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Study of Apostle Words and a Nun
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| Clumsy Yoga won't fit you, is the bet. |
Carl G. Jung says he always had cast a horoscope in difficult cases, and that it helped him.
Contents
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Introduction
There were people born in or very near Salt Lake City on January 31, 1914. Their
success in the world may not have been what the Queen of England envisaged, for what do you
say to making a success of "withdrawing from the world" into a monastic setting?Success in the world may be had in many ways, but Someone up there does not approve of Satanic ways. They are marked by deceit, murder, theft, crooked deals and so on. It is possible to succeed through that in the world, and then comes - well, another story.
Ironically, so-called faults or bad sides that are supposed not to lead anywhere - as found in typical astrological studies, may be dangerous or risky ways of success in another, more suitable environment. Money isn't everything - yet.
According to St. Paul
Good News for Rapists
If you have a rapist and lusting nature, think of all the good things you could do with it while you have the time and conditions on your side, instead of becoming a monk or nun!YOU HAVE heard the saying, "Mother knows best"? Here we study it and see how marvellous and true it may be. Let us say that you are basically rapacious and lascivious by nature, capable of satisfying nymphomaniacs to their hearts' contents, but want to be a monk to escape the passions. That could be a sluggard mistake to pay dearly for for the rest of your life. The art of living is shown in this: The adamant remain. Be what you are, come what may, and let it come to fruition in a basic, helpful and rewarding way for yourself, and then you may sustain your own family. It may be a large family!
In the art of living, some imagine that being rapacious is very bad under all conditions. They surely are wrong in some ways. Let us look into history, ignoring the "legacy" of Djengis Kahn and other "great ones" who had many, many children in different places. Let us look to Krishna, who captured 18 000 females and fathered his own people, having Dwarka as his capital as long as it lasted. The enormously "rapacious" Krishna is revered all over India and in many New Age settings. But, seriously, imagine that some pagan rapes a Christian virgin and takes her as his wife. What could happen then? In one of the letters of the apostle Paul an answer is given:
If a Christian woman is married to a man who is an unbeliever and he agrees to go on living with her, she must not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife . . . [1 Cor. 7, 13-14, GNB]Acceptable to God suggests something like saved just by sex in this connection. So, being rapacious could have helped and saved thousands of men thoughout history. I bet many of rapacious nature never stopped to think of such benefits.
But there is more to this, more than meets the eye: if a rapacious fellow is put right with God, he can save hundreds of virgins or other women he weds and has the saving sex with - if things go well - for St. Paul decrees very, very plainly that
the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband." [1 Cor. 7, 14, GNB]Does the good old Bible say that having lots of wifes are forbidden? No. But Jesus says that having just one wife [one at a time] is best. At the surface of it, then, many women seem to get a traurig (sad, sorry) existence both here and hereafter because nobody was sexual and large-hearted enough to save her day(s) and for the hereafter by marrying her and having sex with her for a few hours or days, and then divorce her to help the next woman in his way.
You may say this is faulty, and then, perhaps, you ignore that Jesus said king Solomon was the wisest man that had lived. He had hundreds of wives - a thousand wives and concubines (harem slave women) - after God had given him wisdom and an understanding heart. You pray for that . . .
- The greatest may look foolish in the world - that is a typical New Testament dictum.
- The greatest fool may also look foolish in the world - that is interesting too.
Does an Old "Mother" know better than God?
Having Faith
If you are full of (words-rooted) faith, it may not be looked on as a great fault nowadays, even though it is better to know for sure what Jesus meant by stating that infants and seeds had that right sort of faith, which does not depend on what is told - for babies and mustard seeds are not likely to benefit very much from that. Also, being full of wordy faith spells being of a dogmatic bent, which is taken to be bad. But the art of living consists in making some Christianity-serving faults that matter, serve you. Some "faults" are called faults in the open, whereas other faults are hidden, and some even respected in some circles. Faults of all three types may be put to use.In the art of living, it helps many an man and woman to associate with men and women of similar or reciprocal faults. The domineering husband may get a submissive woman, or maybe three in "Mormon County", where they secretly may ignore the counsel of Jesus about making do with having just one wife (one at a time). And the domineering woman may search till she finds a submissive man and God - one that submits to her dogmatic thinking that God is "also the Mother" and so on. That could help her where similar natures band together and form a sect or cult or church together, but what will happen in the herafter? It is not for me to tell here. A repeat:
- The adamant may remain.
- Don't be bogged down.
- Mother Daya's faults serve her; let your "faults" and seeming mistakes serve yourself.
- Further, many a deficiency can become a strength.
- Some Fayes there are who must walk in rags instead of driving in American cars because they did not let their errors and socalled faults get free rein.
"Heirship" belief functioned
ONCE our Mother made up her mind to love God and not a neat man with a body, and love and follow the guru Yogananda, she did not change her mind-set or thinking about it for many years, at least.She reveals a native capacity to love and go for certain good things in life: as much love as possible in the sheltered environment her guru sought to build up, and he trained her much in not getting influenced by harsh words. It also helps not to be bogged down - in the sixties she decided to "flee" the SRF headquarters in order to live in a higher class villa. Almost nobody in SRF knew about her retirement from the renouncer environment. It seems it was too stressful for her, or maybe it bogged her down too much.
She has no patience for very different outlooks than hers, so she won't take the time to reflect on them either, is the bet. Thus she saves time, and that can work to her favour in the long run, as long as she is adamant and mutes such as opposing viewpoints about her "heirship hegemony" about the master's "invisible cloak" that she thought fell on her when he passed away, and such things.
Raised in a Mormon family, it is her "familiar" capacity to be such a sort of minority or something similar. For years it functioned when SRF was a little and brittle faith fellowship. However, SRF grew large, and in turn she became the boss - in what has become a conflict-filled setting where plenty of monastics leave and get neuroses - Mother Daya saw that she did not appreciate or liked to handle the high-pressured, competitive atmosphere very well (who does?), and retired to a upper class villa somewhere else, and resorted to appearing regularly in SRF setting as a sort of "guest performer" of a sort. Almost everybody else in SRF did not know about it for thirty years. That looks like tackling a nasty setting by subterfuge and perhaps ignoring monasticism convention, which thinks that it is not good to "retire" from a retirement setting like that.
Worship of the Gurus
HOWEVER, once dear Mother makes up her mind on an issue, she can be rather dogmatic - some have it that some of her faults are her stubbornness and inflexibility - yet see how they have served her in this as in much else! Surely some non-traditional relationships appeal to her . . . including loving and worshipping God as Mother and saying it is to the honour and possible favour of the Christian God too. Yes, once she makes up her mind on an issue . . . she remains " stubborn, opinionated, and inflexible" - or adamant and unflinching in the steps of her guru and not on his toes, as her advocates could have put it.After all, it is the duty of the head of a "100 percent original Christianity-aligned" church to function as a male and worship the Christian God as Paulus decrees for original Christianity - he refuses women to be heads in a Christian congregation, and may seem rather dogmatic, he too - but differently dogmatic, it has to be said. He even refuses idolatry!
But opposed to the dispensing agent of original Christianity, the apostle Paul, Mother Daya often "instinctively" knows contrary to him, and wants the world to know that worshipping God Mother is perfectly in tune with original Christianity's mission as revealed by Paul and Jesus - However, she may avoid direct confrontation in this and other dogmatism matters as much as possible, for example after Catholics found her guru's teachings to be misleading and wrong somehow.
In loving God and dead ones, you don't get much carnal, fruitful sex, is the bet. A deep, satisfactory emotional bonding does not come easily to our Mother Daya. And it may be much safely added that the role of "husband" (head) and wife in the traditional sense cannot have appealed very much to her, for then she might have chosen a different life course earlier, when it was time to do anything to get real babies to foster.
God-talk and love-talk shows little self-restraint in a Christian who is told to shut up and lock herself up in her closet to pray and not flaunt her deviant, guru-given beliefs. Talks of love may utterly depend on mood swings and that things go her way. Small talk is difficult for those with little self-restraint. Well, she is different, even if involved in alternative, cooperative endeavours - where she uses the top position to be thoroughly absent, hopefully in a better way than those who stay out of the kitchen because they cannot stand the heat.
A delicate woman who is always looking for something loftier, may search and find that renouncing cooperative renunciate living in a cloister, by retiring to a villa with a view, is fine! And since she has lived it out for thirty years, she may have found out deep inside that this ancient Hindu teaching fits, that to renounce renunciation is also renunciation, and worth advocating in other aspects of it too.
When Mother Daya feels that her loved one(s) or some things dear to her heart is being endangered, she is a fierce defender. So "soap renouncing" living in the SRF headquarters is not a thing to be feared, nothing dangerous - and one third of the monastics of SRF has left too - but they are not paid by SRF for living outside the "walls" - to the contrary. So it seems that when up to one third of the monastics leave, it is not feared too much.
Her staff is her strength
MUCH concerning her family, her family background and heritage inspires in her feelings of great loyalty that may be suspected to be snubly confused and blind to certain truths, greatly oblivious to the emotional support and tender nurturing that her "foolish children" need.She puts a much greater emphasis on issues found in "depth schools" than others age groups do, and has got a high-class villa to live in for thirty years through it. In books of hers, she clings to particular memories of precious and special moments to her, and get them published by her staff who barely see her around. She is old now, remember. And thirty years ago she was middle-aged and could need rest from living as a nun in a monastic setting. Because she will rarely initiate a confrontation and is capable of letting her so-called faults serve her, she retired from living at the headquarters of the church so secretively that it came out only thirty years later.
A good living like any neighbour in a high-class neighbourhood indicates that what others may mistake for "nun faults", may serve her. Many odd-looking deficiencies can in time become strengths.
When Mother Daya's feelings are aroused, she can be impulsive and careless, so maybe it is best to let her approach life in a more airy and easygoing manner in the suburbs with a garden and a nice view to the mountains.
She enjoys organising activities - so she must learn to be more in control of
herself.
Love seems to get deeper and richer and more satisfying for her with time, so it
should not be foolish love.
The explorations of some farther reaches don't always take into account human
weaknesses. Our Lady needs to guard against mere people-pleasing, which can reduce
diplomatic skills to some form of self-seeking manipulation. Thereby dissatisfied, disbanded
and formerly loyal disciples may leave her and end up in rags because they did not get
power, prestige and money - not to speak of guru blessings or admissions - to let their
faults flower to their advantage.
By the above we have suggested how to let some dark, deep passions flower to the
advantage of the person in question. Isn't it better than becoming sad and getting a clown's
reputation? Many sorts of faith can be considered results of deep, dark passions (urges) in
psychoanalytic thinking. When birds of a feather (of similar bent and passions) flock
together, some get on top and get the advantages that allow for villa living and prestige
that may or may not be unsound.
Speaking of dark passions, if our "old girl" is interested in something, she loves
it, and then it can be very difficult for her to save systematically - for those who truly
love may lavish their gifts too.
Final
THE DAME must have things her own way, basically. She is capable of going to extremes in exerting her will, and approaches religion in a basically emotional and devotional manner, maybe not realistically at all.For all that, in love she remains independent, and might have liked to become a hair-dresser.
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Adjoined
Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. SRF. 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.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). Los Angeles, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Rsn: Stangland, R.C (Red): Red Stangland's Norwegian Home Companion. Barnes and Noble. New York, 1993.
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.
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