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"Guruji, you are ridiculing me."- Sri Yukteswar
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| Crank is what crank does - Mooh is not unfit! |
Profound, and just what I needed . . . you have explained that beautifully. - VBGems of Wisdom
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| Welcome to hilarious teachings. |
"True worth is in being, not seeming. [American proverb]"
Contents
- Learn from old jokers
- Whisky way ramifications
- Beggars beg - and some guru scenes
- Not Too Kinky T
- The Bold Stroke
- The Way
- God-condemned
| Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout: |
Learn from the Old Jokers
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| Able transmitters are nowhere out of place. So it seems. |
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)
Many Who Believe These Majestic Words are Actually Told not to -
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.
Old Bandit Baits that Survive along with Charade and Bluffing
Duping, smart and arrogant enoughto 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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An Ancient Law-Giver's Views on Some Vital Topics
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.
Old Whisky Yoga got lost with many ramifications that survive -
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] |
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 . . .)
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.
Beggars Beg - and Some Guru Scenes
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:
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 -"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]
"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.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]
Lahiri Mahasaya extended his hand in a benign gesture. "You may go now". [Ha 25]
And here is one more scene:
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:
"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]
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)
Not Too Kinky?
The Old Guru says the real "Whisky Yoga" got lost with many ramifications that survive -Explanation:
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)
The Bold Stroke
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.
The role of religion varies
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.
- Pride goes before a fall (Proverb)
A Way is Described
The tricky question whether avatar holiness must be muck holiness
Chuang Tzu:
Where the way is foundChuang Tzu:
Realist thinkingIn 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.
| 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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| Well, what did you expect? Did you think that your closest God-friend would come from India, contrary to the Bible warnings and much else? |
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.
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.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
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.
"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?
God-Condemned in Days Gone By -
Tricky lore, so helpful instructions had better be gifts
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 placeIn 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.
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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.
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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.
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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