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Erring is not cheating (German proverb)Paramahansa Yogananda on Women
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Yogananda on Women (Partial)
Dealing with Women
Some women catch a cold and some go for gold. The bound, beautiful woman should
fight the drinking habit and insensitive indignation with female gold-diggers.
The bound, beautiful woman
should fight the drinking habit
WOMAN - BOUND: "Women . . . bound by hereditary habit and custom, still attend church
without any conscious reason . . . for no apparent reason. But do not misunderstand me, - I
am not condemning church-goers". [Yogananda, "Christian Science and Yoga Healing".
East-West May, 1932, vol. 4-7A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN CAN BE A FRIEND: "Sometimes a beautiful woman may fall in love with an ugly man, or a handsome man with a physically unattractive woman . . . A fat, distorted body may harbour a real friend. Therefore, to be sure that your eyes have not deceived you . . . ascertain whether you are mentally and spiritually congenial. Delve deeper into a person's mind and guard yourself against being prejudiced by little peculiarities." [Yogananda, in The Art of Gaining Friends - Including: Why Love Your Enemies?" Excerpted from Inner Culture, March, 1936
LIQUOR - "Women. Fight the liquor habit. You can never really like it . . ." [Yogananda, in "Never Fed, Ever Satisfied". East-West, October 1927 - November 1927
FLOATING: "Struggles of . . . women . . . are floating in the ether causing floods in America, storms in England and Portugal, and earth-quakes in India." - Yogananda, in "Nations Beware" (Humorous excerpts). Inner Culture March, 1937 VOL.9-5 ¤
He said: "In the present Spanish Civil War, the death struggles of thousands of men, women and children are floating in the ether causing floods in America, storms in England and Portugal, and earth-quakes in India." See? :)
SUGGESTING MEDICINE? "Medicine has its uses . . .why deny facts?" - [Yogananda].
Some women catch a cold and some try
to catch some gold
WOMEN AMIDST CLAY COULD BE CATCHING COLD: "We find some Western ladies wearing shoes with
fifty dollars' worth of jewel-studded heels-and most of the Eastern women going wholly
without shoes amidst clay and rain and may be catching cold." [Yogananda in "Your Most
Important Engagement". East-West 2 and 3 - January - April 1927
BEWARE OF A BLACKMAILING WOMAN: "Many people will remember the case in London a few years
ago of ". . . Hari Singh of Kashmir, who was blackmailed by a woman and her accomplices. . .
. The woman and her accomplices extracted seven hundred thousand dollars from the Prince. .
. . The Prince told of this unfortunate experience to one of the English judges. The judge
felt a righteous indignation." [Yogananda, in "Spiritualizing the Newspapers",
East-West, March - April 1928 ¤
The dogma-fed, church-going women
sometimes does good, but hardly enough to remarry her
TO FILL A BIG CHURCH WITH WOMEN DOES SOME GOOD: "To create a big church in a town and fill
it with creed-led and dogma-fed men and women does some good." [Yogananda, in "Yogavatar
Shyama Lahiri Mahasaya's Ladder of Self-Realization, for Salvation for All". Inner
Culture, March 1937CAN BE FREED - "Women should remember that their worldly life can be freed from endless physical and mental ills." [Yogananda, in "The Second Coming of Christ". East-West, May, 1932 VOL. 4-7
HAPPY THROUGH A WIFE? RATHER IMPOSSIBLE: "[A John] thought: "If I get a wife, I
shall be happy" . . . then married a nagging, tongue-lashing woman. He divorced this wife,
and . . . married again, but the second wife was worse than the first . . . In this way
people try, but they never reach their goal." - Yogananda, "Creating Happiness".
East-West August, 1933 Vol. 5-10.
Summary
- The still beautiful woman that is bound to home life or service, should fight the drinking habit and other bad habits to her ability. It stands to reason.
- While some women stop in life and just catch colds, it would be better to go for pure gold. Have lovely items in your home, woman. Gold, silver, precious stones for such as display and adornments, and think lovely thoughts about.
- A very dogma-fed, church-enslaved women sometimes does good, but hardly enough for a sane man to remarry her if his first marriage was hell.
Beautiful woman in your home, think lovely thoughts day and night, instead of just
wishing to remarry.
Willing, but -
Jerome D. Engel, the famous Baptist preacher, was once on vacation at a well-known
shore resort.One of the local churches had expected to have its pulpit filled on Sunday morning by a certain visiting minister, but on the last minute it was found that the visitor could not appear, and the church then had no one to conduct services.
The leaders of the church scurried around distractedly in search of a preacher, and were unable to find anyone. At last one of the church members chanced to hear that Engel was in town, sought him out and begged for his services. He consented graciously. Delighted and relieved, the committeeman said,
"You know, Dr. Engel, we'd have been willing to accept a poorer preacher, but it was impossible to find one."
The tact of letting offending "baboons" lose face
Bramble service for some in need of tactful suggestions
THERE IS NOT one point in this mirth-evoking essay, not hundreds, but several
thousands. You see, there are many facets and faces of knowledge.Our best collections of essays help against deep cognitive molestations.
Get well or do it well as soon as you can. Such a significant element in fair communication seems terribly lacking.
Follow-up on a hilltop
Hint on how to reply an insulting e-mail writer from Nastyland: You must be a mere baboon.Indignant
SOME OFFICER had disobeyed or failed to comprehend an order."I believe I will sit down," said Secretary Stanton, "and give that man a piece of my mind."
"Do so," said Lincoln, "write him now while you have it on your mind. Make it sharp. Cut him all up."
Stanton did not need a second invitation. It was a bone crusher that he read to the President.
"That's right," said Lincoln. "Why, that's a good one."
"Whom can I send it by?" mused Stanton.
"Send it." replied Lincoln. "Why, do not send it at all. Tear it up. You have freed your mind on the subject, and that is all that is necessary. Tear it up. You never want to send such letters; I never do."
Keep your body healthy and see what you can do
- and then there is St. Paul: "What has happened to all your joy? . . . Have I now become
your enemy by telling you the truth? . . . It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is
good." [Galatians 4:15,16,18]
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A sane mind in a sane body - plots against your wellbeing affect mind and body through psychosomatic channels and others. In order to have a clean mind, it is OK to assert oneself full well [cf. Olk] That hardly goes amiss. It pays to put a stop to more twisted, arrogant correspondence. That was hopefully what you were after.
He (she) who loves education and instruction, let him look carefully into this buffet and select this and that which seems particularly well suited to the task - at his own risk and social expences.
If that's not fair enough, perhaps it is far better in unrecognised ways to insist too little than too much - yet a middle way is even better. It shows concern for a wide world to turn down arrogant blockheads hunting for scalps on Internet.
And here is much of the basic philosophy inside much of the serves below.
Be as bland as you can. Meticulous, grand-looking, very well studied, in a nutshell. Adamantly polite manners could help a long way, unless the other side is silly or preoccupied with foul play and debasing customs. If so, cool curtness could be a way out. A touch of sound psychoanalytic schooling may arrest the offenders if you refrain from divulging more than just a morsel or three. And then there is St. Paul. I suggest you give Internet offenders Paul all the time. You can probably not give too little or too much . . .
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| Very non-considerate outputs from so-called farm animals (indoctrinated people) speak of lack of congruence. Then something needs to be done. |
Do not write like a frog out of his
well
It should help to go about very artistic, accurate, fair and elegant. Try to
get the best education at hand in advance - then you won't get hurt so easily by
mere baboons, is the bet. Also try to enhance your merits in order to be productive. Be
solid for that.Fairness and meticulous tact in deals often stagger love to look at.
What you write and the knowledge you muster, let it be just and not fictitious. To be blessed with mature thinking along with sound, decent and relevant knowledge can be much good
Cogency and coherence helps some. We further think that the best sort of essays help wise and good people to help themselves. An amount of self-help works against cognitive molestations.
Desinfect hater outputs the sooner the better.
It's good to go for an education.
Having an argument is not extraordinarily helpful.
Get effective. And why not try to lift yourself up by your hair, like Baron Munchaussen in a mire?
A tactless element or more can
counted on in your case. It seems accurate to insist on that the sooner the better
All normal citizens cannot be rude and roguish. We would also have preferred snoring
to seeing a hag selling out her breasts. Gee-up. Plaguing unmet others is not our idea of
behaving full well. There is a risk you are not a good associate - so we prefer to remain
silent.See that what's interesting to a Kindergarden guy and a little lamb is not all there is that's interesting. Get a sound education if you can, and behave well.
There is much that could be cultivated in someone like you, but have you considered what is good for the society as you should do?
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Be reconciled to God. [2 Corinthians 5:20]. Open wide your hearts also. [2 Corinthians 6:13]. |
There is not one point in this mirth-evoking essay, not hundreds, but many thousands. And there are many faces of knowledge. ¤
The baboon is not renowned for elegant wit, eloquence and fairness. Why hop along without tact? We have maculated your mail, of course . . .
The blockhead may think she's
adequate like a negative creeper
Bah. From what you write: Bah.The racoon appears to hate whining cackling and may not look back.
We should try to be fair, polite and write blandly. The art of giving constructive criticism is a boon.
Do not be a creeper that we bother to respond to by the Norwegian: Huf. (It means ugh.)
Self-convolutism may fall.
The black crow won't get white, no matter how she washes herself. (Proverb)
¤There are many defence mechanism against seeing fairly. Plots inside can block fairness from the depths inside yourself.
"Hush, you little idiot, you poor, twisted mind - You do better to listen. A jerk seldom goes for good explanations either. Getting anything from someone as vain and foolish as yourself, may or may not work well.
This is our counsel: Tidy up as soon as you can. Try to influence well. ¤¤
Rounding off
You may critizise or reflect on an error, but refrain from commenting on the will
and inner core facets of the (unmet) other, the personality included, if you can. Instead,
being substantial can be wise, if it is not to your lot.If offenders maraud on you, it is much of a boon to give them hard lessons at once and do not swerve from your staunch, solid and well-founded cause, instead of getting ridiculed by the reciprocal network set up by wilful, self-gratifying or whims.
So wouldn't it wonderful to be able to have fun on top of offenders that intrude on you through Internet? First of all, get away with it all right, and as assuredly as you can. It does matter to many to keep and fortify their strongholds and stay intact. Love to keep solid and well contained, and much else could be unnecessary. But you never know; perhaps a TA-looking "Game" is: "The Most Offending Wins".
Of the other party offends and talks down on you, riducule as much as you can get away with without embarrassments to yourself. Also, think well ahead.
There are many ways of answering. One "bah" in the first (and last) reply may be all that is needed - along with thrashing the continuing mail unread, perhaps. Many "net clowns" have crawled and crept back, if not leaped.
Newcomers may need sound, solid piloting to remain intact in the face of rude rubbish suddenly appearing as e-mail if netikette is impossible. We have lent a helping hand. Know how to tire out rude offenders to get free time to do something constructive. A fit standard repertoire could be good at hand and work well.
Now, have you tried just to repeat neat things three of four times in reply? Maybe it helps, maybe not. But to be very cultivated and allied with books may give much help, and it is advocated.
- Nuts often address you unexpectedly and unwantedly, and some of them just to mar. Know how to defend yourself full well to have your inner shoreline (mind) clear. There may be none else to do it for you.
In a Nutshell
Jo of the North Sea said, "You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog — he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect —he's bound to a single season. You can't discuss the Way with a cramped scholar — he's shackled by his doctrines. Now you have come out beyond your banks and borders and have seen the great sea so you realize your own pettiness. From now on it will be possible to talk to you . . . " [The Chuang Tzu, ch. 17, i.e., Co ch. 17]
- It is not becoming to write like a frog outside his well, out of his waters. Coherence and cogency help in arguments.
- To behave well, consider fairness above technicalities. Further know that a tactless element or more can be counted on in some on the Internet.
- The black crow won't get white, but a poor, twisted mind had better tidy up to one's ability.
- Adjust to, "There are many ways of answering. And to be constructive and helpful to rude offenders may eventually wear you out." Do what you can.
Cogency is becoming most often, especially if fairness rides on it. And tidying up
to one's ability (getting in order) on top of that again, and don't get wearied out. Thus,
do what you can. All those feats are good.
Mild controversy
The British religious leader John Wesley (1703-91) had been maintaining with great
earnestness the doctrine that the voice of the people is the voice of God against his
sister. To put an end to the controversy, he rounded it off by,"I tell you, sister, the voice of the people is the voice of God."
"Yes," replied his sister mildly, "it cried: "Crucify him! Crucify him!""
Misty Yogananda lore
Did you know that Yogananda talked strongly for things that are quite like the ones below?:Handiness can be helped by getting presented various good and decent all-round traits in general.
A thorough, constructive exchange of practical ideas is often helped by various truth-offerings of others.
It should help to encourage many others to live a practical, fulfilling life.
Persevere in your own practice to know the supreme joy of absolute pinpointing and realisation (hamsa).
[Q.v. East West, Vol. 1, No. 1, November-December, 1925.]
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Adjoined
Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1975.Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.
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