caddy_caddy
Caddy smells like trees

After a long enough time we'll forget everything.. I think.

I think we make our life with our thoughts and actions... if you mean forget something painful - yes I think we can forget... and make our lives what we want. Is that what you meant?

Oh, Caddy.. I really don't know how to answer without more information - it depends on the circumstances. It doesn't happen so often with me that they are different.
Are you facing a dilemma right now?

Hi Caddy,

How are you?

Hi, Caddy,

Sorry for the late reply!

I am not really sure why they burn bodies in Hinduism.. I read a little bit about it.. As I understand it, it's to help the soul go back to God, and also to purify the body.

Hehe, of course. I had more to say, but I did not have the luxury of time.

Cows are considered the mothers of humanity, because they give us their milk. In Hinduism there are considered to be three divisions of everything in nature - goodness, passion, and ignorance. Human society is divided in these and usually has a mix of them. Cows are completely in the mode of goodness, though, because they do not hurt anything and they give so much. They don't even kill the grass they eat. So, since cows are our mother, it's considered very wrong to kill one.

Also it's in the scriptures.

It is not necessarily a female. Anyhow, it is not a sheep but a cow. In Hinduism and Vaishnavism, cows are considered sacred and holy. Krishna, for example, has multiple names, including Vasudeva, Narayana; Govinda and Gopala - the last two which mean protector of cows, and "he who is pleasing to cows and the senses."

And Krishna is male... but He's not independent - Radha, the woman in the pictures, is Krishna's eternal consort; and the two of them form God as a whole, but separate to enjoy their divine play of love.

Hi Caddy,

Those are ones I got from a friend, he shared his collection with me, of a couple hundred.. Which civilization.. I believe they are from people from all over - probably most are American by birth - I think they're almost all done by devotees in ISKCON.

Glad you like them
I know in Islam there aren't usually pictures of God, and of course not Mohammad, PBUH - in Gaudiya Vaisnavism (worship of Krishna or Vishnu), pictures of Krishna are considered holy, and that's why its devotees paint them with so much devotion.

Caddy - it's okay.. it's no problem.

I noticed you did the same thing with blazeofglory.. in his case it actually is his name.. his user title Haribol, but you called him Harold... I don't think he minded but I just wanted to point it out to you

Although I do have to admit... it is rather funny to think "Harold Acharya"

No, actually I do have a friend who is named Ananda, who is a man.. His dad was into Hinduism and India and went there a lot... and he named his son Ananda.. and Ananda doesn't know much about religion.. but it is a great name I think. One of perhaps a handful in our whole country who are born here named that..