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Sample Sermons based on Yogananda quotations
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| Solvency-artful fare and the teachings |
Contents
- Tending wrong leads to thinking work and wrong work
- The Old Oeuvre T
- Job-like Concerns
- Sayings Discussed
- Something Else
| Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout: |
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." - Bertrand Russell, in Science and Religion.
Tending to Wrong
Nice outfit can be good for contact. And tending to wrong may breed wrong thinking and wrong work.
The Right Sort of Love
A CLERGYMAN told an Indian he should love his enemies."I do," said the latter, "for I love rum and cider."
COMMENTS
A chieftain: "One should expect to know next to nothing from loving clever friends so well as this Red Man. This is so because the severe first steps could easily bring morose wailing and regrets. A man and his big whisky bottle are not good friends, no matter what it looks like. But real friends may have a lovely time together throughout life."- Drinking whisky, that is a budding enemy to many. Let it rest at that.
Grinning Guest Speaker
AT a banquet at Princeton University, the Chinese diplomat Koo was the guest of
honour and main speaker. A burly member of the Princeton football team found himself seated
next to Dr. Koo. Very embarrassed by the formality of the occasion the young man turned to
Dr. Koo during the soup course and said,"Likee soup?"
Dr. Koo bowed and grinned. Later he stood up and delivered a polished, thoughtful and witty address. Sitting down amidst applause, he turned to the chagrined student and said with a smile,
"Likee speech?"
- In order to smile, get starkly embarrassed first.
Another Triumph
A GENTLEMAN who had been very unhappy in marriage married a second time, right after
his first wife died. Dr. Samuel Johnson said of him:"His conduct was the triumph of hope over experience."
- There are no great triumphs without rewards.
Master Gambit
SHORTLY before his death in 1831 the Japanese writer Jippensha Ikku entrusted a
number of small packages to his disciples, asking that they be placed unopened upon his
funeral pyre. When the prayers had been said, the disciples reverently placed the packets
around the body of their deceased master, and the pyre was then set alight. At that point
the funeral proceedings broke up in disorder: Ikku's packages contained
firecrackers.- Celf-centredness can raid a grieving process by ostentation.
- Wasn't Rajasi Janakananda happier after he had left SRF (Self-Realization Fellowship) for good at death?
The Old Oeuvre
Trying to Get Out of the Humble-Brambles
THE INCREDIBLY old Harding: "To point out crank-looking unity of Christian and
Hindu-Vedic scriptures, the jubilant primal God never forsakes to let at least some children
undergo suffering, after all is said and done. "Look at creation with seeing eyes."
(Yogananda) As one of his emissaries, Little Claus, may decree after becoming one more
salvation bandit:"All men are fully liberated, but have to mend their fortunes by gliding into a dissimilar and fascinating world. A Ragnarok saint is a sinner alive. No, let those who dwell on evil be practical, and hence hurt themselves through ups and downs.
Unless God suffers it is all a big joke."
Fairy Tale of the Clown of the District
HERE the falsity of Yogananda avatar comes to the fore in more than five ways. Let
me talk to you from experience and lots of deep soundings or words from the inner soul that is like the mouth of one salmon. Yes, let
me, Daffy Duck, the skilled diver, suggest the salmon's eye and nose ridge is our soul; the
spine and back of that ray-like salmon comes close to our deep Bible heart; the salmon's
tail can be our godhood also; and the complete salmon should be one over-arching God deep
inside (alias God to many) bent on manifestation and loss from deep inside unless we are
incredibly lucky and are taught staunch Harding ways of living - and inside that
again we have place for our All-Lord deeper inside and so on. You can believe in these
things. This is to make it easy for beginners, and to avoid the word-conditioning nobody
really needs.
"Mend your fortune by
swimming down into a dissimilar and fascinating world," said
Little Claus after he had become a bandit
RELAX your vigilance. - If you neglet the soul . . . mind also will suffer [cf. Say 28, 4].God had to bestow on every bread and cake the appearance of individuality [cf. Say 8].
God chooses those cakes who choose - This world is just God's [cake] zoo [cf. Say 21, 24].
In me you possess a friend who will help you in every way. - God never forsakes us [cf. Say 9, 12].
Light rays composing wine - they should be intent o God [cf. Say 20, 6].
Let those who dwell on evil hurt themselves [cf. Say 25
All . . . are fully liberated are equal in wisdom . . . They understand everything [cf. Say 23].
I tell people how to mend their fortunes [cf. Say 29] (2)
Train yourselves to think in grand terms - A stone, a tree . . . are equally composed of the Sole Substance [of bread of life], God [cf. Say 26, 8].
Be practical - Aum [will be] the Holy Ghost [cf. Say 22, 17].
When we depart for a dissimilar and fascinating world God is helping God . . . That is the plot [cf. Say 5, 9].
A saint is a sinner - Worldly people are satisfied with the ups and downs of life [cf. Say 4, 13]
"The Real Baker never
suffers, and he sent me to die-joke," said the fool.
YOU CAN use ads to induce people to chew good ideas - Do not yearn for visions [cf.
Say 30, 7].Why place special emphasis on Christianity?-A: Babaji . . . asked me to . . . to point out the basic unity of the Christian and the Vedic scriptures. He sent me to the West to fulfil that mission [cf. Say 19] (4)
God never forsakes us - it is at times necessary to scold [cf. Say 12, 3].
God knows that sometimes it is necessary for his cakes to undergo suffering - Why the show has to go on? It is God's baroque fugue or lila [cf. Say 7, 8]
"The day you marry a fay-soul, you are
free, man." said Little Claus
A God cannot wait - Evildoers hate that truth - Be at great peace with God [cf. Say 22, 13, 5].If you marry you will not make a mistake. - The practice of meditation bestows omnipresence [cf. Say 21, 29].
Transmute (weaknesses) into strength [cf. Say 25].
Each soul is . . . imperishable - Truth is never afraid of questions [cf. Say 23, 3] (6)
My heartfelt prayer is this: Never the test of obliviousness. - A Master is a free man. (SRF) [cf. Say 25, 14n].
A great master (once) materialised before me . . . I got the whole picture by vibrations [cf. Say 27] (7)
In Short: In der Kürze liegt die Würze. (German)
A good way to get the Excalibur sword out of the rock of idolatrous verbiage lies in
the tick tack toe serialisation, hopefully.- "Mend your fortune by swimming down into a dissimilar and fascinating world," said Little Claus after he had become a bandit. "Let those who dwell on evil hurt themselves, for all are fully liberated anyhow. let us be practical about it: remember a saint is just a sinner of upstreams in life."
- Little Claus: "The giant and first God never suffers. He sent me to you to die-joke, and likewise to point out the basic unity of the Vedic scriptures we never forsake - it is necessary for children to undergo suffering."
- "Ah, the day you marry a fay-soul, you are free, man." said Little Claus. "So marry you will not. Transmute such weaknesses into strength."
A fully liberated guy should never forsake his various strengths, to
be on the safe side.
Changes
Watching a recorded television program featuring the British statesman Sir Alec
Douglas-Home, Lady Douglas-Home was
horrified by her husband's haggard appearance. She ran up to the bedroom, where Sir Alec was
changing for an evening engagement, and asked, "Are you all right? You look terrible
downstairs."
Job-Like Concerns
Lie Down and Relax for Little While Longer
GREAT RESERVES of life-power can be found inside old and neat lore on "simulated
dying" or better. Yogi living is more or less great living and delightful half-dying. Be
quick to lie down. Then you will understand better. Sigmund Freud found it out also. He
incorporated it in a method free from "Long before I get up?" the cat lives it
out.Living as dying slowly has to be counteracted. That is where brilliant solutions find their best play. One good way is to "get strangled" (only figuratively, admittedly) - it can become a way to live, much like Zen living. This is true.
Enigmatic Harding Living
Be quick to lie down without rotting, and then you will not get so nervously bent on
living. It is often like that. In yoga there is the corpse pose, savasana, to help
you attain deep relaxation first-hand. The following verses take off where Job's seventh
chapter ends - just for the fun of it. You will se the marked off Job verses (after
paragraphs below) match quite a lot. This is New Wave poetry.Be quick to lie down and test the
next moment
MY YOGA COUCH will ease my complaint: "Have I become a burden to someone? Anyway, my
best days have no meaning." 13, 16, 20My best days are interesting anyway, not like this at all: "I will soon lie down in the grave; you will search for me, but I will be interesting no more, no matter if you examine me every morning and test me every moment." 21, 18,
Otherwise when I lie down I think, "How long before I get up?" 4
Prefer to get strangled to rotting
away alive, my man
IF I LOOK at you from the grave, I might groan and say: "Will you never look away
from me, or let me alone even for an instant? I prefer strangling and death, rather than
this body of mine. 19, 15Down here I have been allotted months of futility. What have I done to rot away, man-watcher over me? 3, 20
I will not keep silent: Who goes
down under has a good chance to live on after me
My grave life is but a breath or hardly that. Am I the deep sea monster, that you
put me under guard? What is this mind-squid inside me that you make so much of him, that you
give him so much attention? It tell it as it is to that squid: "You frighten me with dreams
and terrify me with outright visions." 7, 12, 17, 14I will not keep silent. At last no normal eye will look for me, for I will be no more. Till then, maybe nights of misery have been assigned to me down here. It is not Australia. Cloud rain away, but he who goes down under could return. Well-well." 6, 11, 3, 9
In Short: Kürze is der Rede Würze. (German)
- LIE DOWN. Be quick to lie down without rotting, and then you will not get so nervously bent on "How long before I get up?"
- LIVING IS DYING IN SLOW MOTIONS - COUNTERACT IT. Prefer to get strangled to rotting a way alive like this body of mine - that is living.
- TELL YOUR VISIONS BEFORE YOU BECOME A FUGITIVE - make them into fairy tales - they resound like such lore. I will not keep silent: Who goes down under has a good chance to live on after me. I tell it as it is: "Frighten with dreams and terrify with outright visions of things to come. I presaged the Tschernobyl catastrophe All misery will not tackle Australia - someone could return.
Be quick to lie down and employ slow, flowing motions - from visualizing things well. Not
a few principles of yoga postures are based on things like that. Judo too.
Sayings Discussed
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It is likewise good to be alerted to that very much of the Hindu monk's sayings are out of step with much that old adn newer Christian churches cherish and go for. Hence, Yogananda, a Hindu emissary, goes into the mainstream of the Christian tradition and central teachings and infiltrates by thoughts that don't belong there.
Ascertain it for yourself. Read, study and look up in the Bible, and a Bible concordance could be a good help.
In the following text, the utterances in boldface stem from Yogananda, and are debated softly, quietly. In the end the question has to arise: Who is to be trusted?
Was hilft laufen, wenn man nicht auf dem richten Weg ist? (Speed gets you nowhere if you're headed in the wrong direction) [Gp 66]Lately, some thirty percent of the monastics that served Yogananda's organisation, SRF, quitted, and most of them in one year (2002). Many has said SRF headed in the wrong direction. One of us here did it too, as early as the middle of the 1970s.
Train yourselves in the background to think in grand terms never afraid of
questions - God chooses those who choose him.
That God chooses those who choose him, is wishful thinking in the light of the words
of Jesus Christ: None comes to Jesus unless it is the Father who draws them - and Jesus also
draws his chosen ones, the gospel insists on. And the purpose of the "project" is
rehabilitation" of sick minds, those who need doctoring, Jesus affirms.
John Calvin holds that predestination is part of the creed on top of these and
several other Bible sayings. The teaching of predestination is very Biblical. Many hate a
lot more. We cannot dispense with the true teachings of Jesus and call it perfectly aligned
with his original Christianity, can we?
Evildoers hate the truth that each soul is imperishable. I tell people how to
mend their fortunes and be practical - Evildoers hate the truth
Jesus warns that a soul can be destroyed. Need we add more? To belong to Jesus in
tune with the scheme he set up, is to embrace plots from base and nasty guys. He said his
real followers were to be hated by all, persecuted, for that was done to him too. Thus,
unless and until we embrace the prolonged and surely more likeable new deal from the
apostles and the Holy Spirit, there is not really a need to mend fortunes at all.
Transmute gross canonical weaknesses into strength. Think that the great God
never forsakes us, but be practical . . . Do not yearn for visions all day
long.
One day God was angry, he killed very many Egyptians by "voodoo". Another day he let
many people be swallowed up by the earth alive. Another day he wanted to kill Aaron, another
the whole people of Israel, but good old Moses intervened. That did it.
In Hoseas or Amos God said he wanted to wipe out Israel, and a lot else.
The point is that according to the Bible, God does stop to look at faking godly
people. Jesus condemned religious hypocrites, but not whoring ones. The Holy Spirit killed
Ananias and his old wife - and the conclusion is that once again wishful thinking may seek
out fakir teachings that hardly fit in with Biblical evidence.
The New Testament further says that in the last days God's spirit will manifest in
visions and dreams and miracles - and we should not set a limit to God - so have visions
also.
Never ask for the test of obliviousness of Hare Krishna (is not he God inside
SRF?). A terribly cheating Master is a free man God never forsakes.
Why not drop worship of avatars, idols or foreign gods?
God never forsakes us, as God is helping God (inside us) - How evildoers hate
this truth that the show has to go on (teeming with smartness, faking or suffering)
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God wasn't kind to those who lived in Canaan. His chosen people wasn't smart enough
to drive out all the peoples and tribes that God wanted either. We think there is sound
reason not to believe in Yogananda's teachings. His deeds were often of infiltrative
demagogy in the name of God, but against the true Christianity in major respects.
Can we trust a sleek yogi magician who does not give the true Christian message, or
swindles on top of it?
It behoves us to forsake the base master "truths", gentlemen. To see who tells the
truth here, all we have to do is to look up "a little". Then we will see.
Limey strong?
IN BELFAST they still could tell you about the football game that took place between
the 100 percent Catholics and 100 percent Protestants. A British sailor (Limey) attended
that game, and when the Catholics made a skilful play he applauded and when the Protestants
in their turn scored he again joined in the shouting. At this point an Irishman jabbed the
Limey in the back and said:"Man, haven't you got any religion at all?"
Else
A Living Canon and What It Requires - More Persons in Time
HOW MUCH slavery the Holy Spirit finds attractive is an open question, dear friend
(see Philemon) Let hard and religious-bent people stay away from truth-tellers, and
why? Because truthful guys are needed a lot and should be taught how to survive and make
their messages or canon thrive, for one thing.Calvin did it. This is very central canon fit for those selected to breed children and stay alive to foster them and keep the faith living.
How Much Swollen Verbiage Do Freaks Need As the Go Contrary To the Bible in the Name of Take-It?
THE FIRST martyr Stephen: "God promised Abraham that he and his descendants after him would possess the land (between the Eurphrate and Nile) - Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac [The next patriarch was to be Esau, but God and most others involved fell victims to a swindle.].Later Moses was born. Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. Moses fled to Midian [He wasn't more powerful than that on his own, remember.].
From out of a burning bush came these words to him: "I have indeed seen the oppression - I will send you back to Egypt." The same Moses the Israelites had rejected was sent to be their ruler - he received living words to pass on to Israel. Our fathers refused to obey him. They told Aaron,
"Make us gods who will go before us" - and they made an idol in the form of a calf.
The Most High: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? - where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things?" [It can be debated how much slavery and tyranny God loves - he instituted much slavery.].
Steven: "You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears. Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him -"
They heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at Stephen who looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God [and so on] -
They covered their ears and yelled at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him. While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed. He was a good martyr [And here is how to be a follower inside the "original Christianity as taught by Jesus Christ" [Pa 499].
[This is rooted in Acts 7, and severely condensed to bring out some fine points].
Gist
THE POINTS of departure above were the soap opera canon of the SRF linked up with
central canon from the Bible. You may not be able to train yourself or anyone else from this
one - not unless slavery and some forms of idolatry are legal -- THE MOST religious-looking guys took to killing prophets among them, and had Jesus executed.
- It should be debated how much slavery and tyranny God loves in the name of "original Christianity" - for even St. Paul sent a fugitive slave back to the slave-owner - St. Paul was the servant of Jesus in the Holy Spirit - that is the teaching - and "original Christianity" as we know it.
- The man the Israelites had rejected was later to be their leader.
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Adjoined
Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1975.Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.
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