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I have a couple of friends who work in the supplement industry who throw a few treats my way from time to time, and I'm interested in anything that improves my performance in competition matches. But yeah, a lot of supps are either completely useless or they can have nasty effects if you don't know what you are doing. There was an idiot kid in my gym who wanted to look like the incredible hulk in time for his summer holiday. He progressed very quickly then came in one day with yellow eyes (a sign of jaundice). It turns out that he'd been taking an OTC designer steroid for a few months without having realised what he was ingesting. The only mass he kept from his short burst of training was probably from the extra weight of the tumours in his liver. By the way, what the hell's wrong with plant ova? K.

Yes, krill oil is also a great source of quality fish oils, if you don't like fish. Cissus is good for arthritis as well (I take it for the creaky old-man knees I have from squatting too much), as long as you get it from a good source. Fish oils get in the way of arachidonic acid doing its job though, that's why they are avoided when using the supp. K.

Fateh! Nope. I think that the Bahadur Singh on sikhe.com was Fransisco Jose Luis who converted to Islam and now uses the name Ishraqi on this forum (see my sig for the list of his other names). Regards, K.

Keep on making accusations, since it's pretty much the only thing you Kala Afghana chelas are capable of doing. K.

Rupert Snell's The Hindi Classical Reader: A Braj Bhasa Reader was the one an SOAS guy recommended. I think you can find some of it for free at google books. Buy it here or directly from SOAS: http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/pro...ent_id=&pc= Enjoy, K.

I'm guessing it was deleted because it's an outright lie. Every Sikh here believes gurgaddi was given to Sri Guru Granth Sahib, and the panktis that Ullo Ka shick or Kala Afghana ki navel Fuzz (or whatever it calls itself now) quoted to prove that 5 kakaar rehat is contained in Sri Guru Granth Sahib do no such thing (unless of course you have the really, really super "special" and unique understanding of the Adi Granth that only it has). K.

Kala Afghana da Sickophant: Mods, do your job and moderate, or just get rid of this creature. K.

Well, yes. If you have high blood pressure or arthritis, you should not really be consuming red meat either. I naturally assume people will do their own research before they start taking supplements, but perhaps I shouldn't be making such assumptions in this place. The pro-inflammatory nature of AA is sort of how it works, and in my experience it works pretty well when taken for short periods of time. K.

Fateh! For those who don't eat red meat, a good supplement to take is arachidonic acid. You can get it in the form of a supplement (e.g., molecular nutrition's x-factor). It may however still have the health risks associated with red meat. K.

Fateh! Yes, diet is pretty individual and at the end of the day one has to find out out what works by trial and error. Protein is protein, doesn't really matter where it comes from. What is important is timing your consumption to make best use of your body's ability to use it all (e.g., post workout). Most of the research on tofu increasing estrogen in males is funded by meat companies. It may be true, but it's unlikely given that the Chinese have been eating it for centuries without their men growing breasts and crying after watching Thelma and Louise. Kudos for having the nads to put your training routine and diet up for all to see. K. Edit: Yeesh, you must be ancient!

Kala Aghana da Sikh: Mods, either do a better job of moderating the disgusting comments of this piece of filth, or ban him altogether. Shame on you for allowing this kind of disrespect of Sikhs. K.

From here: http://popularsikh.com/node/85805 (edited) Discuss. K.

GillAUS: Welcome to the forum and thanks for your input on what's going on in Australia. What are the gurdwaras in the community doing there? Perhaps this would be a good idea for them to reach out to the Indian student population and start running some basic Sikhi and self-defence classes. Then we can see how brave these Lebanese and redneck thugs are when faced with a jhatha of Shastardari dumaala-sporting kirpan-wielding Gursikhs trained in shastar vidiya. If the police are doing nothing about these racist attacks, then there are two options open to the Indian population there: they can organise themselves into fraternal and underground organisations like the Italian- and Sicilian-Americans who established the American Cosa Nostra in the 19th century when they emigrated to the States, or they can do what the Irish-Americans did to battle dicrimination in the US and fill the ranks of the police with people to protect their own. Fateh, K.

OP: Unless you were very small to begin with, there's no way that diet is going to enable you to bulk (unless you are getting most of your protein from milk, in which case you are also getting a whole lot of fat along with it). If you eat two whole eggs a day and two chicken breasts a day, that makes approximately 72 grams of protein from whole food sources. You need between 1.5-2.0g of protein per pound of your desired body weight to grow. That means, if you weigh 200lbs now, you need at least 300g of protein just to maintain your current weight. You're also not eating frequently enough. Try eating around 6 smallish meals a day, and add pre- and post-workout protein/carb shakes. It's a little harder to balance protein/fat ratios on a vegetarian diet, but it's quite possible to get enough protein without consuming meat, fish or eggs. For example, 1/2 cup of cottage cheese is around 15g of protein, 1/2 cup of tofu is 20g, 1/2 cup of almonds is 16g, lentils/dal contains anything between 7-10g per 1/2 cup (precooked lentils). Mithar: Look up 5x5 routines to build mass and strength, and concentrate on the big 3: squat, deadlift, and bench. You can spend a day on each, and throw in some supplementary exercises when and if you want to. Regards, K.

Fateh! An article about the nocebo effect and psychogenic illness: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2022...ody.html?page=1 You may not worry about jadu toona these days, or evil old Tantric babas mumbling their maranam mantras at us, but your doctor might still be able to kill you with his words. K.

Fateh! First Khalsa Fauj retires then Guru Da Sikh enters the fray. Good people, I do believe that we have a tagteam on our hands. I'm just waiting for the Nasty Boys to turn up now. K.

The Khalsa Fauj: And what follower of Kala Afghana and Inder Gagga's gave shaheedi exactly? And what was it that Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale said again about nastiks and Dasam Granth? Yes, that's right. Accuse everyone of being stupid because we clearly don't gave the special understanding of Sri Guru Granth Sahib that you do and then run away. K.

Khalsa Fauj: Etymology not Hindu Mat. You reinvent the meanings of words for your own purposes and then have the gall to whine about no one understanding you? There was no question, you were just making up completely idiotic meanings for expressions you clearly do not understand. It's clear to every single person, except you, reading these threads that the only one dodging questions and changing subjects every 2nd post is you. Absolute rubbish. Atman does not die because one is unaware of it, no more than the moon ceases to exist when the sun comes out. Blah blah blah. Let me know when you and your fellow missionary nincompoops are on Jerry Springer and I'll be sure to tune in. K.

Fateh! What's to be careful about? These people have little learning and no bhagti or shakti. They may be able to spread their idiocy now, and foolish people may even be impressed by their non-existent phds and correspondence course degrees from their shanty town educational institutions, but when they die, they will be the one's being laughed at by Dharam Raj as jamdoots tear them apart limb from limb. If Jung comes before then, they will also be the first to convert and shave their beards and trample their turbans under their feet because their lack of naam abhyaas and bhagti will mean that they lack the confidence and faith to face death with equanmity and acceptance of His Hukam. Regards, K.

The Khalsa Fauj: So, saying a granth has a head and toes means it's not a book? Or is it a figure of speech? It's clear that you have no idea how similes, metaphors, analogies, allusions and figurative speech work, despite your claims that you do. This is not a cheap shot, it's actually an illustration of your inability to think in any but literal terms. When Maradona claimed that it was the Hand of God that enabled him to score the winning goal in the World Cup, he wasn't talking about a big hand coming out of the sky and tapping the ball into the net. Your translation of these two terms is incorrect and has no basis in historical etymology. See above. Now you are just being silly and dramatic. Aatman does not die according to Gurbani. Have you never heard of cold burns? It's amusing that you call people illiterate when it's completely evident from your post that your reading comprehension is non-existent. Perhaps if you spent some time reading fiction and poetry instead of posting nonsensical statements in every thread, you might be able to understand these things. Regards, K.

Look up metaphor, analogy, and simile in a dictionary or take a course in basic literary criticism, because these are used many times in bani. Does a granth have a head and toes, then? Regards, K.

Fateh! The bani in the two Granths serves two separate and distinct purposes: the Adi Granth describes the love of God's worshippers for Him and how one is to obtain Him, the Dasam Granth describes God's power and how She manifests it in Her creation. Indic religions traditionally have always described God's Shakti in feminine terms and the Supreme Being in masculine ones, e.g., in Shakta tradition, whereas Shakti is dynamic and active, Shiva is passive, immutable and transcendent; however, one cannot exist without the other, and similarly the Adi Granth and Dasam Granth are two parts of a whole. Regards, K.

LOL Sorry Neo. But yes, it's the same case. K.

Yep. From a purely practical point of view, if Sikhs were doing good parchaar and not so worried that they were commiting some kind of sin by sharing the teachings of Sikhi, there would be a lot more Sikhs - and more Sikhs equals more political clout. If there were more of us, we would not have some of the problems that we have today, e.g., Badal would not have to compromise Sikh interests to get votes from followers of Deray Babay, we would have gotten justice for '84 by now, we may even have had an independent Sikh state. In short, we would have much more influence to effect change for the betterment of the Panth. Isn't that worth the effort involved in spreading knowledge of Sikhi? K.

Fateh! It might be helpful to understand the place of the Markandaya Puran (from which Dasmesh Pita draws inspiration for Chandi bani) in the Hindu religious canon. This Purana marked a transition point in Hindu religious consciousness. Prior to the writing of Durga Saptashati, God was conceived in completely masculine terms, as the most powerful and important Vedic deities were male, and female deities were either unimportant or regarded solely as consorts to the male gods. Durga Saptashati was one of the first (and arguably one of the most important) texts that attempted to desribe divinity in feminine terms. In the purana, the feminine principle is regarded as independent of the male deities of the Vedas and as a supreme force. It, more than any other religious text, was responsible for diminishing the power of the patriarchal hierarchy in the India of the time and for elevating woman above her role of simply being an appendage to her man. As such, it's not too difficult to imagine why Guru Gobind Singh would have chosen to translate and rewrite this text. In doing so, Guru Gobind Singh added an additional dimension to the personality of God as recorded in the Guru Granth Sahib (in which God is described in masculine terms), and ensured that women would be treated like Kaurs in the coming Sikh Raj. Regards, K.