Self-Realization Mini-Lexicon

Alf

A likeness of Alf from the tv sitcom

Alf can be considered a short form (a diminutive) of Alfred, which means 'elf counsel'. According to this, Alf is the Old English ælf, "elf". In serial comics and a tv sitcom, Alf (acronym for Alien Life Form) is an alien: In our context, compare with Paramahansa Yogananda (qv). He teaches the world is unreal, illusory (not unlike a sitcom).

There is no material universe; its warp and woof is . . . illusion. [Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, ch. 30.

This dictum eventually means Yogananda is not unlike a very alien life form - but unreal too. Ponder his words. However, where is that teaching? The answer is: In the world he says is unreal - like he himself would be, too, if his teachings were real - which they cannot be in an illusory universe - and so on.
      Today's unschooled followers of that ardent guru seem to look on him like a sort of elf, appearing to some, heard of by others, and so on. Against his over-riding teachings - that the world is unreal - some guru followers think he lived and have taken shelter in his fatamorgana teachings - they necessarily have to be that.

Ananda Church of Self-Realization

Ananda is a spin-off from ideals and teachings of Yogananda (qv). Some of these ideals the monastic-led Self-Realization Fellowship (qv) may have abandoned or toned down for some time. A former vice-president of Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) succeeded in establishing Ananda.
      Ananda propagates a home study course in yoga and meditation. SRF dragged them to court and kept at it for about a dozen years in matters pertaining to publishing rights. Ananda won most of the issues. Books from Ananda and of Ananda are on-line, for example The Path, which is the autobiography of its founder, and A Place Called Ananda.

Atlantic Ocean

Deep Mind or Essence (God) can also become felt as the inside ocean. In that case the (figurative) Atlantic Ocean is a Mind Facet of a sort.
      In many ancient and more recent Hindu scriptures, divine states of mind are compared to an ocean. Ramakrishna:

I determined to put an end to [my life]. I jumped up like a madman and seized [a sword] when suddenly . . . [t]he buildings with their different parts, the temple and everything else vanished from my sight, leaving no trace whatever, and in their stead I saw a limitless, infinite, effulgent Ocean of Bliss. As far as the eye could see, the shining billows were madly rushing at me from all sides with a terrific noise, to swallow me up. I was panting for breath. I was caught in the rush and collapsed". [Goa 19-20]

[Ramakrishna:] "Suppose a man has seen the ocean, and somebody asks him, "Well, what is the ocean like?" The first man opens his mouth as wide as he can and says: "What a sight! What tremendous waves and sounds!" The description of Brahman in the sacred books is like that. It is said in the Vedas that Brahman is of the nature of Bliss; It is Satchidananda [Being-Consciousness-Joy (Bliss)]". [Goa 153]

"Never believe the bed of the ocean bare of pearls
If in the first few dives you fail." - Ramakrishna, singing, referring to contemplation [Goa 179-81].

"Mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty". - Ramakrishna singing [Goa 215].

Avatar

Mystical teacher. See also giant, Mumble Goose-egg, and Norse ovetar, that tall or cosmic being, if not freak. In the old book Srimad Bhagavatam one ancient avatar (descended godhood is quite accurate) was a boar - that sort of mythological animal who saved the world from drowning in water. The boar is one of the many incarnations or avatars of Vishnu (qv) in Vishnu-Hinduism (Vaishnavism). [Cf. Sh; Clh]

Babaji

Mystical teacher of Sanatan Dharma, also called the Eternal Religion and Hinduism by some. The Babaji material at this place has been placed here and here.

Some that are no good for you, try to set you off and make you different from others - it pays to beware and be careful.

Baker

What is the difference between the first, golden baker and the first potter? The reply may be "I don't know any." Moreover, in ancient Egypt the Creator-God is presented both as a baker and potter - in different contexts - if it matters! And in these essays "golden" most often stands for "handy", one way or other. The figurative method of circumlocution that Jesus always loved, allows us to use "baker" instead of "Yhwh" - all right. It is a golden tradition.
      The baker makes white bread and doughnuts, to name a few of them. Breads and doughnuts can mingle. By this still more breads, cakes and cookies may appear. Some get dwarfed, others may look ugly, but they all look like food. Some goodies may not be to the liking of all. Seeing is believing. If you need more biblical alibi than the figurative ways of Jesus, feel invited to draw on a passage in Jeremiah to compare by this:

"Go down to the baker's house, and there I will give you my message."
      So I went down to the baker's house, and I saw him working at the dough near the oven. But the doughnut he was shaping from the dough happened to get marred through his hands; so he formed it into another goody, shaping it as seemed best to him. Then the word of the good baker inside came to me:
      "Can't I do better than this baker? Ahem, like French breads mating large and extra large doughnuts in the hand of the eminent baker, so are you in my hands. Can you believe it?" - Cf. Jeremiah 18;1-6.

I hope you like the likening. The cosmic avatar is hardly the baker we look into here. They tie in in different ways, it seems fair to say.

Beaver

The kingly beaver is a darkened symbol of base lust, animal pampering, hankering, vivacity, or zest (not just Freudian id, libido) of man. By way of symbolist thinking we prefer to let such as "the beaver" suggest much basic life of man [MORE]. And not everything inside is part of nature. The giant goes beyond that. But that is another matter.

Bramble Farm, Guru Farm, the QUAG Enterprise

'Farm' means enterprise in these concoctions. 'Bramble' carries some connotations too. Brambles - few berries are as tasty - but they have thorns. Brambles spread "fervently", so be very careful among them, wear some protection, for example. You have to know what you are doing to reap possible benefit: ripe, delicious berries for jam and further.
      There are real bramble farms on this planet, in the United States too. Pluck berries when they are ripe and go on.

Bramble Garden, Guru Garden

"The Farm's garden operates inside the Farm, that is, the wider territory - that is the idea. In this context the Garden is the non-secular church part of the world-wide movement that brings interesting things of Hinduism (and some others) in the name of Jesus.

Jesus: "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you. - Matthew 28;18-19

They don't baptize in a mire, do they? A key is found.

Bramble Bushes

"Bushes are found in the garden of the big cattle farm" - that is the idea. The "bushes" refer to a monastic order deep within the fellowship. It is "natural" that something deep has deep problems when it does have problems - deep goes along with deep, high with high, and so on. Therefore shallow people may escape with having just fairly shallow problems, or am I wrong?
       The farm figure (above) shows the general design of Bramble Farm, also called QUAG for the fun of it:

1. OUTERMOST LAYER: The Bramble Farm can stand up as a worldwide enterprise with members and institutions in over fifty countries.
2. MIDDLING PART: Inside the Farm is its Garden. That is where you find closer affiliated members, the initiated ones, adhering to programs of expert strivings in stages to work themselves though - for example.
3. DEEP INSIDE: Inside Bramble Garden are "Bramble Bushes" - the monastic division - one that may hold particular views on healing and the value of this and that, maybe not totally in conformity with the fronted signals for the public or beginners or fished, new recruits. It stands to reason to figure that inside the garden is the most sheltered part. Armed guards with German Shephards may be met with around them -

Now, what else marks the Self-Realization Fellowship (headquartered in Los Angeles)? They publish works the way they hope their founder would have liked them (editing may be hard in some cases). They publish mishmash lessons in the art of living, and do have some good counsels in them also. You are supposed to stick to the good items like a wise ant - that is in the teachings. It is called eclecticism.

International Pot Plant Centre

The International headquarters of SRF, alias QUAG, (qv) is situated atop a little hill in Los Angeles. From nature it has excellent conditions for growing pot plants of various sorts. Pot plants are not let out in the wild - into the world. That is a hint. And apart from their esthetic values, pot plants may or may not produce good fruits (Jesus term). The understanding of what are fruits and what are vegetables is quite poor among people. For example, bananas are berries; have half a berry a day - you can drink it too.

Bramble Farm Lessons, Guru Farm Lessons

THE FARM LESSONS tend to serve the Farm and what purports to serve the farm - including half-regulated dealings with "members" and others. Yet, a farm animal may not be considered to be worth much in itself - overriding concerns by its takers (owners) may be its marketing value and hugging it may be abandoned for the sake of business as time goes by. We should beware of that.
      Farm cattle and other farm animals are given hay and "hodgepodge" of varying quality. There are pigs and hogs and cattle that are given highly nourishing food, which is rich in proteins and so on. Still, there can be a danger that mishmash and hodgepodge camouflages too old ingredients, or not first-class ones. Indeed!
      Now, the Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons are made in much the same way as good and decent animal food: Mishmash and hodgepodge based on a lot of Yogananda lectures and sermons are taken to in order to "feed sentiments" of members and students - in California first and foremost, and then the rest of the United States - and next world-wide. However, you are not given information about when Yogananda said this and that, and in what settings. And since his teachings "slid" from earlier years to later years into being more church-adapted, some dissonance in the guru's teachings may be found.
      The SRF Lessons may not suffice for the locally well adapted life-style.

Draug

The draug in folklore is the foreboding sign of imminent death at sea. The draug is a spectre in a half-boat, appearing right before someone's death, or presaging death in wider ways and contexts.
      To be true to the words of Jesus that died the alarming death of a "sentenced criminal" in his time, we have to raise an eyebrow or two if we are confronted by guru claims of being Christs. Jesus forewarned against them, and said we should have nothing to do with them. They were false leaders and so on, he insisted. Thus, the rather odd-looking or interesting figurative "draug" may be used - in a biblical sense - for "false Christ".
      It is difficult to talk about this subject. But Jesus of the gospel found it fit to warn a long time ahead of this era. Like wolves in front of innocent lambs, the "draugs" have to be shunned more than listened to, as Jesus says they're clever at leading astray. Jesus explicitely warns against those that lead into perdition.

"False Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect - if that were possible. See, I've told you ahead of time.
      So if anyone tells you, "There he is, out in the desert," do not go out; or, "Here he is, in the inner rooms," don't believe it." - Matthew 24;24-26.

This warning has to be important, and hailed, venerated teachings of gurus may be bullshit under the surface. We found that to be the case most often. A little is good enough, though. Jesus indicates there is only one Christ, and that is himself. The other Christs around are false, then, according to God. This point is overlooked by sham Christs. They'd better stop trying to suck veneration from the Europe-built-in reverence inside terms like "God", "Christ" and further. It is only fair. The point of standing on one's own legs is overlooked by gurus far and wide. To revel in status-bringing, religious terms from other settings, and next change or twist their central meanings, is hardly becoming a good man.
      We've found that the somewhat educated Yogananda flourished by maddening cross-bred terms. He was more or less dictated by his Hindu bosses to say there is a basic unity between Vedanta and the Christianity of Jesus - and it halts. The premises are different, among other things. He strove to fulfil a quite impossible task: to point out a harmony that only exists in a fantasy world -
      Let no one overlook the warnings of Yahweh against idols and foreign gods from the Ten Commandments, or the warnings of Jesus Christ himself against hungry wolves and false Christs and having more than Jesus as the master and teacher. It is in the bible. Isn't it fair to point it out?

Elysium

Elysium is a place or condition of ideal bliss and happiness, frequently serves as another word for paradise, or the Elysean Fields. They are the abode of the blessed after death in Greek mythology. Elysium is also called the Elysian plain. It was originally the paradise to where heroes that the gods conferred immortality on, were sent.
      It was probably retained from Minoan religion.
      In Homer's writings the Elysian Plain was a land of perfect happiness at the end of the earth, on the banks of the Oceanus River, where people are vexed by neither snow nor storm, heat nor cold, the air being always tempered by the zephyr wafted from the ocean. It is no part of the lower world.
      In Hesiod (W. and D. 166) the same description is given of the Islands of the Blessed under the rule of Cronus, which yield three harvests yearly. (01. ii. 61, Frag. 95).
      Name history: Elysium comes from Latin Elysium, from Greek Elysion, short for Elysion pedion, Elysian fields, the ancient Greek heaven. The name of the famous avenue in Paris, the Champs-Élysées, means "Elysian Fields."

Giant

My giant goes with me wherever I go. [Emerson, in Self-Reliance]

In some of our essays 'giant' stands for a more or less inward "thing" - the felt expanse had in contemplation, and going further. It can also stand for "spirit" and "spiritual", as opposed to conformised religious.
      Our term "giant" is often used as a substitute for the Sanskrit "avatar". We don't say one is better than the other.
      There are good reasons to look into the concept "giant" from a lot angles, so as to arrive at some balanced, helping usage, if fit. Granted that "giant" has a history and cosy embellishments, what is the possible core of the concept? To understand it better, one has to go into myth, not only folklore, and refrain from getting furious. The latter won't help a thinking man much. That is most often how it is.

1. A LOOK INTO MYTHOLOGY: We have to assemble some titbits and leave other fragments aside. And that is that. Others may focus differently. Let that be their entertainment, if so. Yet it pays to remain humble. The Greeks found that the opposite of it, hybris (also: hubris), was a cardinal offence. What heroic anti-humbleness can be larger, more looming or historically greater than wanting to become the all-god, Pan himself? If you don't know, you don't know.
      In classical Greek ethical and religious thought, hybris is an overweening presumption that suggests impious disregard of the limits governing human action in an orderly universe, where metron ("middling fares") helps balance. Yes, classical hubris is a presumption of being godlike and attempting to overstep one's human limitations. Hybris is a main offence that the great and gifted are most susceptible to - so they say - but who say it? The Greeks did, and that is part of much European culture with its over-riding notions and traditions.
      And then Jesus came and told angry Jews: (a) you (images of God) are gods. He also said for followers: (b) all is possible for the one who has faith; (c) take care of your talents - things like that. To feign (to be bad or little worth) is therefore a very bad thing and hypocricy can easily find an entry through it - can find attunement to it at its rear.
      And the next you know is that Jesus openly condemns hypocrites. So when you are a god inside, doing your best each day to enter heaven as Jesus said, that is what you are, and let no Greeks stop you from that. Heaven is a good place.
      True humility is attuned to being yourself. Be still and know you are Yhwh is fit. Still - and that is most important - at times hybris is flaunted and arrogant. In the Greek tragedies the hero's hubris is more subtle, and sometimes he appears wholly blameless.
      What is more, The Greek view of hybris is linked to another concept, which is an Indo-European notion of justice: It holds that each being has a fate (moira) assigned to him and marked clearly by boundaries that should never be crossed. Man's energy and courage should accordingly be spent not in exceeding the proper limits of his human condition but in bearing it with style, pride, and dignity, gaining as much fame as he can within the boundaries of his moira.
      If he is induced by folly itself (it can be based on secret mischief) to commit an excess (hybris) concerning his moira, he'll be punished by the divine vengeance personified as Nemesis. That is also part of the tradition, manifested in such as Greek epics.

2. TITBITS OF FOLKLORE: There are many giants in folklore. There is reason to think that Jack in the fairy tale "Jack and the beanstalk" entered some interor realm by truly astonishing climbing somehow. Up there - in the thin air, so to speak - he encountered some giants and discovered they were linked to himself through his father, at least in some versions of that tale. What is more, he acquired basic wealth from the "climbs and encounters" too. Maybe it didn't end too well.
      Even Ulysses encountered a giant of a sort, a Cyclope. In Greek mythology, Cyclopes were giants with one round eye, placed in the middle of their foreheads. That is just the area to focus on to see THE GIANT'S EYE (or spiritual light's funnel) better, for there it is to be seen and delved into, if you dare. Yes, gurus teach such a cyclope-attuned lesson still.
      Cyclopes are sons of Heaven (Uranus) and Earth (Gaia) and belong to the entities we love to call giants - or shall we say Titans?
      In Homer's Odyssey, the Cyclopes are ferocious, man-eating entities. That is, they feed on men! Odysseus was able to puncture the eye of one of them and escape like Jack in the classic folk tale. Cyclopes may also be told of as helping the god of fire. They helped Zeus. They were finally said to have build the great walls of ancient citadels, such as Mycene and Tiryns.
      What do you make out of it? Giants may be man-eating, and they assist the highest god of Greeks, Zeus, by forging fire weapons. I suggest you read that as a metaphor and try to remain tentative for most part.

3. THE PRACTICAL CONCERNS AT HAND: Now, leaving folklore titbits and Greek notions well aside, we aim at derivates to flourish by, not flounder by. For our purpose a giant is also maleness inside - it can be all of the avatar you dream of. - In the Sanskrit master-piece Srimad Bhagavatam one ancient avatar (descended godhood is quite accurate) was a boar -
      Finally, we have speculated up that in step with the oldest European notions, some giants are good - they help us build and rule. Others must be truly scaring (bad) and a bit depends on what side you're on. Jolly giants are felt to be good, aren't they? It suggests:
      Happy people have funds of goodness in their hearts - something like that.

Dandelion

The dandelion - such a glory in a field.

Dandelion is a suggestive hint - Dandelion "wine" can be made, and one end of yoga is to get intoxicated in a metaphoric way.
      Put to use the method if you penetrate the metaphors and arrive at sound, rewarding methods that assist you. Don't forget to be pragmatic enough to count.

Fables

In some fables animals talk and show how base humans are. The stody of a talking and angel-seeing donkey in Numbers 22 of the Old Testament is not taken to be fable, but it has folk tale similarities, such as repetitions of the carrying activity, and also some fable features. We just point to ancient similarities.
      Greek fables and other fables from ancient Egypt and northern Africa have influenced Western culture considerably.
      Fables from India (Panchatantra) and elsewhere (See Aesop) can give budding forewarnings or prepare for plots etc. There are many sorts of fables. The fairy tale collection Panchatantra is a rich source of how to handle delicate management stuff. [Pan]
      Incorporated in proverbs and other parts of folklore are standardised templets. On top of them a fox is clever; a master wolf is hungry and seeking pray; the lion can be bossy, often gruesome and terrorising; and children learn to expect certain deeds by memory-aided suggestions over and over.
      What we can arrive at on top of suggestive evidence, is corresponding, suggestive recounting that fits in in very many cultural contexts - and that can be good more often than not.
      Special tacks can give good mastery help to children, and we have a child inside, the Child that Dr. Eric Berne considers part of man's personality. "Become like little children . . ." [Hom; Gyl]
      Delicious fables may suggest or indicate in quite typified and tactful ways, and minors today are able to benefit from them. [FABLES OF AESOP]

Glide inside

In some contexts It is the same as delve and dive, ie, meditate deeply, varliusly called..

Guru

Jesus insisted that no follower of his deal should call himself teacher. The Indian term 'guru' is often translated into 'teacher', but it means further things as well, and 'teacher' is not even its central meaning. Accordingly, what about the term 'jagadguru'? Is it from Swedish jagad, hunted, driven out, and guru, teacher? Few think so. Instead the common understanding of the term is 'world-guru', from Sanskrit jagad, world, and guru.
      Now, there are no prohibitions in the Bible against terming oneself such as 'world avatar', 'jagadguru' (guru of the universe), and 'guru' (saving expert or less). But 'teacher' is forbidden - Alas for the Sunday school teachers and the rest of them -

Nor are you to be called "teacher," for you have one Teacher, the Christ. - Matthew 23;10

So-called frogs among men can get much smitten by words, prohibitions and unclear concepts - not to mention harshly verbosity-misguided.

Metaphors

The Gita's emboldening, suggestive half-typifications like "tiger among men" (Arjuna) is akin to Aesop's good and skilled animal portrayal: The fox is clever; the wolf is hungry and seeking prey, no matter what, most often; the lion can be bossy, often gruesome and terrorising; the donkey can be a jerk; and children learn to expect certain deeds by memory-aided, typified suggestions over and over. Not all of them fit the real animals, though.
      To speak to minors on top of reasonable conclusions by metaphors, is quite an art. Dr. Rudolf Steiner was very much for it in his Waldorf education. It is a world-wide movement. What stands out is that carefully timed and properly fostered alluding figures can give much help to later, cognitive growth. That is one of the basic principles of Steiner schools.
      Maybe fit and staunch figuratively expressions help us to consider things quite free from fear of authority figures.

Having many names and appellatives

Misty and loose-looking circumscriptions can work better for minors, for there is a need to lessen fear in schooling and rearing, in part as shown by fables. It helps to portray and ground stuff. A suggestive way of "appealing names" (appellatives) is found in the extremes in classical Hindu literature. What we have is a classical way of delineating for easy recall. And Native Americans had much identical ways of naming or additional-naming by use of significant portent. [Si; Ma; Dm; Sivn]
      Hare Krishna has many other names in Indian literature, experts like Professor Tuxen informs us. [See Wyp] There are many names that are used to describe feats or features of Krishna. In the Siva Purana [Si] there are over a thousand names of Shiva, and in the ancient Markandeya Purana [Ma] the Divine Mother is given a thousand different names. That part has been taken out and published as a separate book as well. [Dm]

2. Basic harmony with solid fair play comes first, not attachment to base or cramped servility.

In India a bird is cherished as a token and totem of highest status. It is a swan, a goose, a duck, writes Pargiter in a note. The apostle Paul's "In the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue." [1 Corinthians 14;19] could be implemented by heavy use of metaphors, but then there is a need for common typifications of the figurative elements. Even less suggestive expressions could assist good and solid "forewarning learning" of the sorts that lots of fables, proverbs and parables tend to bring.
      "Jesus . . . he did not say anything to them without using a parable."" - Matthew 13;34-5. There is rich imagery in maiming words by Jesus, - "wolves in sheep's clothing", "offspring of vipers", "sons of the Devil" and so on - these expressions are figurative. Rich imagery can be useful, but not really so unless it is decoded well. In the same vein "A picture says more than a thousand words." (American advertising slogan) [Cf. Ap]. Many lessons arrived at through fables, are still in common use as proverbs. [Cf. Dp]
      Figurative ways can be utterly economic. Looking to animals and finally arriving at being human is a theme Yogananda rallied for too. [LINK]

Insignia

An insignia is a distinguishing mark or sign. In India various animals have token value, and "swan" (hansa) and "greatest swan", have old roots and firm values inside Hindu classifications, Gods and goddesses have a tendency to mingle and confuse, the all-Hindu pantheon is not easy to understand. Nor are the vehicles and insignia and other tokens of respect, might or prowess.They include birds, animals and on.
      There are many bird and animal tokens. [MORE]. Much depends on the orientations of the makers of representational figures.
      The alarming Midtgardsormen in Norse mythology is a serpent that is coiled around the world of mankind. In the old Aryan symbol of similar things, a swan swims at the centre, where the sun is also seen, the "Atlantic Ocean", and a lotus flower. Many divergent meanings can be associated with these tokens, but the elements form part of an emblem of the Ramakrishna school of thinking. The image is symbolic.

3. A brave and good look at figurative terms presupposes tall functions of mind first

What we can arrive at on top of suggestive evidence, is corresponding, suggestive recounting. Some taming elements of schooling may set in from definitions of words over and over, learning a vocabulary.

Harding

HARDING is Norwegian and stands for (1) tough guy in general; (2) someone from the coastal district Hardanger near Bergen. (3) It can be both. These are poetic terms. They can give tactful help. Harding Kriya is the way to catch the lost salmon. Yet there should be no reason to dispense with a good school of trout">trout; holy mackerel or any other good and eatable fish "up there" along the way - what do you say? And is it merely insistence that lies at the back of that?

Hornet's Nest of Troubles

Yogananda was once asked why he was averse to organisational work.

Master's question startled me a bit. It is true that my private conviction at the time was that organisations were "hornets' nests."
      "It is a thankless task, sir," I answered. "[and] criticised." . . .
      My guru's retort was accompanied by a stern glance. "Could you or anyone else achieve God-contact through yoga if a line of generous-hearted masters had not been willing to convey their knowledge . . .?" [From Autobiography of a Yogi, chapter 27]

So a 'hornet's nest' could mean any organisation, for example the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) that he founded; one third of its monastics left somewhere around the year 2002.

Hulder

A bewitching female that is not solid and good enough to have and ride in the long run, after all. Alluring siren of Nordic folklore. Greek sirens have snake legs, but not the Scandinavian ones. The Finnish hulder is slim like a needle. The Norwegian one is hollow, and with a cow's tail. The back isn't there at all. This suggests she's not substantial enough inside for farm life and its menial work over and over, and that marriages with her often end. However, the "art" of hulders includes to hide the tail from suitors and being sly. She can get more wealth than others.
      So much for the Norwegian one. The Danish "elverpige" is also a sort of elf maid, young and seductive like the Norwegian counterpart. Her back is hollow, too. She's fond of dancing in graceful ways over the meadows, in fairy ways. She could be more like a regular fairy than the Norwegian hulder that is more bodily or stout in general due to the impressions we have got - but there is room for difference of opinion here. [Cf. Dao 157-9]

Joiner

A joiner, a kriya yogi (qv) is someone who practices kriya yoga (qv). Also: kriyaban.

Joinery (humorous)

The same as Kriya yoga: a system of yoga methods centred on very specific pranayama techniques for control of the breath (atem, prana) mind and body in time. The system of kriya yoga helps inward-turning by calming the organism, although the system has been found to be a demanding yoga. And that is why it is said to work best for young, healthy, and yoga-fit persons that accommodate to the much severe, intensive training. The training may be rigorous and the falls deep.
      A series of kriya-related, online articles starts here: [LINK].

Jumper

In some Hindu scriptures, divine states of mind are found to be necessary. Ramakrishna:

"I determined to put an end to [my life]. I jumped up like a madman . . ." [Goa 153]

In other places Ramakrishna tells the conduct of SOME people who experience a giant awakening, is like that of jumping monkeys.

"Once a sadhu of Hrishikesh came here. He said to me: 'There are five kinds of samadhi [union]. I find you have experienced them all. In [one of] these samadhis one feels the movement of the spiritual current to be like that of . . . a monkey.'" [Goa 400]

And a "jumpie" tries to live a good life.

Karttikeya

Karttikeya, also known as Murugan, Skanda, and Subrahmana, is talked of as a son of Shiva, and has a peacock for his vehicle (expressive agent, more or less) - His vehicle is a cockerel, some sources hold. Through lancelike combat Skanda could well be called the emancipator who embodies deep discrimination and spiritual insight, yet a god who guides religion, and a merciful man-woman and fountain of sperm, patron deity of homosexuals ..."

Krishna

Baby Krishna, endearing to most people?

The same as Hare Krishna. Krishna tales have incorporated elements in myths of Indra. Krishna is someone that children maylove to hear of.
      There are indications that many sayings in the Bhagavad Gita and later canonical book are the results of a growth within Vaishnavism, which is a dominant part of Hinduism. [SUMMARY]
      The word 'Krishna' originally meant dark brown, dark blue or black. See a note on the first page of Vishnu Puranam or the Institutes of Vishnu in one of the oldest English translations. Krishna tends to be portrayed as blue. It carries symbolic meanings to Hindus.
      'Hare', the first part of Hare (Hari) Krishna is an ancient god of Aryans. That god (Hare) once saved the world from drowning in the sea, by taking shape as a boar, diving deep and getting it up by use of his tusks. It is an old myth, but it does not match the geographical whereabouts of the planet we are on. Claims of many suggestive, old myths may not match the world we sense so very much.[cf. Clh].

Kriya relative

Kriya yoga is a system of yoga methods centred on very specific pranayama techniques for control of the breath (atem, prana), mind, and body in time. The number, content, and arrangement of kriya methods differs between kriya-dispensing organizations. There have also been little-known changes of the kriyas taught in SRF (Self-Realization Fellowship). Kriya yoga can be demanding, the training severe if it is intensive. The system of kriya yoga helps inward-turning by calming the organism, although the system can be rather demanding. And that is why it is said to work best for young, healthy, and yoga-fit persons that accommodate to the hard, intensive training.
      Said in other words: So-called Harding Kriya is the way to catch the salmon.
      A series of kriya-related, online articles start here: [LINK].

Lahiri Mahasaya

Material on Shyama Lahiri has been moved. LINK. A series that goes into what his teachings suggest, starts here: LINK

Love Peacock, Thomas

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was a Romantic satirist, eager to instruct, one who devised poetry as a help to remember better - a good device specially fit for children. These may be very good attainments:

To ... improve all that is good, and destroy or alleviate all that is evil, in physical and moral nature - have been the hope and aim of the greatest teachers and ornaments of our species. [T.L. Peacock]

You are welcome to laugh if it so please you. [T.L. Peacock]

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. [T.L. Peacock]

Besides, there is wisdom in his "We may be disappointed in our everyday realities, and ... we may make an ideality of the unattainable." [Cf. T.L. Peacock]

M5

M5 - what is that? It is a verse form among many other things. As such It is quite a novelty, and one that can be fairy well aligned to men from Gotham - that silly-looking tradition handed over in Europe or further.
      The M5 surveys border on stories about the good men from Gotham; they get ever more intriguing the more you look into them, is today's bet. You have to get adamant to get intriguing. Mysticism and great wit is intriguing. Bluff may be intriguing also.
      If you inspect "the Gotham study" very carefully, you may get food for thought, but it will hardly kill you ... It is not that much specified. Rather, significant parts of an M5 study brings us over and over to the edge of non-stultifying high witticism. Gotham-humour may thus contain delicate tact inside itself. It hardly insists much, no matter how it looks like from the onset - It is to be hoped. A carefully blurred M5 survey - if made with skill and tact - makes the carefully planned subject matter look intriguing, and thereby paves the way for guessing things into it, or getting back to it over and over. For such and many other reasons - some are not taken up here - the M5 helps cosy tale-telling with few, no or odd-looking solutions. The marring or intriguing scheme makes us ponder if there isn't more to this and that. Such free-wheeling wondering is hardly the sign of a mental frog: it must have all things pre-set.
      The M5-shaped text hardly specifies just how to get properly to grips with main points taken up. The M5 format shouldn't press points to make us sulks either. On the other hand it can bring us a long way towards how men from Gotham like to rise and shine- It is not far from artist gives at times:
      The M5 can bring on some neat riddles to ponder. Quite like Zen koans it might bring great problems for understanding - to those who are not given the properly fashioned fairy tale ascent behind it - i.e. the surmised tick tack toe ascent. The bet is you can't guess or figure the tick tack toe fare (or routine) on top of my M5s. Tall minds may not be satisfied with that, may want to learn how to cut hard edges - may consult me accordingly. That try is free. - Yours T.B.

Mackerel and such sausages

Fish sausages are made in some countries. See John 14:12 and what God wanted for all the children that are to be guided well. Jesus also took up the concept "father" and so it became holy. He also dispensed with YHWH (Yahweh, with vowels added), to call God Eli, a Philistine name of God according to Old Testament scholars.
      Jesus found figurative speech truly helpful. He often took to it to instruct. [See Matthew 13]. So perhaps the figurative keynote Mackerel will find its use one day. "Mack" can be a "hot dog" in Swedish; "er" is "is"; and "el" is exactly what Jesus called God on the cross. Now we have an assortement of building-blocks from several languages, and room for many meanings.
      "The hot dog can be lifted through figurative speech to be considered as another facet of God, just like olive candlesticks." Confer the Bible understanding in Revelation that God is everywhere, even in candlesticks of olive wood, and that God is all in all. What more is there to say?
      Some people are afraid of fresh new metaphors. Think of the apostle in Acts, how reluctant they were to look on Gentiles as frogs and lizards ready to be served them (See Acts 10 and 11). Some significant letters contain lines towards that conclusion. But when Jesus is meat, as during Holy Communion, "the "fish hot dog is God" can take on great, symbolic and essential meaning, as Jesus was treated worse than a dog by Hebrew authorities that had Romans execute him.
      As for plain mackerel, it is a fish. And "the fish" happens to be about the oldest, artistically inspired Christian symbol for Jesus Christ. It stems from the words on the cros, Inri, which means something like "Jesus Christ, King of Jews". As an acronym it was taken to be fish. In the Roman catacombs the fish was the Christian symbol, also.
      When the New Testament was translated for Eskimoes, the well-known "my sheep know me" was changed into "my seals know me" for the lack of sheep in the Inuit culture. The Eskimos needed something to relate to. And present-day childen of the consumer market can easily understand that "The fish hot dog has been prepared for the act of eating (Holy Communion) In a squeeze it should not break or burst."
      If the child loves fish hot dogs it heeds the Holy Communion as the Great Feast (party) where the hot dog is free. However, fresh metaphors may seldom be called good while brand new, only later on - and maybe not even then. [See Trap]

Mantra

Some sound combinations (syllables or sets of syllables) are called mantras, or words of power used for many and devious ends, but also to the end of waking up to inside phenomena by "riding" or "gliding" on the mantra(s) used. The sounds are to be repeated mentally, and carefully guarded and cultivated. Compare. Meditation articles.

Martian

Very many hard sayings and decrees come close to those of hating guys of unearthly customs - quite Martian-like, if you like a pregnant metaphor. Sinister Martian customs are hardly ours.

Makara

In many English translations of Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God, Hare Krishna appears to say he is the shark among other things, such as gambler fraud and death. [See Chapter 10:31-36] But the saying in 10:31 is, really: "I'm Makar(a)." This makarah or makara is a fable monster, half dolphin, half crocodile, Professor Paul Tuxen explains in his Danish translation. [Cf. Wyp]
      Up north we don't know how happy you may be over that piece of information. The able chef makes delicious soup of well chosen parts of the shark anyway, he seldoms worships and hails sharks over and above that level. [Cf. Bh; Wyp; Wy; Abg]

Master

The globe needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. [Cf. William Mather Lewis]

Both experience and reasoning may be needed to benefit from symbolic terms. And appropriate training helps too. In time, good training may see to that the experiences get better. Then, eventually, some get a document that says they are "masters" of their trade or profession. "Master" fairly often suggests a profession, like butchery, a trade, or vocation, for example teacher. Find it in headmaster. Becoming a master consists in becoming full-fledged in what you are doing. "Master" is much like German Meister
      In ancient and not so ancient China we find the term zi with a lot alternate spellings, the most frequent can be tzu and tse, and all are translated into "Master". Thus Master Lao or Laozi, Laotse, Lao Tzu. They tell of one and the same teacher. [Cf. Uom "Han Fei part, p. 1]

"Master Bear"

Not all bears hibernate. But white, brown and black bears in harsh climate can do things like that. Apparently they come close to some yogic feats; having a cave to reside in and slowing down metabolism.
      The best thing should be to master those bearlike feats without too much ado. Some monks dwell in underground caves, or cells, and real bear caves too - "diving inside the own mind to see what that leads to".
      The proverb-rooted statement "There are yogis and there are yogis" indicates there are differences among them.
      The bigger the bears get, the less they may consider your human rights. Therefore they might belong to the unrecognised best according to Tao Te Ching Chap 17.
      There may be below 10,000 sloth bears (bhalus) still living in the wild. They don't hibernate, and their number may be waning. They prefer the uninhibited forest life as good diggers and tree climbers. They shake fruit trees and love termite and ant colonies too. When they eat, you may hear them from afar. But that is another tale, as Rudyard Kipling used to say.

Mentor

Here: the same as guru (qv) and at times 'master'. Another word is 'teacher'.

Ovetar, great eater

Ovetar is Norwegian. Fee free to add "cosmic" if you like - The stress is on the first syllable, as in "triple-serve". The term is evidently linked to both "overly" and "eater": Ov means "overly" and etar eater. It is somebody that eats terribly much. This is the exact meaning.

Tune in to the wisdom built into a fairytale.

      The Nordic folk tale hero Rumble-Mumble Goosegg is the fair prototype of such a horrible eater. He eats more than a horse, grows huge, and then shames Old Nick as well as most others, save the baker or potter - and baker might be your preferred term for God himself. It is not far from the Biblical 'potter', as a matter of fact. See Jeremiah 18;1-6.
      If we lift ovetar rather metaphorically and in consonance with some basic meaning, we arrive at the counterpart to the Sanskrit word avatar, with the roots ava, "down", and tri, "to pass". One substitute term is "divine incarnation", but there can be many others. "Descended godhead" is typical. [See Ak 468]
      Note how similar ovetar and avatar seem to be. There can be more than a superficial likeness also. The Hindu concept avatar is in congruence with "the bigger they are, the more they eat - let's hope they won't eat us."
      To be a great eater, an ovetar, one could need a big mouth or the gear of big blue whales - maybe not. Here is a verse fragment to think of:

Of the best rulers the people don't know they exist
Only the next best they run to and flock to - love and praise. - Dao De Jing from chapter 17. Tall rendition. [Cf. Wic 39]

He who knows, doesn't speak.
He who speaks, doesn't know. - From chapter 56. [Wic 59]

Let's listen to a translation expert: It doesn't matter if the term we take to, looks somewhat ridiculous or right to gurus that stand up to tell how big their gurus are: Study the root or basic meaning of Christ, through messiah. It means just "oil-anointed". Some olive oil was poured over the head of the king-to-be. That is all.
      If you pour food (and maya can be food for thought) over the head of someone, there is a chance the sacred tone is missing - it has to be built up by consensus, is the guess. If not, all parties involved may not understand the figurative implications of the consecrated appointment.
      See also (cosmic) giant and avatar if you like. These things are interlinked, at least here.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in 1893, the emissary of Hinduism came to the United States in 1920 and remained till his death in 1952, except for travels to Alaska and especially India (1935-36) in between. He taught in many places that the world is unreal, illusory, a dream - and thereby debunked his gurus who sent him on his mission - and debunked his mission too, which was to spread kriya yoga. He also claimed to be allied to Jesus while dropping main teachings of the gospels - "A word to the wise will suffice . . . " See the main meanings of "paramahansa". [LINK]
      Yogananda had Yukteswar as his guru (mentor). He wrote an autobiography where he portrays aspects of his Utopia. But unlike Thomas More's Utopia, parts of Yogananda's ideal brotherhood-based community living has found expressions here and there, more or less. Yogananda had the vision that persons of like mind should band together in awareness of their Selves, and predicted there would be thousands of such self-sustaining communities devoted to high thinking and plain living.
      Pages about the guru:

• A pointed biography
• Dubious Yogananda teachings
• His Rubaiyat Commentary commented
• Yogananda was not a wife-killer in a future life . . .
• Survey page
• His Autobiography of a Yogi Online here.

Peacock

"Birds will be birds, boys will be boys."

Peacock

Did you know the peacock is India's national bird? and associated with such as Sri Krishna in Hindu iconography?
      The swan and peacock are large birds, but the pig is more - more weighty too. The peacock has impressive ways, but the pig comes much closer to a human. Birds will be birds, but a hog is much closer to normal man - and to be handy and human is taken to be better, among humans. Whistle a happy tune in honour of the not too uncommon men and women. They could count more.

Who gave the . . . peacock his iris-hues? Will not that which provided for them provide for you?
- from Gems from the East by Helena Blavatsky

The rooster is quite like an ardent peacock, and could serve as an alternative to the icy cold climber in dangerous, slippery and dark public life.

Pot Plant Centre

The International headquarters of SRF, alias QUAG, (qv) is situated atop a little hill in sunny Los Angeles. It has excellent conditions for growing pot plants of various sorts. Pot plants are not let out in the wild - into the world. That is a hint. And apart from their esthetic values, pot plants may or may not produce good fruits (Jesus term). The understanding of what are fruits and what are vegetables is quite poor among people. For example, bananas are berries.

Potter, the

The potter - same as baker. (qv) The baker is the maker of man and Gaia (the earth). Listen to a story:

(1) This is the word that came to a wailing one from God:
      "Go down to the baker's house, and there I will give you my message."
      So I went down to the baker's house, and I saw him working at the oven. But the bread he was shaping from the dough was marred in his hands; so the baker formed it into a cake, shaping it as seemed best to him. Then the word of God came to me:
      "Can I not do with you as this baker does? ... Like dough in the hand of the baker, so are you in my hand". - Cf. Jeremiah 18;1-6.

(2) The baker formed the man [adam] from the corn of the cornfield and breathed into his nostrils the yeast-breath of life, and the man became a living being. - Cf. Genesis 2;7.

(3) God to Moses, "I am who I am (or I'll be what I'll be). This is what you are to say . . .: "I am has sent me to you.""
      God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, "The Lord, the God of your fathers ... has sent me to you." This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation." - Cf. Exodus 3;14-5.
      The Hebrew for Lord sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for I am, Bible scholars write. And "I am" is "Yhwh" or Yahweh with two vowels added, to come fairly close to The Old Testament's own sounds.

(4) Jesus often calls not Yhwh, but the Canaanittic Eli, his father, however. See Matthew 5;48.
      Jesus also cried "Eli" in agony on the cross. We too [see John 14;12] may use more than just one name. Brahman is fit.

(5) God fills heaven and earth (1 Kings 8:27 and Jeremiah 23:24). So does Brahman according to very ancient Hindu understanding. The real God is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth (John 4:24), and not by inferior objects or slavish poor and awkward understanding. God, that is a much handy baker - metaphorically.

QUAG

QUAG is a cult or a sect that is found "in the mire of the world". Its founder fronted queer teachings that don't make sense, like:

There is no material universe; its warp and woof is . . . illusion. [Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, ch. 30.

Implied is also that the founder, his QUAG, and his teachings are found in the world, and hence are illusions - of poor worth, to say the least. A little duck's "Quack, quack quack" may be intrinsically finer and purer and sounder. So maybe you should learn to think "quack quack quack" to Yogananda teachings so as to save yourself from bad teachings. It is a strange thing.
      Maybe the acronym QUAG stands for Queen of Diamonds Glorified (or perhaps 'gig' if 'gig' is taken to be an arrangement for fishing only) - it hardly matters. What matters is that QUAG may turn a lot of sheep into neurotic ones or worse.
      On some pages the figurative expression Bramble Farm (qv) may still be found as well. These terms stand for much the same.

Reefing Speech

Here are a few words by Ralph W. Emerson:

"Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it may contradict everything you said today." Does this have the ring of an apology for intellectual inconstancy? Then let the "great soul" bear in mind that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."" - Prof. em. Adolphe Meyer quotes and comments on New England's thinker, Ralph Waldo Emerson in [Grt 261]

It happens Ralph Emerson alludes and uses figurative or half-figurative ways of wording, often with ancient roots from many places. Such refinery can afford man with tall, often agreeable ways of reefing. The Great Barrier Reef outside Australia serves as an example of "reefing". Or the reef around reefed islands in the Pacific Ocean. You may not see much of it, but it is there and does its bulwarking, often gracing work all the time, all the same. That is how it is in these waters.

Not only coral reefs help. In guru-loved literature God is also a boar that saved the world from drowning. [See Clh] What seems scraggy or outré may at times rise to entertain us.
     

1. The half-suggestion counts

Here is another look. We think you should go for what is solid first, before you swing yourself up into the trees of figurative ways of expression. Clever substitute names, or appellatives, as some may call them, often smuggle attitudes, and correct attitudes are often needed.
      Jesus often used metaphors. They served him. He signalled "God communicating with man".
      Teachers or Christs should be expected to work for the good of lambs. Sometimes a fit way to hint at subjective, inner or subtle experiences are by similes, metaphors, allegories and figures.
      In some Norse myths - often poetic - God Thor fights and fishes a nasty snake, the Midtgardsormen, the offspring of a hollow sort of "giant", Loke. Implied: Thor often fought against the nasty offspring of figurative hollowness for the sake of decency, proficiency and fair dealings - well, survival, eventually. Thor stands for fondness of athletics and wading deeply too, and also helping beginners to move - Tjalve is one symbol of it. [Cf. Ng].

Salmon

FIRST, an image to entertain and instruct as we progress here:
A common enough salmon dives deep enough. Here it is to be made use of as a metaphor of your interior parts according to many rich sourcebooks of mysticism, and one of radionic handling. Now, as you may imagine, the salmon we happen to refer to metaphorically, is closely akin to what Don Juan Matos - fathering Mexican guru of Dr. Carlos Castanedas - labels the eagle - one of much subtle rays - something like that. The salmon or eagle is "over your head" somehow. You can imagine your physical shape as a little dot somewhere inside the salmon's jaws - that is where dualism sets it.
      There is now room for sharpening figurative thinking: for the salmon can be "chopped up" and made use of in lovely ways, you will see - if we live long enough to lay it bare. if not, compare the overall shape of the vertically tilted salmon with the levels that Alice Bailey lays bare in A Treatise of Cosmic Fire, rendered and made use of in a good book on British radionics. [Dlm 27] Besides, you find the scheme on a new, lovable site: [Check].
      More luxury thinking:
      Here we may agree that the salmon may really represent (by vivid imagination and less) yourself inside somehow -
      At times we call the head or jaws of the salmon the OK trout - just to have some terms to juggle with. Your own deep heart is per definition that of the salmon, and maybe it helsp to consider that the salmon is your turya, that Jesus is likened to a fish, and that is not little for artists, as Christian history has amply shown.
      We hope to get back to the fish. However: You should try to perfect your spiritual nature; that is the spirit side of yourself deep inside somehow. Let likeable artists be told just that.
      The mind is like a trout near the eye of the salmon. Good thinking abounds thanks to the salmon's trout - and beneath or outside that level you're grossly conscious - there is the danger levels. You can get hooked or caught to serve God-Mother-is-me-gurus!
      Now, there happens to be room for still more in your inward-land - that is the home to think of. The German term Seele is said to expand inside into it- the godhood of Meister Eckhart, for example. Swiss Dr. Carl Gustav Jung uses Seele in this basic meaning. Thus: Diving inside is likened to salmon's diving in many cases. All these are facets of the giant:

• MIND SOUL, GOD-LORD: The literature spells out many stages to become aware of. A very good overview is made by Dr. Daniel Goleman of Harvard University. [Cf. Yy]
• HEART: The middle section is your interior heart and the seat of art and confluent thinking and these outlets.
• SPIRIT: The salmon's tail is the divine side - die Göttlichkeit of many German mystics, it is maintained for here and now.

The various levels of refinements are further spelled out by Goleman. they are very much identical with those made use of in Rae radionics, and may come close to the general parts of refined nature or mind according to such as ancient Pythagoras as well.

Self-Realization Fellowship

A California-based religious community. Looks like QUAG and Bramble Farm in some way, but not in all ways.

Sheep

Sheep in the free are shy like small children, and not very easy to get close to all at once. The ram is not all docile either - and in the Book of Revelation the lamb stands for all right wisdom. However, in conventionally figurative use a sheep is someone that resembles a sheep in meekness, stupidity, or timidity, if not better. Fairly often 'sheep' in the Bible can be understood simply as follower. In some formalised settings it may stand for 'member' too. The figurative use of 'sheep' is very old. These are New Testament uses:

"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me." [John 10:14]
      "The Father knows me and I know the Father - and I lay down my life for the sheep." [John 10:15, excerpt]
      "I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen." [John 10:16]
      "You do not believe because you are not my sheep." [John 10:26]
      "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." [John 10:27]
      Jesus to Peter: "Take care of my sheep." [John 21:16)
      Jesus to Peter, "Feed my sheep." [John 21:18]

You do not have to be a follower of Jesus to be called a sheep. In the Old Testament Jehova addressed his said, chosen people as sheep, himself as their shepherd [in some Psalms too] - you may understand where Jesus got some main pictures and ideas from in the matter.
      Looking sheepish is quite enough.

Shyama Lahiri    

In his own handwriting his name is: "Sri Shyama Charan Deva Sharman" [Ha 326n]. Some write Shyamacharan in one word; some Indian languages allow for. Usually we stick to Shyama, and prefer Shyama Charan to Shyamacharan. We also use the guru's family name, Lahiri, which is in common use too. And at times we use 'Baba' and 'Mahasay(a)', as others do. These two, Lahiri Mahasay(a) and Lahiri Baba, appear to be the most frequent ways of naming him.
      The guru had other titles and great appellatives. He was born at the village Ghurni in the district of Nadia in Bengal. His conduct and diligence when attending school was exemplary. He was married at eighteen, his bride was nine. They had two sons.
      Shyama Charan used to meditate. Educated gentlemen would have to wait for years for receiving initiation from him.
      The guru refused to be given material presents. He was not for indiscriminate propaganda for kriya-yoga. He would generally instruct his devotees not to disturb their best patterns of living, and would normally ask his disciples to marry at the proper age. It is said he shunned the public gaze. There is more on Lahiri Baba here: [LINK]

Sophomore Tact

Inside our school (of thinking) the sophomore study answers nasty fools relevantly, or so it seems. The design has three parts. They're mentioned of as A, B and C, to make it simple. What is this design for, and what can it do for you? Unless you're on your way up, more or less nothing, is the bet.
      The topic matter you look into, has to have a platform. It is normally not given in this sort of essay, though the concomitant bramble lesson could give many wide and ridiculous-looking hints around it.
      The sophomore study helps you to handle little, retrieve nothing tall.

• A. First it seems that you mind instigated inspection of a sort. Maybe you're infamous here.
• B. Next you mean to get major topics cleared up: you try to link up to major know-how in the question, while asserting your own interests. They can be many.
• C. Finally, at the last "level" as a sophomore of a sort, you learn to ridicule such as faking parrots, non-rewarding facts, and false evidence. On the surface you insists on professional handling. Maybe you even condemn the "undergraduates" - if so, you're not their friend any longer, but no taming guru or screwball either.

The marring roots are perhaps from Greek sophos wise + moros foolish - You learn you can't afford to seem sensitive. You could in the end sound like a prime minister, knowing this: slowly learning the prime minister's art of looking good and smiling fairly often, though self-contained, but hardly perfect at it. Thanks to this know-how you at times appear to be cool and skilled (even versed), and candid too. That is the general layout. There are many other sides to it. They're not given here.

Super-kissing

Super-kissing is a delving method, that is, a contemplation method. It corresponds to diving for salmon. An allegory on how to practice and possible benefits are found here: [LINK 1] [LINK 2]

Synopsis

The alias is vers-o-gram here and there. The artistic and vector-mathematics-based summary we call synopsis here, easily gives me keynotes for a lot fit poetry of half-poetry. I may summarise in some other ways, but the synopsis version is special and the finest in my opinion. It is rooted in the tick tack toe layout, the basic gridwork of which it shares. It has three basic leaps, so numbered. It is hoped that you'll take the time to ponder it, for very careful analyses are underneath most often.
      The poetry I speak of here, is usually to be judged in the bright light of the great tick tack toe study that precedes it.
      It might be good help to take a good look at the hinted-at existential, structural, phenomenological and body-aligned all-round angling attacked at its rear, if you understand the symbols given. The angling at hand is right behind a number sign, this one: #. So: #2 suggests a neck-and throat angling (aligned to Taurus) #4 a female-breast angling aligned to Cancer, and so on. We divide our body, nature's cyclic living and social life in twelve very neatly correlable parts. We juxtapose for those alignments.
      The numbers behind our #2 or #4, can be suggested levels of accomplishment to be had in advance one way or other, before you do anything peculiar in the matter.
      If you do such things as hinted at, maybe you get ample vthought-help to evolve according to the tick tack toe fairy tale route as hinted at - if you're careful and the tenor of the whole ascent route (design) fits in and suits you. However, you have to work on that route, sift and gauge and judge on your own, so that your common adaptations don't go amiss in any bad way. There are many steps to master in a climb.
      If this new sort of haiku-linked poetry doesn't suit you, neither in form nor content, use of this novelty might turn into a mare that rides you like a donkey. And why? Because It is hardly fit or good enough in your sets of circumstances or whatever. In tick tack toe poetry, which this is one form of, much is really up to you or those in power in your surroundings. It is no use denying it. Just think, compare and feel into much at hand, and be wary all along, and maybe the synopsis helps along the way. It is to be hoped, not feared.
      The name vers-o-gram is free, hard-boiled play on top of a term coined by Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of SRF. The short extracts he devised under some counterpart heading (par-a-gram), had no intrinsic structure for us to train ourselves by, and very often the gist inside them was commonplace sayings with not much inside them. Much of his sermonising seems outdated already.
      Much is mastered over and above that world avatar's best outputs. I thought you might like to know it.

Third Eye, the

Also called the Spiritual Eye and so on. Two pages on it from us: [LINK 1] [LINK 2]

Trout

The soul of your deep mind is called the trout. When you come across the word 'trout' on this site, the chances are that you have come across a figurative term then. We have evolved a "symbol park" to assist thinking. The soul is not easily seen, to hint at it, and what is more: It is a composite term. There are many nuances, and there are more than just one single view of how the soul is to be understood. So for the sake of artistic developments inside the long art of living and not succumbing to dross, let us use 'trout' to hint at it. We could have used 'flame' or 'inlet' too, but 'trout' is to the point if we stay with fish - This is a divine term. Jesus is called fish. Maybe you know that. Now, by metaphor the trout is the soul as It is called. It may be compared to an inlet from deep inside, from what is ordinarily serving as unconscious levels of deep mind. As for the great mackerel, see here.

Vishnu

Many Indians tend to think that Vishnu is the Krishna to worship, and that he is better than Superman. However, scriptural evidence from antiquity in Sanskrit, suggest that for non-Indians Hare Krishna and other Vishnu figures could be veritable draugs of a kind - also half-metaphorically understood. You're referred to essays on Vishnu in our yoga studies. Here's a starter. And here are more things to consider.

Walnut Board

It is a circumlocution of the SRF Walrus Discussion Board on the Internet. Another replacement term is the (Fat) Sea Lion. It was started by a disenchanted SRF monastic and supported by others of similar intent.

Walnut Burger

Yogananda, an excellent cook, shows how to make vegetarian dinners by meat substitutes. Recipes are found in his old East-West magazines. By replacing meat with finely ground walnuts (and other high-protein foods) new dishes arise.
      It is also good to know that Walrus burgers and other Walrus products may be a little tough since the walrus blubber is alarmingly toxic these days and the meat may not be perfectly toxic-free either. So we have substituted walnut for walrus in many Yogananda-cult-linked essays here, since walnuts are much easier to tackle and handle than gregarious walruses.

Walnut Sausages (Figurative)

There is a discussion board on-line, the SRF Walrus. The way of making sausages is to take such as fat and meat, potato and flour, and eventually press the hard-to-define result into some rinsed intestines at hand, cook them, and enjoy the eating. Incidentally, the process of making sausages and of writing doctorate theses is about the same, only that the first one is concrete and the latter is figurative. In our days it is as it should be to make a declaration of what is inside the product. But on older days they said, "The sausage is heavenly, for God only knows what is inside it."
      As for Walrus sausages made from the "blubberous" SRF Walrus board, toxic blubber may be no small danger.

Whisky Drinking (Figurative)

When you drink whisky and are inexperienced, you gasp a bit. When you do a certain pranayama method called kriya and are a beginner, you gasp a bit. With practice no one else hears that you gasp. Then you breathe or pant slowly, measuredly, and widen your throat also.
      And if this is not enough information for you, there are whole pages devoted to debating the secretive whisky-drinking that is also called kriya yoga and more. Use the site search to get on the track.

Wolf

"Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf?" An endearing song begins like that. In biblical terms, the wolf tends to denote a very false friend, an able, but regrettably false and hungry teacher, false helper - in the end of the line there may be avatar - biblically speaking. Quote:

"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognise them. Do people pick ... figs from thistles? ... a bad tree bears bad fruit." - Jesus, in Mattew 7;15-17

You may think for yourself. Parading fruits (effects) of falseness need to be debunked. As for Brits, "One good thing about them is all that they are accustomed to refrain from and keep out of." :)

Yukteswar

The Hindu master called Swami Sri Yukteswar by Paramahansa Yogananda and Swami Sriyukteshvar by another source, was born to be named Priya Nath Karar (18-1936) of Calcutta. Years after his wife died after giving him a daughter, he became a swami monk, and in 1913 he accepted the young Mukunda Lal Ghosh for training. The disciple became a swami monk too, and later got well known as Paramahansa Yogananda [qv]. The disciple tells in his autobiography [qv] that his guru's monk name is Yukteswar, not Sri Yukteswar.

Yukteswar means "united to God." Giri is a classificatory distinction of one of the ten ancient Swami branches. Sri means "holy"; it is not a name but a title of respect. [Ay Ch 12, note 3]

Another source tells Sri is part of the monastic name, and writes Sriyuktshvar, but we stick to Yogananda in this. This site has used the very common 'Sri Yukteswar' on many pages, but 'Yukteswar' is supposed to be enough.
      Yukteswar is quoted by Yogananda for terse and quite gnomic utterances. The term "gnome" stems from Greek "gnome" - It is derived from "know". And "gnomic" means "marked by aphorisms," "giving vent to much general, apparent truth" "mystical, wise sentences". Hence, 'gnomic' refers to a terse style of expressing oneself.
      One is not to get outwitted by opponents and what they build up. [See Matthew 13].
      Pages about Yukteswar:

• The Yukteswar Samhita
• From Autobiography of a Yogi