Forum Guidelines

[Administrator]

The service of the forum is a cooperative endeavor. To maintain an environment conducive to quality and harmony, please agree to the following basic guidelines and requests before using this service.

1. We put the forums online in good faith, please use it in good faith.
2. Always be respectful of other users, the forum, and the moderators.
3. Be descriptive, specific, and succinct in your postings. This way your opinion and point is clearly understood and referenced. Remember, people from all over the world read here with English as a second language.
4. Please stay within the topic area of the forum you are posting a message in, and within any topic that another poster may have started.
5. The Mother's Service Society has published tonnes of content on spirituality, Please restrict your discussion to spiritual content.
6. Discuss issues - not persons. If you like a post or a member and want to thank him/her, please send him or her email.
7. Never write your feelings for that member as a post. Such posts will be removed without notice. Do not mention names of members and praise or criticize them.
8. Discussions about members' actions are welcome in email, but should not be discussed in public forums. This is out of respect for the members or policy involved.
9. This forum is not a venue for personal praise or private vendettas. Keep your personal business as just that - personal. This forum is not a venue for the resolution of personal disputes with members or mutual appreciation.
10. Since this is interactive, and everyone who participates in the forum is in it together, please treat others the way you wish to be treated. One way to guard against misunderstandings is to step back, read over your response before you post it.
11. Flaming or personal attacks are not allowed or tolerated. Should anyone use inappropriate language, start a personal attack, or engage in hate speech, they will be barred from all further discussions.
12. Please keep your language clean and decent.
13. Self promotional drops and whisper campaigns are strictly forbidden within the forums and will be edited out.
14. Claims of action, flames, and calls to action against any person will be removed.
15. Messages posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster.
16. Personal exposure without permission is prohibited. Anyone posting another members personal details without permission will be banned.
17. All questions will be answered by other members and Super Moderators based on the works of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother and Karmayogi. Please do not seek or expect any personal responses from Karmayogi.
18. Please do not post external links in these forums.
19. Please do not post copyrighted materials.

[Visalam Ramanathan]

we will certainly follow all your guidelines.

[Deepa Sujei]

Rules are for us and we will follow it.

[S.Lakshminarayanan]

The points highlighted here are in an unambigous terms. We all will defnitely abide by the same.

[M.Priya]

My sincere Surrender to Mother and Appa before writing the post.
If we look the date of Posting the first thread of Forum guidelines it dates back to 08-01-2008.

We are playing many roles in our life.Employer,Employee,wife,husband,student,Buisen ess Personalities etc.
At one point in our flow of life we turn back,remember the past fruitful experiences and check whether we are in line.

Can all the Members here,first pointer is towards me can read the below points again,understand it in the right spirit and check whether we are in line with the guide lines?.This self check will bring about a change in the discussions and new topics which is like opening to the Force with added Sincerity.

Many would have had this habit or experience.whenever we buy a new product say electronics many will not have the habit of reading the instructions fully and use that instrument.

Can we apply the same essence and cross check ourselves whether we have understood the purpose of the forums correctly?

For example in the last speech on Life Divine the speaker was sharing the purpose of starting Life Divine Speech Presentations that Appa and Garry sir expects the attending devotees to first read the chapters thoroughly,scan all the Appa's articles related to the topic concerned and then if they attend the speech the questions raised will fulfill the purpose of the Speech.

can we apply the same to Forums too?

Another request is for example whenever i buy a new face wash or fairness cream i use that with utmost love and care.as if i am the manufacturer i love to use that with that much sincerity.after a few days the attitude becomes dull and i mechanically use it.

Similarly can we check our interest and freshness towards starting thread and discussions in these forums which carries Appa's and Mother's Complete Grace?.

I request others comments and experiences as well.

[Roy Posner]

motherschild, it is an excellent reminder. The guidelines have been given because they create the best environment for elevated discussion; for creating a live, ripe atmosphere for unprecedented, benifical dialogue. We are all guilty of falling off the wagon from time to time, but we can climb back on board, and elevate the quality of this wonderful forum; this shared journey of spiritual insight and experience.

[Nedumaran]

Thanks for the reminder. Sometimes we exceed certain rules inadvertently in the spirit of sharing some ideas. Following the forum rules should be the spirit.

[Padma Ramachandran]

Thank You Sir for reminding all of us to be on track and be more aware and truthful.
Forum Rules are like traffic rules..formed to help us and walk on the path safely.
Let us follow the same carefully.
Let us pray to Mother to give us the utmost sincerity to live every moment 100% and enjoy life as a new born child in the Arms Of The Divine Mother.
Love to all.