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Post by dattaswami on Oct 15, 2008 14:06:53 GMT
Birthday is to be Celebrated by Society
The birthday celebration of your child should be later on and should be done by others and not by the parents and relatives. When this child grows and does some permanent benefit to the society, its birthday is celebrated by the society. Shri Rama Navami, Shri Krishna Ashtami, Shankara Jayanthi, Buddha Purnima, Christmas etc. are performed by the society. You should not celebrate your own birthday, which will be like self-praise. Similarly, you should not celebrate the birthday of your child which is like praising your own child. I do not understand why the parents celebrate the birthday of their child.
What is the greatness of the child that is expressed in the childhood itself? Or, is it for the great act of producing a child? Even animals and birds produce children. The parents should get the real happiness of the celebration of the birthday of their child by the society in future. If this angle does not exist, you can celebrate the birthday of the child in the angle of real worship to God and getting blessings from the real devotees. One of these two angles should be present in the birthday celebrations.
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Post by humphreyclarke on Oct 15, 2008 16:32:09 GMT
Someone delete this heresy!
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Post by dattaswami on Oct 16, 2008 2:34:48 GMT
Someone delete this heresy! what is wrong with this?
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Post by humphreyclarke on Oct 16, 2008 17:27:11 GMT
Someone delete this heresy! what is wrong with this? I think my chief complaint is that it is complete and utter drivel.
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Post by James Hannam on Oct 16, 2008 19:57:41 GMT
Dattaswami will be leaving us. I asked him to stop spamming the board. He has persisted and hence his account has been deleted.
Best wishes
James
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Post by bjorn on Oct 16, 2008 21:46:02 GMT
Even if he never may be born again, hopefully he one day will celebrate being born once.
(To paraphrase a certain Sage).
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Post by bret on Oct 21, 2008 1:59:53 GMT
Holy cow, will someone please tell Dattaswami that Currie powder is to be added to his food and not snorted! I feel his child's pain. Ouch
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Post by humphreyclarke on Oct 21, 2008 8:41:46 GMT
I suppose this thread shows that religious tolerance has its limits
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