"Guruji, you are ridiculing me." - Sri Yukteswar
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Crank is what crank does - Mooh is not unfit!
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Profound, and just what I needed . . . you have explained that beautifully. - VB
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Gems of Wisdom
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Welcome to hilarious teachings.
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"One is to care for the little details and tackle things well in a life.
There is costly slapstick and slapstick to lose by. Can the whereabouts of lesser
beings, their schemes and dark corner planning be detected full well by those above or far
beneath their ranks?
"True worth is in being, not seeming. [American proverb]"
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transmitters are nowhere out of place. So it seems. |
WANTING to correct their minds, the ancient jokers strove to make their wills
sincere.
Wanting to cultivate themselves by exerting will, they depended on mature, relevant
outlooks from likeable and proper minds -
To arrive at minds like that or correct their minds, they had to use the will power
in partners or themselves - or some measure of sound prowess - yes, they tried to make their
wills sincere to cultivate agreeable minds so as to log out of the whole
universe.
In this way much neat and handy was attained. And feel free to deliberate in
ease.

"I didn't say actors are cattle. What I said was, actors should be treated like
cattle." - Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
It is normally wise to make a proper examination before
committing.
Gautama Buddha advises, "It is proper for you to doubt and to have perplexity [when]
doubt has arisen in a doubtful matter."
In Pali, the Buddha's counsel about non-believing is recorded as:
Ma Pitakasampadanena: Do not believe something just because it is cited
in a text. [Do not be led by what the scriptures say]
Ma samano no garu ti: Do not believe something thinking, "This is what
our teacher says". [Do not be led by what your teacher tells you it is so.]
Kalamas, when you yourselves directly know, "These things are wholesome,
blameless, praised by the wise; when adopted and carried out they lead to well-being,
prosperity and happiness", then you should accept and practise them."
- Gautama Buddha, Kesamutti Sutta, the fifth sutta (sutra) in
the Book of Threes (Mahavagga) in the Gradual Sayings (Tika Nipata).
THE ABOVE concerns guru teachings here. Buddha says it is wise to make a proper
examination before accepting
teachings as true and good. Well, do what you can. The sayings are here: [LINK]
To reject gems is not good at all
- Gather your potential good gear and renew your other "weapons" in order to
meet the unforeseen better prepared.
- Prosperity is akin to good fortune.
- Accept gem standards wherever you come across them.
- You can accept or reject the realizations that are gathered. For unless you
have such freedom, plots may accrue in time. It is best to be careful.
- To accept to reject an unmet Krishna may require a great deal of skill that
we normally think little of.
- Prosperity and well-being: Go for it. Many a bathing crowd has it.
- Master this in time: let what is spontaneous give good fortune.
Duping, smart and arrogant enough
to stand up as guru cat avatar
supposed to aid well-nigh all in fakir-wise manner
and capture only bullies -
What if the opposite be true?
Care for the little details and stay regularly as clean as you can. It's best that way.
Try to stay sober if you can. It's natural too. Or else big cheats get advantages. Fear
the soap opera fellowships around that drive very severe bargains on top of regular
"whisky drinking" to their satisfaction in splendid detail, but not necessarily
yours.
Who seeks a quarrel finds it near at hand (Proverb)
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This is to show that it is very easy to confuse men and women in
great numbers:
Laws of Manu, or Manu Samhita, is an ancient Indian book, and
one of the many that Lahiri Baba interpreted in his day. Below are highlights from the
translation by G. Bühler, Oxford University Press. [LINK]
The Veda, the sacred tradition, the customs of virtuous men, and one's own
pleasure, they declare to be visibly the fourfold means of defining the sacred
law.
The knowledge of the sacred law is prescribed for those ... who seek the
knowledge of the sacred law [and whose] supreme authority is the revelation
(Sruti).
But when two sacred texts (Sruti) are conflicting, both are held to be law; for
both are pronounced by the wise (to be) valid law. [Laws of Manu, 2:12-14]
PURPORT
So if one hoary and gruff text that Indians revere together insists you should
execute your mother for this and that according to the rules laid down, for example in
Manu Samhita, you should not refrain from treating all women but one as your
mother, to be "on the safe side", according to guru teachings. But please
don't!
Literal-minded ones and faithful guys with boss-blinded eyes don't see too well
together, and some could end up in trouble. It happens they take many small steps
together towards it.
One more time: If one text says "jump from the cliff" and another says "Stand
still", you may behave like an idiot, but the question is whether such conduct is real
help, sane and liberating enough!
The few instructions above is "perhaps just as Manu would have it, but don't
forget the six serving-men that "taught me all I knew" (Kipling). Their names:
"who, what, where, why, how, and when".
Go on to ask such as: "Who is Manu? "How valid are the Laws of Manu nowadays? And
Manu's ideas for a meat-eater?" - and much else, and then you may rise mentally to
conquer being lorded over by many dogmas, as rationality and a sane mind is not worth
forsaking.
Problems that often arise where each new guru face adds or subtracts to old
teachings and other teachings, may call for masterful broom-labour and
restorations. To last, good things should be much condensed or compact, and yet not too
difficult for insiders. However, if the inner meaning of this and that instruction and
service by guru tops is not to help but to capture, bind and keep halfway enslaved
through foxy deals, then a good man should maintain integrity at the cost of life.
- Don't get hung up in externals, and don't sacrifice
your personal life to get hooked or fished. Learn to bulwark instead.

Medicine fever
THE 8TH Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733) was strict with his servants. He would
dismiss on the spot any that were found drunk. Yet he used to turn a blind eye to
misdeeds of a trusty old footman called John.
One time when John appeared in front of him almost too drunk to stand, it was
impossible: the incident was witnessed by other members of the household. So Lord
Pembroke went up to the tottering footman, felt his pulse, and exclaimed,
"God bless us, he's in a raging fever! Get him to bed directly and send for the
apothecary."
That man was ordered to bleed the patient copiously and give him a strong dose of
medicine every twenty-four hours. The result was that John staggered out after a few
days, looking weaker and paler than the most severe illness could have left
him.
"I'm truly glad to see you alive," cried the earl. "You've had a wonderful escape
and ought to be thankful. If I hadn't passed by at that time and seen the condition you
were in, you could have been dead. But John, no more of these fevers!"
Mentions
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Did you know a touch of yoga trance can breed
sorrow? [Cf. Tas 234-5] |
On the surface this seems like good Rabelaisian horseplay. Underneath there could be
nuggets of gold, also for the doctor of medicine and antabuse studies. Now, let the
expression insensible whisky drinking stand for kriya yoga very often, and
what do we get - what do we end up with from it?
The answer is had: Very, very little unless you're one of the good whisky
drinkers. And this is a fact: This mode of presentation is also tantric. Good
tantric training goes much against getting haughty and marringly
religious-looking. We can try instead to get a sense of worth from our solid
accomplishments.
- The word 'insensible' has more than one meaning, and
speaks of inner attainments to some.
Always expect less from whisky drinking - it stands to reason
The headline teaching is taken from our Regular Whisky Drinker's Brain-Damaging, Paralytic Canon. And:
- No universe, no infinity to grasp by it.
The Hammer Mjolner (Mjolne) Taken to Mean the Aum Sound
Some of us may perceive the Norse Mjolne - the hammering boom bang from deep
inside. You can tune in to that deep and cosmic vibration till you get senseless, sort
of. That hammering sound route is a deep, majestic sound delving route available
through initiation. There are those who qualify . . . [Cf. Ng]
- Top athletic training may accelerate
the coming of Mjolne - (and few understand it! - so it may be a koan .
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The illiterate's progress - a fundamental mistake?
GREATLY distressed by the prevailing ignorance of the villagers in the small
village in which she was vacationing, an old lady persuaded the schoolteacher to give
some lessons to some of the more illiterate adults. Meeting one of these pupils on the
street one day she asked kindly,
"Well, John, I guess you can read your Bible by this time."
"Bless your heart, madam," was the grateful reply, "I was out of the Bible and
into the baseball news over a week ago."
- Every book must be chewed to get out its juice
(Chinese proverb). And this holds true for the best books on Norse gods and myths
too.

First-class renouncers should renounce renunciation too, as the avadhut
says
Well-nigh any drive to give more than you get back, must be
overcome.
Renounce the world, and also renounce renunciation . . . (Avadhut Gita 4,21]
Ancient Hindus institutionalised half-ritualised or customary begging more than
Westerners. Still monks may go into the streets of the world begging, after having
renounced the world, as they say. They don't renounce begging in the world, and hence
they don't really renounce the world either. They take different positions in the
world.
Begging doesn't have to work well on a character. Ancient Hindus swerved from
self-fulfilling fares and thus made it possible for the high-looking (spiritually bent)
persons among them to dive inside and live on alms by begging. Hindus built a society
that allowed for such customary ways of "let thosw who aspire to be the highest among
us beg at the door of other people" - something like that.
The bother and troubles that can go along with meeting beggars, may be
reconsidered.
To become first-class renouncers or swamis, some beg for super-human
assistance. It is not normally had by barking up the wrong tree, but some times strange
things happen, according to such old works as the Siva Purana. Gurus in coming
search for gurus that are willing to take on huge responsibility on their behalf.
That's how some do it. Some love to serve, and others seem to get a benefit from that.
In such ways some think they attain.
- Provision in season makes a rich house
(British).
On How to Beg One's Way on and up
One may implore a lot, and strive to serve and please along with that.
Manipulative conduct may smell like that too. There could be a danger of secretive
cunning involved. If so, it could work in nasty ways - maybe in secret at first - and
maybe after-effects come to the fore decades later.
In contrast, Jesus said: "Freely you have received, freely give."
[Matthew
10:8]. That is the Christian tune to sing here.
And now, the coming paramahansa Yogananda to his master:
"Gratefully I accept ... on one condition ... That you promise to reveal God to
me!"
An hour-long verbal tussle ensued. (...) I ... was determined, as his disciple,
to press my advantage.
"You are of exacting disposition." [See Ha 103]
This scene is from the life of Yogananda. He excelled in imploring others
too. And later he wrote of scences where future gurus implored their gurus
for benfits -
"I will tell you how priceless is a guru's help. ... Finding difficulty ... one
evening I paid a visit to Lahiri Mahasaya and pleaded for his divine intercession ... during
the entire night.
Lahiri Mahasaya extended his hand in a benign gesture. "You may go now". [Ha
25]
Incredibly uplifted, that later guru returned home. He had got help. He even got an extra
body of his to assist him. So we are informed. [Ha 25 etc. - the whole chapter]
And here is one more scene:
One day the young Mukunda Lal Ghosh (later Yogananda) entered a room where a good
schoolmaster got disturbed by him in the midst of his devotions. Yogananda fell moaning
to the floor and clutched his feet:
"Holy sir, thine intercession! Ask Divine Mother if I find any favour
...!"
The future world guru shamelessly gripped his feet, deaf to remonstrances, and
besought again and again for intervening grace. [Ha 75]
Some beg for gold, others for morsels and some dimes in the street, and others for a
higher state, and so on. In India monks adapt to a life-style where begging is
included. Another scene:
"Guruji!" I fell at his feet with an imploring gesture. "Please promise that you won't
leave your body now. I am utterly unprepared to carry on without you." [Ha
201]
It surely leaves an impression that you cannot beg too much. But what if you don't
think begging is fine in the first place? Solid future attainments stem from
genuineness, seldom mere grafts and all-gifts. There is reason to suspect that real
worth is not a worth that's attained by being a top-notch at begging, and that staunch,
genuine maturity isn't won on top of begging, but a measure of self-actualisation,
somehow. Artists know that.
- He is an old dog who knows not an old
enemy.
- Who spends before he thrives, will beg
before he thinks. (Proverb)

The Old Guru says the real "Whisky Yoga"
got lost with many ramifications that survive -
Explanation:
Kriya is an ancient science. [The mystic] Babaji rediscovered and clarified the
technique after it had been lost". [Pa 242]
Kriya yoga has many ramifications. [Pa 334n]
One of the patron saints of Kashmir, the 14th-century Lalla . . . practiced a
technique, closely allied to Kriya Yoga . . . The saint dematerialised herself in fire.
[Pa 201n]
A whole lot of stories
The literature surrounding Ramakrishna reveals a deep truism - note the
steps:
- First they thought he was crank or insane.
- Next he got jovially accepted.
- Finally that rare one was hailed as some godhood descended into human shape
- an avatar. And thereby not insane - not insane avatar!
Ramakrishna stood for syncretic religion very much. He told or rendered a whole
lot of savoury stories. [Cf. Rap. Sah. Tas. Tos.]
He also told a lot from his own experiences, first-hand, first-class - and
people around him thought he was mad. It may happen to someone who deviates somehow in
India too.
To recognise a jewel you have to be an expert on jewels or rare stones. You
don't have to be one yourself. The yogi training of Ramakrishna made him an embodiment of
divinity. There is much agreement on that now - in India and among disciples.
Some are in the USA. You can find interesting material on Ramakrishna and his fellowship
here. [LINK]
A special persons requires an equally special (particular) approach to be
understood. One has to perceive the phenomenon, and leave the gross
pre-conceived concepts from text-books and training behind in that approach.
Otherwise one is gross and base in the over-all approach, probably.
If persons have visions, they could be threatened in the deeps of life.
- It should be well and fair enough to walk on two legs and tell truths and
remain wise, witty and fair.
- As for guru visions, who knows what they may be taken to mean?
- "Don't reduce everything and everyone you talk with to look big yourself".
This is professionally straight.
- Maybe higher reality is battering you, maybe it is surreal or
freakish or bizarre.
To get deep inside is to
leave even substantial evidence aside for a while - and "the twin fools"
Twin fools: one doubts nothing, the other everything [Ap
166].
The possible "I'm greatest" problem"
underneath boasting and tactless "I'm another great one beside being not anyone
or being myself only seemingly" also calls for a comment:
Let us look and inspect in a fair way. The point is: If you don't know, tell
that, and refrain from talking too long about it - for there are other or better things
to do than to listen to those who tell they don't know - unless you get paid to listen.
That changes it.
Refrain from becoming one of the jeering scoffers, a negative, blunt no-sayer,
if you don't have substantial evidence for the top reliable verdict. It is seldom fit
to become a hailing fool either. The stark approach is to stay fair - rather neutral
inside too. Things that can't be settled at the time, keep them in suspense if you care
- and then think: (4)
"There are those who qualify for big things: fathers that never croak "I'm
someone else than myself in the first place." There is much else to think as well -"
There is much to think
well of in yoga too
DEALING WITH odd material demands a no-nonsense approach from bottom. What you
can do is to hold on to your assets and dear positions, to stay on the safe side. Don't
underestimate the trickery that is capable of to win influence and money to
swim in. (6)
If you read all the books on and of Ramakrishna that have been
selected here, you may change your mind about god-men. We did it not a few years ago.
(7) (#1.1)

Various hells are there to scare us. When we're made very afraid, we can do as "they"
(top-dogs) say, and many can keep at it and do so for the rest of their lives.

WHY PEOPLE were fond of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers: "Always make the audience
suffer as much as possible".
Is aiming well going for affluence?
On their way to affluence in the West, some gurus scare us with being reborn in baser
life forms if we don't obey and are faithful and do as top-dogs say in most
cases.
Besides, we can be reborn as donkeys and worse for the slightest offense to those
on top of the set-up Aryan pyramid, which is the caste system.
Those being active (the component rajas) (can reach) the state of
men. Those of slothful attitude, (darkness, tamas) ever sink to the condition of beasts.
- Cf. Mux Ch. 12;40 (rendition)
A prophet who drinks (alcoholic) Sura shall enter (the bodies) of small and large
insects, of moths, of birds, feeding on ordure, and of destructive beasts. - Mux Ch.
12;56
To avoid getting a bad fare for future lives, a king was to punish offending ones
severey - if he could. And one is to watch out for cruel punishing under the garb of
religion.
Very tricky religion is for all that
Somewhere in Siva Purana [Si], a large part of
Hinduism could be formulated:
Find your opponent's weak points and there attack. [Cf. Si]
This is much. What do or did we fall subject to? Several things may stand
out:
- Lies, parading boasts;
- Big hillbilly-phrases, teeming with arrogance;
- Christianity terms that look soap opera swell; partly due to demagoguery;
- The drive and thrust towards "cosmos" and "cosmic".
- "Great, greater, greatest", high, holy and Church - perhaps too loud and
clear.
The recognition each one can muster, helps one out a bit.
- Pride goes before a fall (Proverb)

The tricky question whether avatar holiness must be muck holiness
Chuang Tzu:
Where the way is found
Chuang Tzu:
Realist thinking
In the astounding tale of where the Way is found (link above), the task is seeing it in
lowly matter. Jesus said "I'm the Way" in the same vein here and there, presenting the
greatest in heaven as children, servants (slaves), and himself as a lamb to be
slaughtered. Yet it is quite another context. There needs be no doubt about
that.
There are very many
striking resemblances between older Taoist teachings and those of Jesus Christ of the
gospel. [Adj 10-11]
Jesus talked for humility, he too. "Let the greatest among us be the servant of
all." He didn't forget to let us in on that one.
- Humility as ordered may break the covetousness that
home-life depends on in the long run.
Holiness that is Given and its PR-Problems
IT CAN be terribly improper to look down on the common man, if such a man gives
alms to the wandering holy men, or monks like St. Francis. He might not have survived
many a winter but for the help of many so-called common men who earned their livelihood
and had homes and provisions. Yogananda too asked for much, and many times he got what
he was after from disciples.
And now, let us not forget that the one who gives could be higher or better
than the receiver. It depends.
It could be that essential holiness has not very much to do with Hindu ritual
or any other ritual. Some who have realised the Self, say so and behave so. Ramakrishna
illustrates it beautifully, actually.
We see it in his case too that being essential or holy is much attuned to being
child-natured - frivolous and fond of play and humour, in most fair ways.
We can look to Jesus who discarded many cherished rituals that were called high
and holy among clericals of his day - top-dog-attuned - God himself condemned those
guys.
As for gross holiness, scaring may help it a lot: This comes remarkably
close the
Indian concept of holiness and black magic too. Holy ones of Hinduism have to curse
offenders: You find laws for it in
Laws of Manu,. It lays down the law.
- First scared, next holding something or
someone holy and sacred as a result. Frivolity is much to go for,
then.
Fear and unsound respect can go hand in hand in Faroffistan as
elsewhere.
Really holy is most likely child-natured in a fit and proper way most
often.
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BELOW is another sort of study plan. Call in the artistic sophomore study if you like. It is divided in three
parts, marked by A, B, and C, and presupposes good schooling fairly often. It can still
be candid and work well, and evoke thoughts and ideas, maybe debates too. [MORE] |
A. To get top holy, try neither to maim-save
nor guru-enslave anybody
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your closest God-friend would come from India, contrary to the Bible warnings and
much else? |
We should say: nothing is more holy in nature than staunch vivacity. It's not
publicity.
Now, we don't try to save anybody by this serenade. For we've found that we can
be forgiven for holiness-outputs if we don't try to save anybody in one way or another.
The bible tells us that really deep-probing and truthful guys are holy, nay, prophets.
And the more truthful and saving they get, the worse for them. To get stoned for saving
eagerness - say no thanks to that. And why is that? Because true holiness is had by
living. "I am the life," insists Jesus. There is no holiness as we know it, outside the
life in itself. So, fighting well to stay alive, we can fight to remain holy. In the end
we may end up well liked, if we don't try to save anybody but ourselves in the first
place - honouring God inside us first - we're normally the nearest or closest ones to do
that right in our place. Remember that God is inside us or with us, and that it pays to
show the right God respect - a pure and holy life, truth-telling for most part, and well
- we have to insist that holiness is something that all reborn Christians - all real
Christians get as a present, and nearly no one dies from it in these days.
The real holiness is had by being living and well. And to be fair and true for
most part, comes very close to all-round wholeness, or health. That is a pragmatic view.
In fact, Jesus says to the Samarian woman that only the truthful and spirited (salmon),
can be fit for holiness found in his Father. Jesus Christ also delighted in lovely
flowers, and sang songs shortly before God's chosen people crucified him good turns and
special sayings.
It could take a really holy soul to mobilise truthful assertions in the face of
dangers and overwhelming power in the hands of others. Let's all bear that in mind. For
the murky and guru-chained holiness is a magician's control. It can be much different
from the holiness of reborn Christians, we dare say. Who can control these facets of real
and sham holiness? The unafraid, the really holy ones. The reborn Christians, the true
followers who have been given the spirit of truth - and holiness.
That's a fundamental outlook, and part of our heritage. As for Indian swami
holiness, let's beware. It can be a part of an intrigue.
B. Substantial plotting
has to get undermined the sooner the better, and preferably prevented in the first
place Gurus that never have been baptised as Christians, never have received
glossolalia and never have been sanctified by the pope, for example, come and say they
can save us by nonsense. Yogananda did.
The recipe comes to the fire after decades, if not earlier: others toil hard and
pay them much. In the end many may find they've benefited very little, partly due to
culture collisions, partly due to sly traps for gullible beginners, and partly because
braying plotters have peed on them - or some of them, maybe two third - gurus may play on
the innocent mind.
Such avatar "holiness" is not aligned one hundred per cent to honesty and
truthfulness. Find that fact cemented in the writings and utterances of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952). There is a riddle that you can walk over
him in the fresh grass-blades - in fact like Tao itself, my man - Find out if that is
true for yourself.
If we happen meet sordid disciples - they don't play and don't take a natural
liking to good-natured wit and humour, I've gathered. And they could insist that not to
mar the Jesus-misusing, abusive schemers at play, is our great act. They may love us for
not telling all the world that holy must be true, and that the holiness of Indians
eventually is turned into the life of a hermit - he hardly interferes in the open. Yogananda felt drawn to that life, but it was denied him by gurus above him. So they say
in Self-Realization Fellowship.
So he came to the USA and worked for a following that eventually made
substantial contribution to Indian welfare. Money and resources were channelled that way.
In these waters we just describe for most part.
C. On interfering to save, given the premises
of Jesus - can it be?

A true word holds water.
As good Christians we can herd sheep. But can we interfere when intriguers or
wicked salvationists come and take over in the garden of Jesus? It can be very hard to
tell. God allowed thistles to take over, remember. Yes, we have to be very circumspect
and wary, to say the least. There are pros and cons and much terrain can lie in between
such opposite poles. But maybe there isn't room for a diplomat.
Jesus insists: The father will draw to Jesus those that the Father chooses. But
Jesus also say he will draw all to himself. Find such missionary-overlooked utterances in
the gospel.
Jesus said, "When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all
men to myself." - John 12;32
"Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. "No one can come to me unless the
Father who sent me draws him ... It is written ...: "They will all be taught by God."
Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. - John
6;43-5 There isn't room for a guru for it, this being the case, I dare say.
If you have said A, B follows. In the relief these sayings give, guru promises of
salvation by techniques have to be swollen peas, not godly, I'm sorry to say.
We shouldn't strive to lessen the greatest words of God to make the
religion a slave-binding thing. Jesus has said he will draw all! Not less. Note that
well. Make a copy of it and keep it in your notebook. In a book Christ speaks to two
British listeners, a real author insists,
"Good works have been marred by words, words." - Better be careful, very guarded
in our talking, and - well - let him and his Father do their jobs. We have to find that
ours can be much different. We hardly have to interfere.
While God draws all, you and I can be preoccupied with winning ways. Have fun and
play. It comes fairly close to being one of the good guys, no matter what evil gangs
think. Getting a good enough living most often pays. Normal Christians have arrived at
that. And while we make our way to the good life, let's refuse the syrupy guru that
flatters gullible beginners by such as transcendent doctrine or twisted Christian
concepts - refuse him a living on top of such mock humility, such mock holiness as
Christians know it. Truthful is holy. If there's not truth, nowhere is the holiness. We
might have to say that rather often in a guru-slave's face.
Let's just accept that God has declared he shall draw all to him. There can be
mysterious ways - allow for them as well. We have to say no to the high-sounding, but
fundamentally empty phrases of parading cattle or their masters - for such masters can be
occult slave-takers - dangerous to come by. I've found that fairly close to the
figurative truth rather often - much too often, in fact. Let's
face it: What a treasure-hungry and faith-exploiting guru from Faroffistan could stand
for in your case, is that you toil for being made the god you already are - not seldom so
that this faking expert ends up with enormous prestige on top of Americans - being a
parading crook if he says he gives "original Christianity of Jesus" and then lives on top
of ignoring his deeper lore. These things have happened very often. Nasty cults are no
jokes. Some sing Hallelujah, others "It's all over". And that's for sure outside
Jonestown and Waco also. You can't afford the blunders of cult membership, I dare say, if
you don't hanker for becoming bitter and alienated from much, including Jesus Christ or
the full impact of his teachings.
Given the premises of Jesus, if he did not tell the truth he isn't
holy and God! There is the hallmark of real holiness - it has nothing to do with untruth
or faulty suggestions over and over - it could be a tricky play on
gullible ones and their simplicity. Let's be as bold as we can
without being rash, and steer away from trying to free any of that crew, for in all
likelihood they won't have us near, even. Some are that way. Look to a farm's animals.
They may seem to thrive, and specially in late spring in our country. But let's be
careful here, for under the surface they're prisoners, fenced in by electric wires and
much less - - we have to accommodate well, and good and sound accommodation rises above
being like cattle-like. -
Like gurus we may one day have to wear a mask or a veneer.
I can put on any personality I like. [Yogananda, in a talk].
"Therefore be as shrewd as snakes," says Jesus in Matthew 10;16 and note that
well. For a sound Christian often has to live like a sheep among wolves - Jesus says it
[Ibid]. Have you noticed that perhaps no gorilla ever will do that, and hardly ever wears
a mask or a veneer?

This is part of what I said - note that what follows beneath is not a
tick-tack-toe program at all. It's sophomore gist. You may
suggest on top of it, if you're very careful to use references of good quality, I hope. I
have to insist on this, to warm us up: - Jesus himself condemned robbers of the
dark, tricky an religiously fervent type.
- Really holy is most likely child-natured in
a fit and proper way, and besides it may be greatly true to fact.
- Be a fact-finder,
a good one, the sooner the better.
A To get top holy, try neither to
maim-save nor guru-enslave anybody you know. The wicked scheme
can be a part of a god-conspired intrigue, it's held.
B Substantial plotting has to get
undermined the sooner the better, and preferably prevented in the first place
In SRF the faith is that there are god-gurus around, in part
like spectres, to be fair about that creed. The SRF gurus have said they're
attuned to Jesus Christ and give "original Christianity" - but that seems to be a tall tale. Saving avatar decrees can't be
all right in the light of Christ's own saying, and can't be aligned one hundred per
cent to honesty and truthfulness. There's no God's help outside the Church of Jesus.
To believe in less is as good as falling prey to humbug. Find
that fact cemented in "Guru came to America and taught the world's unreal - whereupon
he cheated into existence a huge following that eventually made substantial
contributions - to what? Indians' welfare. There's one more
word from Yogananda's autobiography to share with you in the
light of Jesus Christ's own decree of "I will draw all to myself" - but he did not say "through Yogananda.Don Coyote is ever in communion with a Draug (it means a christ
consciousness also to some); together they send out vibrations of redemption and have
planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age. The work of these two fully
illumined masters - one with a body, and one without a body - is to inspire the nations
to forsake [such as] sectarianism ... Don Coyote is well aware ... and realises the
necessity of spreading the self-liberations of - well - "bear's yoga""- [Cf. Pa
307]
Get acquainted with crook talk. It's infiltrating Christianity. It goes against
Jesus Christ's own sayings in the Bible, loud and clear. It cements "self-help salvation"
and never goes into the fettering or yoke-giving sides of yoga, not even the staunch
outlook that to be saved in a Christian sense is a gift. The baits or traps can be
many.
C
In interfering to save, at times there isn't much room for a diplomat.
Freedom as Christians or sons, not slaves, included freedom to state our own
minds carefully, well guarded if streaking enemies pass by, or freedom to let it be.
"Stones may talk if we get silenced," Jesus guarantees, but I grant this outlook isn't
fit for all of us, not today. There are stages or grades in Christianity, St. Paul
insists. He gave "baby milk" to his friends, and here is more. Let's look to what took
place around Jesus and disciples, and find a half-principle from it. Look to the deeds,
Jesus insists. Conclusion: "Interfere to mar the wicked ones - I think that's fair rather
often, though Jesus insists he will draw all to himself."
As I mentioned to a friend a few days ago,
"Hadn't Jesus and God interfered against "papal" guys among Jews in his day,
there would have been no Christians to rise and shine." But
let's allow for a lot divergent outlooks in civic matters. Keep open room for fair enough
new interpretations here and there, for conditions vary, and we with them.
Yes, we can found our everyday actions quite differently, and still be
counted among the good ones, I should say. It behoves us to lessen the greatest loads to
make our religion a holier affair that a wicked, fettering guru-romance ever could
be. Accept that Jesus has said he will draw all! He also said he
came to bring a sword - you can do the same - Truthful is
holy.
Let's just accept that God has declared he shall draw all to him, not giving even
the faintest suggestion of a mean guru in between.
Because lots of unsettled, non too stable North Americans ignored Christian
heritage like fools, well-nigh any India-exported, poker-faced faker could end up with
enormous prestige - in part derived from "original Christianity of Jesus" and talk down
on just singing Hallelujah for a show. [See Say]
You can't afford the blunders of cult membership, and "therefore be as shrewd as
snakes." - See Matthew 10;16

Thoughts to Live By
A DRIVE to give more than you get back, should be overcome.
Polite, delicate manners are free from robbing.
Real holiness is not ritual at all. It is more attuned to being child-like: frivolous and fond of play and humour.
Let us just accept that the God of the Bible has declared he shall draw all to him.
If you read all the books on and of Ramakrishna that have been selected here, you may change your mind about some aspects of Indian, religious culture. (2)
Rap is a low sort of music.
TO RECOGNISE a jewel you have to be an expert on jewels or rare stones, but you do not have to be one yourself. (3)
What is great, seems to deviate from rap.
God of the Bible nowhere rapped in the Bible, and got accepted as great.
WHAT IS great deviates from the common. (5)
Words of Ramakrishna have been meticulously recorded by eminent biographers. [Rap. Hib. Lrr. Gra] The literature about him reveals a deep truism: (1)First they thought he was crank or insane. (2) Next he got jovially accepted. (3) Finally that rare one was hailed as some godhood decended into human shape - an avatar.
As good jumpers (q.v.) we can herd sheep.
Like masters we may one day have to wear a mask or a veneer.
Holiness and good adaptation goes for different outlets most often.
To get stoned for eagerness to save - say no thanks to it.
Indian mystics are quite obliged to curse offenders - You find laws for it in Laws of Manu,. It lays down the debatable law. (6)
Pre-conceived ideas can mar and be too clumsy in any outstanding and unique case, and "all cases that involve people are unique".
It should be better to walk on two legs and tell truths and remain wise, witty and fair.
Solid future attainments stem from genuineness, seldom mere grafts and all-gifts.
It stands to reason to look on the possible symptom as a fit balancing outcome.
It pays to show the right God respect the true followers have been given the spirit of truth - and holiness. (7)
Real worth is not a worth that is attained by begging-fighting, and staunch, genuine maturity is not won on top of begging, but a measure of self-actualisation, somehow. Artists know that.
There is a chance that someone who identifies with Hare Krishna needs some sort of rehabilitation.
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.
Also
Abg: Jens Braarvig, tr.: Bhagavadgita. Gyldendal. Oslo, 1982. (Note: I
don't particularly recommend this one for the study, but just refer to a dolphin
rendition.)
Coco: Leggett, Trevor: The Complete Commentary by Sankara on the Yoga-Sutras.
Kegan Paul. New York, 1990.
Fo: Handford, S. tr: Fables of Aesop. New ed. Penguin. London,
1964.
Gra: Jagadananda, sw. tr: Sri Ramakrishna: The Great Master. 4th ed.
Ramakrishna Math.. Mylapore, 1970.
Hib: Romain, Rolland: The Gospel of Ramakrishna. 8th ed. Advaita Asram.
Calcutta, 1970.
Hom: Berne, Eric: What Do You Say After You Say Hello? The Psychology
of Human Destiny. Bantam. New York, 1973.
Lrr: Advaita Asram: Life of Sri Ramakrishna. Advaita Asram. Calcutta,
1971.
Meb: Olsen, Per: Lægevidenskabelig og psykologisk forskning på yoga &
meditation. Generelle virkninger og behandlingsmuligheder. 2nd ed. Bindu. København,
1978.
Ng: Munch, P.A.: Norrøne gude- og heltesagn. Rev. ed. Universitet$
1981.
Of: Fuller, Edmund: 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions. Wings. New
York, 1970.
Pan: Rajan, Chandra, tr: Visnu Sarma: The Pancha Tantra. Penguin
Classics. London, 1995.
Rap: Gupta, M.: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna-Vivekananda.
New York, 1942.
Sah: Abhedananda, sw. tr: The Sayings of Ramakrishna. Vedanta. New York,
1961.
Tas: Ramakrishna: Tales and Parables of Sri Ramakrishna. 5th ed.
Ramakrishna Math, Madras, 1974.
Tos: Advaita Asram: Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna. Advaita Asram.
Calcutta, 1975.
Wa: Nikhilananda, sw. tr: The Bhagavad Gita. Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. New
York, 1952.
Wy: Tuxen, Poul tr: Bhagavadgita. Herrens Ord. Gyldendal. København,
1962.
Yolt: Johnston, Clive tr: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Stuart and
Watkins. London, 1968.
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