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		<title>The Day my Heart Blossomed into a Nani Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It took me a while before I got used to my new appellation “Nani”—maternal grandmother. Nani was just a respectful title my grandson, Mokhta, was going to address me with. I began to think myself to...<br/>
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		<title>Sanskrit Terms in the Gita</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sanskrit Terms in the Bhagavad Gita
Atman lies at the core of every human personality. The purpose of life is to experience this inner reality. Hindus believe that each human being feels this...<br/>
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		<title>The Third Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Selfless Action
1-2
Arjuna:
If you think understanding is superior to action,
Why, Krishna, do you urge me to engage in this horrific action?
You confuse me with inconsistent words.
Tell me, what I...<br/>
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		<title>A Few Words of Counsel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The venue of the Bhagavad Gita jolts its reader into wakefulness by making its site the field of blood, devastation and death. The horrific setting demonstrates that even under the most horrible...<br/>
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		<title>The Second Teaching</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Self-Discipline
1-3
Arjuna sat dejected, filled with pity; his eyes blurred by tears.
Krishna said:
Why this cowardice in the time of crisis, Arjuna? This ignobility and shamefulness is foreign...<br/>
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		<title>A Letter to My Grandson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My Mokhta, My Pearl,
With your birth on September 16, 2006 you raised my status in the family by making me your, Nani, maternal grandmother. Thank you for that!
Nine months prior to that date when...<br/>
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		<title>The First Teaching: The War Within</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Dhritarashtra, Kaurava’s blind father, asks Sanjaya to tell him about the battle that is about to begin.
Sanjaya says:
Your son Duryodhana tells his teacher, Drona, to look at his other pupils,...<br/>
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		<title>The Bhagavad Gita: An Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Bhagavad-Gita, the “Song of the Lord,” is a poem in the form of a dialogue. Although considered an independent sacred text it is part of the sixth book of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The dialogue...<br/>
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		<title>Lessons Learnt II: Dhammapada</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Lessons Learnt II: Dhammapada
What we think, say or do have consequences. Sooner or later they come back to us. It may take years before we see the results of our thoughts, words and actions but they...<br/>
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		<title>Wishing You All A Warm Holiday Season!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Readers,
We have concluded reading the Buddhist text Dhammapada. Did you enjoy reading it as much as the Taoist text Tao Te-Ching? More? Less? Was any one chapter in particular your favorite?...<br/>
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