Gouranga
Today I got a piece of spam that reads:
Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ….
That which brings the highest happiness!!
I didn’t think about it until on IRC a friend of mine announced that he got the same peice of spam and furnished me with the link to the following description.
Gouranga
A word that appears on moterway bridges in north west UK. It’s only purpose to annoy drivers who are left with a nagging curiosity for the rest of their day until the next day when it ceases to become important ever again.
Update: This link explains the term. Short explanation: Gouranga is Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Woohoo! Hare Krishna spam…
November 22nd, 2004 at 8:19 pm
Yeah, but what I want to know is who is spidering sites to grab e-mail addresses in order to send Hare Krishna spam?
Whatever happened to just standing at the airport in their white gowns? (I watched Airplane! last night, btw)
January 14th, 2005 at 5:38 am
Silver Lining of Spam
I know we all hate spam and want the perpetrators to be punished horribly, but this actually made me laugh
January 14th, 2005 at 3:37 pm
I received the spam as well, funny that it showed up after I replied with expletives to a scam letter sent by the Nigerian letter fraud that has been going on.
January 15th, 2005 at 6:17 am
its a call to the f@cking muslims to come to arms.
a call to action
March 31st, 2005 at 4:00 am
Hey! I replied to a Nigerian letter for laughs, too and got the Spam.
April 8th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
And there was me thinking that someone was trying to promote a new kind of Cheese!
April 15th, 2005 at 1:30 am
Hmmmm, replied to Nigerian scam letter too…. I see a pattern emerging!
April 20th, 2005 at 11:55 am
I just got the same gouranga,
some people got it since 2003, and I just got it now??
weird gouranga
April 20th, 2005 at 11:47 pm
huh? you mean to tell me I’ve been spammed by Hare Krishna??? Shiva’s gonna be pissed!
April 21st, 2005 at 2:42 am
I see a pattern emerging: a new wave of Gouranga spams hits the Net (including my address); people google for the term and come across this page. Soon this may be the most read 5 months-old blog entry
April 22nd, 2005 at 10:29 pm
thank you for enlightenment
April 24th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
I can understand the Nigerian wanting to get a few bucks out of some gullible children, but would do the Hare Krishna guys get out of it???
April 25th, 2005 at 12:16 am
Ok, This is dumb, I had received the same email , replyed and it was sent back, so F–k You hare khrishnas if you can send it you should be able to take it too…………..a–holes
ah ha
April 26th, 2005 at 10:22 pm
My vote is that it’s from the video game.
A close second is the cheese thing.
May 5th, 2005 at 6:25 pm
[…] ;. That which brings the highest happiness!! definition or GTA Ad ? Some other gourangaed people. Scratching my head too.
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May 6th, 2005 at 3:00 am
pretty neat, pretty neat! every body, every mind and every soul is looking for the every moment of the highest happiness. did you gouranga well today?
May 9th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
Ojala hubiera escrito yo eso de Gouranga, todo el mundo habla del jodido spam!!
I said:
How I wish have wrote the Gouranga spam, everybody talk about it!!
May 10th, 2005 at 10:24 am
En zelfs in het Nederlands wordt er over Gouranga geluld ..
And even in Dutch people talk that Gouranga shet.
May 20th, 2005 at 2:07 am
You’re WRONG, Jozef. Wrong, wrong, wrong-etty wrong! Yes, I got the Gouranga spam. Yes I googled for the term. And yes, I even came across this web page. BUT it’s now a SIX months-old blog entry. HA! Gotcha there, didn’t I?
May 22nd, 2005 at 2:45 pm
My mate Dave who’s friends with a Hare Krishna says that it’s a special word which brings you good luck when you say it. Apparently if you say it 108 times out-loud then something really LUCKY happens !!
I tried it yesterday, nothing to loose I suppose. See what happens today….?
July 3rd, 2005 at 10:05 am
guys speaking bad about the hare krishnas.well,u guys suck.fuck off assholes. if u guys continue, lemme tell ya. u guys are sure to have a sick future ahead of u.
gauranga is another beautiful name of the lord,for ppl who don’t know.the hare krishnas use this name as another name 4 our lord.
July 4th, 2005 at 1:32 pm
Shruthi,
With all respect, it’s that kind of language that gets you a sick future.
July 23rd, 2005 at 2:17 pm
Gouranga is another name of God,
and all of you that don´t take care of your bad words, i say : you should take! People says thinks without caution, it s very dangerous to the espiritual health!
July 26th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
check out the
http://www.gouranga-hey.fw.hu
September 24th, 2005 at 9:49 am
just by saying gouranga, even if you don’t understand it, reduces by thousands your repeated births and deaths(samsara).How cool is that!
December 29th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
hey u bloody technologist who wrote some shit adressing it 2 me…u just FUCK OFF!…gouranga is a BEAUTIFUL NAME OF THE LORD AND DAT STANDS!!…if u think i’m just some person tryin 2 use bad words…..well….i’m NOT!..i don’t like ppl harassing da hare krsnas…and they shud stop it or they n ppl LIKE U will have da most horrible future…a long life IN HELL!…go die assholeeee!
February 3rd, 2006 at 11:52 am
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February 3rd, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Hello admin, nice site!
February 3rd, 2006 at 12:49 pm
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February 3rd, 2006 at 1:15 pm
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February 8th, 2006 at 10:06 am
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February 8th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
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February 9th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
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February 10th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Very very good site! Very nice website! Hi, just popped in here through a random link.
February 10th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
just received the same message today is it starting over?
February 11th, 2006 at 11:23 am
just got the gouranga-message here i denmark!
February 16th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Real good work! Spent hours on it already.
February 21st, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Keep it up! I am really impressed. First time here on your site.
May 30th, 2006 at 9:36 am
I got a similar email, but the word was “sploodal” or “sploodle,” not gouranga.
When I Google “sploodal,” all I find are t-shirts and posters.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:05 am
I have a clean email address that has never been used and I have never received an email on it. A couple of days ago I got a spam advertising http://getwellco.com/luxury/ today I got the “neat eye” Gouranga email. How the hell did they get this clean address? It has sat unused for over a year.
June 27th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
I got, I googled, I arrived, I posted.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Have you guys ever checked out the Word of God? NIV New Testament, John 1 The Word Became Flesh
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it….. 14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,[d] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me.”…..Check it out!
August 7th, 2006 at 9:38 am
Ive got this Gouronga mail too - almost two years after this guy received it. Weird. Why is it still going on?
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:36 am
auto insurance quotes…
good luck!…
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Rehab center
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Drug rehab program
December 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Gouranga is another name of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is the most recent incarnation of the Lord. It means “golden”. By saying this name even once, you free yourself from millions of lifetimes of karmic reactions. In other words, it is EXTREMELY good luck to say this! As many times as possible! All the time! All bona fide names of the Lord have this potency though. Krishna, Allah, Jehova, etc. Pick one and start chanting! You will see the benefits quickly!