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Monky Business

Thanks to all who have helped in improving the Gold Scales by many comments. If these pages initiate thinking, it could be good, for thinking processes can be harnessed in yoga too. Budding or growing mental independence may be helped on and up through certain well-prepared and well-timed tales too.
I do not rule out there is good yoga. Yoga and meditation have become mainstream in the U.S.A. due to research that has laid bare many helpful effects (fruits) of both yoga postures and meditation. Organisations like SRF see to that many are duped, and SRF profits from that.

THERE are some who have floundered in life due to association with the cult Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). So, neurotics had better stay away. Neurotics do not like teachings that go against their cherished gambits. Cults can be very hard to deal with, not unlike ripping your heart out.
Perhaps established values of some "world-forsaking" clans need reassessment, for example in the light of questions like "Who's winning, and who goes for unfair advantage?" World-forsakers do not really forsake or abandon the world; they chose other modes of living in this world. Monks and nuns remain in the world till they die. Monks and nuns live in their favoured spots and niches too, if they can.
The fake mother is hardly more ideal than the real one, but maybe titles of this "familiar" kind seem familiar, reassuring, no matter what? Publishing books and asking for donations form central parts of the sect's endeavours too, along with perhaps unreasonable boasting - some things like that.
For your own good, try and stay away from cults. There is hardly any deep need for being taken in by great-looking words as a youngster.

Mind the logic involved in this and that

If a bird will not come to its nest but flies higher and higher, it eventually falls into the hunter's net. - I Ching, hexagram 62.

To be fair, hexagram 62 speaks for being aligned with the natural set-up, and against going too far. And birds do not fall into the hunter's net because they tried to fly higher and higher, but for other reasons, most likely. Hence, Richard Wilhelm's hexagram comment above is faulty. [MORE]
If you have been christened, these things should be tackled: Cogent, rational thinking and handling; adhering to what is called the Adult ego state in Dr. Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis (TA).

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