A Recluse with a Wealth of Recorded Guru Sayings

Success in the world can be had in many ways. Be what you are, and you could still succeed.

Carl G. Jung says he always had cast a horoscope in difficult cases, and that it helped him. In SRF, Self-Realization Fellowship, they believe in astrology too, on the authority of Yukteswar and Yogananda most of all. In his autobiography Yogananda first says he does not believe in it, and then gets converted by his guru:

"I don't believe in astrology."

"It is not a question of belief; the scientific attitude one should take on any subject is whether it is true. . . . Astrology is too vast, both mathematically and philosophically, to be rightly grasped except by men of profound understanding. . . . So long as man struggles with his mortality, he is affected by the myriad mutations of heaven and earth. . . . A child is [normally] born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future results. [Yet man] possesses spiritual resources that are not subject to planetary pressure. . . . Electrical and magnetic radiations are ceaselessly circulating in the universe; they affect man's body for good and ill. [Au 142-44, passim]

Birthday chart of Mother Daya

Daya Mata (January 31, 1914 – November 30, 2010)

Her sun was in Aquarius, her moon was very likely in Aries, and her north node was definitely in Pisces. Her Ascendant could be Taurean (or Gemini). Saturn was remarkably harmoniously aspected (by trines, ie, 120 degrees plus and minus some degrees).

A study demands a look at the main patterns, the essential meanings credited to the placements of heavenly bodies in signs and houses, at least. A deeper study is possible too, but will I go into it here?

You may get a fuller birthday chart of Mother Daya, previous head of SRF, a merciful, sensitive, and largely considerate woman who helped her guru by giving loyal support in earlier years. Let us look at her birthday horoscope a little, and note the difference between a birth chart and birthday chart. The latter is used when we do not know the exact time of birth, only the date and place. In such a case we say she was born at noon, plus minus 12 hours. And that is the essence of the birthday chart. There are data that cannot be had from it, such as the placement of the Ascendant, the exact placement of the moon (allowing for deviation of up to about 14 degrees), and the placements of the houses. The nodes are accurate, and the rest of the planets within a degree or half degree; the large ones much less so.

This has to be taken into consideration in telling of a person from his or her not accurate birthday chart. It means: "Restrict what you tell to what may be safe -" And what is largely safe? To study the chart of someone who has lived most of his or her life, allowing for deep changes of heart also, and compare with the biography. To the degree dominant patterns are seen in the chart, and they seem to match significant or even striking features or the life, or major life happenings, you may milk those comparisons for what they are worth.

Maybe I should point out that even though you do not personally know the person that is studied, you may still have many benefits from studying. It is like having a nice and rich sauce from sour cream - and there may be good stuff in it even though the game (here: monastic) is withdrawn . . .

I give you an example right here:

Deliberations on top of Daya Mata's Birthday Chart

You may study the chart and see how markedly her main task to handle in life (south node - north node axis) was "moving" her stress of interests from being a recluse (Pisces) to being a housewife (virgin) (Virgo) living in security. That fit nicely for this nun as she grew somewhat throughout life.

Her fellowship's officials used to provide little information about her, except saying

"that she was living as a monastic inside the Mount Washington compound and that she was too preoccupied with spiritual matters to be interviewed. However, as New Times reported, contrary to the acknowledged belief of even some monks living there - not to mention a wider body of church members - Daya Mata and her sister weren't living at the Mother Center at all. As Ananda Mata confirmed to a reporter who visited her, the sisters have shared an SRF-owned house in a neighborhood of million-dollar homes in the San Gabriel Valley foothill community of Sierra Madre since the late 1960s. For years, they've commuted to Mount Washington in a vintage pink Cadillac. [F1]

Way to go! To renounce renunciation etc. is good, tells the Avadhut Gita 4:21. May nice nuns make sense of this.

Her mind grasp on things was Aquarian - a New Age deal suits many Aquarian people. At seventeen she chose Yogananda and his deal, which was a novelty back then. Her feelings (Moon in Aries) might be sudden and passionate, but mightbe kept at bey, since she became a nun. She might function well with restrictions, even self-denials (Sun trine Saturn), for example those that a monastic setting bring. Slavery is not much different.

She has, in fact, a very smooth Saturn, except when related to her life goal, her "node axis". And that again suggests that her wealth of "saturny" influence was not ideal for her anyway, no matter how it might seem in the open. About thirty years ago she decided to leave the headquarters, unknown to almost all the monks and nuns under her, and settle in a villa, that gives more benefits. In the light of her Saturn, it makes a lot of sense, all in all.

What might have helped her more, might have been own (Taurean) wealth, serenity and peace and calm much as a Buddhist may prefer too. However, she got the wealth of guru talks that have given her much success, and SRF too. And she has been enjoying peace and calm in a villa with a view for many years also. Her most significant function as an SRF'er was likely to be her wealth of recordings of guru talks: she stenographed his sermons and talks for many years.

At least one person was born in or very near Salt Lake City on January 31, 1914. Faye Wright was born into a Mormon family, and made herself a different kind of success in the world by "withdrawing from the world" into a monastic setting, and then withdrawing big time from the monastic setting for some decades to live in a villa, without making a show of that, and still as head of SRF.

Her birth chart (birth horoscope, radix) indicates that there was no obvious focus on family and group fellowship in her - the coming nun did not give birth to her own children: the so-called fourth, fifth and sixth houses are devoid of focusing agents (planets and the like).

Likewise, there was no pregnant focus in her seventh, eighth, and nineth houses either. This might suggest that the aging nun had little focus on standing up for herself. Other interpretations are possible too, but these match her biography in some ways: She was trained in submission by Yogananda, not self-assertiveness, and as a nun made quite a virtue out of that.

Her tenth house in Aquarius contains four planets, and the sun. Hence, there was much focus on a public career, and that she got as the appointed president of Self-Realization Fellowship in 1955, largely avoiding the secular press.

Success in the world might be had in many ways. Jupiter near her tenth house cusp indicates group expansion (of Aquarius), although it depends on how Jupiter was aspected. It was well aspected to Saturn, an indication of yogic concentration, among other things.

Well, the adamant may remain.

With 18,000 concubines once, and revered too!

Be what you are - adapt in fair ways and stick to what is decent anyhow. You could still succeed. We may also mention Krishna, who abducted 18 000 females and fathered his own people with them, says the Bhagavatam. The enormously wise Krishna is revered all over India, and worshipped in SRF - but they focus of other sides of him than getting children, I should say. Imagine that some pagan other than Djengis Khan rapes a Christian virgin and takes her as his wife. What could happen? In one of the letters of the apostle Paul one 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]

That is his teaching, not mine. I just refer to it. He says "acceptable to God" suggests "saved just by sex" in this connection. Accordingly, being rapacious could have helped and saved thousands of men thoughout history. I bet many of rapacious nature never stopped to think of such claimed 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 - like a Mormon or better - 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]

"United to" means having sex with; that is the biblical meaning of it. Does the Bible say that having lots of wifes are forbidden? Nowhere. You may say this is faulty, but no to lots of wives and harem women is not in the Bible . . . In fact, Jesus said king Solomon was the wisest man that had lived, and he had a thousand wives and concubines (harem slave women) after God had given him wisdom and an understanding heart. Many pray for that. But Doctor Martin Luther's wife Katarina did not:

Luther said, "The time will come when a man will take more than one wife." The doctor kidded for a long time.

Finally his wife said, "Before I put up with this, I'd rather go back to the convent and leave you and all our children."

Toys

Have fun, says Yogananda repeatedly. He played with toys towards the end of his life. I find that to be a most endearing side of him. A

disciple visited Master at his desert retreat shortly before Christmas of 1951. On a table lay some toys, intended for gifts. In a childlike spirit Paramhansaji played with them for a time, then asked the young man, "How do you like them?"

The disciple was still trying to get over his surprise; but he said, laughing, "They're fine, Sir."

The Master smiled and quoted:

"'Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of God.'" [Spa 20]

You may come to wonder: "An Astrodienst partner horoscope (with text) - how suggestively fit is it?" Try it out and see for yourself.

Aftermath

Infants and mustard seeds are not likely to benefit very much from faith that is tied to words.

Once Faye Wright made up her mind to love God and not a neat man. As Martin Luther might have sighed, "One more dame in vain". The former monk married a nun who had fled her convent, Katharina of Bora, and they had six children. She had not been equipped with young breasts and all that in vain.

SRF grew large, and in turn the world-renouncing Faye became the head of a big church. She who did not like to appear in public, and complained to her guru that the attention and vibrations of the SRF congregation dragged her down. "Keep you attention on the Third Eye," was his counsel.

Well, her bio shows she went further than that, but nearly no one in SRF knew that she lived in a villa, away from the other SRF monastics, for about thirty years.

After all, it is the duty of the head of a "100 percent original Christianity-aligned" church to function as a male to the degree that Paul has a say there. He refuses women to be heads in a Christian congregation. He even refuses idolatry -

She may avoid direct confrontation in this and other dogmatism matters, for example after the Catholic "Fathre Matheo" found her guru's teachings to be heretical.

Having real babies to foster differs from being a "mother" nun. Do not mistake the real thing for the religious semblance that profits from the good feeling and restraints of such words -

After it was known through the Los Angeles Times how she used the top SRF position to be quite absent from those in a monastic SRF setting, one third of the SRF monastics left the premises too. I do not know how many of them have got their own SRF sponsored villas afterwards . . .

Daya Mate got a high-class SRF property villa to live in into ripe, old age.

Above much else, to renounce renunciation is grand renunciation, and worth advocating too . . . (See Avadhut Gita 4:21).

When birds of a feather (of similar bent and passions) flock together, some get on top and get advantages. That is what typically happens, and that is what many birds and animals keep fighting for.