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The Rubaiyat and Yogananda's Commentary

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Many who read form wrong opinions.
This page contains material that is not included on another Rubaiyat page here [LINK]. It could be best to study the other page first. A free piece of advice: The forlorn seem to hail sayings and works that lack the necessary ingredient of credibility.

Rubaiyat with Some Rigmarole
Robert Graves Admits
Master Lesson

Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout:

Rubaiyat With Some Rigmarole

Think "well-well" to fit in and avoid drudgery.

"The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. [Tom Peters]

THOSE who make channels for water control the waters - Dhammapada, verse 145. [But 29]

FitzGerald's version of the Rubaiyat is a free rendition of the original medieval Persian poem by Omar. Paramahansa Yogananda chose the Fitz rendering for his commentary, He had other choices. Yogananda put meanings into the poem in his commentary of "spiritual clichés" - and a few decent points. But it seems "he" muddled about and missed the bus in very many places. We have brought the evidence, so judge for yourself. Prudence is what is called for. - T. Kinnes

Good Songs Do Not Indoctrinate Through Plots

LOVEABLE poetry and good stories that are quite rich in figurative language, may evoke interest - that kind of "water" inside. If that happens to anyone of us, it pays to be careful and well geared in general, and we could benefit very much from learning how to deal maturely or rather expertlike with such as figurative language; for it can be interpreted in this way and that. Hence, a risk of tendentious interpretations is possible. What is more, purports or interpretations may be used for something like special taming of a following.
Rubaiyat was massa-rendered in snub fashion by the diffident English writer Edward FitzGerald (1809-83). Also: "FitzGerald's translation was so free in its rendition as to be virtually an original work." Further, appears he was not good in Persian in the first place.

Best known for his Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, which, though it is a free adaptation and selection from the 12th-century Persian poet's verses, stands on its own as a classic of English literature. It is one of the most frequently quoted of lyric poems. Check Britannica Online

As compared to the Persian original, many of FitzGerald's images tend to run wild, much wild.

BOSSY DRIVEL OR BETTER? In due time, Yogananda (1893-1952) used these quite subjective renditions to tell what the Medieval Persian Omar Khayyam allegedly meant, but without any proof in hand. Some think that was a very good method. It must be called all right and allowable to think otherwise.
For the lack of good evidence, it is good to guard against hazardous-looking, largely conform-spiritual and coincidental commentaries with rigid, plotted interpretations seemingly formed at will, and fostered further by sheer authority respect among "one-eyed" followers.
We would think that Yogananda fairly often marred the poem by the use of half-ritualised verbiage that possibly serve no man. We bring six couples of verses to compare, and Yogananda comments can then be studied in the light of the Graves-Shah translation, which is recommended.

The fit thing is to get aware of, note and make sense out of a first-class poem as "it is itself" - i.e. how it "speaks to you", and first-hand.

Many Swollen Phrase-Rides Serve More Talk and Writing in Time

YOU MAY ask, "What is the issue?" At bottom it could very well be growth into maturity, which can be stunted by "great massa servility" and things like that. Facts help rational thinking, and maturity is helped through that too.
If, on the other hand, we come across tendentious procedures, untenable interpretations and things like that in masters or "great ones", it is much important to stick to the clearheaded instead of being overwhelmed or overawed.
Moreover, counter-moves to misinterpretations and spiritualised misinterpretations are needed too.
All in all it helps to instruct to be understood first of all, but also understood to be remembered later on. Sincerity, great personal interest, study methods with room for repetitions, memorizations and personal rewarding experiences make room for juduciousness. It can grow. Mature methods of presentation assist such personally relevant learning. We should be on the outlook for what is very useful in the long run.
A decent learner is hardly satisfied with crusts and crumbs from the tables of authority figures like Yogananda. He or she will buy a good translation of the poem in the first place, and in time perhaps learn the arts and crafts of interpreting too, as needs be. Many interesting sights have come to light in that way, and some could be better than those of forerunners. That is how it is in general. Feel free to try.

If you sum up neatly to favour the long-term memory in readers that are genuinely interested - good for you.

Get Away From Lying Circles

A lying circle: (a) a circle of liars, (b) a circle that is horisontal or nearly horisontal or so.
They say Archimedes was killed by a soldier because of his lying circles (in the 2nd sense). He told the soldier - who had orders not to kill the genial man - to get away from his circles in the sand. It did not turn out well. It is a good story, and an entertaining one. It is called an anecdote. The majority of anecdotes may bring insights and cultural fitness in time - if so, it rests a lot with yourself.
You should not waste time on inferior readings and inferior brainwashing. Croaking to yourself could work better. There is no risk of indoctrination from it, presumably. Opposed to that, even soap opera-looking misinterpretations of bad translations have flaws, and the moment you interiorise some of them, you are harmed. It may show up later as something nasty.
We humans should make deft and speedy use of good chances, but if there is time, we also advocate enrichments - including those of geared-up understanding of themes and motifs and other endearing facets of good songs, poetry and cultural, handed-over stuff. Good literature may bring advantages up to a certain level - yet it depends a lot on conditions and associates. Yet, basically it increases the odds for survival and better survival to go for finest assets in the first place, and peel off the less that first-rate things. You may have seen it in nature - that is basically how trees, plants and organisms in nature builds to be long-lasting.
It is fit to go for good things. Some of them may later yield great proficience if sifted and streamlined somehow. For the lack of these things, over-spiritual, godbossy humbug or rigmarole may evoke fervent undermining of oneself. That is not fit. What is more, unsavoury nonsense in time rears cramped beliefs, lots of whining and awkward outlooks - not good ways to go about.

Deft use of brainwashing or hard, cultural taming can bring long-lasting effects too. The dog should know that.
What is long-lasting fits in over time. Healthy persons have largely sound mental associations, which interest, memory and thinking often depend on in the long run. If so, the health-fostering items rest on breaking the news to not too grossly indoctrinated ones. They may not look like much in old ruts of mediocre, common thinking.

Good At Reading Helpful Manuals, Next on Your Own, Maybe

Here is the opportunity to look sharper than half a million Californians and unaided members of SRF. SRF stands for "Swedish society for the visually impaired". We do not make fun of that.
If we turn to cattle, many of them seem to be just too gullible - they just believe "up in the air", and act perhaps "just as told in godly ways". There should be a better way of handling items than those of goody-goodies. Search for it. By solid schooling one gains cultural enrichment - it often happens. And there is also much good in solid, regular health care in the long run.
So what about a "semi-brothel version" of an ancient classic? There is often no good reason to get avid in reading it. Instead it is good to go for staunch handling all along. And at times we have to deal with probabilities and how to evaluate odds they bring. They help us according to "more or less", "the chances are ...", etc. There are often many ways to "sum up" and half-sum-up (by odds) eventually. There are modern ways of doing things like that, and you may end up with some decree.

Humbug made a mess - no need to hogwash it.

Robert Graves Admits

Write prudently, that comes first a lot of times

"I HAVE made an English verse translation of this earliest and most authoritative Rubaiyat at the request and under the surveillance of Omar Ali-Shah, the Sufi poet and classical Persian Scholar, to whose family the manuscript belongs," writes Robert Graves. 1. (1)
"But prudently my Teacher warned me: "Pen And Tablet, Heaven and Hell, lie in yourself." (- from the poem) 3-4. (2)

If you reach that high, learn to think with your heart too. It is to be schooled. Good Sufi training helps it.

"KHAYAAM'S most biting sarcasm falls on the seventy-two sects of Islam." 29 (3)
"In Khayaam's stanza 70 we find a reference to (his) Sheikh, who advised him to think with his heart and not be influenced by literary or theological tradition." (4)

The Sufi style is filled with metaphoric lines. They have to be decoded.

"EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883) is widely celebrated as the supposed originator of the Rubaiyat, rather than as an easy-going amateur Orientalist who constructed a mid-Victorian poem of his own from an ill-understood classical Persian text." - Robert Graves. 2 (5)
A fugitive Khayaam quatrain:

Conceal the mystery revealed to you
From all nonentities, likewise from fools,
In carefulness approach men's inner selves
Letting none intercept your scrutiny. 31 (6)

"Idries Shah relates that his great-great-grandfather Khan Jan-Fishan-Khan, a nineteenth-century Grand Sheikh of the Sufi Tariqa, used the Rubaiyat in his Hindu Kush principality for testing the capacities of new disciples. .. the Rubaiyat has been for more than eight hundred years an integral part of the Sufi's poetic heritage, and what is more, Khayaam's secret use of special linguistic forms can be decoded for us only by Sufic initiates." 26-7. (7)
FitzGerald argues against the probability of Khayaam's having used wine to symbolise divine love, by asking two questions: "If the wine were gigantic, how could one wash the body with it when dead?" And "why make cups of its dead clay to be filled with La Divinité by some succeeding mystic?" Robert Graves gives copious answers. Here is a part of his reply to the first: His friends will wash him in wine, that is to say will remember only the best of him. 25
Dr Graves decodes a lot and finally furnishes us with a tall enough version - let us hope that. (8)

Master Lesson

Sole Walker -

The judicious and great bear is a sole walker and for most part he does his business by himself - a solitary doer, if not a sole doer. There is reason to look up to the Great Bear - what do you think?

The Conform King's Majestic Application Contains Secret dangers

The king has to be conform in order to rule. He is one part of a network of reciprocal interactions fairly often.

THE KINGS and other guys that the general public think highly of, reflect dominant values in those people. May I put it bluntly: If a lot of tall frogs thought the king is the best, it would be because he reflected cardinal values in that population - or "croaked better along their strains" - his seemingly proud, parading themes had to be their over-riding dreams - more or less. Maybe and maybe not.
"Exalted teachers ... have perceived truth ...", says our darling Lizz.
Lizz does not tell too much concerning the disconcerting, outrageous and possibly much higher outlook: "The best of kings the people hardly find out of." If so, they are not reckoned with among common men. This mature view is definitely aligned to Laozi's "Of the best of rulers, the people hardly know they exist. The next best they love and praise." (From Dao De Jing, Chapter 17).
It is not a bad thing to be loved and praised, do not say that. But it must be much greater to be so great that the American public hardly understands it - is not that true? (1)

Sayings that masters live on top of, are "bought" or accepted as great by many men - maybe cherished sayings of revered masters reflect wooly mediocricy in that way

"Every divine truth we experience in superconsciousness we can continue to feel in our intuition during the ordinary conscious state ..." (4)

If you are not rich enough, maybe you have been fooled.

HOW OFTEN the king missed the true gate for verbiage."
"Eagerly cultivate true wisdom ..." (5)
Good and staunch wisdom can look like folly in the eyes of the world, says the gospel, the letters and the proverb: "It is a fool who cannot hide his wisdom." Albert Einstein is hardly understood by common man - so they say. And I hardly think you have a strong case if you think the publicly acclaimed wisdom of Lizz is top wisdom. (6) -
Insights based on tragic experiences hardly make elated in the first place.

See Self-Realization Magazine, Fall 78:22

Glitter and polish do not solve the problems we have been through.

Hansel and Grethel, Tao-Aligned Comments

First, statements that are meant to last long, need to be carefully guarded and fit in on a general scale, so to speak. They can seem self-evident by attunement to how things usually happen in nature and among men - on many levels. Otherwise they need to look good, fit in, and be suave. Much and staunch documentation helps.
Now we will go into the fairy tale and learn to tackle some aspects of maladaptations from it. There is reason to bear in mind that general counsel needs to be wide-looking, not too narrow, for otherwise it is not general. If not general it may not serve us in principle, for principles are detected by wide all-over looks (in general).
Thus, fight for general understanding first, and learn to adjust that so as to fit in. That is one of the best approaches from the realm of science and fair knowing.
There is also good reason to caution that general understanding may not fit everyone. One of the reasons is that local conditions differ. Another is that indivuduals tend to differ - and so on.
Fairly tales contain allegorical items. Figurative expresssiveness is the hallmark. And figurative expressions (metaphors, allegory items) may serve our attitudes through the "lowering-down" we find fit for us personally. It is the interpretation that functions that way. Too gross and biased subjectivity can get into that. The antidote is fairness along with the cream of good study.
When it comes to interpreting ancient lore from very different tracts than ours, much has to be left hanging in the air, (in suspense). This has to do with stereotyped ways of using insider terms. They can be figurative, very figurative. There are a lot of such terms in Daoism and Zen, frankly. We could end up like idiots for the lack of such priceless knowledge, and also the knowledge of how to handle the knots that are wont to appear from those facts. You may look up here to get many strongly agreed-on views on stuff like this.
This said, a hag may be a maladapted female, just that. And maladaptation may worsen minds and doings terribly. The cosmic avatar may be likened to this and that, and maybe every comparison limps - in principle, that is. Metaphorical stories have to be handled with tact, for they can allow many different interpretations. There is that freedom among tactful persons.

Maim very little to remain on the safe side as a honorable fellow

THIS avatar tale is about how to handle non-biological biography givers. Some are false friends or givers marked by gifts with strings. Therefore, the safe path in European culture as been to be very reserved towards strangers, or "Do not trust Greeks carrying gifts", as the British proverb has it. The last saying is from the Trojan war, where a sleekly set-up gift brought on Troy's destruction. The great "gift" was a trick.
Not all strangers and aliens are cruel like the female witch in the Grimm tale which this avatar tale exploits for common benefit. But it is best to be on the safe side, and not expect good from many aliens. That is the traditional solution.
The tale is about loss of contact in the home, and how to cope with it in some way or other. Two shocked children were abandoned, maybe a bit like one master of SRF. They say he got kidnapped around five years of age. What kind of lovely childhood can come from that? If things weren't too bad, he could surely develop along certain lines. I leave to you to decide.
Much later that supreme master of the American, idolising SRF got helped by the still going strong (?) Agasthya from the south of India and was made enlightened in steps. Agasthya is said to have blossomed in public during centuries before and after Christ. [Pa 306]
Here we speak of the allegedly supreme boss of the hillbilly SRF itself:

"[The descension (avatar) we call Babaji or Nagaraj] is the Supreme Guru in the Indian line of masters who assume responsibility for the gigantic welfare of all farm cattle of [something like Esthete Garden] who faithfull practise [something like the Aurum Yoga] ...
[Babaji] told Yogananda: "You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of [the counterpart of the very mild Aurum yoga] in the West (etc.)" [Pa 501]

We should admit that the missionary command's Jesus [Matthew 28:18-20] is allotted second rank and does not appear to be solidly allotted the central, pivoting place in this panorama - nor in SRF's many and largely unfulfilled ideals two pages earlier.

"The purpose of life is evolution through self-effort ... into God Consciousness ...
To reveal the complete harmony and basic oneness of original Christianity as taught by Jesus Christ and original Yoga as taught by Bhagavan Blackie; ... these principles of truth are the common scientific foundation of all true religions ...
To demonstrate the superiority of mind over body ...
To serve mankind ... [Pa 499]

This will do. Our recurrent topic is:

You cannot ride two horses like that. Be no chameleon-rider.

In contrast to the Indian stress on handy, skilled self-effort, there is a stress on either pure faith and salvation from vicarious sacrifice - maybe coupled with good works in inherited Christianity. We will not say deep contemplation is out of question, as "every little helps" and the Christian teachings from Jesus are blurred - and many former insider instructions can be missing in such as the gospel of Thomas. We have to deal with "blank spaces" in our heritage. Parts of the gospel are still lost.

IT IS BETTER for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell - [Cf. Mark 9:47]
Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness ... [Matthew 6:33]
"The kingdom of God is near you." [Cf. Luke 10:9]
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. [Cf. Luke 18:16]
"Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who's in heaven. [Matthew 7:21]

These are things contemplatives try to live out one way or another - more or less and so on - for there is Christian freedom - is not that fair to tell? So the samples show a lot, but not all. Besides, there is pertinent striving and Lot figures too.
Doing our best each day to enter heaven inside ourselves requires contemplative activity a lot of times. Jesus asks for it - that too. Contempation as we know it, entered Christianity later than Christ. Church Fathers practised it, for

Evangelical counsels meant a life of solitude ... and an effort to attain union with God by prolonged, almost constant contemplation. Where large numbers of hermits assembled in the same place, [what was called common life] emerged, and the hermits or monks (Greek monachos,"solitary") elected one of their farm cattle abbot (Aramaic abba, "father") ... and travellers (most notably John Cassian) introduced monasticism into the Latin ChurCh. - Britannica Online [LINK]

Good men do well not to give Jesus a lot of deconstructivism, soap and redundant lip service, as that is not good fruit - not truly needed. In common Christianity it is Jesus who is one Lord, sole Master, only Grand Teacher and supreme gate for his sheep, whereas "alien" Christs (three masters of SRF are presented as Yogi-Christs by Yogananda in his autobiography) are called something offensive by Jesus Christ. You may not like it cited:

FALSE Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles ... if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time. [Matthew 24:24-25] "So if anyone tells you [such as] "Here he is" ... do not believe it. [Matthew 24:24-26]

"Do not believe everything you are told" is a carefully aligned proverb. It could be that somebody takes to grand lies and swindles in the name of Jesus, and that is not what we want - do we?
Carefully abused and concern-neglected children may develop a fiendish attitude deep down. It may surface later.
What is likely to happen inside the child that is not loved by tactless, strict or demoniac parent figures (bandits) or Führers that take over and dominate, later exploit men like slaves and animals? Initial, libido-tallied selfhood is likely to suffer and be crushed. Maybe that is our future problem.
No one presumes to gauge Babaji full well, we can at best speculate - somewhat shod with quite interesting psychological tenets fit for the average day-to-day care. And an average hardly suits an individual, for he has his or her uniqueness into it.
Anyway, what we could look at, can be much misused or unmet libido - and how it may reach tomfoolery from plenty of misuse and neglected reciprocality. Later, by vicarious motives and much else, a reversal of roles could very well take the carefully kidnapped and later estranged children - there are many ways of doing these things where they are sect-ridden.

Carefully kidnapped children may later love to harrass, and may even come to love to have slaves.
Carefully abused children may take a liking to help others out of proportions - it happens. Id functions like that a lot of times.
The religiously indoctrinated one may love to hammer.

Now, it can happen that carefully unaided children get rather deranged, and blossom awry, so to speak. Stay away from an abused child that later must raid the harem and brothel. Even a better shod and plausible-looking helper may be in the business "for the money", as Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention stated on a cover: "We are only in it for the money". They wore woman's clothes.
Little by little things get out of hand. The supervisor allows faults to roll on and get larger. In the long run much gets sourer than really necessary, due to 'bastard gains' that may even cause totally defunct helper work.
Somewhere in the middle of that little delicious down-glide the naive guys could train themselves and often role-act "the helper". Near the end some of these could present themselves as amounting to Herostrates figures -
Maybe the only danger of this considerate outlook is cosmopolite reductionism. Anyway, it may be better than degrading soap opera, if those are the only choices allotted a man.
A giant master may mar in the name of Jesus - there is that risk, in the psychological-analytical sense, if initial naivete is misused and abused. It may next get perverted, and once perverted, may never get all right, never turn full well. If so, the best of the alternative options may be to set fire to the rest - and if giant cosmic consciousness enlightenment is that immense bonfire - uhadada (Danish expression)
As seen from the original Grimm tale, the European next best solution is not to form novel kingly parent figures, but to stick to the old ones if they are to be found and had. Sometimes it could help to dethrone the vicarous parent carefully, and quite sternly so. To reunite for as much biologically true fulfilment as may be had, is perhaps felt to be more rewarding, less degrading -
Trickery abounds. Never has the market for possibly bait-giving or inwardly sordid TA helpers been bigger in the rich countries of the world (read: planet). Never before have so many children faltered inside broken homes and too ruthless environments. Never before has the need for wisely updated Grimm tales been greater. Never before has the need to access: "All right masters live on top of telling tales that mock our development, assets, or lie" been as it is today.

I suggest we find out we have to deal with tactics, very much like Don Juan Matos' enigmatic warfare in books by Dr. Carlos Castanedas, the social anthropologist.

Look with suspicion if you will, but it may pay to let difficult subjects rest

Freudian concepts help us to surmise to some extent. If we see into the Autobiography of a Yogi, Lahiri Baba was initiated into clever gasping (kriya yoga) in a Himalayan palace that was set up at once for some hours, and then vanished. Yogananda's autobiography says the much secret master Babaji made many people to set up a railroad office in a remote place in the Himalayas, and next summon the Indian accountant Lahiri to it. He had little to do, so he strolled in the hills till he met the avatar and all of a sudden was turned into one himself. That is what the books tells. Maybe some cosmic incubation was over.
How was the childhood of Lahiri Baba? It happened to be stern, marred by father loss and property loss. The family fell victim of a flood that swept away a family estate - perhaps we should note that houses near rivers can be taken by floods. Jesus was into that in another context, speaking on "house built on sand".
Striving for his family, Lahiri, married with children, got initiated in a ready-made palace because he had had a need for such housing. Most people love to get rich and surrounded by luxury, or what? Maybe the concept karma has not much to do with it in the psychological-analytical viewpoint. We can look for the most ready, sturdy explanation to avoid becoming freakish, and a measure of sound control helps too. Maybe it is not so romantic to get rich as dreamers like. And quite boring and tedious understanding may be true or good enough in most cases, if well shod.
At least we do not really have to guess up remnants from former lives if all is in the (cosmic) present, much as the avatar says: "All is happening in an eternal now." [Say] Let that view come in addition, to avoid obscene outlooks as time goes by.
We have to be quite adamant to remain fair to our own deeper natures in the face of topdogs or bigwigs of the greatest proportions. Or else there can be set up a give-and-take network where masters parade and you are allotted the measures of a little one all your days. That is not liberation either.
So it pays to inspect and gauge data given, and assume as little as well-nigh possible. Favour yourself as an image of the Potter instead. It cannot be wholly bad.
To look into data and hearsay (unverified tenets) from foreign quarters is costly and matters little for most people in key roles in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Let it rest there.
First we sort hearsay from soundly documented facts, with culture strains in between them. Hearsay is regularly to be avoided, not believed in, because there is a chance it makes a fool of one later. Why make a fool of yourself? If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well, says Yogananda. If a master is not served by a good public verifications of fable-sounding stories about top leaders and so on, so much the worse for him and the masters he speaks for.
A well told tale leaves no burns. A well made story that is not meant to be fairy tale, is soundly documented, stringent and all right presented.
It is a nasty thing to advocate scientific fare and "a thing worth doing is worth doing well" and still not mean it. Let us face it: Parts of the lore of SRF may cloud or obscure innate cleverness and hinder sound study, attaiment of skills and proper outfit.
So before you believe a still living Babaji was born AD 203, just ask for his birth certificate, or something just as likeable among histoicans or scientists in its place. Before you believe in a palace set up by magic, get better than squeeking "I have been told" evidence, and so on. We must go for facts to avoid being made fools of. If hard facts have not been uncovered, we have to be much guarded, very circumspect, and gauge odds, probabilities and estimates on and on cum gran sale, with a little salt added, as they say. There is hardly any better current way in today's science, where we believe as little as we can, initially, so as not to make big fools of ourselves, by believing on topp of some desires inside us.
Sound "objectivity" or neutrality helps us a long way away from superstition, offhand canon to believe in because it is master-dictated, and so on downwards. To believe in a canon interspersed with tales from a Führer because he has bound you for it, is not manly. But soap opera religion often mars man's head by just these means. Fie on masters that cheat as fathers inside American SRF: If you belive the propaganda tales, they breed much indoctrination canon later. And some mental conditioning (operant conditioning, by words and silly tokens), is not evolved at all, no matter what Yogananda up there dreamt up.
Given this, you had better not seek to become a friend of masters or bad withces in the forest of the mind.
Also, try to make the best of your personal attachments on "an evel keel". If you do not want masters to rise on top of you by irrational-seeming stories and much else, love rational and staunch conform ways more often than not. We have to upgrade sound information. Unproficient informants mar or downgrade the material - and the possible relevance of it.
In addition to what we have been into above, let us remind ourselves more: Tall tales may not be believed in, but may - like fables and fairy tales - be studied for figurative lessons of much value. Such standard-giving heuristic study is much for insiders. Dr. Carl Jung and many Freudians went into it like myself. [Hom]

There may be no way further if you cannot trust masters.

ALL IN ALL ugly persons and conditions may come your way, or you get subjected to some other sort of "usury is murder." (Hebrew). This ties in with the hush-hush teaching, believe it or not.

Bourrée Steps

MAIM VERY LITTLE to remain on the safe side as a honorable fellow. Shocked, greatly abandoned children may become severe farm cattle - fond of a lot lip service and brooding inside 1.The kidnapped one may love to have slaves, maybe mar in the name of Jesus - there is that risk, and maybe cosmic consciousness enlightenment is unrelated. Maybe we have to deal with tactics. If so, better be forewarned, and forearmed for it and study better.
GAUGE MUCH WITH SUSPICION Inside common sense and with fair judgement we are allowed to look at much with suspicion, as long as we do not dwarf innocent masters. That is in part what the autobiography of Yogananda tells. Striving to avoid obscene slandering and goof labelling cannot be wholly bad. There is reason to stay away from withces in the forest and try to make the best of kin attachments.
DO NOT LAG BEHIND. USE CLEVER INSPECTIONS inside some "our" tradition. GOOD ART is had from clever inspection and so on. A SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE is had from clever doubts, arrangements and judgements carefully mobilised, and so on. Much is needed inside your metier. Very good things take time to learn - perhaps terribly much more time to evolve unaided. So learn well first, and next accomplish - it takes time.

Anecdote: After Norgay's vision

GREETINGS from Norway: The dramatic photograph of the Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay on the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 went around the world. It was taken by the New Zealand explorer Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-) [You may also find a somewhat larger photo here] and here
Later people wondered why there was no companion picture of Sir Edmund. He wrote that he had not asked the Sherpa to take one of him, for "as far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how."

Miscellaneous

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.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.
Sus: Graves, Robert and Omar Ali-Shah. The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Cassell, 1967.
Wic: Yutang, Lin: The Wisdom of China. New English Library. London, 1963.

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