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- Question the Quality of the Guru Material the Sooner the Better
- Maturation or education
- Slips
- SRF Linked Lore and Rabbi Duties
Question the Quality of the Guru Material the Sooner the Better
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| "Bulwark against going astray." [See nearly all] |
This is one of the oldest websites on Self-Realization Fellowship's kriya yoga and its guru-founder Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952). You may also find material on other SRF gurus.
If you stumble toward a mirage in the desert in order to drink water and save your life, you end up disappointed, most likely. Maybe you cannot afford an exhausting chase either, and die there. These things count.
Being forewarned counts, as experience can be a hard and costy teacher. Many make mistakes and few live to tell well so as to bulwark against going astray and prevent clumsy living - living that does not pay well enough.
To test canonical teachings to see how far they carry water, can be time-consuming. Quality control may rise on top of things like that. The site contains contributions that may serve quality control.
"Atman [spirit] has no emotions, it is supreme Bliss", says the Ramayana [Ups 63]. But considerable parts of these teachings might be too hard to stomach for the guru and many followers for a while all the same. Sleep on the better parts and take notes. The procedure is well in step with proficient study and dream teachings. - Tormod Kinnes
From the Depths of Others
The depths of others have plentiful supplies.
Yogananda found it out and fairly often lectured in response to unspoken thoughts of listeners, his publishers say in a long note in Man's Eternal Quest [Ak note ix, xi]What if gurus mess with you and others? Taking care may pay.
A passage in the ancient Indian [Laws of Manu, (2:85) tells that quiet sound meditation can be vastly superior to restless prayer. Thus, repeating a fit name of God (ie mantra yoga) can work very well. Ramakrishna tells that too [Rap 879; Mux].
Memorise hovering, general truths and do not get sidetracked by getting all preoccupied with less than adequate yoga ways and methods.
"Different strokes for different folks" seems to have been the "song" of Yogananda when he dropped a long row of kriya regulations to accommodate kriya to Westerners. He changed kriya methods too.
Words to remember
The kind of advice we do not like to take, often turns out to be the best. [Ap 10]"Your words cannot fool us any more. " - Devendra [Rap 879].
Maturation and Education
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| "Well-well's" could help good enough living. Be served by "well-well"s. |
Don't accept a pack of lies. Yet have tact. Maybe we have the pot of gold you should be seeking, after all is said and done.
Here is a quite large site of open and friendly or handy self-help programs. It contains many heart-warming tales or lessons and show how to be handy in dealing with an awed and soap-pretentious following that may not be wholly to our satisfaction.
But getting into significant idea gifts and exploring advancing openness isn't all there is to a successful fare. Far from it. Even if each idea is inspired from above, even if "bluntness may counteract decadence in finer circles", try to get in touch with your own jolly good, significant guts or dreams as well.
From the old Hebrew tradition
The old Hebrew tradition is that one has to honour Yahweh, which means "I Am" (etc.) above all. Since God is in heaven and heaven is inside you, it means that God must be inside somehow, and that the way of Biblical God is not to bow to representations - idols, man-made gods, foreign gods and the like.Further, Jesus says, "you are gods" who seem capable of lifting up the son of man (everyday self and its mentalities) to heaven and communion with I Am - roughly said [Cf. John 14:12]. That gives hope. It is further said that in the old days some did that without any spoken-of middleman. Enoch is one such personage of the Old Testament.
Much history shows that contrary to this tradition, seemingly good ideas and practices persons are fed with and fostered on, get well accepted in the socal spheres without deserving it. Ideas are often ruinous, not just preposterous.
Against low-levelled thinking, a little dreaming may do. A lot of renowned scientists and artists have exemplified that, including Albert Einstein. "Gentlemen, learn to dream," he said.
If you don't feel up to it yet, and perhaps not "crowned with honour and glory" [See Hebrews 2:7] either, you may still enrich yourself - judged from Bible evidence and more - by learning to interpret dreams. Go to the dream page: [LINK]
Slips
Salient notes for those in need of gliding inwards
WE HUMANS make mistakes due to errors and mistakes, and thus need strong and fit devotion to sane and good thinking; there are times when that is helped by a long disclaimer at its best. And then there are times when no amount of redressing takes off anyway. Time will show in some cases; that comes in addition or on top of things far and wide.Below you find enlarging notes revolving around slipping, sky-diving, gliding inside. It's sound contemplation which is referrend to that way.
Nude and loved, nude and jungle-adapted?
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Just as sincerity is an asset, tact is often a great boon. There is room for much tact in the world today.
Be pleased to find tips fit for fair, basic self-explorations on page after page, and good points. They are presents just as Santa Claus would have them: easy to carry along if you learn them by heart. Record them and play them several times till you not only recognise them, but can actively make use of them as needs be. That is learning.
You can delight in what is thought to be among the very best contemplation tips: Ours are meditation hints aimed at beginners and trainees aiming at survival among freak gurus. What is more, it generally helps to be on guard no matter what and how. "Every animal in the jungle" has to learn that or fall.
Parts of this looming website were renovated lately. Some more material has been put on display, and a little removed. We may liken the way we have formed it and remodeled it with how descendants of Normans (and others) went about Windsor Castle. There are many points of similarity, and the "Dare to show largesse" counts a lot too.
In our SRF-mentions our duties have been "rabbinic", that is,
against hypocricy.
SRF Linked Lore and Rabbi Duties
LET US think that a gang of robbers are hiding, and that they say this and that to get unfair advantage on somebody else's expense. If you think that approaching them is fit and good and walking in too big shoes is too, beware of conformity that breeds hypocricy, and is based on hypocricy of others that earlier walked the paths that attract you. Perhaps much hypocricy deranges you without your knowing.If so, your paramount duty to yourself and your Self - depending on how you look at it - is not to conform but to cultivate what helps a good, fit life for yourself and your nearest ones.
It often shows up that those who on the other hand trust everything and everyone (very gullible ones), have not learnt to ask for evidence, and go for hard times because of their trust.
Trust is not to be looked down on, but there is much work to be done for trusting ones unless they get their rightful shares in interactions, instead of submitting through trust. Submitting overly much through trust is an overlooked danger, especially if the trusted ones are robbers in hiding. Is Jesus one of them? Hurry to find out yourself. Yes, there could still be work to be done . . . At least, try to get in contact with ancient and handed over sources of truth. We have done it, and have shared to reveal many, many imbalances.
If you get stuck and submit to bad friends, on the other hand, maybe you get stuck too long to bask in the sun and lead a cosy life yourself ever since. Thus, "Look before you leap" is the counsel.
Included in our Archive 4 is revealing, candid critique of certain Yogananda tenets. This deserves notion: "To tell a tied guy he is tied, is that good help if he can't live up to your further address?" However, there may be exceptions. And others have loved it.
You won't understand what is put forth by us right unless you learn the basic meaning of our "well-well" teachings. However, there is also room for certainty. For example, a guru that comes in the name of god-masters in Hinduism and decrees he has a particular dispensation with Jesus Christ behind it too, talks considerably against certain forewarnings by Jesus against (a) having many masters, (b) other masters than him, (c), false Christs, (d) misleading, ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing. These points have to be dealt with instead of being overlooked.
False Christ teachings hardly come in the name of truthfulness, so take time to study the gospel evidence too. We have included that. Note the severe warnings Jesus found fit on that very point. Well, it's in the Bible.
Question: What kind of persons are addressed here?
Answer: Those who would like to read into the material, that is beneficial in itself . . . Many items could have a wide appeal to many, and what is a delight to the beginner can be good for "all and sundry" too. A certain magnitude may be required anyhow. And sect tramps may dislike it and distort like hell anyway, for all that, if they feel offended in their cherished sets of thoughts.
A sort of marrow inside many of our attitudes or stands is: "The voyage (of living) is eased by navigation and expertise of handling things." A tall enough and eclective (selective) attitude often helps, and beginners should try to make use of that before they commit to sectarian ways of thought and living. That would be for their own good. To be duped by big and cherished words like gurus, masters, avatars, yogi-christs and so on, tends to lead into the quagmire called 'Outsmarted', where things often come to naught, and efforts are in vain - it is a worst case scenario for you, and the worst case scenario should be taken into account before you commit. It is a friendly piece of advice.
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| Literature | SECTION | First Page |
Ak: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1975.
Ay: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 1st ed. New York: Theosophical, 1946. Online. [oaks.nvg.org/pv6bk12.html]
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006.
Pa: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971.
Say: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.
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