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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful
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By any other name would smell as sweet.
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8 "... Freely you
received, freely give”.
- Matthew 10:8 ::
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
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“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
2
People will be lovers
of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive,
disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3
without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control,
brutal, not lovers of the good,
4
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers
of God—
5 having a form of godliness
but denying
its power. Have nothing to do with them.
6
They are the
kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
8
Just as Jannes and Jambres
opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
9
But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.”
- 2 Timothy 3:1-9 ::
New International Version (NIV)
The right to be left alone – the most comprehensive of rights,
and the right most valued by a free people
- Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead
v. U.S., 1928.
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I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or
hot.
16
So then because thou
art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue
thee out of my mouth.
- Revelation 3:15-16
:: King James Version (KJV)
6
As he saith also in another
place, Thou
art a priest for ever after
the order of Melchisedec.
- Hebrews 5:6 ::
King James Version (KJV)
Therefore,
I say:
Know your enemy and know yourself;
in a hundred battles, you
will never be defeated.
When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,
your chances of winning or
losing are equal.
If
ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself,
you are sure to be defeated in every battle.
-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 500bc
22
For these be
the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
- Luke 21:22 ::
King James Version (KJV)
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19. He who is without craving and grasping, who is skilled in the
science of
language and of grammar, who knows the order of letters
in their prior and posterior relations, he wears this body for the
last time and is truly called a great Sage. (352)
- The Dhammapada. Canto XXIV – Craving
Check-list of wrong words and
their possible alternatives
Not conducive for a good, moral
and ethical writing. Written
from a point of view advocating celibacy.
Example
exhibit, display, show
- these words contain a tinge of arrogance; for fame
reveal, make known; disclose
– there is nothing new to make known or reveal, something that
is already present
– manifest
(used in all the above cases; “as it is”)
Censor Substitutes
anger, temper etc. without actually using any abusive or
harmful
words. Abusive words are masked out with such a symbolic
representation. It can reduce reverse reaction of the words you write,
back onto your own life. The mirror image or
mapping back onto you.
equivalent. You can thus interpret *?! in
both ways.
Dual words with inner meaning: examples
smutty salty
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And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better
for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into
the fire that never shall be quenched:
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Where their
worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
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And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt
into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never
shall be quenched:
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Where their
worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
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And if thine eye offend
thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the
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Where their
worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
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For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
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Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
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embarrass surprise
sex surprise
rape surprise
129: If a man's wife be surprised [having intercourse] with another man, both shall be tied and thrown into the water, but the husband may pardon his wife and the king his slaves.
130: If a man violate the wife (betrothed or child-wife) of another man, who has never known a man, and still lives in her father's house, and sleep with her and be surprised [caught], this man shall be put to death, but the wife is blameless.
131: If a man bring a charge against [his] wife, but she is not surprised with another man, she must take an oath and then may return to her house.
(Reference: King, L. W. (Trans) (1915), Brians, Paul. (edited) The Code of Hammurabi. (18th Century BCE). )
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Reversal: The coming back of words, an example
You, a man, if you live in
forest, the wild jungle, they may call you a wild man.
You, a man, if you live in
society, and mentally imbalanced, they may call you a loose man. “His head is a bit loose”.
You, a woman, if you live in
society, and exhibit higher levels of erotica, they may call you a wild woman.
You, a woman, if you live in
society, and exhibit higher levels of erotica, AND “play around”, they may call
you a loose woman.
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22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which
are written may be fulfilled.
- Luke
To ponder…on Reverse action…
“O Thou Self of everything, of whatever thing existing at whatever place or time, whether cause or effect, Thou art the Power behind that; how canst Thou be praised?”
(Reference: Swami Sivananda. (1994)
Kundalini Yoga. (WWW Edition)
“Sins committed in action—with the hands and feet or by speech, or by the body, or by the ears and eyes,—or by those done in thoughts,—forgive all these sins whether of commission or omission. Glory be unto Thee, Thou ocean of mercy! Glory be unto Thee O Mahadeva, O Shambho!”
- Sri Sankaracharya
(Reference: Swami Sivananda. (1994)
Kundalini Yoga. (WWW Edition)
Haunting Thoughts Of Sin
Thoughts of sin haunt the minds of some persons. One man always thinks, "I have committed a
very heinous sin. I do not know what to do." Again and again, this one
idea haunts his mind. This is a bad habit. These people do not know how to divert their minds. They
become prey to these 'haunting thoughts'. Virtue and sin are relative terms. They are
creations of the mind. Sin is nothing but a mistake. Japa
of God's Name, charity and fasting will destroy at once any amount of sin. Why are you afraid? Even the worst sinner can attain salvation, can become holy of holies. What was
the state of Valmiki, Jagai
and Madhai and Ajamila in
the beginning? Were they not rogues of the first water? Repeat
(Reference: Swami Sivananda. (1998) Mind--Its
Mysteries and Control. (WWW Edition)
The Vedas form the
sound-manifestation of Ishvara. That sound has four
divisions,—
Articulation
is the last and grossest expression of divine sound-energy. The highest manifestation
of sound-energy, the primal voice, the divine voice is
The seat of Pasyanti is the navel or the Manipura Chakra. Yogins who have subtle inner vision can experience the Pasyanti state of a word which has colour and form, which is common for all languages and which has the vibrating homogeneity of sound. Indians, Europeans, Americans, Africans, Japanese, birds, beasts—all experience the same Bhavana of a thing in the Pasyanti state of voice or sound. Gesture is a sort of mute subtle language. It is one and the same for all persons. Any individual of any country will make the same gesture by holding his hand to his mouth in a particular manner, when he is thirsty. As one and the same power or Shakti working through the ears becomes hearing, through the eyes becomes seeing and so forth, the same Pasyanti assumes different forms of sound when materialised. The Lord manifests Himself through his Mayaic power first as Para Vani in the Muladhara Chakra at the navel, then as Madhyama in the heart and then eventually as Vaikhari in the throat and mouth. This is the divine descent of His voice. All the Vaikhari is His voice only. It is the voice of the Virat Purusha.
(Reference: Swami Sivananda. (1994)
Kundalini Yoga. (WWW Edition)
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“Thou
belongest to That Which Is Undying, and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at last. “Thou art eternal, and not merely of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot be killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped,
in thy heart, as I waited, sand-wrapped, in
thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee,
as in all men, that comes and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search in Secret
Amen