Get Somewhat Oriented, also of Human Rights

If we want to remain sound, we ought to be be free to leave the sect if not duly informed beforehand about what it has in store for us. Leaving is a Human Right. However, once sworn in as a member of Self-Realization Fellowship, they may still not tell you something weird their SRF guru Yogananda decreed:

There is only one guru uniquely the devotee's own. But if you turn away from the emissary of God, He silently asks: 'What is wrong with you . . .?' . . . He who cannot learn through the wisdom and love of his God-ordained guru will not find God in this life. Several incarnations at least must pass before he will have another such opportunity." - Paramahansa Yogananda, SRF magazine, spring 1974, p 6. From a talk at the SRF Headquarters, 8/17/39

Oath-bound followers may not like to read that Yogananda said he influenced Hitler to "make war, not love," attacking the Soviet Union. (Kriyananda 2011:131; 2004, No 189).

Tens of millions of soldiers and civilians were sacrificed, and many cattle. For causing death of a cow, Manu Samhita says the penalty is severe:

An iniquity (once) committed, never fails to produce fruit to him who wrought it. (4. 173).

He who has committed a minor offence by slaying a cow (or bull) shall drink during (the first) month (a decoction of) barley-grains; having shaved all his hair, and covering himself with the hide (of the slain cow), he must live in a cow-house.

During the two (following) months he shall eat a small (quantity of food) without any factitious salt at every fourth meal-time, and shall bathe in the urine of cows, keeping his organs under control.

During the day he shall follow the cows and, standing upright, inhale the dust (raised by their hoofs); at night, after serving and worshipping them, he shall remain in the (posture, called) virasana.

Controlling himself and free from anger, he must stand when they stand, follow them when they walk, and seat himself when they lie down. (109-12)

Let him not say (a word), if a cow eats (anything) in his own or another's house or field or on the threshing-floor, or if a calf drinks (milk).

The slayer of a cow who serves cows in this manner, removes after three months the guilt which he incurred by killing a cow.

But after he has fully performed the penance, he must give to (Brahmanas) learned in the Veda ten cows and a bull, (or) if he does not possess (so much property) he must offer to them all he has. (11. 113-17)

That is what Manu Samhita says. If Yogananda had caused some million cows to be killed unnecessarity during the attacts on the Soviet Union - attacks he claims to have given rise to by Black Yogic Arts, he may go like this for up to a million years. It could add up. (See 4. 173).

Try not to waste valuable time by waiting for someone who is clothed in a cow-hide, lives in a cow-house among cows, bathing in their urine, and goes along in this way for up to a million years.

The Bhagavad Gita's teaching is to keep going (meditating, that is), and if you should happen to die before you get Self-realised, there is to be hope ahead. (Bhagavad Gita 2:40). We can think positively and do good otherwise too. Bhagavad Gita teachings from Swami Sivananda's translation, abridged:

The doer of good is not destroyed, neither here nor hereafter (6:40).
He who fell from Yoga is reborn in the house of the pure and wealthy (6:41).
Or he is born in a family of even the wise yogis (6:42). There he comes in touch with the knowledge acquired in his former body and strives more than before for perfection (6:43).
The yogi who strives with assiduity, purified of sins and perfected gradually through many births, reaches the highest goal (6:45).
Be a yogi (6:46)!

Then what about the glorious, gilded devotee-presentations of Yogananda, a guru who resorted to Lousy Arts and said he influenced Hitler to aggravate World War II, according to some books about it? (Kriyananda 2011:131; 2004, No 189). Yogananda escaped being convicted and executed as a war criminal, or witch-hunted in the United States afterwards.

But he told devotees how he had influenced the mind of Hitler. Yogananda had some interests - necromancy - that the Bible speaks all condemningly of [More]. (Also see Williamson 2010:71)

Someone with a claimed co-responsibility with Adolf Hitler for millions of victims of the cruelties of a World War may not be a pleasure to be tied to in the beyond or other places. That is more or less as old karma teachings tell.

Moving on from severe indoctrination, here are some general approaches: (1) To move on and try to sort out things from then on. (2) To try to understand things before taking further action. (3) To move while you try to sort out things - maybe in a great hurry -

Get properly oriented so as not to commit in a hurry to your harm. Note that among fair folks it is fit to present a case as it really is. A clown may find another presentation than that to be of more service to himself and the circus, and be loved -