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Game Strategies - 1

TODAY'S RIGHT CAN PLEASE
Welcome to essential teachings.
WHAT COULD be done for the upbringing:
"Many big guys do try to gain unfair advantage.
Here is the first half of an existential study of some hanky-pankies that are allowed to go on by inferior men and madams. We have to get candid to be true, and none should overlook that important facet of how it is for men around. A deep study should reveal how to get some more all-round satisfaction by getting to grips with more competent outlooks: They and good dames should not escape you.
Besides, we should explore the value of fables and proverbs before stupidity takes its toll or takes over.

A Possible Harem Game: "Giant's Narcissist Buddy"
Is a bizarre reminder at first glance out of place?
A. Gates can be very good murderers

Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout:

A Possible Harem Game: "Giant's Narcissist Buddy"

A very possible hanky-panky (also called psychological Game, or TA game) of a disciple may be "avatars' buddy I am - how well", or "God's, hence free from care".
We hope it is helpful to go into standardised game indicators that are set up in our progressive Tao texts. They may help some to kill troubles before troubles kill men.
The traditional set-up after Dr. Berne is still:

A. Sequency of fairly typical events of involvement:

"As a disciple right here I'm one of the most lucky guys in the whole universe". This is commonly told in Yogananda's society and repeated by followers.

B. Tactics by which one may undercut or frustrate a goading, religious, and narcissistic game.

There is a fairly good chance that the set-up is there for undermining you somehow, except for valuable show examples. The many hundred years long history of non-kriya backup - a very long period where giant father ignored to give out the giant help in time, is ample evidence for me.

C. Some likely payoff of the game, including the over-all purpose.

You may feel you are a part of an over-all plan, or a wonderful self-help salvational movement. And there is a chance you are ignored higher up. I found that to be the case for me. Others may feel differently about it. I know what I see.

D. Some positions that must be filled for being with the other parties in the same "tent". Here the shared "tent" of involvement can be narcissism.

The wants and wishes at the back of assumed positions as cosmic giants, may be huge - correspondingly large. Maybe your task in the complementary "fabric or texture" is to behave like a "tithing klutz". It is to be feared that the bigger the other party, the more you have to make yourself dwindle, to give the other party its high esteem. It can be that way.
Note further that old Hindu samkhya philosophy has no God above, and Yogananda's guru Sri Yukteswar wrote a treatise that built substantially on one of its forms.

In Samkhya there is belief in an infinite number of similar but separate purushas ("selves"), no one superior to the other. Purusha and prakriti [Matter] being sufficient to explain the universe, the existence of a god is not hypothesized. [Ebu "samkhya"]

"Hope for the best and suspect the worst (and take precautions so that the worst is likely not to happen, or happen with full impact" is a sound folk philosophy. What about Vedanta? Vedanta is another Hindu philosophy, and Yogananda teaches it. However, Vedanda consists of radically different schools of thinking, and "what binds them together is common adherence to a common set of texts. These texts are the Upanishads, the Vedanta-sutras, and the Bhagavadgita - the three basic scriptures. [Ebu "Indian philosophy"]
There are pre-Shankara monistic interpreters of the scriptures. Shankara referred to one of them, Gaudapada, as the teacher of his own teacher Govinda, and complimented him for having recovered the advaita (nondualism) doctrine from the Vedas. His philosophical views show a considerable influence of Madhyamika Buddhism. Shankara greatly moderated Gaudapada's illusionistic theory. All the same, "No single interpretation of the texts emerged, and several schools of Vedanta developed." [Ebu "Vedanta"]

"All the Vedanta schools unanimously reject . . . the conclusions of the other orthodox (astika) schools [including Samkhya and Yoga] . . . It may be said that, in one or another of its forms, Hindu philosophy has become Vedanta. Although the preponderance of texts by Advaita scholastics has in the West given rise to the erroneous impression that Vedanta means Advaita, the nondualistic Advaita is but one of many Vedanta schools." [Ebu "Vedanta"]

The schools encompass nondualism, theism, and dualism.

Shankara's system may then be called atmahvaita – the thesis that the one, universal, eternal, and self-illuminating self whose essence is pure consciousness without a subject (ashraya) and without an object (visaya) from a transcendental point of view alone is real. The phenomenal world and finite individuals, though empirically real, are – from the higher point of view – merely false appearances. [Ebu "Indian philosophy"]
If difference cannot be predicated of it [consciousness], then consciousness is the only reality and anything different from it would be unreal . . . Reality is one, infinite, eternal . . . The world and finite individuals are . . . rationally unintelligible, their reality is not logically deducible from Brahman [God], and their experience is cancelled with the knowledge of Brahman" [one indeterminable transcendental being]. [Ebu "Indian philosophy"]

Shankara regards moral life as a necessary preliminary to self-knowledge. For him, the highest goal of life is to know the essential identity of his own self with Brahman, and moral life may indirectly help. Study of the scriptures under appropriate conditions, reflection to get rid of serious doubts, and meditation on the identity of atman and Brahman are his three main means. Moksha [Freedom] is according to Shankara, the essential reality of one's own self to be realized.
His early pupils raised and settled issues that were not systematically discussed by Shankara himself, issues that later divided his followers into two large groups. And they competed a lot with other varieties of Vedanta schools of nondualism, theism, and dualism, and schools of Vishnuism. [Cf. Ebu "Indian philosophy"]
Vishnuism (Vaishnavism) is the worship of god Vishnu and his incarnations. Religious devotion and deifications are hallmarks. One of the Vishnu incarnations is Krishna. The Vishnu faith is wide-spread.

The philosophical schools of Vaishnavism differ in their interpretation of the relationship between individual souls and God . . . You find qualified monism (exponent: Ramanuja), dualism (exponent: Madhva), dualistic monism (exponent: Nimbarka), pure monism (exponent: Vallabha), and "inconceivable duality and nonduality" (exponent: Caitanya). Vaishnavism also includes a number of popular expressions of devotionalism. [Cf. Ebu "Vaishnavism"]

Worship of this and that is marked by what Dr. Martin Buber (1878-1965) calls you-ness in his dialogical thinking, his I–Thou philosophy. Buber's book Ich und Du (1923; I and Thou) is a classic work on the subject. But central constituents of a budding "I am" can grow into Yahweh says the Kabbala, an insider tradition. [Jod].
We could think of "Be still and know "I am" God" to get an inkling, or "I am what I am". Daniel Goleman writes:

In Judaism, the hidden teachings are called Kabbalah. These teachings, it is said, originated with the angels, who were instructed by God. [Faith talked of.]
Halevi says Joshua ben Miriam, otherwise known as Jesus, was a transmitter of Kabbalah [but what did Halevi know?]
In the Kabbalist view, normal man is incomplete. He blindly seeks pleasure and avoids pain. While he may have brief glimpses of higher possibilities. Kabbalah seeks to train the student to enter a state of consciousness in which he becomes in tune with a higher awareness.
To achieve his task, the Kabbalist must observe the working of his ordinary mind or ego, so as to bring into awareness the unconscious forces that shape his thoughts and actions. To do this, he seeks to reach a certain level of awareness, that is, a state of clarity that is witness or "watcher" of the ordinary mind. This state of awakened consciousness is typically glimpsed only briefly in the ordinary man's life.
Instructions for meditation form part of the secret teachings of Kabbalists. The end of the Kabbalist's path is devekut, in which the seeker's soul cleaves to God. Then "he need no longer study Torah". But according to a story where four rabbis entered Paradise, one went mad, one died, and another lost faith; and what happened to the fourth? He came back in peace. [Abstracts, Goleman p. 49 ff]

E. Psychological motivations that may be hinted at as drives inside the odd hanky-panky.

Your needs have to be "I must be aligned to great ones or starve one way or another". If that's it, try to live as undramatic as you can, and let good neighbours help you with the rest. It might even work many times.
What's the game switch? It could be "Placate your needs; set yourself up as a magnate yourself."

F. The possible blue-prints of the hanky-panky, maybe rooted in deep childhood experience. Here is the place for Freudian analyses with circumspection.

What did you think of that ignored the inner "I am" inside, or the still small organismic feel against idolatry in the name of Hare Krishna? What torture since childhood lowered your inborn self-esteem as an image of God that way? If you can stand focus on the dominant behaviour episodes that function inside the "merciful rigmarole" set up on your behalf, maybe you can find out. If the eyes of inspection inside yourself are blinded by bigotry and fears, maybe taming smaller ones is no help either.
Maybe you are too smart and masters have to herd you for the good of the thought-of public, but here we have constructs that may well signify "outsmarted" by clever Dick demagogy. This is in part so because the average man is a theoretical quantity. Line up a dozen people, and find no average at all: all are different, basically. What is called "common good" may smack similar slyness - you do not know it. Allow yourself the benefit of the doubt, then.

G. An analysis diagram of the game is fit only here, at this stage of discernment. diagrams of the TA kind are for short-circuiting the moves in the deep game.

The Führers may not allow close inspection, no matter what the master giant up there decreed in some of his sayings.

H. Dominant steps of the game, as likened to strokes in common social interactions or rituals.

The steps may leave you in ruin later, like the relatives of Hare Krishna. [Clh] This is the soap opera historical part. And let it be helped by the big whale assumption: The bigger they are, the more they have to eat, far below their own level. it is their accomplishment.

9. Likely advantages of the game are the more or less spineless gains the players get from playing it or getting along with it. Among the advantages there are internal and psychological ones.

In Grimm tales it is often portrayed that giants do not behave much like normal friends. They get too easily offended, and all that. The best way of interaction is to bulwark against them, to avoid losing control in the forest of the mind inside - maybe so.
If poor tailors or others get along with grim giants, it is for ulterior purposes. What are yours? What do you hope for? To be perenneally helped and enlightened for next to nothing, is often it. In other words, you are likely to be driven by excessive greed of accomplishment and gains - and can be sly at heart.
If one-eyed giants are all-knowing, I suggest you see if they have noted your dominant greed streaks.

After this conventional enough layout, it is time to look into the tick tack toe scheming, that furnishes us with a step-by-step way out of the giant-hailer's existential smallness or inferior social value, if that's at the bottom of it. It could be a part of this, an part of that, and much more. It depends. People vary, surroundings differ.

Is a bizarre reminder at first glance out of place?

Should big-mouthed, fleshy me cry for the Divine Hippopotamus Mother, or?

Should big-mouthed, fleshy me cry for Divine Hippo Mom?
I could be enormously favoured as a Yogananda cryer.
On the other hand, I do not devote myself to much non-carnal bluff - know better.
Get your own "Encinitas pool" to dive in, you too. [1].

Take To Proverbs To Maim Well

"I will take to slogans hidden since the creation of Jerusalem," said the giant. Guard against revealing good insider know-how, for the purpose of coping better. Recall that some good prophets got themselves killed for their insights [cf. Matthew 13:35].
This could be how to do it:

Jesus took to parables; he did not say anything to strangers without using a parable, says the gospel, overdoing it a lot [cf. Matthew 13:24].

Elegant Fables Can Instruct and Entertain More Than Master Sale

The following is based on significant outlooks from the mouth of Christ in such as Matthew 13.

You can tell many things by fables with sound and terse wisdom interspersed,
It may feel like scattering the wisdom seeds a bit, you see some fall by the wayside -
maybe twittering birds of better insights come and eat from what you inform.
Who has ears, let him hear: Who loves funny fables and other delightful stories, should blossom [cf. Matthew 13:3-9].
Men came in throngs and asked, "Why speak in deep fables, or parables?"
The answer, "Deep knowledge can be transmitted or given in this way, and for centuries. It often happens. Give insights clothed in fables, so that common men can have an abundance [cf. Matthew 13:10-12].
One more why to speaking in parables: "Hearing, they do not hear or understand."
Some will never (be) understanding, never perceiving right [anyhow], I think it is much due to hardened hearts:
it can close the better part of the brain.
Anyway, nice and fit people often understand with their hearts [cf. Matthew 13:13-15].
Many stoned prophets longed to hear that anybody can fall fast, but hardly from good fables in the first place - to the contrary. Let us tune in deeply to what can be well inside the good fable or teaching parable, then. Let anyone hear both fable and some of its inside messages, and maybe not understand at first - seed thoughts may have to be sown in this way first. it is a fine device in growing up - widely used the world over. And they tell a lot in just this way in Waldorf education after Dr. Rudolf Steiner, for exactly similar reasons [cf. Matthew 13:17-19].
The gladdened listeners should be taught to take care and become more guarded, no matter what: Who hears fable wisdom and at once receives it with joy, can have a rocky heart - that can mean no firm root. There's a chance he lasts only short, and quickly falls away during troubles to come [cf. Matthew 13:20-21].

The hollow one can be sundered
The tedious guys need to relax more open first and foremost; otherwise they may get lost. Others let humdrum worries and group living's deceit choke the better parts of fable wisdom, To them its tenets may feel much like thorny pricks. Also, there is a risk that the much worried listener turns largely unfruitful [cf. Matthew 13:22].
The good guys may be in for more - and need to sulk better in the first place, to escape the danger of being over-used. Be like the one who listens to good fables and delves inside for their all-round standards. Without upbraiding he gains much deep wisdom and understands a lot - he becomes more pretty deep inside. He is ready to be plucked for it, or used. Guard against it [cf. Matthew 13:23].
Do you want us to pull up weeds in the bio-organic garden?'
"Yes, at once' he answered, "because you may root up the weeds while doing next to no harm to the crops, and therefore get a plenteous harvest decade after decade. It behoves a man to do so." [cf. Matthew 13:29].
"The good story, though it looks much insignificant at times, yet contains much for the inner growth of the pure man. Like a very small seed the good fable can grow until big birds of insight deep inside come and perch in the fable's branches." [cf. Matthew 13:28-32]

Parables and Fables Use Depictions of Animals

THE BLESSED ONE [Buddha] thought: "I have taught the truth . . . But simple as it is, the people cannot understand it. . . . I must adapt my thoughts to their thoughts . . . Therefore, I will tell them stories. [LINK]
Jesus spoke . . . to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. [Matthew 13:24].

Major yoga tenets have been sifted out here. We have made fun, often with a view to instruct.
If you want to instruct in a bible circus that can be bolstered with rigid tenets, all right norms, dogmatic standards and so on, take to fables. They entertain as well as instruct within well accepted good customs, or comme il faut.
You may find that many of our tenets below are much in tune with sound bible wisdom, such as "To the pure all is pure, except to the evangelist who ridicules Cretans [cf. Titus].
Animals talk in fables from all over the world. We hardly believe in this literally, but rather seek the possible standards to learn from insider tales. That is how modern psychologists read old myths, folk tales and much else. In part we have to interpret those fiction variants like poetry. It can help too.
The artful way is simple to begin with: We guess what words or actions can be figurative, not true to life, but poetically true or fair, in some odd-looking way. Next strive to decide whether the fable standard in question can help fit men to carry on well enough here today. What helps, also informs. It allows us to cope better and keep up good facets of living longer than by chance, and so on.
In folk tales there are animals to instruct or expose human relations and dilemmas. it is made easier for many in this way. The plots that are depicted with animals as players, could have a seeming distance that allows lessons to sink in better. Good distancing is the deep trick made use of in fit fables and tall stories.
You may not believe it, but many of mankind's top religions are full of myths, fable-like stories, and good fairy tales. it is an integral part of Hinduism as we know it. Old Aryan wisdom has its own stories of similar nature. But here we look into the Old Testament (OT) together and ask questions such as:
How many per cent of its old stories are myth-like, after all? How many per cent look like fables or folk tales? To cut matters short, it is not for me to decide on that right here. it is an immense work to get at a reasonable conclusion. I do not have the means at hands for that work where I am at present. Maybe I do not find it fruitful, either. What we are in at, is to discern better in the OT. And for sure, there are indeed fable-like stories deep in the bible.

A Valuable Lesson

A different view at times yields valuable lessons.

PRIDE once entered into the heart of Arjuna, the friend of Sri Krishna. Arjuna thought that none equalled him in love and devotion to his Lord and friend. Sri Krishna, reading the heart of his friend, took him one day for a walk. They had not gone far when Arjuna saw a strange Brahmin eating dry grass as food, but nevertheless had a sword dangling at his side. Arjuna at once knew him to be a holy and pious devotee of Vishnu, one whose highest religious duty was to injure no being. As even grass has life, he would not eat it green but sustained his life by eating it dry and lifeless. Yet he carried a sword.
Arjuna, wondering at the incongruity, turned towards the Lord and said: "How is this? Here is a man vho has renounced all ideas of injuring any living being, down to the meanest blade of grass; yet he carries with him a sword, the symbol of death and hatred."
The Lord said, "You had better ask the man yourself".
Arjuna then went up to the Brahmin and said: "Sir, you injure no living being, and you live on dry grass. Why then do you carry this sharp sword?"
The Brahmin: "It is to punish four persons if I chance to meet them."
Arjuna: "Who are they?"
The Brahmin: The first is the wretch Narada."
Arjuna: "Why,what has he done?"
The Brahmin: "Why, look at the audacity of that fellow; he is perpetually keeping my Lord awake with his songs and music. He has no consideration whatever for the comfort of the Lord. Day and night, in and out of season, he disturbs the peace of the Lord by his prayers and praises."
Arjuna: "Who is the second person?"
The Brahmin: "The impudent Draupadi."
Arjuna: "What is her fault?"
The Brahmin: "Look at the inconsiderate audacity of the woman. She was so rash as to call my beloved Lord just at the moment He was going to dine. He had to give up His dinner and go to the Kamyaka Vana to save the Pandavas from the curse of Durvasa. And her presumption went so far that she even caused my beloved Lord to eat the impure remnant of her own food."
Arjuna: "Who is the third?"
The Brahmin: "It is the heartless Prahlada. He was so cruel that he did not hesitate for a moment to ask my Lord to enter the boiling cauldron of oil, to be trodden under the heavy feet of the elephants and to break through an adamantine pillar."
Arjuna: "Who is the fourth?"
The Brahmin: "The wretch Arjuna."
Arjuna: "Why, what fault has he committed?"
The Brahmin: "Look at his felony. He made my beloved Lord take the mean office of a charioteer of his car in the great war of Kurukshetra."
Arjuna was amazed at the depth of the poor Brahmin's devotion and love, and from that moment his pride vanished, and he gave up thinking that he was the best devotee of all. [Tas, tale 77, a little bit modernised]

Word List

Arjuna:: One of five brothers that shared the same wife (polyandry), an eminent archer in his time, and the one Krishna instructs in the Mahabharata epic poem's chapter (kanda) Bhagavad Gita, "The Song of the Lord". I think the Mahabharata is mythical at its roots. Most of it appears to be later additions. As a friend of Krishna, Arjuna got Krishna's help as a chariot-driver during the war in that hoary epic poem.
Brahmin (brahmana):: A member of one of the four Hindu castes - one of the highest caste traditionally assigned to the priesthood.
Narada:: Famous minstrel of God and a master prototype too.
Draupadi:: The wife of the five sons of Pandu - yes, of all the five of them. One once occasion she called on Krishna to save her honour so that she would not be denuded in the court of a rather lustful king. The story refers to that incident.
Prahlada:: The son of the great monster king Hiranyakasipu, Prahlada was devoted to Vishnu, and that made his father red-hot angry to the degree that he wanted to have his son killed. Then Prahlada called on Vishnu (Krishna is one of his incarnations) to save him. It happened. it is a nice fairy-tale. [Link]

Once a Donkey Spoke Up Untaught

[Numbers 22:3-33]
Lend ear to that one - it is in the Bible; it is much like a fairy tale, both in build-up, setting, chain of action (tripled, congruent events), and distancing. In this story of Bible we are informed that a donkey spoke up and taught well, outshone a prophet, even. There is no indication that the donkey had talked before, so it seems reasonable to think that it had not had many years of training first, unlike human children. It just spoke up because it was too annoyed.

The tale of the talking animal is believed to be literally true among fundamentalists. Good for them! And good for the worth of the animal too, hopefully.
The donkey knew better than the god-man Balaam that the Bible devotes much space to. But his donkey perceived things better.
Let us not underestimate animals because they don't speak the human tongue, Chinese, Hebrew, Finnish, and Icelandic, and so on. In EU they are in for severe budget increases due to many more languages to use there.

We humans tell fairy-tale stories or much similar ones to children, and next they become believers - I think it matters. We have no good substitutes to fairy tales and maxims if we want to reach the ideation levels of the mind - those archaic levels of the Child (TA term). What we have to do, is to tidy up folk canon and get to good, assorted maxims. It can be done. In fact, we at the Gold Scales site have done much in this - parts may even be published -
Let us explore the master's cherished devise better, to enhance the value of carefully arranged smart sayings. By fable-attuned means our beaver boys learn much along the soap opera wave-lengths.

And Good Cooks Do not Have to Be Men

LOUIS 15 always maintained that women could never attain to the highest excellence as cooks. Comtesse Marie du Barry thought otherwise and invited the king to a supper that had been prepared by the best female cook (cuisiniere) in France. At the end of the meal Louis said,
"Who's your cook? I must have him in the royal household."
Madame du Barry, "It is not a cuisinier, but a cuisiniere. I demand a recompense worthy both of Your Majesty and of her. I cannot accept anything less than a cordon bleu."
The king agreed, and it was in this way that the cordon bleu - the blue ribbon of the grand cross of the Order of the Holy Spirit, the highest chivalric order under the Bourbon kings - became the accolade of an outstanding cook.

A. Gates can be very good murderers

Warming up: Bwanas can be great eaters and turn fat from it

"Eat, drink and be merry." - Solomon.

Greek Epicure found something similar to be the main key for all-round success. He also saw that much subtle understanding - Solomonic wisdom, if you like - had to be used to align dominant forces and influences all around, or else the zest of living could be dispersed. Guard against that. [Lof].
It's most often more fit to be an adamant gourmet (selective, skilled eater] than a slowing-down gourmand (big eater). Great cuisine comes on top of skill in selecting basic deliveries fairly well, choose the first-rate elements, blend and stream and process it well - and the end result becomes more palatable than the mere sum of the part. "The whole is more than the sum of its parts." is the Gestalt psychology axiom. The whole world is more than the sum of its parts - think of it. it is the same with the alphabeth. Something more cogent or elevated than mere jumbling of letters sneaks into it.
Speaking of smug and great eaters, are they the very best among us, or are they secretly inferior, after all? Do we have to look into it? This is my tentative outlook ad hoc: The "cosmic" terms "Norse giant" or just "giant" can replace the Norwegian "ovetar" - it is someone who eats extremely much - and the Sanskrit "avatar(a)" - which quite naturally goes along with eunuch thinking. The greater the opponent in life's games, the more of an eunuch you are turned into yourself, and that's my stand for now. Also, the greater you are, the more you normally have to eat and drink. It can hardly be otherwise if the metabolism is steady and all right. Jesus vouches for it in this way:

King Solomon said the best a man can do, is to eat, drink and be merry. Jesus said he was the wisest man on earth.

He did not say "steal and get sour, and married". The more you do the right thing, the wiser and better, it is to be figured. Cain failed here. He did not smile for it. The grimness of his face showed he had fallen short somehow, no matter what the lips expressed. "If you had been doing the right thing, you could have been smiling," said the old one on top of a story in Genesis. Or the better capacity for such things, the better for you. Then you amount to something in the eyes of king God up there behind the clouds, by a comparison. Interestingly, Jesus said that Solomon that ruined the dynasty of Israel and lost the blessing, was the wisest. He also said "The wisest a man can do is to eat, drink and get married." Just the way they lived back home. The whole culture around there was Solomonic, if not a little better. They did not ruin themselves on top of that, you see.
So let us take heed. You may not know what to say and what to be on your guard against right now, for many big guys in commerce and business lead consumers along like rabbits fond of brands and labels. Thinking of alignment, there could be a good reason for getting fat like "Porky and Bat" - but not exactly like Hansel and Gretel in a Grimm tale. Yet, too much of a good thing is a bad thing (British). Some facets of the art of eating depend on if you are allowed to feast in freedom, or on top of a hundred misses and slaves, like a Solomon. Many folk tales go into that. Some are found in the costly Arabian Nights. They are not by Lucipher.
PICT

The bigger you get, the more you may eat, but the menu can vary. That's a good point. The big blue whale is not designed to eat whalers or mammals, for example. Whales are biggest, but normally do not hunt men at sea. Sharks are for that, but just because they are far behind in evolution - is not that so? And the idol Hare Krishna says he is the super-shark and death, more or less. This too can indicate "far behind in evolution". It is to be expected. Idol worship is backwards as well. Have no other gods, says the bible. it is a commandment, referring to "I am" (Yahweh) found inside the sort of man that's worth much esteem. [Bhagavad Gita 10:31-4].
This is to indicate that in the gigantic or animal kingdom, there are gourmands and gourmands - big guys can be different, but only according to innate design, mostly. This is to also to say they are shaped in certain ways and have to accommodate on top of that. The elephant eats hay, but not the tiger and lion. They are not shaped for something like that, obviously. They do not have a sort of big tummy that allows thriving by symbiosis with special bacteria. The cow has.
Peering into folklore's giant monsters (trolls) and giants, we can also look up what the clairvoyant Norse volve saw. Or better: we see for ourselves. The volve formed seer poetry that depicts gods and many other paranormal beings, just like Homer. They say he was blind. He described Troy well, anyhow. [Gh] All we have to do, according to salvatore Yogananda, is to open the divine eye between the eyebrows. it is a funnel, a tract, in fact, it is a tunnel of death. We have been into it. There is no reason to beat about the bush. What strange sights. it is not my task to inform you more about it.
But take a look over what the Christ-giant Yogananda claimed he saw: Among other things he caught sight of Jesus and Hare Krishna walking hand in hand on a sea of gold. This must be ominous for the devout Christian and makes all feel confused.
For to a gold-hungry fellow gold is not gold enough if it is not substantial. And the gold you merely see, is hardly as useful to you and me as the gold you have. These things matter, to go for the substantial withot fuss and ado. It surely pays in wide terms. That's in part how menfolk along the Atlantic Coast survive without freezing to death.
In Homer's epic Odyssey, giants took humans and fed on them. What is the giant-linked lesson?
Why do North Americans let Yogananda misinterpret bible material on and on? Who are served by those doings now? You tell. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me". There appears to be such a thing as infiltrative demagogy without any shame.
You have to defend yourself to get and keep good assets, including a home that's proper, fit and counts where you belong. Much good can come out of that. But if you enter a cloister and convent, maybe the over-all scheme of things is that you accommodate to be degraded. Servile humiliation is for that, and may be hailed as godly too in such circles. We have found it to serve as a bait that favours big guys on top of the pyramid. The cards are laid for it around there. Maybe you have to fight like a little pig to get a better life and not end there. It can happen. If you do, you are no worse than Hare Krishna. It seems fair to say. How this must entertain and comfort someone.
If some of this is understood figuratively, it means that big guys may be dangerous, and equipped with a thousand and one man-herding tricks. Some trick people to herd them and eat them like flies. The witching Circe in the Odyssey had her "devotees" turned into swine. Uha. It behoves a man to run bravely away from such ones. If giants herd people, as in the Odyssey, there is no small reason to run away. The clever Ulysses did it, and survived. If it had been popular in the USA, Yoganana would have told us he was a giant as well. To be frank, this is the essence.
A seemingly useless lesson from very many later folk tales: It helps to escape the evil one that chases you and attacks from behind. [See "Farmer Windie" or "Farmer Weathersky"]. If the invented giants and monsters are interpreted as homelike counterparts to bwanas and Hindu saviours of Christians, see how much fits. it is much interesting to compare folklore elements.
It must be interesting to relate this tactful, child-fashionable outlook to many odd constructs that can serve bwana-bosses from Farawayland and maim ourselves over and over again. They would like us to think trolls and other sorts of bwanas may be descended from some godhead, the inner giant up there. If so, they can be thought of tentatively as childhood giants of a kind. A psychological aspect here is the huge size of the parents in the eyes of the new-born. They are childhoods foremost giants. let us hope they find out how to be likeable childhood giants as well, and not harried.
Giants may play on delicate needs inside the giant-starved baby. This is a metaphor, and links up with Dr. Erik Homburger Erikson's developmental phases and tasks. it is much Freudian in outline, initially.
In the USA it happens an alien comes croaking: "I'm your divine father, your true friend. One of the Draugs who stood over Jesus in Betlehem. Get angelic help for nothing. Who wants to buy new lamps for old ones?" Maybe master Yogananda went into such Aladdin-wizard ways, but fit evidence that he and Old Fogeye belonged to the wise men of the East, is hardly overwhelming, and perhaps never forthcoming. In one sermon Yogananda said he was there during the birth of Jesus. What happened was that wise men endangered his life, by blurting out too much in the wrong place to the wrong guy, who was a tyrant. It cannot be called full well.
If our deep needs in infancy and childhood were never fully satisfied by sound upbringing, we may tend to compensate and develop neurotic maneuvres, including defences taht are not much rational. One thing we may end up inside, is a cloister that makes us imagine we are in a home that can fulfill our instinctive needs or hungers - and that our reserve Dads and Moms in the sky will at last help us and be our friend. It may never happen. this is a Freudian outlook in gross outline. I find it very useful.
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And, just as interesting, by analogy we can suspect such feigned fathers and mothers and friends and spouses and lovers "eat higher food in man than flesh - it could be instinctive selfhood, and those infantlike bondings - not only the inmate's self-esteem and individual coping. The gospel warns against perishing by the hands of a certain fallen angels. That's an interesting topic that goes much into folk wisdom's augmented bible's presentation of Lucipher and wicked Satan. Could that be a far advanced giant from Faroffistan? it is hard to say. Too much depends on interpretation, as the opening first verse in the Gospel of Thomas has it.
You may not be able to substantitate that suspicion. If we cannot prove or document it, better be very discreet about it, to avoid a lawsuit or scapegoating, or disdain of educated fellows. But even if a suspicion is not found documented enough and such things, it may still come true later. Better be on the safe side, much reserved, and withdraw from offensive contacts and bad linkages.
Study the animal kingdom. Almost every free animal has to behave in similar manner: Deal with life on top of instintive suspicion. Cautious, sniffing, very, very wary. Never expecting much good from highly different cratures or invaders of territory. God so planned it in Genesis. Enough said.
It behoves an animal to flee before dangers explode in its face. And It behoves a man along the Atlantic Coast to be very careful, up to snuff. To do it better than naive, poor fellows he is prepared for at least the second worst at short notice. It generally pays in the long run, and may feel tedious and much superfluous most often. That's how we should deal with masters. Expect them to be butchers that come to steal and rob our treasures, because God of creation obviously had in mind that creatures had to be extra cautious. Also: the bigger they are, the more dangerous to come near, unless you are one of them. That's very often how it is. Behave accordingly, says the giant -
And this is the gate for those who mean business versus Hindu giants or troll bwanas from Faroffistan: it is hardly health-giving at all for a human to trust loco utterances. Maybe a thieving fraternity is behind.
Bad bwanas love big words, and often common braying is not great enough. By this you may note a fart. Be that as it may; fairly often we have dulled the sharp angles and presented the collective thieves, liars and murderers as a darkened thief (the fallen angel). For there is no reason to scare, if we mean to entertain and build good initial concepts that fit moral issues that must be debated. Moral stands need maxims and verbiage that fits it. Most moral has to be dug for in the archaic TA Child segments - that's a good suggestion after Dr. Eric Berne, MD.
In Norse folk tales - as opposed to frantic ones and some from Faroffistan - we have two main types of giants: (a) jolly giants that are born and bred that way, because it is natural. (b) those who get extremely high by use of magic or herbs. Farmer Windie (bonde Værskjegg) can fit in as a Nordic suggestion of the giant that has to be trained to get tall - even knocked into it. [Eaw].
Yogananda and Lahiri Baba were sort of knocked into secret gianthood - and its greatness. We have found reasons to doubt if lots of good will come out of being trained in famed troll ways. This may be dug out of a lot folk tales.

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Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1975.
Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) Oxford University, New York, 1996.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.

[1] Guru Yogananda was given a pool on the bluff in Encinitas by the Pacific Ocean. The swimming-pool was destroyed by landslide soon after.
[2] The hippopotamus figure depicted here and there, is scanned from a photo of a 5000 years old Egyptian sculpture. A little holy rat and "somebody" carrying the symbols in a hand or more, are also from Ancient Egypt. The images can be studied for quite a long while.

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