<!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Sep 4 2007, 01:59 AM-->QUOTE(Viren @ Sep 4 2007, 01:59 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->On another note - Laloo Prasad was on ZeeTV couple days ago as a judge for Sa Re Ga Maa music talent show. Said one night (around 4:00 am) Lord Shiva appeared in his dream and told him to give up <i>'maas-machi</i>' (meat and fish). [right][snapback]72770[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Oh please. His wife thought she could save some more of the household cash which she felt was being wasted on feeding the insatiable Kumbakarnan and so she tried to brainwash him into becoming vegetarian while he was napping. I congratulate her on her success - it has obviously worked, even if the plan was neither original nor particularly ingenious. She probably has enough saved now to buy 2 extra sarees a month. (Or whatever the price of a top-of-the-line saree is these days.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->couldn't Shivji have advised him on something that matters?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That's if I were to believe him capable of seeing Shiva in this lifetime of his. Lots of people have, but they're good people, nothing like Laloo, which is why they see Shiva and other Gods. Laloo can too one day - some lifetimes from now when he's evolved into being a better individual.
An alternative explanation to the one in the first para is that Laloo just has some health problems and decided that vegetarianism might keep the cholesterol down or reduce the circumference of any expanding waist or something. But in order to inject some style into the explanation for his new lifestyle choice, he thought he'd declare it to be due to a 'vision'; he found it lacking in flashiness to say it was merely for health reasons. Hence the 'Shiva himself came to tell me to turn vegetarian' instead of the unremarkable and lacklustre 'My arteries are clogged with cholesterol and I don't like my new shape; thought vegetarianism might get me get back to a size <?>'.
Nah, I was convinced by reason #1: his wife wanted the extra pocket change.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->couldn't Shivji have advised him on something that matters?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->That's if I were to believe him capable of seeing Shiva in this lifetime of his. Lots of people have, but they're good people, nothing like Laloo, which is why they see Shiva and other Gods. Laloo can too one day - some lifetimes from now when he's evolved into being a better individual.
An alternative explanation to the one in the first para is that Laloo just has some health problems and decided that vegetarianism might keep the cholesterol down or reduce the circumference of any expanding waist or something. But in order to inject some style into the explanation for his new lifestyle choice, he thought he'd declare it to be due to a 'vision'; he found it lacking in flashiness to say it was merely for health reasons. Hence the 'Shiva himself came to tell me to turn vegetarian' instead of the unremarkable and lacklustre 'My arteries are clogged with cholesterol and I don't like my new shape; thought vegetarianism might get me get back to a size <?>'.
Nah, I was convinced by reason #1: his wife wanted the extra pocket change.