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This site honours Shankaracharya Brahmananda (1871-1953) and his gurudeva Krishnananda. - TK, site owner
WHAT IS ON THE GOLD SCALES SITE? The Gold Scales is a rather extensive,
family friendly site, rich in content. It contains classic works, and a quite large collection of traditional and modern wisdom, including sayings of avid thinkers, sound art and various extracts. Here are many proverbs, quotations, tales and fables too. That is our main profile. [LINK]
SITE OWNERSHIP AND LOCATION. The non-profit site is located at the university of Trondheim and has been up since 1995. The site owner is Tormod Kinnes.
A SOUGHT OUT SITE. A neat, user-friendly design and quality content has been two big aims. View a selection of yippee responses to the site: [LINK] Some of the most visited pages here today contain Norwegian folktales and proverbs. There have been some million visitors to the site the last years.
TOPICS THE SITE DEALS WITH. As part of its art content the site presents
nude art paintings, especially paintings from the history of art, but
not in a systematic way, and not on all its pages. Tentative benchmarks for the picture
content were formally okayed by the university, and the site is within their bounds. But while the picture content may delight adults, one should check pages if children are to read into them. Parts of the site's humorous, original art content bears some likeness to art of Picasso.
We select topics and themes, we are informative, and not the least keen on being
demagogical. We try to clear up some muddy waters here and there, and teachings of the world-famous guru Yogananda and other gurus of SRF (Self-Realization Fellowship) serve in this. We have spent time on Yogananda, but are not anti
guru. And we do not say sects and cults are bad in all cases, but that the free
society may hold better promises in store for those who can handle it, especially if one's
inner basis is good enough and not violated overly much.
NO MISSION. This 'No' is Japanese. 'No' in English means something else. We offer works that could enrich your life, widen your horizons, and go into understandings that offer progress or other benefits. Hovering conditions need to be all right and not too detrimental too. Dogmatic belief is out; although there may be exceptions to that good rule and other general attitudes. It should be wise to take to heart what is deeply feel to be true and good, well and rightly, and things could open up. [PURPOSE]
A GOOD GRASP: As public service we offer gifts without strings in the form of on-line books, chapters, extracts. A few works are in the public domain.
It could be worth while to some to stand up to some rights, learn to learn with interest, or do it technically OK by sound methods. If so, it is indeed possible to assimilate with interest. The one who is able to follow his or her interests - or some of them - may go on with interest or develop as a person and learn to apply knowhow with skill to support himself (herself) and a family, and so on as the circle widens.
WHO VISIT? Of about 63 000 monthly visitors since 19 Jan 2008, about 28 000 came from the United States. The most typical US visitors attend Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and the University of Virginia, according to Quantcast. Visitors also use sacred-texts.com, gutenberg.org, and accesstoinsight.org and wikiquote.org.
Literature
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2007.
USER'S GUIDE to abbreviations, the site's large bibliography, letter codes, dictionaries, site design and navigation, tips for searching the site and page referrals. [LINK]
DISCLAIMER: To help us out: [LINK]
© 1999–2007, Tormod Byrn Kinnes. All rights reserved. [E-MAIL]
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