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Bhagavan Krishna - 5

Kingly, Kingly T
More Lore T
The Grand Pig's Harassing Discrimination T
Camera Man
No Grave Concession

Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout:

Kingly, kingly

You can reflect on this. Here comes one more Mama mia study, or an M5 text.

1

Own skin instead of great-looking titles

The lucky dog cried out,
"Dog as a collective organism is not the most ruthless inhabitant on earth. Man is. His figured manifestations, emanations or descents of this and that are called holy - or holy incarnations. Now, "avatar" is just a term, whereas your own skin is indispensable. Note it so well that you gear up your reverence for your own skin accordingly, to be fair in these matters we are in."
There can be other avatars than those of god Vishnu: avatars of god Shiva from Dravidian districts are many in the canonical literature with its main-seats in South Indian, more or less. Avatars of Shiva-men abound in South Indian source books, including Siva Purana. [Si, index].
Yogananda did not have an avatar title when he was alive, but the monk title "highest swan" (paramahansa) was bestowed by his guru, Sri Yukteswar in late 1935 or early 1936."
What is worth looking out for, is good standards of locally applicable living, not to make humans look up to other things than going for a good life. if can spread in widening circles. - See Deuteronomy 30:15-19.
The Indian avatar Rama is thought of as a whole, complete incarnation of Vishnu (he too). Many intriguing avatar constructs mingle and glide into one another. Yogananda is now called an "incarnation of divine love (prem) in the fellowship he set up, and which publishes books that spread these ideas. His immediate guru is called "incarnation of (divine) wisdom", that is, gyana. Shyama Lahiri that in part initiated both of them, is revered as "incarnation of yoga", yogavatar, and his guru a mahavatar (great avatar).

Christs through kriya yoga

A counterpart to the Catholic Church canonisation procedures is hardly found. No "devil's advocate" seems to have been at work, none to rally against fictitious devotional ardour that seeks vicarious grandeur, for example. Yogananda could therefore freely set forth in a magazine he edited, that Shyama Lahiri raised many Christs through yoga, and that Yogananda's father Bhagabati was one of them. Here is a Yogananda tribute:

The Guru-preceptor of Sri Yukteswarji, was better known as Lahiri Mahasaya. He was a super-man in the world, but not of the world. He was the Yogavatar of India, the incarnation of God who reclaimed that state ...by step-by-step methods of meditation, and who also showed others how, by following these methods of meditation, they could bring about a sure, scientific union (Yoga) with God . . .
. Sh[y]ama Charan Lahiri Mahasaya, by his exemplary life, created many Christs and gave the step-by-step methods of Self-Realization (the Ladder of Self-Realization) which enable all to climb to the high abode of complete freedom. Lahiri Mahasaya was a Christ in the jungle of material civilization. He could perform all the miracles of Jesus Christ.
Lahiri Mahasaya was the greatest married saint.
Yogavatar Lahiri Mahasaya created the following Christlike souls, some of them really possessing the highest Christ-consciousness:
1. My Master, Swami Sri Yukeswarji, the greatest disciple, with Christlike miraculous powers.
2. Bindya Bhakat of Benares, a Christlike soul.
3. Swami Pranabananda, who could materialize or dematerialize his body, a feat actually witnessed by myself.
4. Ram Gopal Babu of Ranbajpur, a great yogi, who meditated forty years in a cave for eighteen hours a day.
5. Bhupen Sanyal, a great teacher, who is reviving the unique spiritual interpretation of the scriptures as first taught by Lahiri Mahasaya.
6. Swami Kebalananda Shastri Mahasaya, a Yogi of rare quality.
7. Swami Keshabananda, a man of great renunciation.
8. Sri Bhagavati Charan, my earthly father, very high in morality and Self-Realization.
9. Abinash Babu, a great devotee. . . .
Lahiri Mahasaya's teaching is the Second Coming of Christ, not through a mere claim, but in actuality.
- Paramahansa Yogananda. "Yogavatar Shyama Lahiri Mahasaya's Ladder of Self-Realization, for Salvation for All". Inner Culture, March 1937.

The terms "Christs" and "Christ-consciousness" above are Yogananda's special translations of yoga terms, and never found in the four gospels. Yogananda felt free to cross-breed that way.

Divine animals? Yogananda vouches for it

In a yoga clique or guru family there can be good guys, bad guys, rotten guys and much else.
In India others are appointed as avatars other than Vishnu "emanations": There are avatars of Shiva from Dravidian districts too.
SRF magement has appointed Yogananda as a premavatar, that is, "embodied divine love (prem)". And his guru Sri Yukteswar is titled Jnanavatar, "godly wisdom incarnated", and so on. There are someones behind it when gurus are claimed to be divine and so on: Their avatar status among men tends to rest on believers, who carry the 'guru is great' too.
In Northern India, Vishnu is said to descend into bodies of both men and animals. But becoming an avatar in the Vishnu meaning of the plot, can be like becoming a boar. Becoming an animal is being greatly punished according to the Laws of Manu. You should not miss that side of the question either. But an avatar thinks differently: "I think I am great, therefore I am the avatar."

2 Simple expressions have relevance

Being quick-witted is good, and being generally able. Better than these may be satisfying your abilities, also in seemingly small details. For simple expressions of your heart carries a force and perhaps a sense of relevance too.

Avatar modesty is gone for ever when it melts like the snow [Cf. Ap 414] [M5 study]

More lore

In the body prison, being veiled and trick-and-treats are certain. A quite long book by Yogananda is the reference below: ¤Ak. Other references are to on-line "Internet sayings" by Shyama Lahiri.

1 Much disillusionment stems from forgetting deeper issues

Shyama Lahiri tells something that amounts to this: "If one attains the stabilised state with his tongue well lifted, then he attains the state of know-not-what." (L 14)
Here, dwelling in the body prison, he learns to forget that a guru limits himself by being born into one body encasement." 205.6.205.

2 The mistake of disciplining oneself into some sort of hero

"THE deluge cannot drown me," sings a slapstick whale avatar.
A parent must also be willing to discipline himself when he brings a child into the world." 55
"Whatever I say is Veda - not holy - for I am not holy. Know it for certain." (L 50, 93 mixed)
Honestly use your discrimination: one whose tongue-lifting is successful is fortunate, says Shyama Lahiri, and Yogananda dispensed with that yoga method (kechari mudra). (4)

3 Adding "the only great way" to that again

THE WISE man tells what he sees. One great way is to break fetters. Another to put on brakes. Making life simple and yet suited to the needs of growing children is hard business. (#4.1)

The grand pig's harassing discrimination

We do not look down on pigs. They are among the most intelligent creatures on this planet, according to very recent studies. Another M5 study teeming with cosy information to entertain and intrigue. You can ponder this till the end of your stay.

1 Why should great whales be saved from the water they love to swim in, and carried into an ark that probably did not house them?

This is what the ocean-loving albatross said,
"Long ago there was a flood. Back then a lot of penguins and warm-blooded animals - like big blue whales - were evidently left out by the ark-builder Noah. We do not hear of all the different species of whales in the ark. As for the millions of insect species in the Amazonas jungle, Congo and elsewhere - alas. These things seem to be ignored where the Noah tale is told."

"A horrible deluge of words cannot drown me," sang a certain whale avatar back then. We should do the same."

It must have been good luck to be a whale and dolphin during the Great Flood and on the deep upward (Maskinismus) trend.
Honestly use your discrimination to study, and learn from the mistakes of others.

Taken by deep currents

When a certain disciple went to the beach in Encinitas of Southern California for a nightly, guru-forbidden swim one night, he was taken by the great waves and nearly drowned. When he had been washed ashore and recovered, Yogananda said to him.
"We (he and Rajasi Janakananda) had a hard time praying for you."

To be successful is fortunate, and pigs love pigs.

2 "Shoemaker, stick to your art (and last) from the best examples at hand."

Maybe man should limit his outputs more: Dear, best friends are those who really master the art of criticism, insists Yogananda: "Our best friends are those that criticise us the most". I would have said, "Best friends do not trick us."
Those who make a mess, have little real or fit pride in their belly. It is fit to be proud of much in the Indian heritage.

Do not feel deeply attracted to pigs. You can thrive on top.

Camera man

An ideographic tale to chew on

The value of a good camera is seen in the snapshots fairly often.

Once on a time ... Be that as it may. In the 1800s Uffa had gathered his dogs around him. They had to sit very still and fix their eyes on only one passage of a good book for half an hour, then close their eyes. Another half hour would go, and then Uffa commented briefly and pertinently.
After that the good dogs looked into themselves in the light of the passage and the Uffa comment for one hour. Then Uffa spoke much like this:
"Do you now understand? No, not fully."
Another hour passed without any dog saying anything. Now the others were dismissed and the teacher put this question to his student Camera:
"Do you know the Song of God (Bhagavad Gita)? No, not really. But solid photo evidence is, after all, of some value too." Uffa smiled into his camera: "Hundreds have posed and responded and replied to me, but time is left for priceless snapshot pearls."
Camera made others study by the same modest, halfway artistic way. The way was to dive into one verse for two hours or more and not to say others understood it at first glance.
"Wisdom is not assimilated with the eyes," Camera "said" when he had become the head of a band of cameramen, and discouraged senseless book study, but not altogether. [See Pa 135]

Be a rich camera man - it comes pretty close to doings, and by method. (# 2.4)

What matters the most is not the amount of books on your book shelves.
Not how many of them you have read.
But how you have made their main content your own.

And there is something very similar to adjust to for photos too.

Do not get hung up in inferior, formal rules of constructing pictures, even though a little study of its basics can do you good.
Have you found their essential "statement(s)" somehow?
Have you adjusted to it?
That could make a study of paintings and photos rewarding.

No grave concession

The anti-authoritarian Calviniastic artist
finds a rather tall Jungian-looking,
even existentialist position quite near that of Dr. Eric Berne,
to be satisfactory, at times even fascinating.
Fine TA books stem from the insights of Dr. Berne.

Adjoined

Notes

[1] Good books by Dr. Eric Berne - eminent psychiatrist of North America - What do you say after you say hello? (Bantam) and "Games people play (Penguin) should not be ignored when browsing other good TA books, such as the eminent Choosing success by Dorothy Jongeward and Philip Sayer. Dr. Berne's outlook most often help, in our opinion.
[2] Kriyananda (J. Donald Walthers), originator of Ananda Church of Self-Realization and community - In the Greek epic, the Odyssey by Homer, the crew of Odyssey is turned into a herd of swine by "gambit magic" from the hands of Circe in the great work of art by Homer, the Odyssey.
[3] (a) Rumble-Mumble Goosegg (Cf. the fairy tale "Strong John") is a quite alarming hulk, maybe a halfway titanic Dane or Norwegian - whatever. He loses respect for all authorities, both the king and Old Nick. There is a cosy folk tale about him around. (b) Markandeya is the hero of the Hindu book Markandeya Purana. It is a very old book. He lives very irregularly. The book portrays him as the best, above formalised wrong and right at times. This means, in other words, that to become hung up in given ethics can signify "I am outsmarted".
[4 etc.] Why live-out-ridicule the basic command: "Adam t'sEve, multiply"? It is often far from the future farm hen's willy-nilly intent to live up to the historical task and truly honour her much too much caged parents in such a basic way.
[5] I still like Dr. Berne's "lengthened" form of psychoanalysis. Books: Pla; Bnn.
[6] Shastri, J, main ed: Siva Purana. Vols. 1-4. Banarsidass. India. ...
[7] Pla. Bnn: Moms and dads. Professional boss. Others. 2-3.
[8] "Told above": It could be by me, but you do not know, do you?
[9] See the book The ten cosmic powers. etc.
[10] Clh.
[11] Atkinson, Richard et al: Introduction to psychology, 9th ed. Harcourt, Jivanovitch and Brace. P. 467

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