India's Toilet Museum -

http://www.cbc.ca/news/

Click on INDIA'S TOILET MUSEUM. I can't get the link to work.

The man was interviewed on the radio. He has developed ecological toilets for use in India. Sounded very interesting.

A fellow named Jeffrey Armstrong, sounded like an ex-Hare Krishna, was just on national radio chanting govindam adi purusham tam aham bhajami, giving a new age version of mantra chanting.

Now there is a lady chanting Gita verses from second chapter. Live on CBC. Click on the above link and ask for live transmission of Radio One. Of course she is pronouncing abominably.

It all sounds like mumbo jumbo. But I am sounding like a mumbo jumbo man to my wife. Or at least that how she is reacting to my explanations of the Gita and Rasa Lila.

NOw they are chanting om purnam adah purnam idam. Very nice.

The show is called "Buddy Watson". They probably archive it so you'll be able to check it out another time.

Now some nice medieval church singing. Probably Hildegard of Bingen I have to say, it sounds much better than mispronounced Sanskrit.

St. Augustine: "He who sings, prays twice." Very good comments by the choir master. He says their goal is to chant as a single voice. This seems much better an idea than everyone singing their own tune. I've got to get my wife singing and playing the harmonium. Anybody got an old harmonium they can spare?

Jeffrey Armstrong = Jamadagni

see;

http://www.gaudiyadiscussions.com/index.ph...40&hl=Jamadagni

Well, they gave him the last word. He repeated "Jagannatha-svami nayana-patha-gami." His explanation sounded kinda cool.

He used to go by the name Indra Armstrong (wrote poetry under that name)

Michael Cassidy (Mangalananda Das) put some of it to music on his Change Of Heart album.



I meet Indra back in the early 80's when he was living in Santa Cruz, a very nice guy, great poet and good astrologer as well.

jijaji

Here's his website;

http://www.creditcardmerchant.com/jeffrey/.../guestbook.html

Quite regal indeed, was this reserved for the Raja..?

you could say, how you deal with your waste is a measure of your culture

pooping here, there and everywhere (and especially into bodies of water) shows lack of culture.

Everyone in India did it that way until the arrival of the Muslims and then the Britishers who put toilets into houses.

Krishna did it that way (or did he have internal absorption power?), Gauranga as well (there is that related lila with Gopal, Gauranga's child servant who was later called Gopal-Guru).

Also remember how Narottam das Thakur got his guru?