Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00220)

--- In theos-talk@y..., Nisk98114@a... wrote:
> MY APOLOGIES, ALSO, AS I THOUGHT A POST FROM NETAMARA WAS AN 
INTERMEDIARY FOR 
> YOU AND WAS WRITING ON YOUR BEHALF. NO HARM DONE THOUGH I SUPPOSE.
> I STILL REITERATE THE GREETINGS AND THANK'S FOR HONORING US 
WITH YOUR 
> "INTRUSION". (CHUCKLE)

DEAR "NISK" (I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO ADDRESS YOU !) 


PLEASE ACCEPT MY HUMBLE OBEISANCES AND THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING 
IN THIS MATTER. ALTHOUGH I IMMEDIATELY CAUGHT MY MISTAKE, I WAS 
QUITE MORTIFIED THAT I HAD THOUGHT YOU WERE INTENTIONALLY CONFUSING 
MY IDENTITY ON THIS GROUP, AND THAT I HAD POSTED SUCH AN 
INNAPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO YOUR ACTUALLY INNOCENT INTENTIONS. I PRAY 
THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO HARM DONE TO YOU AS A RESULT OF MY MISTAKE. 

I HAVE MADE MY SHARE OF MISTAKES IN THIS LIFE, BUT NEVER ONE LIKE 
THIS BEFORE. I HAVE TAKEN THIS WHOLE EXPERIANCE VERY SERIOUSLY AS AN 
INDICATION THAT I MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE LAST YEAR WHEN I STOPPED ALL 
MY EGROUP ACTIVITY EXCEPT FOR 3 SITES. IT WAS JUST TOO MUCH OF A 
PHYSICAL STRAIN FOR ME TO READ ALL OF THE SMALL PRINT, BUT TRYING TO 
PICK-UP THE THREADS WITHOUT READING EVERY WORD IN THEM WAS NOT 
SOMETHING I WAS COMFORTABLE WITH. I AM GENERALLY A VERY METICULOUS 
AND THOROUGH PERSON, WHO DOES NOT MIS-READ THINGS, SO MIS-READING 
YOUR LETTER REALLY HAS CAUSED ME GREAT CONCERN. 

I AM VERY RELIEVED THAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN TO ME AND EXPLAINED WHAT 
HAPPENED, AND THAT YOU HAVE SO GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED MY APOLOGY. AS 
FOR YOUR APOLOGY TO ME, I ACCEPT AND THANK YOU FOR IT, BUT 
CONSIDERING THAT I CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THERE WAS NO ILL MOTIVE IN YOUR 
POST (THAT I QUESTIONED), I DON'T FEEL THAT YOU OWE ME ANY APOLOGY. 
YOU MADE AN HONEST ERROR IN NOT SIGNING YOUR POST. THE REST WAS A 
COINCIDENCE THAT MADE THE UNSIGNED POST SEEM TROUBLESOME. IF I HAD 
READ ALL OF THE PREVIOUS (SMALL LETTER) EXCHANGE, I WOULD HAVE 
IMMEDIATLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS HAPPENING, WHEN I READ YOUR POST IN 
QUESTION. HOWEVER, I WAS HAVING A BAD-SIGHT TIME, AND HAD NOT READ 
ALL THE PREVIOUS EXCHANGES COMPLETELY. THAT PARTICULAR POST GOT MY 
ATTENTION BECAUSE IT WAS IN ALL CAPS. IT JUST GOES TO PROVE THAT 
ONE SHOULD ALWAYS 'READ THE FINE PRINT'. [ chuckle too :) ] 

MY ONLY REQUEST TO YOU WOULD BE TO ALWAYS SIGN THE NAME YOU WISH TO 
BE ADDRESSED-BY IMMEDIATELY AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR POSTS. OR, 
PERHAPS, IDENTIFY YOURSELF IN THE BODY OF THE POST. THIS WILL AVOID 
CONFUSION AND ALSO HELP PEOPLE TO KNOW HOW TO ADDRESS YOU. BECAUSE I 
WAS NOT A MEMBER HERE, AND GAVE BRIAN PERMISSION TO POST PORTIONS OF 
MY LETTERS ANYWHERE, BUT NOT MY NAME, I WAS ALSO PARTLY RESPONSIBLE 
FOR SOME OF THE CONFUSION OVER IDENTITY ON THIS EGROUP. BRIAN WAS NOT 
TRYING TO BE DECEPTIVE AT ALL, BUT WAS JUST TRYING TO HONOR THE 
CONFIDENTIALITY OF OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDANCE. STILL PEOPLE WERE 
CONFUSED, AND THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING FOR ANYONE. WE ARE NOW 
CLEAR , I HOPE, ON WHO-WROTE-WHAT ON THIS FORUM.

HOPEFULLY ALL SUCH CONFUSION IS NOW PAST, EXCEPT MAYBE FOR THE REALLY 
BIG CONFUSION IN SOME FOLKS' MINDS ABOUT WHO WROTE THE MAHATMA 
LETTERS ! [smile and chuckle again :) ]

WISHING YOU PAX AND PREMA, 

BHAKTI ANANDA GOSWAMI