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Avoid an Ash, It Can Save You
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In this light there are good and savoury teachings around, and teachings that dictate too harshly - and also teachings that look like virtue parade - not lacking in surface, but perhaps lacking severely in substance. In dealing with teachings, try to detect which are serious teachings and which are flaunted ware, for example.
You and I do not have to walk about in some foreign cloaks to be counted as worthy. And we should not need old Hindu doctrine to maim the wits and donkey-bind novices till they work like little animals on a farm. Besides, man was designed to walk on two legs.
We had better not be too scared as we face intrigues, for fear is a major hindrance to clear thinking and staunch inspection and adequate judgement - these are things that Jesus advocates."
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| Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout: |
The emissaries of many-armed gods -
Look severely into Hinduism before you get hooked by its emissaries: it should be good for you
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| Watch out, and less hypocricy gets maiming |
Hindu deities tend to be portrayed with four arms, and some have several heads. Some have animal bodies or animal heads. These gods can be seen dancing and playing on many musical instruments. You may ask: What is going on in such a pantheon?
Deep-Going Giants Can Have Deep Realizations
The Kabbalah teaches that the giant (spiritual) side of man seeks to manifest. New impulses, maturing wishes and deep realizations can all speak of that. There is often a need to cultivate moderation here on earth anyhow, because the conditionings may be cramped and so on. If cultivating moderation, try not to get side-tracked from it, for side-tracking may be brought about by that also.It should be quietly subsumed that portrayed Hindu gods and goddesses with many arms, represent facets, functions and aspects of an inner side of yourself, at best. Deep inside. According to this outlook, the parts of Hindu gods and goddesses point to parts of your divinity.
Some functions and sides of the deeper you may try to manifest, while others try to recede after the successes they found. It is often that way. The parts of you that realise greatly, may be parts that are in for withdrawals unless conditions follow suit. If your ideas are appreciated, they may blossom, to say the least. And if not you have to heed both the messages inside and the receptions to strike a balance if you can. It is often that way.
- One may change place, but not change the mind (German)
Drop Pretences To Think And Act Sanely - That Could Be Best
There are other ways of looking at Hindu gods and goddesses too.BUDDHA. In earlier times, Buddhism was considered heretic among Hindus. Nowadays Buddhism seems to offer a benign and palatable form of ancient Aryan, religious experience, and accordingly man Hindus consider Gautama Buddha as one of their avatars. Facets of the "swallow and gulp" method called syncretism has been indicated through this.
JESUS. Even if Jesus lived among Jews and lived like other Jews, many Hindus have no problems with "swallowing him up" either, both he and his teachings. At least that's what many of them say, till you ask if they should follow his teachings in their everyday living and conform to his instituted ritual. At once they may get offended, even highly offended. We have seen it happen. They want him their way mostly , in a "take it or leave it" stance that may breed drivel.
A fine Hindu one of us met, was an ambassador's son, and in the West he found Jesus. The father and the rest of the family did not want to have more with him to do - becoming a Christian was considered an outrage, much worse than offensive. So much for Hindu tolerance, when it comes to basic, real life issues, not pretences.
- It matters to know that the One God worship of Jews is not accommodated to perfectly by the Hindus.
Some Hindus on Cat's Paws -
As for Hinduism on cat's paws in the West, preaching either tolerance, encompassing Hindu aims or "no religion here, just yoga lessons", it might pay to bear in mind that "jovial is as honesty acts" - something like that.When a Hindu guru says he honours Jesus, have the good sense to let him specify things, and ask what it implies. A little freakish lip-service and being a Hindu at bottom might be what is really occurring, backed up by a little endearing fraud for the sake of promiting teachings fit for a special taming that is the lot of guru worshippers. You may be fooled into guru service ion the name of Jesus and other - and thus ridiculed - unless you are very careful, guarded and keep your major assets intact - Do not sell away yourself. It could help. These things often happen, oddly enough. Insecurity may be involved.
As the second Vatican Counsil decreed in 1965, there is good stuff in Hinduism, but not only goodness and sweetness there either. So leave romanticism aside to the degree you can. It could pay in the long run. There are two large sides of Hinduism, as of many other major conformity-ensuring teachings taken together:
- EXOTERIC, OUTER. One is stalwart and anchored in conform legalism, its traditions, and patterns of social behaviour.
- ESOTERIC, INNER. The other is inward-seeking, as in most other major religions, including Judaism.
Harmful Progress Is Very Stupid Progress
In their inner aspect, the ancient teachings of Aryans that took over large parts of the Indian subcontinent long ago, are so broad-based that it seems to go against the broadness of their visionary songs in such as the Vedic hymns to let it be called Small Religion fit for man today.Modern man likes to think he is more developed and has better goals than ancient Hindus of Vedic times - but still he keeps drifting towards ruining the formerly often cosy planet - by sawing off the branch he needs to be sitting on. That is sad, not much advanced in a wider perspective, after all.
It is not good to pollute either, according to "it is a bad bird that fouls its own nest".
Here you have mankind, if you add the much harmful urbanisation that makes for much illness and unsavoury conditions as well.
Ruination by abuse; grand pollution; and city-making that grows like cancerous warts (bad urbanisation) - we have to face these problems, just as SRF's Swiss-born kriya monk Andandamoy says "of course" to in a talk, "Yoga: The Science of Religion" from 1993. The gentleman says in a vein that relates somewhat to escapism:
The counsel seems to be good, yet there are other sides of the issue. One is, who can afford to wait for the great day when enough people are okay? So balance well.It is necessary to address those troubling issues. But if you analyze deeply enough, you come to the conclusion that the root cause of the world's problems is (. . .)
When there is harmony with the divine workings of creation, problems will solve themselves. It is as simple as that (. . .)
One of the ancient scriptures of India says, in relation to this truth: "Know it now or after a thousand incarnations."
How to go within? That is [like] a lump of gold and you cover it with mud . . . it is still gold (. . .) [Link].
In Foreign Clothes
What if God himself has premeditated and decided on how he will destroy all and sundry already? If that is so, no amount of kriya faltering may help - maybe not even wearing national costumes for casual wear, for work and seeming greater and better on Sundays -What is more, in Bible sayings "all" does not have to mean "all" anyhow, no matter what it looks like. Guess it means "halfway between all and zero" for all we care.The word of the Lord that came to Zephaniah . . .during the reign of Josiah . . .: [Zephaniah 1:1].
"I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth," declares the Lord. [2].
"I will sweep away both men and animals; . . . [3].
those who turn back from following the Lord and neither seek the Lord nor inquire of him. [6].
Be silent before the Sovereign Lord. [7].
I will punish the princes and the king's sons and all those clad in foreign clothes. [8].
"On that day," declares the Lord, "a cry will go up from the Fish Gate. [10].
I will bring distress on the people and they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their entrails like filth. [17].
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord's wrath. In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth." [18]
It's fairly often like that when God promises anything in the Old Testament: Goatskin tent service around the ark was repeatedly and ritually instituted to last "for all time" was dispensed with by Solomon. The sad truth is that the great-looking "for all time" did not mean anything anyway; it was written in the Bible.
Hearts Have Their Arts
We have to be fair and live up to the Spirit of Truth, or what? Cannot be Christians without it.And we should not boast and brag like idiots either. Dramatically swollen pledges must be akin to both pretences and bragging at times. What is more, they can hurt and harm little children who has faith and who care for goodness and truth-telling. They may expect what is told repeatedly in the Bible to be true for that reason, and then they find that telling the truth in harmony with Jesus and the Holy Spirit of Truth can go against even anti-truthful gospel evicence. It is not good to let sincere faith be abducted by gloating and conform falsity like that. Jesis had better be against it, for he said, "I am the Truth" and so on [cf. Matthew 5:17-2 and Acts 15] -
You are told that the whole world will be destroyed, but you won't be put to shame. No, you will be destroyed along with the rest of the world - if a bible passage means anything to you. So think twice. Is this teaching merely fit for monkeys? How can it be?
There is a British saying: "You cannot eat your cake and have it too." Normally, you cannot have it both ways: cannot destroy the planet utterly, make it devoid of normal humans, and next let the people live on to praise there unless they have become ghosts or worse, mere phantoms from the Bible.
Anyway, there you have murky teachings. "God has decided, and no amount of self-help or gasping in front of God's Ragnarok helps" - or is there another way fit for Hardings? Nice dress, maybe?
- It's a good thing to be warned well in time - and handle things professionally.
- Think positively. Not every handy extract needs to be used for taming the crew - In the Bible quote we seem to find God's assent to our national costumes.
Adversity
Obedience As A Great Cause
Much adversity comes on the back of fool's obedienceHERE IS a principle that is often overlooked where they succumb to masters that often teach marring, inconsistent doctrine, or so it seems. Inconsistent endurance may foster misfortune. And solid endurance can foster misfortune if conditions do not agree with it.
Allow yourself feelings and feel into fit persons of similar interests as you have. One of them you might want to marry, another may enlarge your perspectives on this and that, and getting together with others of much the same interests in itself helps to break ice.
One of those you love to be with, might go for uninhibited or unrepressed examinations. If that is the case, you should go for edible fruits of that. For edible fruits (consequences that help life), may unlock feelings and help your future. Nothing less it at stake. And if this tentative outlook is counteracted by gross belief in Santa Claus or master fathers that stealthily fills the stockings of others for a few thanks in return now and then, you might as well prepare for future adversity.
Mending one's shoes well is like that. Mending one's shoes well with the purpose of using them in the future.
Mending one's predominant thought to escape from wishful thinking can help and prepare one for a more significant future - perhaps one of adversity is better than no own future.
Obedient ones under experts of manipulation and indoctrination may need the counsel of experienced old-timers. Or they may need to put up enough barriers against being used and exploited by cunning thieves or fishers of men.
If parts of the future seem unknown, one facet of it is pretty certain on the farm: The animals are not on top, and have to restrict their ways of living for the sake of "organised discipline" one way or another.
To avoid the mishap of the carefully milked, used farm animals, one has to examine how farm animals really live, what the doings are. Uninhibited examinations have to be carefully organised against plots that narrow your perspectives till the farm is foremost, served at all times. What we have hinted at through metaphors, may very well be the stealthily attained, solid purposes of building master farms 'over there'
Better Be Warned
In other words: much adversity may finally be reaped by being taken in by a parading boy of inconsistencies that might well foster future misfortunes. Watch the fruits of what's been done before, so as to be warned in time.If you think it is favourable to get into a future where even the details of your sex-life may get "conducted" from masters, you must love a life of organised discipline that is other-directed, not self-initiated. There are many other falls to fear too, after being taken in.
Man was supposed to function above the animal. Good autonomy is part of it. A certain individualism too.
Good Clothes
There are many national costumes in the world. The better ones are fit even for stout females. Everybody looks nice in them. Think of that - or kilt - how interesting men seem to appear by that heritage. We won't talk down on saris either, as they may camouflage a lot.In the long run savoury, practical and wide enough national or regional wear and costumes are hardly as ruining as internationally fabricated or factory-made plain clothes of too bad quality in many ways. We speak of practical clothing, all of a sudden. Chairman Mao and the other Communist leaders did supply a fairly all right standard suit for most men and women and more than one circumstance, and lots of money can be saved for much better use if everyone did something like that. Calculations around it could make a family man grumble in bitterness, in fact. We just mention it, and refrain from speaking up against horrible mountains of "powder and paint" for vain men and women here, and the stupendous drain from the family economy it brings.
National costume or not, if God has decided and sworn to kill all, there is nothing the master and yogi can do about it but to change God's mind. Moses did quite often. He even declined becoming the new ancestor one time - straight into God's face he said something like, 'Well, no thanks, I thought you were better than that - try to remember former promises -" and so on.
Yes, even international and casual-looking dongery wear after Levis and others may be good outfit for some. There may be nothing better to do or wear. It depends on how informal we need to be, and our circumstances.
As for the first topic in this important survey, we have to assent, as the kriya minister does, that today it is as if man is warred against going on by his predominant global striving and its efforts. Our future is largely subjected to this sour, halfway hidden and global warfare. Unsavoury greed is the harsh problem behind much here.
Make Hay If You Are Up To It
If you see no solution, you should make hay anyway. Now, some learn to focus on inner diving in these times, and some add likeable terms like 'self-realization' to that. "God" is used as well.What you should plan as a Christian is good dress and fit gear, including outfit. Then let unsavoury Bible confusion back into a drawer to rest well. For the real Christian can be instructed both from outside and from inside - that's the fit blend of promises from the mouth of Jesus and part of his teachings. An episode illustrates it. You may dispense with filthy, unfit stuff, no matter where you find it.
*The courtier was an eunuch. No good tiger rises as high (in pitch) as that.An angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Go to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza."
He started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian courtier that was sitting in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah, that poor man*. The Spirit told Philip, "Go to that chariot and stay near it."
Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading this passage of Isaiah:
"He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth."
"Do you understand what you are reading?" Philip asked.
The other asked Philip, "Tell me, who's the prophet talking about?"
Then Philip took off and told him the news about Jesus. They came to some water and the Ethiopian said, "Look, here is water. Why should not I be baptized?"
Both Philip and he went down into the water and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away. He appeared elsewhere, though. The other went on his way rejoicing. [All retold from Acts 8:26-39]
Philip was instructed from inside as to what to do, and it was not written in the Bible. All
true followers are promised the same guidance, and also on a day-to-day basis, it must be
stated.
They say Ethiopia became a Christian territory in Africa from that incident onwards.
Do you think it is fit?
NOTE: Thoughts found in this essay may be rooted in an introduction of a recent book by the
Rumanian-born American J. Donald Walters, mentioned as Kriyananda. The book appears to be
called The Hindu Way of Awakening: Its Revelation, Its Symbols (An Essential View of
Religion). It's published by Crystal Clarity Publishers in California.
You may like to examine more, and perhaps compare this rather terse essay with his
much more long-winded and quite extroverted introduction and make sure that there is a
difference of siding involved somehow. Well, we should neither be dreaming nor severely
judgmental. [Link]
- And good guys help one another.
Rod
"Spare the rod and spoil the child": Does it pay to back up excellent traits or terrible hoaxes?Yogananda confesses to do something to right and wrong in higher ecstasy:
"Ocean of blood" is a figurative expression here - let us hope that. And further note that our selected keys and their linking can be looked on as extremely biased - but hardly invalid. That could be the scary part of it, as the master idol overtly signals:"Gone . . . Love, . . . life.
Future . . . no more for me
Good, bad, salvation . . . I swallowed, transmuted all
Into a vast ocean of blood" [cf. Ha 145-46]
"No more love-life for me. No more real love for me, no matter what they say. As for his future, it merely seems to be lost: the one, eternal now takes care of past and future, ideally.
There you have a bit of it. Strange Tidings. And at times it pays to make things very, very plain and maintain: "This is what they say."
It may come as a surprise to some. So what? But the guru swallowing an ocean of blood looks blood-thirsty! Could the wrong sort of guruism - the faking one - be the mask of a deep and vengeant pagan blood-thirst more than of Wanderlust? Now, for the rest of us, much depends on the blends of qualities we look on. For example, "modest but fearless" or to be "fearless only modestly somehow", makes a differences for both of the qualities "modesty" and "fearlessness". Is not that true to tell? So not all depends on the circumstances and bourbon ingested. Many favours may turn bitter due to lack of forethought.
Brain-laming alcohol makes you sick
Many of the so-called "Indian" virtues that are talked of in a citation right below, have an counterpart in brain-laming alcohol? And because of that, they may not be so masterly after all, some of them. You have to be judicious on your own. And what we may call fine traits should hardly serve or fit in a lot to be used, gauged or outright caught for bad canon and some fisher dynasty's steered control. It means: Put your talents and other assets to good use: do it for yourself and your kin first and foremost: "Let charity begin at home" is a proverb akin to this tought, and the Catholic Church holds the same idea, as a good principle.
In Hindu literature there is much talk of gunas. They are intellectual entities, or
imaninary stuff, if you like. They are categories, you see. In some Indian orthodox
philosophies and Krishna-related organised religion, they talk much of gunas. However,
they are not part of the physical universe - they are categories that are ascribed onto
phenomena by persons and in literature.
A very biased cult member equals the traits of sattva (a guna, i.e. one of three
insubstantial qualities) with the qualities of God inside. It seems to be a blunder. And it
is clearly against higher teachings of Vedic literature: It says it is hardly common
knowledge, but all the same much known, that what is the task, is to rise beyond all outward
and described qualites and beyond the expressions of all three gunas, and that is equal to
rising into a state where it is fit to ask: "Why do you call me good? None is good except
God alone". (Saying by Jesus)
Hence, it is good to be alerted. There is much in Indian philosophy and religion
that goes amiss. Very many parts speak against other parts. That is in the tradition. Do not
let gurus or proselytes misuse the desire for goodness and liberty - whatever - by goading.
Do not let anybody misuse your good sides. Some think they are that free and also above
repercussions most of the time - or so they decree if they do not cry out in pain. Free and
freak could be secretly linked somehow.
We had better not get overly impressed by the brilliance that is later discarded for
what is called higher and better teachings. It's normally wise to get much and carefully
aligned to the best and fit teachings right from the start, so as to avoid perverted
ministry (croaking) too.
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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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