will not be able to eat what the neighbouring village produces! Of course, the job of the government is not easy, given that many of the educated doctors feel that there is no substitute to iodization of salt.

It seems to me that both parties are well-balanced and this is not an easy matter to decide. Of course, there is the mandatory third option - don't eat salt altogether:) What I love is that I am taking a side knowing fully well that this is not a cut-and-dried issue. I even have a friend on the other side (Dr. Kunal). And herein lies the fun - I am going to go full out and protest against the ban - And that is what I think the Gita exhorts us to do.

This is a blog that I loved thinking about. I can consider my Vijay Dasami well-spent :)

Cheerio All - Have a good fight :)