 | |||
 4  4  10  |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Businessman Tact
 |
| A look into impress-me-well teachings and how stupid they could make you. |
"I know of a US businessman who died of pneumonia. Now let us read into that one." [Cf. Rajn 8, 84]And if you read the paragraphs below much like verses of very suggestive poetry to reflect on a bit, you are very, very close to how they are intended in the first place, aside from being faithful, annotated quotations. - TK
Contents
| Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout: |
No duping lore?
"All places are the same to me". - Paramahansa Yogananda [Rajn 34].
Let him go to hell, then.
The sweetest friends can have
thoughts of their own
"I might not return here — Whatever the subjects . . . end in deep meditation
— the Great Ones . . . that God". - Paramahansa Yogananda [Rajn 34, 36,
32]."You are . . . sweetest friendship. — We shall rejoice — A Westerner has stepped forth to show the world the worth . . . of yoga training." - Paramahansa Yogananda [Rajn 39, 34, 40] ¤
One's inner giant possesses an
ancient, inward-turning gate to heaven
"I see you in God". - Paramahansa Yogananda [Rajn 32]."If . . . they follow a scientific path, Kriya Yoga, that opens up the hitherto unknown route to the soul, all men will someday be able to declare: ". . . now I know myself as Spirit". - Paramahansa Yogananda [Rajn 36] ¤
Present mind and gestures do
count
One moon gives more light than countless stars." - Paramahansa Yogananda [Rajn
40] [It's not really that way in a wider perspective, for a moon only
reflects a minor portion of the light from our sun, that star. Yogananda's notion
is too subjective.]."The seeming importance of our present roles and our present tests. Rise above that temporal consciousness." - Paramahansa Yogananda [Rajn 34] [And yet Bramble Garden has often shown the businessman status of James J. Lynn ever since, has not really risen above that in the art of marketing.].
"God. No outward gestures . . . convince the Divine Great Lady that the devotee will die . . . meet Her." - Paramahansa Yogananda [Rajn 39] [But rise above that morbid consciousness -].
"The most destructive shaft of . . . delusion is unwillingness to meditate — fully Self-realised master". - Paramahansa Yogananda [Rajn 32 40] ¤ [This guru also ventures to insist "You are already enlightened -". Merely to pee blessedly on somebody could be better.].
The destructive shaft of cosmic delusion can course be "I'm the fully Self-realised master" found in the cosmos. Where else are masters to be found?*
This is unnatural: "(For weeks after his demise, Yogananda's unchanged) face shone" [Rajn 72]
Hoaxes or Better
James Jesse Lynn
"A Westerner has stepped forth to show the world the worth . . . of yoga training." - 'Yogananda', [Rajn 40]James J. Lynn (1892-1955) took over as the second president of Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) in 1952, and died of pneumonia in Borrego Springs in California a few years after that. His body lies in a mausoleum crypt in Kansas City. He has been presented by SRF as an ideal disciple for more than twenty-three years [Rajn 9].
Daya Mata, the woman disciple that was turned into the next president after him, said his "end was befitting the great yogi that he was" [Rajn 84].
What? He died of pneumonia. Let good yoga help a failing health instead. That is what good yoga is for. If we discriminate prematurely in accordance with pneumonia wailing, we could get the idea that the main object of yoga training is to make the end draw near, and that calm precaution is not the best. And that the best art is to get rid of being alive fast. That notion may be awfully wrong. So we just accept this saying from him:
"SRF is not always easy." - James Jesse Lynn, its 2nd president. He should know [Rajn 64]
The Danger Of Master Hoaxes
TERRIBLE YOGA looks like complementary punishment. Solid yoga can be solid punishment.
Yoga speaks of deprivation, and is instituted as a sacrifice of oneself - some of its
facets. At times it can be unfair. The longer you live, the more you may be flogged and
plotted against by offending masters from over your head. At times life seems unfair as
well, like much in modern society.If we discriminate prematurely in accordance with this, we could get the idea that the end draws near. Rash individuals could come up with the short-cut idea: "Yoga is how to die, the sooner the better, in this dire strait -"
Not so. Yoga can be a sort of rewarding punishment as well. If you study the great masters you will see how they get "rewards": up to millions of contributing followers, nice hotel, swimming-pool, you name it, they may afford it. These masters come out to get you. They may have become hard-hearted from years of discipline, eager to "take revenge" on everyone - or get renown, power, money. These things happen, but we can only suggest what could be at stake under the polite, polished facades that have been cultivated for ages just to grow disciples like a farmer grow cabbage.
LOOK FAIRLY into it; you will see the art of yoga is much like the art of laming disciples.
Initially, some "great ones" let their occult-captives hide away in rock caves in faraway
mountains, without sanitation and the other beneficent things of modern society. Some are
directed to remain away from the sight of men, beasts and birds in underground caves, and
that's where the age-old sister of Don Coyote is to be found, according to
Yogananda.
A mere hobo can lead a more free-wheeling life along the roads. When we think of
these odd phenomena, a pattern surfaces: Far better to be put in jail or some friendly
cloister, provided the drill, food and room mates are not too violent and inconsiderate. It
often happens. Finally after long, hard years of study and penance you can enter society to
marry. Many exported masters never come close to that.
Understood in this light, the art of masters is the art of trickery, maybe tinged
with some ancient cave man magic - insistent hocuspocus from the ranks of avatars. You do
not know how soul-laming their tricks may be. they insist you had better not know their
trade, that it is best that way.
In the light of this seemingly offhand survey, we affirm that the art of yoga is not
fair, and does not imply sudden death for most part. It can be slow degradation with lots of
lost contacts, lost opportunities when the time (period) for interactions was good for it,
you were ripe, and so on. It means lagging behind. Often propaganda is given you on top of
that. You risk getting brainwashed by cemented phrases and concoctions. In the end you
realise you are in the hands of a robber dynasty, and that naive, Christian souls may have
been perverted by avatar leaders in the name of Christ.
LEARN TO expect trickery on top of that. Learn to expect deep tricks. Maybe not every day,
but often, and particularly in crucial periods and significant moments - again and again.
They say they possess knowledge to enter the minds of innocent bystanders and make havoc
against you and others, if they so decide. They hold they are over and above normal right
and wrong for most part - it can be doubted. I think we have to adjust to the thought that
Indian masters that talk for themselves as aligned with Jesus Christ could belong to a band
of thieves.
Put more bluntly. In the master's church they go on, claiming to give original
Christianity of Jesus Christ while ignoring lots of his sayings against perfidious
following, including false, plotting Christs. Judged by such fruits, the inevitable
conclusion for any sound Christian is that Satan is their leader, and not Jesus
Christ.
let us beware of Satan that comes in the name of Christ. Let's beware of possible
thieves and soul-murderers (false Christs) that come in the name of Christ -
We adjust on top of that. We do not insist that Nagaraj (meaning king of serpents)
is Lucifer, only hint at some marks (criteria) that Jesus Christ set up for Satan, and how
they apply, more or less guessed at.
There is something better than being taken in.
A Troll Tale
HERE ARE the country teachings of a troll near Galdhopiggen:A salvaging troll once spoke up to a camping tourist that had found a lush spot in the Aurdalen valley and slowly strolled right in front of him where he sat in the middle of a hundred junipers and counted the berries on each one:
"As soon as the all too alienated, but still emotional-looking fellow is willing to go even to the ends of the earth to receive giant enlightenment through a little knock on his head, his master angel could appear near-by.
Let me tell you a story.
I sat inside our castle of ice that is not far from here, the other week. Observing a complete fast, I prayed for the recovery of your fat uncle Bitter from a rather long-lasting menace. On the seventh day I found a herb in my hand. I made a brew from the leaves, and gave it to your uncle. The menace vanished at once, and has never reappeared. That's all right.
Right after that vigil I entered the Jotunheim castle inside the rocks - a huge cave it is. In the centre is but a round stone. Its circumference, beginningful and endless, makes it aptly significant of all the giants that have crossed over into Infinity as one more cosmic abstraction to confuse dilettantes and bungle the heads of others. Such methods are not alien even to the humblest peasant that has been accused of living on abstractions.
My own mood was so stern after your uncle had disappeared, that I did not feel for bowing ritually before the stone in the centre of the cave. The heart of rocks should be sought, I reflected, only within the soul.
I left that giant cave without bowing to any rock I saw there - not a single one of them. It was partly because overly much sitting had stiffened my muscles. They should relax during sleep. But as for me, who spent seven days on end fasting and praying for your uncle, the heart, lungs, and circulatory system had to be constantly at work; they got no sound rest from sleep, alas. In electric consciousness, however, the inner organs remain in a state of suspended living, electrified by the strong current. I think the time will come when you too will be very much at work and do without sleep.
Well, sound modifications can happen: Although your aunt has asked for electric illumination from someone else than the waterfall Voringfossen, and even if here aged body is not tuned to getting into the dramatic, electric state just yet, still there can lie solid hope in death. I think that is the Christian teaching. As a small lamp cannot withstand excessive electrical voltage, so her nerves are not completely ready for the electric voltage that some equate with master ecstasy. If I gave her that state of shock right now, she would burst as if every fibre of her aged body were on fire."
The tourist recorded for all of us: Healing strength emanated from the troll as he said this. I was instantly refreshed in the field where I had camped and met him along a waterfall. He taught nothing false in my ears:
"What one does not trouble to find within one's Jotunheimen mountain range will not be discovered by transporting the body to Madagaskar. So are you able to have a little mountain cave where you hear much without hearing anything outside, and feel alone in the middle of the sound of rumbling boulders? Well, that could be your favourite cave inside your sacred mountain, the exact spot where you will be able to administer to God himself when he comes to visit you up there."
The camper recorded: His terse lessons at once banished a lifelong obsession for other mountains than those near Bergen. Suddenly the circumspect troll took shelter, saying:
"I wonder - with the little diving I have done if I have succeeded in ahh-ing All-God inside the reindeer. I have not done much here. For thirty years I lived in a secret grotto and delved inside for nineteen hours a night. Then I moved to a more remote cave a long way from Bergen, near Malay, and stayed there for fifty years, entering the hyper union for nineteen hours daily. I did not sleep and did not try to please All-God in the reindeer in particular, for I was ever unionised."
The tourist recorded: Soon after than I felt willing to walk a lot, even to the pinnacle of giant attainment, for "it's not found far away at all, said the salvaging troll into my ears," and next "good-bye".
[This interesting tourist information is "glued" together from keynotes in the chapter
called "The sleepless saint" in Autobiography of a Yogi].
Learn to beware
YOGANANDA acknowledged only God as the Doer inside the prejudiced thought of
Hindus as snake charmers. We have found this to be the master-given teachings.To discover this is to get more awareness into who is to do all the Mom crying and rigmarole wailing inside Bramble Garden: Let it be the Doer. This painful topic has now been cleared up, gentlemen.
YOU TOO may delight a huge American following by talking of Jesus and that God is the Doer
as you lead in regulated worship. If
you sense others get suspicious, hurry to claim that Jesus Christ is behind as one of the
avatars, add one more, and insist that God is the doer anyway. Yogananda was that sort of
snake charmers.
We had better accept these sayings, for they are much better founded than his ever
can be. By this you have received stupendous blessings and may know better than the halfway
mentally ill inside the bramble cloisters. They learn to wail and cry for up to hours each
night for God Mom in the name of Jesus Christ, some of them. It can be the antidote to
sanity you harvest from that. Surely.
"After one has experienced the divine consciousness of seeing through the
master-ridden - stand up and honour the right God for once. He lets your duties be carried
on, and you do not have to get "master-gay" - something like that. Do you feel it? You never
need any so-called "two-in-oneness" either, for Christian scriptures do not really give us
the same teachings as the butcher of Faroffistan.
- "One day the switch of your heart will suddenly be pulled, and you will have to leave everything behind — And this is what the SRF stands for — Attain it . . . with all your soul." - Yogananda phrases, [Ak 443, 444]
James J. Lynn said -
Each of us had better try
to communicate with the reality inside
"As I walked through the . . . senses — I do not know what anyone could
rightly call a blessing." [Rajn 57,48]."After soul-realisation .. (the) Bibles of the world confirm everything that SRF undertakes to teach us." [Rajn 54].
"Receive from Master . . . our awareness — (after) discovering this" [Rajn 58, 70].
"Each of us had better ask himself: "Do I know anything . . .?" — I have nothing — I'm a free soul." [Rajn 57, 64, 101] ¤
"May I ask that all of you stand . . .? — Our business duties may be carried on. — The soul . . . Do you feel it? Can you be . . .?" [Rajn 50, 52, 60].
"The love of God is the only Reality. — We must be immortal." [Rajn 67, 60].
"After one has experienced the divine consciousness — (Be allied with) the great love of the omnipresent Christ." [Rajn 52, 62]
The results of such communications
may take some to mental hospitals. Jesus was called insane, blasphemer and tied in with the
devil
"Master . . . acknowledged only God as the Doer. — I was prejudiced. .. thought
of Hindus as snake charmers. — When you have found the teachings (of guru Yogananda),
accept them." [Rajn 70, 46, 54]."(Bramble Farm) is not always easy." - James Jesse Lynn, its 2nd president. — "Blessings I have received" [Rajn 64, 57].
"The hospital beds in the nation are now used by the mentally ill." - SRF [Rajn 50n] ¤
"Love Him; cry for Him. — These questions cannot be answered." [Rajn 64, 60].
"(Yogananda) through me . . . this two-in-oneness is . . . through Yogananda's grace . . . we are one in God. — The Christian scriptures give us the same teachings that Master (Yogananda) brought to us. [This is so untrue.] The words of all true Sons reveal the One Father." [Rajn 70, 58]
Following the teachings may
change a lot of things on the face of the earth
Incarnated (Master robber) might bring us all closer to . . . cannot live. —
His will is being done. — We do not have to feel that the consciousness of Jesus was
different from that of any God-illumined master of India." [Rajn 58, 52,
54]."We may melt, even as the Masters have done, into the bliss of [the enemy] — The first blessing is calmness. — The perfect fulfilment we are all seeking will come to us through Self-realisation . . . that your very life is God . . . when you are able to . . . (say with Jesus), "I do nothing. — We can receive his divine vibrations through following his teachings" [Rajn 70, 46, 52, 68].
"The Self-realisation path of yoga as taught by (Yogananda) is scientific . . . Religion can have but one purpose: Knowledge of one's own life as the omnipresent Life . . . is Heaven. — What every soul really wants is . . . (I am)" [Rajn 94, 60, 60n].
"My subject is the soul. — Master is here, just behind the darkness of our closed eyes. . . . Master wants us to be happy, and he's always with us. Tune in with him and you will never be without the bliss, the love, the peace of (Lucifer?)." [Rajn 60, 66].
"I have learned to live by inward joy. — The power that Master is (imagining) is real. . . . it is the eternal foundation of your true being. — Whatever (people do) inevitably comes to an end." [Rajn 50, 62, 67].
Drifting winter experience from January 5, 1954
"(I) saw Lahiri Baba . . . Then, one by one, Sri Yukteswar, Babaji, and "Yogananda"
appeared. Yogananda lifted me out of the body and we floated together over many gatherings
of people. Yogananda blessed each group as we floated over it . . . floating overhead . . .
wanted all people to know that I was with him. —Yogananda is very busy there . . . helping the people . . . teaching them . . . how to achieve" [cf. Rajn 68.
"Master . . . acknowledged only God as the Doer." - James Lynn. [Rajn 70].
- And so should you when you go against him.
Businessman
Handling Those Brambles
A FOOL as well can also appear to be a very fine gentleman - some try to
be steadfast at that if nothing better is at hand. Try at any rate to become greater than a
misleading, tricky leader.
THIS UNDERSTOOD, become a good organiser for your own family. It's befitting in over-all
design for most part - in what some call eternity's scheme of things.
To get steadfast here, it helps to be loved well. And that can be a greater
understanding than this one:
"Few are really evil . . . deliberately turning one's back on the [yogi as] Lord"
[Say 83].
On James Lynn, the US businessman in lumber and insurance, wasn't it?
1
Be steadfast and fit as a gentleman
"James J. Lynn was a very fine gentleman". - Kansas City Times. [Rajn 73]."Be ye steadfast" - Daya Mata. [Rajn 101].
"(Look at the eternal things that are not seen - ) None understood this wisdom better than our beloved (James) . . . He was a great organiser." - Daya Mata. [Rajn 101] ¤
Great yoga seems like dying
"His end was befitting the great yogi that he was". - American Daya Mata
(Mom) [Rajn 84] Giant expressions touch the souls
they are aimed at
The Gita continues . . . How inspiring is . . . assurance that God's heart is
deeply touched". - Daya Mata. [Rajn 101]."(James) was so free." - Daya Mata. [Rajn 101].
"The spirit of Master dwelt in (James Lynn) . . . the same gestures and expressions. - J. Cuaron. [Rajn 80] ¤
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Adjoined
Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1975.Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) Oxford University, New York, 1996.
Dp: Fergusson, Rosalind: The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs. Penguin. Harmondsworth, 1983.
Of: Fuller, Edmund: 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions. Wings. New York, 1970.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Rajn: SRF: Rajasi Janakananda (James J. Lynn): A Great Western Yogi. SRF. Los Angeles, 1959.
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.
Scf: Yogananda, Pa.: Scientific Healing Affirmations. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.
Scp: Yogananda, Pa.: The Science of Religion. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1953.
A Note
¤: This asterix stands for the book given the acronym "Rajn" if only page numbers are added, not letters, for your information.Ding: And ding in the proverb-rooted sentence at the start means beat.
| Literature | Layout | SITE MAP | First Page |
CLICK on 'Literature' for the references of about 2000 works.
ANNOTATIONS: Acronym letters in square brackets in the text refer to works. Click on 'Literature' above for examples. Page references are put right after reference letters. The abbreviation cf. means "compare". [MORE].
SEARCH THE SITE: Click on the rose in the upper left column for site searches, access to dictionaries, and further.
REFER to the page by its 'location' address (above).
PILOTING: Some pictures and texts on top of the pages are clickable, to ease navigation. [MORE]
| Model | Well's | Disclaimer | |
| © 1997-2004, T. Kinnes — Updated in Summer 2004 | |||