Shibendu Lahiri Messages
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Telling Well Matters
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| Munchausen lying in his bed with his night-cap over his head - Drawing by Gustave Doré. |
Shibendu Lahiri brings the message of having no message, of furthering no knowledge, having no liberation method, and all by someone professing that he cares nothing for the stupid society, where those who are not wise, are in authority.
In some ways his pastimes resemble those of the fabled tale-teller Baron Munchausen. In this picture, is the baron in his night-cap close to an "outsider-and-nothing" life-style that Shibendu advocates?
The Munchausen comparison leads into: What is telling well? Look to main results. If you tell others they are nothings and in consequence are invited to different places to repeat it with additions, travelling and cruising the world - well, look to the results of the speaking.
Shibendu Lahiri Messages
The willy-nilly accomplishes nothing - is it a salvaging teaching to live by?
Shibendu Lahiri (1939-) is the great grandson of Lahiri Mahasaya, and spreads kriya yoga teachings that have been preserved in that blood line: Now and then Shibendu visits private persons and holds satsangas (lectures with questions and answers) and shares the teaching of kriya yoga.
When we read his, "I have no message." [Message 35 of Shibendu Lahiri online], why do we bother to read around sixty other messages from him? Why do some attend meetings where he answers questions? That beats me. - It cannot be because Shibendu represents a from-father-to-son transmission - generation after generation, and that, like his ancestors, he is a house-holder with a high university education and so on.
For he says, "I don't offer any knowledge. I don't transmit any knowledge." [Message 54] So why must anyone read his messages? Why are they online? you may well wonder. And why is there talk of his transmission line at all?
"You are nothing." [Message 24] So why bother! And why does he
bother to visit nothings and hold satsanga with nothings, and so on? That beats be. How can
a nothing bother about doing something? How can a nothing accomplish anything?
A few more Shibendu conundrums might do you well, but not as well as living well.
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He says, "Wander away from this idiotic world and be an outsider without caring for the opinions and obsessions of the stupid society." [ Message 70.] Thus, we have idiotic eating too. Note that Shibendu manages to travel and cruise in the "idiotic world". It is wandering, but not from this world, but in it. His busy travel program attests to that.
Shibendu also says (but to whom if "you are nothing?): "Do not utter God's name. Because he is un-nameable." [Message 39] Then why did he bother to write out Thousand Names of the Un-nameable? [Message 62-65] Because he is above logic? Why mind reading that? (4)
You may think he teaches kriya yoga to aid liberation. But "Kriya Yoga is not a method to become liberated!" he says clearly. [Message 34]
"No book is sacred," is a further message [Message 43] Still, Shibendu talks a lot about the Bhagavad Gita anyway, as you can see.
Shibendu Lahiri (1939-) says the wise wields no authority and those in authority are not wise. Since Jannuary 1988 he has been a yogacharya (yoga teacher) on full time basis, but has no ambition to influence anybody. What he is into is to teach deep Indian spirituality like his forefathers (without wanting to influence anybody) [!] Might teaching without influencing really work? (6)
❖ "Why not barricade against the teacher who tells, "I have no message for you, and no knowledge will be transmitted to you, who are a mere nothing to me!"
And when he goes on to say something like, "Freak out! Don't say God's name either. Kriya yoga is not liberating you either," is it wise to go for more from that one?
What you can learn from this.
The messages were gathered from these addresses:
http://www.kriyayogalahiri.com/htmluk/program.htm
http://www.kriyayogalahiri.com/htmluk/kriyayoga-lore.htm
http: //www.kriyayogalahiri.com/htmluk/messages.htm
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