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To: ratan lal who wrote (9789)	11/25/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

Ratan: U almost fooled me. I wondered what Ratan is up to now, while reading it. The vast space between paragraphs alerted me to the fact that Ratan is not talking turkey here. In a way you were talking turkey here and very dressed-up turkey for that. While reading it: Actually I was thinking of Krishna and the Gopis. The Gopis and Krishna coming together, is a symbolism and purports the merging of JIVATMA with PARAMATMA. I knew that Ratan gives a story to illustrate a point. I caught the essence of your story of THANKSGIVING. Notes by JPR from excerpts Thanksgiving now portrays family reunions, sometimes with a minority thrown in for symbolism. The Thanksgiving image of dissimilar ethnic communities co-existing amid peace and plenty is an irresistible symbol. In 1621, the first dinner - the forerunner of Thanksgiving dinner - was celebrated, but without Indian participation. It was actually a lobster dinner. The Turkey came later. The violent confrontation between Native Indians on one hand and the pilgrims and descendants on the other hand, didn't allow for a dinner together. The Native Indian participation is a romantic and a guilt-ridden idea - historically correct - that came later, when the Indian wars decimated the Indians and the "Vanishing Red Men "were so few, didn't pose any threat and provoked a national change of heart. Until 1914 , the image of Thanksgiving Pilgrim-puritan fleeing a shower of arrows retained a popular appeal. The school children are fed a dressed-up version of Thanksgiving on this turkey day. It is a story similar to Santa Klaus. The children find out the truth later. Life without myths and Romance is not interesting.