Egohood and Yogananda's Bizarre Teachings
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"Although you may not like Patanjali you are a living example of his abyhassa [spiritual practice]." - A swami
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- Ego-thwarting Paramahansa Yogananda
- Words of Jesus and similar teachings
- The Kriya Yogi listens
- Egohood taming and possibly deeper waters? Reduced into godhood?
- Done in religion's name: expect an intrigue
- "Believe everything you hear, but only seemingly -"
- Make the best out of it
Greatly Misleading Egohood Teachings
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You cannot kill the egohood and evolve it too . . . or accept guru bluffs wholesale, free from growing repercussions. Inconsistencies in vital matters can be tough to deal with in time. Being fooled appears to be a big guru-caused problem.
To some devotees, the information on this page may be embarrassing or ouch.
Your Character at Stake
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings in order to strengthen his character, according to the Chinese text The Book of Changes.A good ego is one of the many things of the Self, and it serves to make you able or capable.
If loved ones cheat, you should know it. Besides, passive man's established values fairly often need reassessment.
Some misconstrue, others cheat. Quite a lot try to endear themselves on their way up into great-looking esteem.
To some, the information on this page may be embarrassing, even painful, like too strong meat. But the benefits of finding out things may outweigh the embarrassment for many others. Now, those who have nervous troubles should refrain from reading on, until they may benefit. Or maybe minor doses at the time does the trick. Stop and calm down when you get tense; that is standard counsel.
A few things to go for
A sound egohood (ego instance) is a boon that favours rational thinking and gainful all-over handling. Using your ego you can:- Improve your lot and exert a positive influence if you can. Work on it. (1)
- Apply handly lessons and get rid of obstacles.
- Shape your own world, your own home, and have the wisdom to step aside for someone more significant that yourself too, as needs be.
- Take care in front of challenges and threats.
- Function more easily by acquainting yourself with many sayings that could strengthen your own character if given the opportunity to do so.
- Reach responsible teachers who teach knowledge that helps, if that knowledge is
applied well. (2)
- Be with people of like minds and then you may even trust in the power of
personality. (3)
- Disarm the troublesome elements in your life. (5)
Having treasures and holding on to your dear, hard-won assets can help too. And a mature (maturing) egohood is needed for handling lots of things, including treasures. What is more, many bad roots should be eradicated. Further, in yoga the teaching is that focused attention brings supreme success.
Support from successful men and women may help and later bring good opportunities to exert a burgeoning influence. Interestingly, in all of these cases egohood appears to be needed. Therefore learn to consider before you succumb to mumbo-jumbo through conform strides.
The points on egohood that are listed above, are based on general, accepted psychodynamic theory. [Ebu "ego"].
In the following we bring evidence of Yogananda's confusing ego teachings and discuss some of them a bit.
This above all: To your own self be true (American proverb from Shakespeare's
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Wise thwarting of the ego, can it be? Teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda inspected
Mind this passage in an early text by Yogananda:The ego is eternal and changeless, he teaches. Years later his goading is "kill the [eternal and changeless] ego!" Good grief. We shall go into it below, after adding another old Yogananda quotation:Scientists of old found that the human ego outlasts all the changes of experience and thought during the state of wakefulness . . . of dream . . . and of deep sleep—during the life-time. The experience changed, the environment, sensations, thoughts and bodily states changed, but the sense of identity, of "I", did not change, from birth to death. Hence the Hindu experimenters argued that through concentration on the ego, through a constant, conscious, aloof, unidentified introspection . . . or watching of the various changing states of life—of wakefulness, dreaming or deep sleep—that one could perceive the changeless and eternal nature of the ego. [Swami Yogananda. "Reincarnation - How Can It Be Scientifically Proved?" East West, Volume 1 - 3 March 1926 - April 1926]
This "kill the ego" exposition is considerably different from his earlier teachings of the eternal, changeless ego. Yogananda is inconsistent, teaches irreconcilable things, does not seem to have corrected his former teachings, his disciples deify him, and some drop out of his unsound fellowship.
This Ego, which is conscious of being identified with a body, is carried in the heart of the Soul through many incarnations. [Yogananda, "The Bhagavad Gita". Comments on v 1:11, in East West, July, 1933 Vol. 5 -9.]
"All power to think, to speak, and to act, comes from God". - Paramahansa Yogananda, East West, Vol 5 - 1, November 1932.The guru that talk down on the ego seems to forget that main ego functions come from God too, accordingly. Creating a mess in the minds of many others by faulty sayings is not good and strong.
Destroy harmony attained through ego fighting - does it fit?
EVERYTHING minus ego is not everything. In his Autobiography, Yogananda states in another context that for the lack of a pin the cosmos might collapse - a strange outlook! Anyway, the normal ego instance may be taken to be of more worth in daily living than a pin.
"Everything, really, because you shall be wealthy in Spirit, the Universal Substance, " the Master replied. "No longer ... content with a crust of bread (...)
Divine realisation is a state impossible to explain". - Paramahansa Yogananda [Say 10]
He does not insist: "Destroy and ruin everything now, and divinity is all there is left" - note that.
Basically, if the celebrated attainments are impossible to explain, then do not try. And thus you could offend and confuse less. We suggest handling ideas for own or personal gains.
Don't you think your rightly blossoming I-ness (egohood) is worth as much as a flower? To be sure, the most holy name of the divine in the Bible is "I am".
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM [or I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE]. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: "I AM has sent me to you.'"
God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, "The Lord, the God of your fathers - the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob - has sent me to you." This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation. [Exodus 3:14-15]
Ego means different things to different folks
"Ego" is a term that the founder of Self-Realization Fellowship - it teaches yoga - used without even trying to define it. But here is a shot at it from an old magazine:This quotations speaks volumes. (1) Your Ego is your princely Soul with identity problems, he states. (2) Your Ego is a false thought [notion] of yourself.
He says two things where one thing would do, regrettably. It could be well to bear in mind that in Yogananda's teachings the predominant attitude is to "assault the ego", and not cultivate it as the very valuable personality instance it is. In a few places Yogananda has included some development approach, but the "assault ego attitude" dominates, and in action too.
We have investigated many Yogananda utterances on the subject. They are gathered on this page. To give an appetizer right here:
His guru Sri Yukteswar stated: "You will go to foreign lands, where blunt assaults on the ego are not appreciated." [Ha 120]It seems quite impossible that egohood attacks can back up the first of the aims and ideals of the society he founded: "To teach that the purpose of life is the evolution, through self-effort of man's limited mortal consciousness into God Consciousness." (There is more on it below). As we see it, self-effort requires lots of egohood to steer and adjust main efforts. And besides, "assault the ego" teachings are dangerous even if they mean "go against selfishness".
Speaking of ego assaults, in the autobiography there are 37 mentions of such as ego, ego-principle, egotist, egotism, egotistical. Of the 37 mentions:This serves to estimate such as the impact and predominant teachings. There seems to be some confusion as to what is included in the ego concept of Yogananda. Yet, let it be said clearly enough: His teachings on assaulting the ego are among the worst we have found.
- One is for development of the incarnating ego [Ha 100];
- One speaks of "mastery of ego" [Ha 383];
- One more may be not exactly negatively tinged. [Ha 318]
- The rest of them - 33 - may be called negative, that is, condemning the ego instead of serving its fit development.
Consider that Yogananda talks with two mouths about selfishness too. In his first years in the States he talks greatly for it, advocating divine selfishness, even. Later, after the Great Depression, what he talks for is unselfishness. You get apparently two teachings from the same mouth about selfishness too. If one effect of that is confused minds of members, apart from great embarrassments, it does not astonish me. [MORE]
Egohood seems to make true progress possible
"It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God" - Paramahansa Ramakrishna. [Tas 265]The ego is blamed for much, not unlike the gypsies in Spain formerly: Even though the gypsy got the blame when horses were stolen, others might have done it.
One should start by discerning between egohood, which is central to development, and selfishness, which seems under attack by gurus. Regrettably, Yogananda and some others do not discern well between them, and calling selfishness "the ego" only serves to confuse followers. It has indeed happened in Yogananda's fellowship. What is the matter with having clear, sound and normal language? You may surely ask probing questions if you turn to a sensible guru:
"In a modern view, the ego is not bad, but sort of neutral. It has to do with being rational and the like in a psychodynamic understanding of it. If you treat egohood as a fiend, however, many unwelcome repercussions may be predicted to follow, and they could be bad. To blame your mishandling of the egohood on the ego looks insane or very foolish. But if you help it to mature, you will be better able to cope and learn things through that approach.
It is doubted if you can dispense with it too. But if you fall down into trying to do that sort of oddball thing, if you think you can melt it down inside, is there room for being an individual and having a sound and tidy egohood development? Can that development be crowned with god-conscousness, as Yogananda lets us in on in one place?" [Ha 100]
Have a look:
"A kriya yogi can thus accomplish by intelligent self-effort the same result which nature brings to pass in a million years. - Paramahansa Yogananda [More here]His guru taught the natural route takes twelve million years, it shows up, and that kriya yoga has a twelve times weaker effect that Yogananda says. To spell it out, Yukteswar really gives you 144 times worse odds for success [LINK]. And somewhere along the road a guru lost the count - and the value of a deep and sound egohood.
Now, one aim/ideal of the Self-Realization Fellowship which Yogananda founded, is "To teach that the purpose of life is the evolution, through self-effort of man's limited mortal consciousness into God Consciousness." [LINK]
Much evolution of man cannot be had without relational coping, it is supposed. And to the above: you cannot have your cake and eat it too. It suggests: You cannot kill the egohood and evolve it too. Maybe you can become less selfish and fiendish, though - it may be good for some persons, but not everybody: It could be good for such as kind persons to go for their own homes. Much reckoning goes into the good home. It is easy to be led astray through murky teachings.
There are many other tricks of his to look into. The assault-the-ego approach may be very marring inside, may breed troubles for life and postponed neuroses or worse - and these matters cannot be resolved by getting frantic or by grave denials of that problem: that could lead to illness, maybe insanity. One has to go to the root of the problem. In this case it has to do with at times quite confusing medley of yoga teachings. We find no good reasons to think that the part that predominates, is not dangerous.
This page takes those who care, into other sides of this dilemma, which is really important. But first a little tale:
Not a merry episode
In his Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda writes about a failed flight from home towards the Himalayas. He had conspired with a few friends to go by train from Calcutta. One of his hopes was to become so magnetic that tigers in the high altitudes would become like pussycats.After one of the friends got cold feet and disappeared on a station on the way, they were just two boys left, two boys who waited on a platform somewhere and talked among themselves about such things as cheating:
YOGANANDA evaded the main subject of "running away from home". Being straightforward is different! His indirect approach to the art of conversation seems concocted to give an "aside impression". If it was an "art of answering" which smelt red herring, he stood by giving a wrong impression.
"No!" . . . Not anger . . . was responsible, I knew, for my . . . behaviour." [Ha 30] [More]
Boys and teenagers that run away from home and fake along the road in so doing, are seldom talked of as reliable.
The world avatar shows one may be a bit "roundabout" and reach up to secretively half-mock others through it. Not a few can be induced to get faulty outlooks, we can see.
Being greatly tactless has been developed much since Yogananda was young. Yogananda didn't like it in the home allotted him, even though he later said his father was a Christ [!]. If you do not like it in the home of a carnal dad that you later - at a safe distance - call a christ, after having bluntly and even violently refused to marry against the will of that one, what is the matter?
If you mean business, lots of plots may ruin your fare.
Yogananda Counsel
"The Infinite is everywhere ... you can speed your mind through eternity ... go farther than the farthest star." - Paramahansa Yogananda [Ak 10]The guru found that humans can cultivate these feats and do more than that:
To try to do these yogi feats by hectic strife might lead us nowhere. The suggested method is to calm down, and very much. This is said to rule out the patterns or figurative waves of the individual deep inside, for a spell - and if you are lucky and steady or do not just fall soundly asleep over and over from calming down, you could be there. That is the essence of the teaching.
If you speed your mind and search through barriers, have you really melted first? No way.
There can be many an obstruction to a free and fit life
"One should learn to analyze (...) Avoid moodiness." - Paramahansa Yogananda [Ak 140]THERE can be many obstructions to a free-flowing life, and many destructions of that life too. Some thwartings may grow worse, and can also be traced back to being taken in and made a serving one for no good reason at all.
In this quote Yogananda thinks that reason knows right from wrong and sees the deep or even deepest ends. Yet it is the maturing old conscience that weighs and ponders and broods over things like that and lots of others. Conscience works its way up - in fact much like intelligence in a Piagetian sense - and some have linked this stuff to stages or levels of moral attainments. Kohlberg is one such theoretician, Peck and Havighurst are two more. [Cf. Pseb]
This study is a look into Yogananda teachings that look suspicious. We give your the tenor of some parts, and think most are utterly significant somehow, for they are probing and grave concerns for beginners and followers all over the globe.
Without egohood, no reason. And just as important: "Without sound egohood in development, no sound and proficient reasoning either." That is part of the psychoanalytic or psychodynamic way of seeing the two categories called egohood and reason together. Indians have other, strong viewpoints and they also talk against themselves in the matter. Is that a surprise?
Below we have taken a look into all tenets concerning ego in the book Sayings of Yogananda. [Say] It is published by SRF. By looking through the statements that have been brought together here, you could get an inkling of possible demagoguery involved in blurred or plotting teachings from far away.
Anyone that is said to be equal to God, can be considered in the light of Lucifer teachings of our Bible: as suspicious! There is more to it, however.
A mortgage payment was due. The Divine Mother appeared before him and said in English such as: "I am your security". - Paramahansa Yogananda [Say 33]
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We also think that a handy man may find out for himself that rather often Yogananda's teaching that "God supplies quickly any need of His devotees" does not fit. And also: It can be very empty if taken out of context. Just make a questionnaire or Gallup poll to look into it. If reliable figures are forthcoming, be welcome to send them here. And if we find them to be fair, why shouldn't we publish things like that? It can be vastly interesting. "Truth is not afraid of questions," decreed a certain guru somewhere.
There are good surveys and polls and bad ones. It helps to be meticulous and not beat about the bush. There are many good needs that can branch off (out) once they get manifested a bit. To get an inklink of how many regular-looking or developing needs a man and woman can have, one may browse academic textbooks in educational psychology, sociology, transpersonal psychology, ethics, and so on. And then there are the gospels. According to them we do have needs to stay in line with Yahweh - the true God that reigns inside.
"Transpersonal psychology and normal people are hardly too afraid of Yahweh"
- as a topic at least - it is another lesson.
Strictly, one of the Ten Commandments - the one that Martin Luther "tore off" in some of his Catechisms - goes severely against representations. [Check Exodus 20]
Let's say - for the sake of argument - that you are one of those who do not object to
crying in semi-ritualised ways for "Divine Mother" as a guru urged, while he set up his New
Age Church in the name of Jesus and "original Christianity". Even though Shyama Lahiri [q.v.] finds that sages are of one mind, have pretty identical
outlooks, the gospels talks nothing of goddess worship and Mother wailing. The strict decree
to heed is rather found in one of the Ten Commandments. That is it. Moses disagreed! And that
should not be overlooked and ridiculed.This brings on the next stance: There are healthy needs tied in with such as cognitive growth and transformative phases in life. Professor Erik Erikson of Harvard University has explored not a few of them in very apt writings.
The Bible contains stiff commandments against such as idol worship and
foreign gods. Have these things changed?
Fondling of pets and dolls could transform for good and bad - much depends on one's setting and welcomes, not everything on guru decrees
Sigmund Freud considered that thwarted natural urges bring on defence manoeuvres
like repressions and vicarious outlets - in part tied in with delicate transformations of
"raw love-capacity" into unhealthy channels.You should learn to consider ritualised Mother worship worthily in the light of that. Offensive worship may be far from the self-exploring activity that gurus like Shyama Lahiri taught as one of his main motifs.
He who said - in his book "Mysteries of Manu" [Cf. Hw] that sages are of one mind, could see that Divine Mother that Hindu children love to dress and keep tidy, spoonfeed and give to the river during celebrations, is largely artwork that gets delicate children's affective sides coupled to it - it happens. and one should not be cruel and indifferent to little children.
What is more, he also meant: Hindu dolls of goddesses of many kinds may be seen and hailed as Representatives. You find a suggestive tale around that in one of his books, recently published by The Sanskrit Classics in San Diego.
Now, he also served an insider teaching concerning Divine Mother: God Mom is "I am" he writes somewhere. As if this is not enough, see through this:
- To be is to do. - Soren Kierkegaard, in "Frykt og beven"
- To do is to be. - Jean Paul Sartre, in "Les Maines Salles" ("The dirty hands")
- To be do be do. - Frank Sinatra, in "Strangers in the Night".
In a good joke there is food for thought, but hardly for one's
living.
Where you have sorted things fairly well and frighten by a reasonable, fair display, others might be cranks
However, it should perhaps be pointed out that if you leave the surface of phenomena
"things", many things may get complicated, and also interpretations and outlooks. In other
words, if you drop surface adaptability, you may end up dead. Good yoga may or may not take
you in such a direction. That is a reasonable statement in the SRF circles, for
sure.And also, things tend to get complicated if you launch basics or essentials of your inner being towards representatives. If that glide serves respect for Yahweh and fellow men, God and Moses of the Bible never saw it.
Gentlemen. We have a problem. But first things first: If you feel an unhealthy need to cry for God Mom as decreed by a Big One, maybe you are maiming yourself. think "the guru of Yogananda's guru said Divine Mother is "I am" at once place." Good contemplation is hardly found in crying or addressing, but more in drifting away inwards from just that. Note the difference and take up the truly rewarding practices. You have to sort well.
Frightening a tiger is not the way to catch it.
Fit and fair education tends to growth inside, to suitable, adapted and administered lessons, and perhaps it rises into giving way as a fruit of good teaching!
THE CONTEMPLATIVE tradition and its aces have been largely forgotten and ignored in
Western Education. We should make amends to that if we can. The dismal conditions of such as
stressed individuals speak volumes in the matter. They ride into even deadly diseases on top
of stress. That is a VERY common thing to do, according to contemporary medical
estimates.Speaking of alarming cravings, one of the terrible sides of that could be not to notice a downhill glide into addressing outwardness things as it happens, and investing outward "thing" with values from inside - how terrible. Jesus does say things about not losing oneself to the world.
How should we handle the need for bright and coloured pictures of angels if your children love to have them? In all likelihood that sort of images can be fine things to have and communicate (have deals) on top of. In normal development such needs fall off - after maturing things inside. So look deep and inspect in fair ways. There is a need for this and that. It is not good enough just to denounce without wit and wisdom. Judge well. Its over-all effects do not wipe out sanity.
To a harmonious girl or boy we have to give way many times. "Have your cherished items, but do not lose your self-esteem through it," sums up this attitude fairly well. There is more to normalcy-awarding education too.
The clou of contemplation is not to address outwardly.
Yogananda's idea that most people fool themselves, speak against the common fare
Here we talk of human needs. There are animal needs of such as breeding. Monks try
not to give way to them. Yet it has "ever" been a true need for a family to have good
children and grandchildren and the like.In order not to be confused, think better and feel into yourself. It may not be fun at the start. It depends on how little aligned you are with your deeper cravings and selfsameness - such things. There is a lovely survey of that in Exodus, around Moses. One lesson it does instruct in, is that most people do not know what their own good lies in. So most people fool themselves. If they will not listen to Moses, they hardly get perfect alignment with Jesus. Jesus had a view on that, as you might remember, or consider as you go on.
Jesus had his own view on things - one should feel free to reach one's own,
stout opinions too.
Firmness from prayer sessions
Humans were not designed to have ideal needs to serve gurus as monks or nuns so that
others reign. Monkhood means belittlements of family designs. What needs complement such an
aberration may be seen as vicarious outlets. Another term for them: "Not good
enough."With things like that in mind, you may still strive and do as best you can. do not waver in prayer either. And think over how many of your own needs have been met early and fitly. Or think of the tribulations of St. Francis. His needs were rather slayed though his way of life. Thus, to put faith in it may lead into sordidness. Yet, it is not as simple as that either.
do not waver in prayer to get a good and fit enough fare.
Muse to your own benefit and learn to count the cost of it - it is part of judiciousness
Let's muse into healing prayer. It is one of the doings that God himself instituted
as fit for gentile Christians and others. Healing by prayer is a gift, like raising the
dead. All genuine followers of Jesus are told to be able to accomplish such things, even
more and better than he did. [See John 14:12]You may wonder what is the matter with the Christians you meet if you visit a fairly large congregation that has assembled to get help through healing prayers or the ministry of some speaker on those matters, if you calmly judge the odds that you get healed. Often those who wave their hands to affirm they have got help; can be counted on ten or forty fingers. The rest has not got any help they are aware of, and one source of error in that case could be the slowly working assistance.
Yet, for speedy, inaccurate or immeditate entertainment bordering on okay ascertainment, you may count and sort ot the percentage. We leave that to you. Go for it! We do not have to go into the severity and nature of ailments here. Leave that for the sake of a surfing survey to your own initial benefit, rather.
In any meating those who say they get helped - correctly or in an emotional flurry - can amount to 98% or more - frankly speaking. Ask and it shall be given, is the teaching that fits in all along the way. Not a few good guys can easily be seen from how many they heal in the footsteps of Jesus: not a few. And yet, the healing ministry of Jesus himself didn't work well in his home town.
So there is not just one way of considering here. And perhaps the main thing is not to get fanatic and lunatic on top of anything you are told.
You should stabilise good things and items to make them work for you as day
follows day, and then you can feel happier and more content, and perhaps healthier too. Yet
it depends on how robust you are.
In dire distress many hanker for health, most of them in vain, according to statistical figures
PREPARE yourself well and be surrounded by good things. It could augment (increase)
the odds (chances) of getting and holding on to what helps good survival. Self-care is
founded on principles along such a vein, and self-care is very much needed. So is self-help
in the alleys that gurus present their teachings and rigmarole in.So much for that. It may not come as a surprise to you that in the old days I studied healing ways and reached fair artistry in quite a lot of them. In one carefully schemed study almost nine out of ten reported back that they had been helped. I cannot tell you how long it lasted. They reported back four months after our meeeting. And the disease: chronic gout.
Back to the healing tent: Learn to estimate a bit yourself: it can be good food for thought and later study that gets more accurate as things develop. But as a good beginner, just count and add probability reckoning: If ten percent get helped, the averaging odds for getting helped are 10/100, or one to ten, if you like it that way. It is not much to gamble on unless you have a lucky day.
Yet, in dire distress a man tries what he can. Then other forms of reckoning comes into it: "First try this, next that, next on to something different," and so on. It is okay, health-linked and normal to behave that way, and furthermore, it is often great help to have an inkling in advance as to how good the odds are for getting help in this and that "circus" of healing.
The odds for getting real help may not deviate much from the first impression for more than one reasons: Those who possible got slow-working help need to be added; while the "victims" of emotional flurry drop off later.
Some of the emotional guys can in fact have been given faith problems as well as health problems from the failure(s) to get cured. The same thing could set in more mildly among those who do not get whipped into some nervous breakdown or healing crises. Just accept that in these days many people suffer, many who turn to faith healing suffer dagage from what is added to that. Nervous problems could accumulate through unsound circus-looking performances. It may not pay to get out of one's waters. Modern sagacity is aided by probability calculations as well - modern sagacity can help in many matters.
Now, dealing with the surface is often good enough help to get sagacious enough for initial encounters, at other times it will not do. In such cases oldtimer hints may bring help and save one from dire distress that comes later.
The average odds of getting solid help in a certain circus tent of healing could be only 0.02 - give or take. Things like that often happen. It spells: only two out of a hundred maintain the got immediate help of succor - right or wrong. If so, the odds of getting real help, are small, not worth a bet under normal conditions. Use probbility statistics to judge plausible outcomes of this and that. Advanced reckoning in this track could yield awfully useful suggestions against hearsay and too much ado in the "healing circus tent".
After one or more unsuccessful attempts at healing prayer on many similar meetings, a man could end up disappointed. Probability statistics hints at that something like that is wont to happen to nearly everyone where they are not good at healing! So learn to judge how many get help during the pompously ridden show, and get out of there as timely as you can. See a doctor and do not expose yourself to ridicule.
In the healing tent, maybe a few get immediate relief through psychosomatic mechanisms. Maybe up to twenty percent. Up here we think that figure is generously too high, but that is not our issue for now. Much accurate figures can be found through such as questionaires. They have to discern well between subjective responses and well measured ones by adequate personell. And they have to discern between immediate results that may be due to so-called placebo influence - the impressions, chance and so on - and on the other hand the long-lasting ones. They may be few.
Gauging odds should help in general. Not to talk like a slut, and to refrain
from animalistic fads should help too.
Bishop warnings count a lot
It seem sound to say to well-nigh anyone: "Stay rational. Avoid getting ridden by
silly faith that does not do as told when accurate evaluation is brought into the
picture."Many ministers have warned against being taken in by emotionality-whipping healing circuses, for they may leave casualties, so to speak. Hearts may get broken. God as Truth is hardly against careful investigation and proficient evaluation on top of that, even when it comes to faith healing.
As for jarring brought on by such as healing tents, we know a tale or two - and refrain from retelling them for now.
The point that very much healing is brought on or can be assisted by laws and favourable conditions, means that the art of healing rests on thinking, methods and gear (outfit) that need to be administered in consonance with the evident symptoms. At the same time it helps to go deeper than surface things to get an idea of the founding of what ails someone.
As mentioned, healing is good for man, and much can be helped by discipline. But prevention is normally cheap and safe. And bulwarking against wrong things can rise into supreme surroundings.
Maybe things do not work out the way Yogananda intended for saints for many persons that are dangerously or terminally ill, not even for their mates. You may make a Gallup poll or sound study yourself to document it, once you master the discipline. It is not so hard, technically.
The soundness-preserving agent may find in his or her heart there are times
it seems needed to refrain from rendering things and stuff that work bad.
Thwartings demand express thinking and handy activity
Further, note the avatar equals God with Divine Mother in this place. Note it well.
And the fit sign of dealing with things and stuff well, is seldom backing and furtive
filtering over and over.He seems to guarantee a bit too much on behalf of all of us. is not that true? Look to Jesus: hanging on the cross he asked his father to forgive those who crucified him. The prayer wasn't granted, and it seems unlikely that "thwarting cross-currents of ego" went into it. The case we have seen into here, seems already fairly well documented, maybe proved.
Gurus say Divine Mother is more than figurative art, and reality itself too.
It is good to note that as well.
It is much important to fit in and go on from there
WITHOUT a sound ego and a training program, you may end up deprived without understanding why. If you get impressed by anybody and later find yourself deprived of helping, bulwarking assets, try at least to stay fit and sta fermo (stand firm) as Ezra Pound wrote in one of his cantos - the scene was somewhere in Italy.
"You should not feel sensitive ... It is because you are winning in the battle against ego-guided habits that I continue to show you the way of self-discipline." - Paramahansa Yogananda [Say 48]
It is also worth while to ponder to what degree self-discipline that is imposed on us by others, stunt something worthwhile inside our everyday fussing about.
Mama mia
Yogananda often cried and sat in pains, and a long time after his highest attainments in 1948, they love to tell in SRF, and the pains of the slowly dying Ramakrishna were significant as well. [Cf. Goa; introduction]
Only egos obey
"YOU COULD be ambitious to obey the ego and its inherent claims for sound development and handling. After all, the bondage gurus talk down on, is the life, in a nutshell."
"No, you should be ambitious to ... If your ... ambition is dead, you have lost life", said Yogananda. (...)
"Obeying the ego leads to bondage". - Paramahansa Yogananda [Say 58]
The real enemy of good egohood development can be morbid teachings. Think nothing of them
Many so-called saints developed really morbid self-flogging exercises. Spanish John of the Cross (Juan de la Cruz) was one of them. he flogged himself and wore a chain that grawed into his flesh. He took to offending God's temple - his body-self. So-called holy exercises or clearly morbid-making teachings - think nothing of them. Living well matters.
"Saint's do not act unwisely" - Yogananda's guru was too censorious at times. It is admitted in the Autobiography. [Cf. Ha] Was it a saint or not? We leave to you to decide on that. It is not so important to us here now.
One more real enemy of good egohood development can be faulty and misleading sayings by impressive figures. So it stands out: Catholic saints do have behaved unwisely. We know many other examples. Yogananda can also tell of advanced yogis that make "mistakes" as he calls it. One such guy ran away with another's wife, and later repented.
It is not only gross selfishness that misdirects a man. Not knowing what to do, having little of good customs and common sense is to be reckoned with too, and so on. The guru oversimplifies according to another statement of his: "Mankind has only one real enemy - ignorance". [Say 63] If so, if accepting that outlook as the basic premises, egotism may not be any singular enemy. Lack of up-to-date and good outfit may be a greater one. You should know that.
Our point for now is that Yogananda at times contradicts himself on central issues. We have documented it fairly well in other places. Thus, it may be unwise to believe everything you are told. We shouldn't become conform idiots from what we are told by topdogs (superiors). If topdogs often speak of God and has "god on their side," they may have skeletons in the closet, or ulterior motives that lie hidden from outsiders. It is often like that. Yogananda said it himself somewhere in The Science of Religion: "We pray to the Divine when we get stuck". In a pucker God is made a subject, not unlike an umbrella.
You may find a better way. Helpful, healthy and savoury spirituality is not talked against by us in any way.
To write much and draw inspiration from highest source at hand may be good and work well
WHAT MORE is there to say? If you need to be a good lecturer, we advocate Tony Buzan's mind-maps. [Bhb; Mum; Tor] They are among the finest tools of thinking that are to be had. As for neat technicalities, try a primer on lecturing or similar things. As for the casual entertaining speaker, this book is OK: [Pum].
The ego is plumber or planner in some. It can get morbid as well. Yet there is no need for that.
Man may change his setting by sound egohood endeavours - that vision seemed debarred from Yogananda. Or maybe he defined or deliberated differently.
Deliberated nonsense to look at may do more harm than dis-fragmented statements casually blurted out.
As for Yogananda's fishing teachings, there is every good reason to hold that man may change his setting by sound egohood endeavours. And that vision seemed debarred from Yogananda. Or maybe he defined or deliberated differently.
Further, we think egohood is around to be reckoned with, and to be cultivated in healthy ways against soap opera tenets. A fully good alternative may be missing. A hidden or secret ego can work more damage than that of a blurting guy. Maybe a thwarted guru-ego may casually take revenge later.
Confronted by the artless appearance of the individuality, think better
SPEAKING of individuality, what about two more quotes? -:
If you are not an individual, you are feigning. You are not likely to have it both ways.
I think a sound, unexcitable temperament is needed to judge well in these matters. One good counsel stands out here: Confronted by seemingly conflicting statements, pick the one that suits your best advancements through life. And to allow others to do the same just seems right.
Speaking of charm, did you know that a lot of psychopaths are very charming - that is often one hallmark one discovers in retrospect. And manic persons may be elated to their own loss.
It could seem strange that loving God's egos is left out from seeing and loving the All-god that gurus often identify with through contemplative endeavours or attainments.
Ouch: guru sayings again!
THE MASTER of lectures and talks that were made into mishmash literature by devoted nuns also says God is the sole doer, "not you or I". How can you accomplish anything if God is the sole doer, and the universe unreal, for example? He says that in other places. [Say 82, 102] How you can harmonise these utterances with other fragmented guru sayings may look like cosmic miao. This Chinese term means such as "supreme mystery". [Cf. Wic 31 - a footnote to Chapter 1 of Tao Te Ching in it]
Seeing the whole universe
"See the whole universe, see your whole grave somehow."
"Each of you (are) stars of atoms! If your life force were released from the ego, you would find yourself aware of the whole universe ... spreading over infinite space." - Paramahansa Yogananda [Say 98]
Considering the end of the world and how morbidly some guys in gangs maim it, the whole world may not suit one. Not even a little hacienda of one's own may remain safe for ever.
Also note: "Every comparison halts somehow". The atoms may be considered differently according to quantum physics. [Cf. Thd] The Nobel prize winner Erwin Schroedinger (bless him) considered atoms as quantum field phenomena, not particles at all. There are many other outlooks.
The mystagogue teaching, "Drop your boots, all of you," may not work very well for the fisher and farmer; it may not work well after all. They often need them to do what they have to for their subsistence in the salt water and deep mud, as the case may be.
The point inside that story is: Just as a pair of solid boots helps you in the bad environment and rough climate, you could need a sound egohood to cope and bulwark against offenders too.
Words of Jesus go against Yogananda's teachings
YOGANANDA does not speak upliftingly on behalf of the ego as he understands it. Still it is safer to keep yours to have an instrument against violence against yourself, your family and outwards from there.And by the way, have you noted how many of those who talk down on a thing, may secretly envy it? I think you should stick to your ego - in accordance with the most favoured teachings of Jews and Jesus - and some of Yogananda. Look at the two great commandments and say what you think:
A
"LOVE YAHWEH" ("I am") is the first commandments. And the Lord so defined is inside. That is the cream of Jewish mysticism for now. [Cf. Yy] Jesus said God and Abraham are in heaven, and also that heaven is inside, according to one common translation of a verse in Luke. To lift up oneself - the bundle of habits or the everyday persons - can and should be understood in harmony with the admonishing "do your best each day to enter heaven" - something like that."do not you know you are gods?"
It appears that gods may be money-hungry gods, then. Now, to love God means to honour his temple too. That is the Christian teaching that is found in letters of St. Paul. There are many quotations.
You should let no none maim you where you are - out of respect for God deep inside.
B
The next great commandment can be rendered this way: "Love yourself just as much as your neighbour". This accomplishment is not to be left out for the sake of silly surrender to gurus, butchers or maiming fakers. You need to "love yourself" to the extent that you thrive. "First thrive and then wive" is a British proverb fit for the subject.C
WHEN YOU add A and B, you get an interesting and often overlooked ideation medley: We do not say you should act in concordance with it, but that it matters. Three directions in your love-life stands out here:- Love Deep Inside yourself first.
- Love your everyday self too, for that egohood can be aligned to Deep Inward Being (see above). [Net xxiv]
- Now, these two - love Deep Inwardly and everyday self as well - functioning to everyone's satisfaction, manifest to think-love your neighbours and things could go well if you bear in mind that your next of kin are your biblical neighbours too. They are to come first most often. We suggest you give it a fair try.
D
THE ARRAY just given, lets us in on something very relevant too: To work or invest or mobilise from inside out in widening circles like this grand survey attempts to hint at, could be the needed thing for many a tax collector too. From inside out, that is how a significant being tends to manifest. Gordon Allport strove to lay bare the most important stages of that. He fixed the term 'proprium' to it. It is not egohood, it is more like the widening manifestations of the human entity's will. [Pe]If you add a lot from all this information, you see that love for Deep Inside and yourself is at least two thirds of our inherited and Christian teaching. It found out: do not overdo seemingly godliness or good-looking unselfishness, then. If you have to pray, seek a closet, even. Those were the words of Jesus. do not mock Jesus who had to make it plain:
"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "None is good - except God alone. [Mark 10:18]
This may mean a lot of things to different people. Many who try to make it through life through warped, crippling "selfless service" in faulty designs to "look good", can be taken in. Those who look on great masters as good and meaning well may be hooked and made silly for it - there is at least that theoretical possibility. Think of it. It is better to question much than be duped and miss the bus in life. Yogananda's teaching of getting rid of "ego" seems unreasonable and too far out. You had better strive to preserve what God has given you sound egohood and other interesting talents - he even tailored clothes of hide for Adam and Eve! Try to preserve your talents. A sound egohood that is allowed to develop adequately, must be one golden (handy) talent.
Thus, think better than man-fishing experts love, and things might work out better for you - not for them. The teachings that serve you may not look divinely impressive, just as those of modern nature-aligned astrosophy with its structurally founded tenets. It is a brand of wisdom teachings in the form of mapped, cognitive or existential-looking surveys. First-class modern astrology that is not sordidness-making in any way, could lead us into it.
Now, what will you do? Give up? That is what ego-less persons must do. And in the glide down they must get vain. Vanity speaks of insolvent egohood, maybe maimed egohood. Some vain fellows get much offensive. They even try to make a living of it -
A Look into Paramahansa Yogananda's stand versus egohood in his autobiography
On top of the page some of the points that follow, have been mentioned for the sake of easy survey. We hope you do not mind.AVATARS may have nasty childhoods and suffer deprivations of many kinds for years. And if the boys are not given fair chances of normal development in cosy surroundings, they may get revengeful - And maybe some later masters talk against good egohood development for it. Who knows? We are allowed to entertain suspicions.
There are not a few bizarre-looking outlooks against egohood in the Autobiography - We searched all major mentions in the text and footnotes in it and saw a lot in addition to this aim and ideal of the fellowship:
"To teach that the purpose of life is the evolution, through self-effort of man's limited mortal consciousness into God Consciousness (SRF Aims and Ideals, 2nd paragraph)". [Check]
Here they talk for evolution and development, and not war against oneself, all right. However:
- We found just one strong statement in favour of some sort of egohood in a process that kriya is said to speed up. [Ha 100]
- In one more quote there is talk of "mastery of ego". [Ha 383]
- In some there is ahamkara (that idea from ancient Indian cosmology).
- And in about as many there are statements against ego - and the attitude that it may be attacked, wiped out, and that it is good to do it, but perhaps more welcome among day-dreamers in India than among matter-of-fact scientists.
Speaking of ego assaults, in the autobiography there are 37 mentions of such as ego, ego-principle, egotist, egotism, egotistical. One is for development of the incarnating ego [Ha 100]; one speaks of "mastery of ego" [Ha 383]; and one more may be not exactly negatively tinged. The rest may be called so. [Ha 318]
Besides there is a talk of components inherent in man, and the massive bulk of further statements around ego and linked subjects may form part of a "trick" concerning "get rid of that part of an integral unity called man". Or maybe the world savour has faltered much in his rendition work or US accommodating thinking:
Learn to use odds - that is probabilistic thinking in this. The chances are that gurus do not mean well to your egohood, since they molest it verbally. Yogananda writes more or less down on ego and ego-linked elements roughly 90-95 of the time, the odds are that he doesn’t mean well to your own egohood - maybe your platform for spiritually independent investigations or your Freudian, central instance. It could be the egohood fit for making Sahara into a blossoming garden again that is talked against by Yogananda - risks can be looming tall.
Br-br.
Indian teachings on egohood and how bad it seems to be
Much depends on the words prominent figures have made use of. In the Farm we talk about, they include "ego", "self", "soul" and "God", and halfway "salmon" too: You may ask how, and here is the answer: "Teach me to fish for Thee in the deepest waters of my soul," is a guru saying that Farm members have adopted. You can also ask,
"How is self to be defined if egohood is out of the picture? Can capable scientists manage anything worthwhile without their ego instances? The ones Babaji beamed overt interest in assisting, the rational sceptics and professional fault-finders that look for alternative propositions almost as if by reflex - how are they?" [Ha 100]
You know, Albert Einstein happened to show it. Future's scientists had better be entertained by warm, endearing fairy tales, he concluded. This is to cut matters short. You'll find the full story elsewhere in this volume, near the top of one of the pages. [Evo 1]
Gurus must be very fond of persons fond of fairytales - the budding critics that mar conform following fairly often, as one of their better signs. To get professional as a "doubting Thomas" involves knowing and managing the technical details of doubting lots of explanations, seeking alternative propositions (hypotheses), and solve riddles before many others. It makes some of them prominent instead of faking experts, mainly. And it is not easy, they claim. [Cf. Scu]
Those souls that Babaji has shown he is interested in, must try to refrain from gossip - for gossip is far too humiliating for scientific people, great minds of science and other great minds. Let's hope that.
All this serves to show that very much depends on how key terms are defined, if they ever are. If hard-headed definitions are out of the question, the culture gives a medley with a carefully presented history to it. It could pay to peruse a stout dictionary first.
This is what we may state on top of Merriam-Webster Online:
Ego can mean the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world. Or it means egotism one way or another. It can also mean self-esteem; there are degrees of that. In psychoanalytic theory ego is one of the three divisions of the psyche, and serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality, especially by functioning both in the perception of and adaptation to reality. To be egoless and artless makes living hard.The rest of what we speak around, is here as aid against getting blunted - you never know what sleek demagoguery can take around the next bend, so to speak. For now, you have to think up what sort of ego the gurus are talking about. It could be an undefined porridge of some of them at times. Thus a need to study guru tenets in the matter.
The next to get aware of, is that key terms in scientific disciplines fairly often are not well enough presented in a dictionary for the general public. Yoga has its key terms too. They stem from the Sanskrit, an ancient and handy language, as compared to the times. Now, often the attempts at definition vary. It means there can be more than one meaning of a key word, and still more meanings on a subject.
As for "self" and "ego", meanings differ. We'll define it a little here, but it is well to bear in mind it is just tentatively.
Ego, ego, where is thy sting?
"Always be clean" and (clothed) as befits your personality" - but not till you have learnt good conduct, Yogananda seems to insist on. And that makes it very, very difficult to be clean always, at least for the farmer, craftsman and digger of ditches.
We have to find out what marks good conduct for ourselves, and by what? It should be by sound ego functionings, at least in the psychoanalytic sense. It is good to bear in mind that good conduct is a successful synthesis of accommodation (a) of things or others to us on the one hand, and (b) of ourselves to others and surroundings (including things) on the other hand.
Often we cannot have it both ways, and if so, what is called "good conduct" rests on making a good show of it. That is much inferior conduct, really. And a further basic finding is that if you strive to fulfil yourself and get unlike peers from it, because individual outlets tend to be different, even unique in more than one way, you may not be liked at all, even if you and your art is lovely to look at. The case of Pablo Picasso in the first decades of his career documents these things. Critics called him diabolic and crazy. And there are others. Jesus was subjected to much of the same, and a robber was preferred to him. If that happens to a man, it looks like he has been outsmarted. [Cf. Pap 1-24]
Maybe things are not as sure and simplistic as Yogananda maintains for many US citizens in "How to be more likeable" - there are more sides to it and better and deeper outlooks and concerns should not be denied. [Cf. Ak 140-2]
You may also dare to ask,
"What is my personality, how far can it be measured and evaluated accurately by myself and others? Is this a freak subject?"
There are different measurements and views to be had, but they do not form any perfect and congruent "map" as far as we know of up north. Far from it. But men stand out:
Dr. Hans Eysenck, professor at the University of London, is much known for making statistically valid inventories (studies) into some parts of it. He deals a lot in psychometry and aligned matters. In one major inventory he takes off from the theoretical groundwork of the eminent Carl Jung. In other words; he builds on Jung fairly solidly. [Jug; Olk]
Erik Erikson of Harvard University has found stages of development that links up here, and he takes off from the good work of Sigmund Freud. [Bag; Lin]
Gordon Allport, another Harvard professor, ask how personality is formed, and brings theory with different views around it. [Pe; Pao]
There are many other concerns involved. Abraham Maslow of Purdue University is into such as self-actualisation and what marks outstanding individuals. They care little about conform morality, in a nutshell. Conform others may think such individuals are marring or bad, even. [Cf. Toh; Puse;]
Carl Rogers talks for the fully functioning individual, and his main views may be linked to some of Abraham Maslow. Works of Carl Rogers may give valid syntheses from many fields. [Ropp; Tccr]
Yes, theories and studies can be found, and maybe integrated much. There is no need to be superficial.
Egohood is found inside the personality, and the personality may develop, and egohood too. If you deal blows to the egohood, maybe as gurus try to do, you may damage personality development for it. And if so, there is no use to wear clean clothes and wash your body well, says Yogananda - nay, he may insist - and contrary to the Indian saying, "Cleanliness is next to godliness." We think it is another gross superficiality. But every little helps - let us hope that.
There are still other understandings of personality and anglings into it. And there are other conceptions of egohood than those of contemporary psychoanalysis. Both concepts and postualted life goals or marks of a sound organism may differ much. You had better be informed about it.
In psychoanalytic theory, ego is that part of the human personality which is experienced as the "self" or "I" and is in contact with the external world through perception. It remembers, evaluates, plans, and in other ways is responsive to and acts in the surrounding physical and social world. ... Ego (Latin for "I") comprises ... the executive functions of personality; it is the integrator between the outer and inner worlds, as well as between two more parts of the person: id (libido) and the superego.
Dr. Eric Berne's rather similar definitions of the Adult seems better to us here north; and likewise his definitions of the Child and the Parent. These are key terms in TA (Transactional Analysis). Dr. Berne took off from psychoanalysis in the first place. [Cf. Hom; Gyl; Bob]
The ego gives continuity and consistency to behaviour by providing a personal point of reference, which relates the events of the past (retained in memory) and actions of the present and of the future (represented in anticipation and imagination). The ego is not coextensive with either the personality or the body, although body concepts form the core of early experiences of self. The ego, once developed, is capable of change throughout life, particularly under conditions of threat, illness, and changes in life circumstances.
The ego has the capacity to test reality by such as Gedanken experiments, by imagining, and planning. It helps us to fantasize the consequences of one or another course of action, and to decide upon future directions to achieve its ends. Thus, a fruitful ego makes one capable of productive work as well.
Ego development
Behind much theory-making is the old Freudian look on it: As the individual continues to develop, the ego is further differentiated and the superego develops. And since the concept and structure of the ego were defined by Freud and explored by Jung, other theorists have developed somewhat different conceptualizations of the ego. There may be a little competition among alternate ways to look at it.The sound ego works its way through several stages, in Dr. Erik H. Erikson's opinion. It is the psychodynamic view that is hinted at by that. Dr. Erikson took off from Sigmund Freud's five postulated levels or stages, added to them and elaborated the social relatedness into them. He found eight stages in a full life. There is much good in his theory-making. [Bag; Lin] [Check]
Strength
Progress from such as pre-logical to rational thinking can be slow and worm its way through several intermediate stages during childhood. Even in physical maturity, persons differ a lot in the forms and effectiveness of ego functioning. An important dimension has been called ego strength. It functions to help us work according to program, very likely. For the person of strong ego has the following characteristics:- He is objective in his apprehension of the external world and in self-knowledge (insight);
- He is activity is organized over longer time spans and he is thus able to maintain schedules and plans;
- He can follow resolves, and choose decisively among alternatives;
- He is not overwhelmed by his drives and can direct them into socially useful channels;
- He can resist immediate environmental and social pressure while contemplating and choosing a self-selected course.
One source of these deliberations: Britannica Online: "ego". [Check]
A good suggestion is better than none
A good array of what egohood is taken to mean in the West, is a help. There is the chance that without egohood, no development is had through such as kriya yoga, in other words.Most often the same guru asserts he developed strongly under his guru with the steam hammer discipline. While old patterns of conduct and ego-linked conduct that is not up to snuff may mar, sound and able egohood which we talk for and not against may bless many and allow for the disciple’s advancement in good hands.
To say likeable things about sound egohood most often was outside that guru's reach anyhow, and maybe from the stand of a hungering egohood deep inside. One that took to overt vicarious aggrandisements. You should know that. At times he could mean two different things by the same word.
- Egoity (ahamkara) is an integral part of our inner make-up, according to Yukteswar and yoga theory (see below) is structurally integrated and comes in one package along with intelligence and so on;
- And then there is selfish, stupid, arrogant, bullying or morbid egotism which may be an ogre-thing a lot linked to sexuality.
There is sound reason to doubt you can dissolve ahamkara (egoity) without getting shackles from it. Look into some more Yogananda quotes:
If so, it can’t be really and truly important to deal blows to sound egohood development.
"Distinctions of "important" and "unimportant" are surely unknown to the Lord, lest, for want of a pin, the cosmos collapse!" [Ha 82]
He signals most often that what he calls "ego" is wrong, and may be seen to be much mistaken in it somehow, oen way or another. To go skilfully against normal ego development in others, can breed a creed and also one of tyranny. Followers that do not talk for themselves, but for "obey", or "do as gurus tell", can become less than we like to think of.
We should look out for the awkward, yet pinpointed soap opera stand -
This avatar teaching can do havoc to millions of people:This looks like being grossly or intrinsically inconsistent and by that unfair.
On the track of an older and more integral look
[Yogananda's guru explained:] "(The causal) body is a matrix of the thirty-five ideas required by God as the basic or causal thought forces from which He later formed the subtle astral body of nineteen elements and the gross physical body of sixteen elements.A good point here is that egohood as defined or classified here, in line with the samkhya-and-yoga theory systems, is rather basic and fit for the total well-being of man. We think of it along this line:
"The nineteen elements of the astral body are mental, emotional, and lifetronic. The nineteen components are intelligence; ego; feeling; mind (sense-consciousness); five instruments of knowledge, the subtle counterparts of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch; five instruments of action, the mental correspondence for the executive abilities to procreate, excrete, talk, walk, and exercise manual skill; and five instruments of life force, those empowered to perform the crystallizing, assimilating, eliminating, metabolizing, and circulating functions of the body." (etc.) [Ha 408]
If you eliminate intelligence from the "battery", what is left to think with and what can you say in unbaffled ways?So, confronting the Oriental teaching of getting rid of the ego to advance full well, maybe we should cry,
If you cut off your nose, you can’t smell full well. And if you eliminate the instruments of action, you cannot work.
Gentlemen, if you eliminate the egohood, something that was otherwise meant to be and serve man as well as intelligence, can drop off! If in the world it may be for good and bad (and in between), for "Everything on earth is of mixed character (Babaji)". Because of this a man could suffer from lack of me-ness and Babaji on earth must be mixed also - and it is so!
If you maim the colon, there will be troubles with excrements too. And without being your own centre, you cannot really feel in a real way.
"You big bluffer!"
Well, some gurus seem to give the mind a mess, or rise to bungle the minds of their conform followers, and live well too.
In the Name of Religion
Much wrong is done in the name of religion
What is advanced and what is slapstick? Can anyone see the difference?
SOMEONE: "Are you for or against the teachings of Yogananda?"ANSWER: "Yes -"
ELABORATION: "Which Yogananda are we talking about?
- The one that allegedly warred against ignorance through: "Mankind has only "one real enemy - ignorance. Let us all work together for its destruction, helping and cheering one another—Share your wisdom with others, so they are enabled to help themselves". [Say 63, 93]?
- The mystagogue behind the vile-looking, "Life is a great dream of God's—affirm the truth: I am a child of God.—If you doubt, you will not see."? [Say 82, 63]?
- The grand Jesus buddy seems to say: "To destroy very unrewarding ignorance is fit; and so is merely dreaming of it and let it rest there, perhaps -"
- However, if life is a great dream as he say, his canon is flimsical just as a dream is by nature, and can it really be true that you are a substantial child inside that sort of stuff?
Just what is the central nave or hub when they say "the teachings of avatar Peacock, another world saviour"? This could help to sort out things a little:
We do not agree with everything the blunderbuss indoctrinator decrees or teaches. One example: Yogananda writes: "Truth is no intellectual insight". If so, you cannot tell what is true or not true, not through your intellect. [Ha 476]
Compare the "guru medley" "Truth as exact correspondence with reality is no intellectual insight" with Yogananda's:
"The searchlight of mind is fully equipped to throw its superconscious rays into the innermost heart of Truth. Use it to do so." - Paramahansa Yogananda [Ak 10]
Now see what you got! And cry if you like:
This cannot be true any more, due to such as changes in prices - or what? Since the guru's intellectually formatted insights seem deficient one way or another, we have to suspect that his intellectually formatted insights do not really suffice, even if the Fellowship have called his guidelines infallible. That is what Farm Cattle had to make do with till somewhat better outlooks were launched. One should be:
Your body is worth many other and many progressively better insights too.
Horrible canon is to be done away with
APART from Yogananda's apparently canonical lack of truth-telling (see above) another problem is that his various statements are fragmented and often contradict some of his other statements.There was nothing better to do for members than to select statements and pass them as plausible. Yet it is not decent to call that sort of mess "infallible guidelines". SRF does. It was the immediate, pressing reason I left the assembly.
Anyway, I came up with a good way to avoid grotesque misunderstandings, the way of building some Dao. It is quite allied to the way of constructivism inside the camp of professional pedagogues - I think it is one hundred percent.
What is more, to preserve caution against marring assertiveness over and over, something like the following "starter" is included as an integral part of each text and could be applied to each and any guru statement:
"Along with the over-riding or main content to come, think "it could be true - one way or other, even a whole lot" and so on.To get well schooled in that way saves a lot of helter-skelter tenet trouble. In fact, the essence of the studied approach of carefully preformed, formatted and cool reservations held up "without end", looks like the "alternative hypothesis" of many 'doubting Thomases' called great men of science - the sort of men Yukteswar and Babaji stood up and talked warmly of a long time ago and seemed eager to help through teaching them clever gasping. It is called kriya yoga by their ranks.
It is part of the arsis alignment we do not speak so much of. Go on with it.
Yukteswar: "The (greatly intelligent) leading scientific men ... They are the men who could benefit greatly by meetings with India's masters."
Nagaraj Babaji: "East and West must establish a golden middle path." He spoke for a harmonious exchange and yoga dissemination, and was not for materialism. This is further laid bare in a guru's autobiography [Ha 332-4]
However, considering the soap opera sides of the enterprise his emissary designed, there is reason to say that truly great men of science are hardly willing to submit to hanky-pankies of guru rigmarole, becoming deeply submissive after unfair oath-making, and getting guru-scared from leaving after realising many other sides of the Peacock enterprise.
Thus, many great men of science are in fact airly effectively barred from learning kriya - much as God intended as "The Sole Doer" if that Babaji-teaching were correct:
Babaji laughed softly. 'My son, why do you doubt?' he said reassuringly. 'Indeed, Whose work is all this, and Who is the Doer of all actions? Whatever the Lord has made me say is bound to materialize as truth." [Ha 334]The evil crimes that abound are all ascribed to Lord Sole Doer by this guru. And if you commit adultery with another man's wife, it is the work of God! You could even half-quote the allegedly uplifting statements in front of one of her sons while in the middle of the act with his adulterus mom:
"Whose work (whoring) is all this? - Who is the doer? - What Yoganandas say are always bound to be - eh - great, infallible guidelines."
The grossness of the example pinpoints: The universally valid tenet has to fit in. And then it might become useful. The good and useful statement that purports to fit in under all conditions, does so. Now, does this teaching? Learn to consider well and not get duped. And by all means, drop us a note if you find bottom.
You find the Sole Doer teaching mentioned by Yogananda in at least three of his books, but also conflicting others. One of these books is Sayings of Yogananda:
"God does it; God cannot do it" - Insubstantial guru teachings, can and should they make us insane? Yogananda could as well have uttered, "Running and jogging to keep fit and in shape, is God's responsibility, not yours." If only God works, what about the big fuss of letting great men of science learn kriya, for example? The overlooked point is: "If God is a Sole Doer, there is none else to show things, none else to learn anything - it must be quite an art -"
In dealing with these seemingly misfit teachings, you should expect hoaxes. And eventually they do not make sense. That is what good inspection in the footsteps of Jesus eventually brings about.
So good and careful moderation of outputs can be good help. Artfulness of deals too. It also helps to assert:
"You have to be carefully geared, guarded, well versed and tidy on your own too - yet there are particular guarantee that these or other standard hints can bring help in any one case. Life is likely to be too complex for that."
I hope this teaching enlightens you, and if you are a goldfish, so much the better for you - how great an achievement!
"Believe everything you hear, but only seemingly -"
If the universe is the big swindle, a guru hoax and yogi swindling is a swindle. How oddly comforting - but is it necessary?OTHERS do not always tell the truth or what is solidly beneficient for us. If so, it is not always enough to yell "Timber!" And we think we have just given you a solution to live on top of. It seems becoming among all who hear the big-boss-ridden universe itself is a great pretence or giant swindle, as Yogananda appears eager to tell all:
Oh dear. What is not talked of here, seems to be:
"What a dream this life is!" [Ak 136]
"Man is sunk in a dream of ignorance, imagining that he is suffering". [Ak 196] - Paramahansa Yogananda
If Yogananda was living while the Lord informed him, that information and the vision was part of a dream - just dreamlike. A guru and his Lord that appears in a giant dream are parts of it - their words and teachings too. And Yogananda's message is that dreams are illusions!
His appearing Lord and his words - all illusory and whimsical - just dreamlike. It should be best to stay away from flimsical doctrine or on top if it like many modern gurus surely do. We have to manage things better than battering fiends to stay well - and that need may be keenly felt already. Some jovial-looking enclaves seem to promise relief and a safe haven, if not better, for example a "portable paradise". It is a Yogananda expression that refer to kriya yoga. And if no escape from the all right everyday living is involved, maybe it could work well. [Cf. Say 90, 106]
Well, well. There is more than one way to skin a cat, more than one road into Rome. The figurative, careful counsel in our headline can fit many that try to get out of the mud they are stuck in - at least not get deeper - Others may just need to be warned to remain stout and tidy.
Not a little inside these studies of ours are centred on the fellowship Yogananda established with a monastic order to head it. There seems to be many others in the United States. It is not easy to know exactly what "farms" (read. cults, sects etc.) that are bad for a good-natured beginner.
As mentioned in a section on Jainism in The Spiritual Heritage of India [Ins], it is not very tactful to ridicule others, and maybe not smart either, if there is a need to link up soundly and maturely. Yet it depends. And there can be some good sides to cults and sects, and:
The unfriendly large society should create an alternative, "perfect cult", states Dr. Philip Zimbardo, professor of psychology at Stanford University. [Check]A figurative farm in part means to help its cattle and other animals, but maybe more goes into farming and man-handling than that ... It often shows up after some time, along with major problems.
Along with guru information we present gist and sidelights that could get perfectly fit for systematic self-help one way or other. That is much! We also give sidelights with links into the mystic Nagaraj Babaji's celebrated, tantric kriya yoga discipline. It may have essential drawbacks, and you shouldn't believe everything you are told, much in line with what two British proverbs suggest:
He that believes all, misses; he that believes nothing, misses. [Dp 18]
Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see. [Dp 18]
We should make the best out of it
Our handling program
WHAT IS called self-actualisation by some, and self-realisation by others, can mean different things to different people.It is possible that some eminent-looking leaders are wearing masks. And if they are torn off, the faces underneath might look grim.
It should be to our profit to heed lore that shows how gurus may work. The central gist of such stuff may not be outdated, and might not result in throwbacks. Study of it might lead into central teachings like:
- "It is best to be on the safe side."
- "Even in a mess, strive to make the best out of it."
- "Make the best you can so as to survive."
- "Be allied with the best, if you can find or detect it."
Get rid of spoiling stuff
NOW, YOUR brand new tick tack toe serialisations function along with this general outlook. You can call the tick tack toe programs we serve, very strategic ways of handling stuff - first deep thinking, next attempts to make good use of it, and next handling that to some might lead into routines.There is room for many outlets: A tick tack toe serialisations is many-stringed. It allows for many quite parallell strides.
Armed with this know-how you can function better, for you can model things through it, and hence function better.
Our White Daoism is geared to average everyday concerns fit for living
BASICALLY, it is folkwise cyberntics we deal in, and it is philosophically rooted. It aids fairly general proficiency. We spent many years developing this integrative, systemic Daoism (White Daoism), and many more to align it with the cream of ancient Chinese Daoism (Yellow Daoism), an old teaching which is basically proficient. We have to make a distinction between them, for there are major differences of profiling. Our White Daoism allows for building activities to get into Dao, while ancient Daoism - called Yellow Daoism further - seldom goes much and structurally into that. That is the main difference.In our profiling we also unite with the better parts of the strategic thinking of Dr. Eric Berne - his PAC models - with strong, good handed-over points from parental influences, seems better suited for handy living around here. In China it might be different. Thus, we make a distinctions, due to other strategical considerations and so-called profiles of what sources of ideations are good in the long run. [Briefing TA checks: A, B, C]
We have arrived at a brand new all-round method for harvesting fragmented gist from here and there, from far and wide and nearby. Let the net results speak for themselves. Let them further link up to the better sides of humanistic development, for many aims in it are good.
To be utterly careful, circumspect, methodical and risk little is fairly needed and can be a boon in most settings. Good reserve and stout blandness may count a lot too. Not everyone can act like Prince Charles or a fish out of water, for example. Prince Charles could afford a lot, and he still can! And a man who can afford much, should have been a good man that is reaping some of his merits, according to Indian thinkers.
Decency counts the most, anyhow. These things are not to be dispensed with for the sake of unstable - not settled or not accepted tick tack toe ways of handling things, for what is settled breeds its own attitudes, defences, and perhaps complacency that outrules much fine and good in itself. You should not get ostrachised - that is where such as bland reserve and elegant dealings set it - much else too, and maybe a weapon.
The method we have developed so far, helps against "Better luck next time." Time, energy, thinking and strategy wasted is seldom needed. Losses seldom help. There is a competition "out there".
Get better allied with humanism if you can
WE TALK for proficency and responsible dealings. We also advocate more sound, rustic enough living if you can make it, for urbanisation lacks proper reciprocality - it falls short for lots of people. As if you didn't know it! We need to address the big items and link up to good deals or solutions while it is time enough and anything to share.The central ideas of egohood help us here. Further, the stand "Be allied with humanism" does not include soap opera tenets and practices on top of that.
Now, present-day humanistic schools strive to unite, blend or make use of fragmented teachings from far and near, and some sources stem from ancient Hindus. And humanistic sourcebooks, like Indian philosophical schools with their ramifications, can look fragmented and messy. Parts of the inspiration comes from contemporary American thinkers too, such as Abraham Maslow. The positive outlook in such sources reflect values that are too open-handed and not good enough at bulwarking against enemies, their aims and intrigues. American cities reflect that fare, and antidotes could look way too rustic to look good. That is to be a problem. [Cf. Hu]
Much sound and sensible and cherished teaching in humanistic disciplines in the West is that man needs to be fully functioning to work and develop well, as Dr. Carl Rogers states. The conditions have to follow suit as well. If not, troubles may set in far and wide.
If so, maybe his dormant individualism starts to move for outlets. Good artists often show individually tinged proficiency in their arts - some measure of uniqueness is said to be one of the hallmarks. Carl Jung's individuation is much like the self-actualisation of Abraham Maslow. Both theoreticians hint at some aspects of the process. Liken it to putting forth flowers. Eventually it had better pay. Otherwise life in the long run is at stake. For such reasons, cool conformity may not be the worst there is, if one is not taken much in.
What gurus would like
GURUS may not like you to think for yourself - and not against them in their "sale of yogism". Gurus would like you to import their tenets and systemic practices wholesale. It may not be worth it. You might be much taken in. It is normal to expect that good things have a fair price, and the better the things, the higher the price - or cost. Adjusting accordingly, we should expect little friend-help or given grace. It is better to be safe than sorry later. Many sectarians were taken in by bandits due to hopeful, romantic ideas of extra good barters. Everybody needs to stay solvent, gurus included. If not, they flounder.There is no need to become a sectarian - a sect rat, but see what happens under the "wings" of known gurus.
What is more, gurus may know how to be inconsistent to you your damage, while looking deep. It is to be expected, somewhat. The self-realisation concepts of yogis and gurus like Yogananda, can form part of a secret sort of mishmash teachings. One reason is that Indian heritage around yoga is not strongly consistent in the first place. Ancient teachings developed into many camps of "schools" of outlooks. They diversified.
Encyclopedia Britannica says that most gurus today allies their methods with the Vedanta system of thinking. But there are many sorts of Vedanta. Advaita Vedanta is one of them. Vedanta is had through amalgamated statements. Some say God is, others God is real enough through some stages or states of development, and other forms say there is no God, really. [Britannica Online Check]
The value of Aesop against brainwashing agents
IT'S NORMALLY accepted as good to stay cool, calm and steady in the open, for the alternatives may cost much. And to be forewarned is great help for it. We should realise the dangers of religious-looking teachings, mishmash teachings and their fragmented slogans, and hybrid religiousness. Many Americans do not do that, not yet, and the lack of such instructions can make families flounder in some way or another. There is that risk. Many cults have given ample proof of it. There are degrees of faking and nuances. Proficient bulwarking has to start with soft-looking ideations and tenets that ladies and children can learn something from, to abort future disasters. That is much of what we are into.Bulwarking has its price; it seldom looks nice to be rigorously suspicious towards strangers carrying gifts, as they say.
In speaking our minds against a few fakers, maybe all fakers feel attacked. That is quite an art - one that can be developed too. In our parts of the world we have a long tradition here. Parts of it stems from Libya long before Romans destroyed it, other parts from ancient Egypt. These and other stories with enacting animals come to us through Greeks and Romans. Stories like these were used for rhetorics. Fables of Aesop can still be used in order to warn or show how to aim well to bulwark on the idea level and not offend newcomers - cool, calm and steady for most part - That is a little of what good, cognitive bulwarking helps and serves. [Cs]
We often do well to get better aware of bold-looking, strong assertions, over-simplifications and mishmash with hogwash on top of that again. And we should not confuse ancient speculations with truths either. It could be that soap salvationists do not know enough of what they are doing. Look at Yogananda. He starkly reduced God The Holy Spirit in the gospels and letters definitionwise to a vibration and links that to the sound of Aum, "the cosmic motor". [Cf. Ak 300 and Ha 143]
here is another example. Yogananda used a simile to a group of followers:
You may ask: "What is Yogananda up to?"
The truth is simple: He simply lifts God the Trinity into the Hindu concept of Sat-Tat-Aum. In so doing he leaves out God The Father who incarnates, the exclusiveness of Jesus as Christ, and the tongue-talking, miracle-working faculty of the reminding Holy Spirit.
Inside this teaching God the Father, who appeared on a mount in front of Jesus and disciples, is ""without qualities" and "transcendent" ... "in the blissful void beyond". The Holy Spirit is Aum in this abortive theology. - Paramahansa Yogananda [Cf. Say 119]
What we are faced with is plenty of Hindu-favouring reductionism. The concepts of many Christs is launched alongside, and it is not Biblical in the least.
It is fair to maintain that Yogananda-launched gross losses of content in biblical concepts. That looks in part like swindle du to what appears to be left out: the talking in tongues is missing; shouting "Halleluja" too, for the sake of idol-looking worship of gurus.
So the alignments we study here, smack of a spectacular yoga promotion on top of terms of "God" for the sake of smart welcomes - maybe by fraud.
If their basic concepts and alignments are not better, what about their "infallible guidance"? Is it being demon-ridden? These newcoming Yogi-Christs do not maintain what Jesus taught against false Christs and many masters.
Let's face a possibility here: Vilifying Indian yogis could even be fiends, and maybe even better than that ... It should be good for a Christian to be allied with what Jesus said. And it should be pertinent. You have to look it up in many a case. It is a bit tedious. We have done much for you on the other pages.
At that time if anyone says to you, "Look, here is the Christ!" or, "There he is!" do not believe it.
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect - if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. [Matt 24:23-25]I am the gate for the sheep. - Jesus. [John 10:7]
Vanity sets in if egohood loses or falters
IN THE modern Self-Realization Fellowship they are informed that Babaji is ever in communion with Jesus and in no small way, in part because Yogananda has written it:Babaji is ever in communion with Christ; together they send out vibrations of redemption and have planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age. The work of these two fully illumined masters - one with a body, and one without a body - is to inspire the nations to forsake [such as] boomerang evils of materialism. Babaji is well aware ... and realizes the necessity of spreading the self-liberations of yoga equally in the West and in the East. [Ha 298]The Fellowship we look into, further teaches things like:
Mahavatar Babaji is the Supreme Guru in the Indian line of masters who assume responsibility for the spiritual welfare of all members of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India who faithfully practice Kriya Yoga. "I shall remain incarnate on the earth," he has promised, "until this particular world cycle is ended." [See chapters 33 and 37.) [Cf. Pa 501]Here we find cyclical world views of Hindus. They could be unfit for the age outlooks of Jesus. We think it is fair and proper to compare it with tenets of Jesus and also note who's in charge, and what happened to the ministry of the apostles - The serving Christian is to make men his disciples - they are not meant to serve foul play at any rate. It is in part the missionary command of Jesus that stops or clips the wings of plots that let Hinduism embrace Christianity and make it fit for Hindus by hook and crook, it seems.
"All authority" was perhaps not good enough, nor the handy gift of salvation as compared to the self-effort-linked systemic approach of such as clever gasping (kriya)? We should note there are different teachings around, and that Christianity in the old days never accepted several supreme gurus, only Jesus.Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." [Matthew 28:18-20]
Now we are peering into what might look like "by hook and crook" decrees instead of speaking fairly and plainly all the time - could it be to win over hearts, for example? Just think about it.
You can compare central ideas by spending time on making two columns and compare. As a matter of facts, there are spectacular differences between most forms of Hinduism and Christianity, maybe all of them. And you have to think for yourself. Sound and fair study - it takes what it takes.
What the pope is for, is the thing we do: The Second Vatican Council sees that it is good and beneficient to harvest divine wisdom from other parts of the planet to sift such ideas, maybe adjust central cores from them to Western heritage and tradition somehow, and next organise or incorporate many such items to make good use of them - as good talents. They should be put to use and breed, is the lesson from Jesus.
Tick tack toe modelling does things like that. Like Yggdrasil - the ash-tree in the centre of the world in Norse mythology, the roots can draw water from many quarters. [Cf. Ng]
We are pleased to launch that fixing agent now. It may help Western man to adjust specially promising tenets or insights from other waters to his inherited own ones, and not the other way round. And in essence, that is what sound and proficient eclecticism is all about, if you aim for local applications after some trial and error activity.
This brings us to our stand:
- Proficient man adjusts on top of where he stands. His heritage, tradition, good know-how and skills - these things matter. If he imports something, it had better fit in where he lives and works - that is what is meant by "locally". Gurus may decree otherwise, and insist it is all a dream. Yogananda does. It undermines the value of local survival-fit expertise or handling skills.
- We do not advocate a mishmash (or inter-religious hybrids with unforeseen and unwanted and unneeded drawbacks). Possible inter-cultural exchanges had better be adjusted to local survivals and long-standing survival knowledge and assets. For you know what you have - it worked earlier. But you seldom gauge the side effects and long-range consequences of new things - imported ideas, methods and customs. Better maintain stout awareness so as to remain and get welcome surprises. For the lack of the proficiency we are into, most surprises could get unwelcome. Note the difference due to basic adjustments here.
- As for reverence, it is better to honour the central "I am" (God) over and above creeping gurus from far away; stay solvent in the footsteps of parents and neighbours if they are good at anything; and much could be different. The "honour your father and mother" leads into it.
RECOMMENDATION: "The spirit of the Gita and the Upanishads is in the teachings of this ancient Chinese philosopher." - Yogananda on Laotzu's work, in East West, Vol 2, No. 5. (July-August) 1927Is that true? There is no Hare Krishna worship in it, for one thing. And it is much terser - yes, good.
However, in nature there is the chrysalis. It contains no butterfly at all, just pulp, a mass. But one day it changes!
If that is the spirit Yogananda gives so much feeling-ful support to: Lo!
[Have a look at Yogananda's 'good selfishness' teachings too - were they wrong or wrongly formulated?]
The Ego
Sick sheep may not need a doctor . . .
A decrepit egohood loses favours and misses the bus.
Sound inner egohood (ahamkara) and intelligence go together.
The alternative to getting ego-ridden is being outsmarted or
massa-ridden in cultish, authoritarian circles.
Yukteswar tells - in line with samkhya thinking - that egohood and intelligence "belong
together" and are from Self? [Cf. Ha 408].
Your ego instance is precious to you. Adjust accordingly.
The guru says here that the ego needs time to be freed. If so, trying to assault it could be an alarming mistake. Yet Yogananda most often voices that latter approach: [LINK]
Yogananda also talks for rational or enlightened self-interest. [Ak].
Plunged Into Thinking Great scientists and good men need to make proper investigations and get hypotheses verified all right.
Jesus told doubting Thomas, "You have seen me, you have believed." [John 20:24-29, excerpts]. "Seeing is believing (Proverb)."
Get to heaven independently of anybody in the New Testament: Enoch was lifted up into heaven (Genesis), and Eliah too, in a chariot. Other well-known Bible figures who are commonly thought to inhabit heaven(s), have been shown to be murderers or a little better, like a raiding Abraham, a killing Moses, David had Uriah killed, and the apostle Paul was a mass murderer of Christians at first, he said. We should not hope to become murderers and next big-wigs of God. Murder is not good.
If the guiding Holy Spirit that was to remind of everything Jesus said, "everything" means not just a little part of it.
"Think I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I haven't come to
abolish them but to fulfil them.
Truly, till heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest
letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law till
everything is accomplished.
Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and
teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but
whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
[Matthew 5:17-19, aborted beginning]
Much depends on selections -
Let Down Your Hair
Good boys of humble birth will have to be brave, honest and wilful in order to make it throught life. More privileged ones may just float on as best they can, and still make it.Your inherent brightness can draw on vast inner resources through ideas and the like.
To tame intuitive intelligence is bad.
Often noble ones have to compete much harder than others because they have stricter standards.
An intuitively kenned Grand Subsistence that rests inside can become the partner of bright guys. Like maya (naked, figure-forming prowess itself) such figuring experts or teachers can look quite unpredictable and up to horrible in many circles where leaders are not jolly of their own accord.
Intuitive brightness helps the understanding through the measuring, figuring
capacities deep inside - to some this aspect of "thinking for oneself full well" lies
concealed.
And still maya (figuring in some way or other) often helps intuitive guys like sages
and munis (yoga experts) to look deeper and bring pearls of wisdom up to the surface, where
they may be made use of.
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