Vishotar-ji, Although I have been generally reading your postings with keen iinterest in Sajha for quite some time, I hadn't have chance to interact with you. Now that I see you bidding farewell to Sajha, I thought I better say hello and take the opportunity to share a thing or two that is in my mind about you with you. First of all, I would like to give you compliments to your disarming humility and modesty in style and equally impressive knowledge about Buddha's teaching and a lot of other disciplines as well. I wouldn't be surprised if you are already a renowned Guru somewhere. In that case, मेरो सादर प्रणाम स्वीकार गर्नुहोला । अब दुईवटा गुनासो संक्षेपमा राख्न अनुमति माग्छु । 1. First one is related to your passionate use of the characterization "scientific" and "scientist" to Buddha and his teachings in some of your postings in the past. To confess, this actually worked to turn me off and I never could bring myself to interact with you and benefit from your vast knowledge and experience. Recently, I saw you stating that Buddha's teachings contain some unreasonable things too. This helped to get rid of my earlier impression of a zealot about you. So, it actually is a compliment rather than a gunaaso. 2. This one is related to your tolerant views regarding religions. However, this is not really a compliment. The best way to put my gunaso would be to introduce you with a multitalented writer Sam Harris and his book "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (2004)". - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393327655/102-5077454-0240164 Among other things, it talks about how a free license (immunity from intellectual rigor) to 'religious faith' given by the 'religious moderates' rather than the 'arguments' by the faithfuls alone have helped religious fundamentalists to go berserk and create havoc in our society. (This I am writing based on a book reading program that I watched). The 'religious moderates' reject questioning to anything related to religious faith. Vishontarjyu, if I may say, you are one step ahead and 'glorifying' religions by a 'selective' approach- praising the 'good things' in particular religion while ignoring the 'bad things' in it. I know both the 'religious moderates' and you are doing this for a very noble reason- not to hurt the faithful, to be at peace with them and to benefit from the 'good' aspects of particular religion. However, particularly at the time when religious fundamentalism is taking significant toll, intellectual immunity, or worse, selective glorification of religion is counter-productive in my humble opinion. Mero bhannu yetto thiyo. तपाई मंगलजीवन र मंगलकर्मको लागि मंगलकामना सहित, Nepe