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    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 4 01:04:45 2025
    XPost: talk.religion.newage, alt.religion, alt.religion.hindu
    XPost: alt.religion.vaisnava, uk.religion.hindu

    Friday, April 4, 2025 is World Rat Day.

    From the incident described on
    https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/rat.html ,

    I am hoping for good returns for the world today (it is now
    already early April 4 here in Newfoundland). But then
    again, I seem to find almost every day auspicious in
    some way, and have had no luck with my Sisyphean
    mystic attempts so far.

    From that page, which describes an incident early in 1996:

    Early in the Chinese year, in the Year of the Rat, when I, my sister Anne and her two daughters were travelling west from St. John's to Lakeview along the Conception Bay Highway, a large rat raced Olympic fashion rapidly to the edge of the road and made a flying leap to hit our car. We backed up to find it
    was dead and I dragged it off the road, and later thought that it had
    committed self-sacrifice and would be reincarnated in higher form after
    hitting the "car of ma."

    --
    https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "This could be the final breath; This is life and death;
    This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;
    Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 4 02:10:33 2025
    XPost: talk.religion.newage, alt.religion, alt.religion.hindu
    XPost: alt.religion.vaisnava, uk.religion.hindu

    On Apr 4, 2025, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<[email protected]>):

    Friday, April 4, 2025 is World Rat Day.

    From the incident described on
    https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/rat.html ,

    I am hoping for good returns for the world today (it is now
    already early April 4 here in Newfoundland). But then
    again, I seem to find almost every day auspicious in
    some way, and have had no luck with my Sisyphean
    mystic attempts so far.

    From that page, which describes an incident early in 1996:

    Early in the Chinese year, in the Year of the Rat, when I, my sister Anne and her two daughters were travelling west from St. John's to Lakeview along the Conception Bay Highway, a large rat raced Olympic fashion rapidly to the edge of the road and made a flying leap to hit our car. We backed up to find it was dead and I dragged it off the road, and later thought that it had committed self-sacrifice and would be reincarnated in higher form after hitting the "car of ma.”

    And that brings to mind Ratri, Hindu personification of the night,
    who I remember as a character in Roger Zelazny’s SF novel
    Lord of Light. But there is more traditional information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratri .
    Anyway, that coincidence is appropriate since much of my
    perineum click (short period mula bandha) negotiation with
    Goddess (the ruler of the region all/everything) has been
    at night, often from sunset to dawn. I liken this negotiation
    to Jacob’s “wrestling” with his God (it could be that the
    Christian bible says with an angel and the original Jewish
    text says with his God) at night.

    --
    https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "This could be the final breath; This is life and death;
    This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;
    Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)

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