Drinking an Awful Lot of Whisky
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The Whisky Way
"He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has something to hide" [Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), writer and historian]
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- The gasping is a metaphor for gentle kriya breathing.
- Deep relaxation comes with meditating too. There should be little or no strain.
- Drunkenness is figurative for ananda, joy that may become extreme and make you woosy, and not quite knowing how to talk sense for a while.
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The fabled spiritual eye is first seen as two-dimensional, but the blue part around the centre opens up into a tunnel too, although not quite as large.
- Yes, the clothing should be comfortable during a sitting.
- One should not overdo it, although Yogananda panted for wine.
- And the bowling ball represents nothing.
- Jesus said his true followers could drink deadly poison. Lots of alcohol will do.
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As to what the hypercritical few may think, I do not care." [Of]
Solomon's "Eat, drink [alcohol not excluded] and be merry" may be enlarged to include "enjoy these essays as you can, and well attuned to the costly art of figurative whisky drinking. Said more prosaically, "Meditate and you may improve your learning capacity."
- Take a little sip and stay cool. If you have to gasp and pant, do it slowly, well measured.
- If this hard experience is not enough for you, which we hope it is, lift your glasses of kelp whisky and drink like a gentleman.
- Drink as slowly and well composed as you can all the way, for example in the morning before having breakfast, at night right before going to bed and as often as you can in between. If you gasp a little, try to make it almost inaudibly, as a part of this art. Keep it simple, keep your back straight and remain well poised, and maybe you should keep your eyes closed or half-closed while at it, keeping an expression of "misty delight" if you feel for it. Try to wear costly costumes too.
- How many drinks is best before you tip over and harm your nose? It depends.
- You may sing devotedly after drinking: "O consecrated whisky of unnumbered decades, I have found you, found you at long last" - and so on. Yogananda did much of the sort.
- After some years of hard, regular drinking, you may sit alone. After still more regular drinking, your main concern may be to go upright without falling. These things can happen.
- Whisky drinking should not be wrisky drinking. That is a main point.
Forty concubines a minute, year out and year in
It could be good to find good time to travel and think along broad, sweeping lines if you can. And remember to ask, as you encounter things, "Where is the evidence?" - a very good question. For example, some may teach you: "Do not preoccupy yourself with too many women; find time to rest in between." How many are too many? That may be individual. But inspect:Is this a lesson on how to manage life? After much hot sex Krishna with a Radha, he dropped her and left for other pastures, where he got 16 000 new wives. Hindu scriptures, such as the Srimad Bhagavatam's Book 10 and the Mahabharata, say Krishna had 16 000 or 18 000 wives and almost all of them were abducted by him. Suppose his harem wives wanted a divine lay a couple of times daily - each. Krishna would then have to take well care of 1500 wives an hour. It suggests 22-40 wives a minute, night and day, give and take, but without any time for rich foreplay or keeping at it for hours on end with one concubine. Also, a virile man probably has a need to sleep and enlarge his horizons too.
It is nowhere forbidden in the Bible to have more than one wife. The harem is a religious possibility for Christians who live in countries where harems are legal, but maybe it is not that rewarding in the long run, just as having sex with ill sheep. Krishna's women and all their children were drowned, and King Solomon's harem backfired too, and he lost the said blessing and his dynasty fell apart.Jesus: "Everything is possible for him who believes." [Mark 9;23]
So suppose the proper question is not, "Can you have sex with about 1500 women an hour, year after year?" - but "What is ideal in my case?" To some it could be three of four. Moslems rarely have more than that. And some men may reverse it and share one wife among themselves (fraternal polyandry). "Polyandric" Yogananda was that sort of fellow in a former life, he told. He said he had been Arjuna, and Arjuna and his four brothers had one wife in common, Draupadi. It suggests she got lots of action and maybe felt sore at times. Polyandry has been practiced far and wide, also in Tibet. Fraternal polyandry is found in certain areas of Tibet and Nepal, where polyandry is accepted as a social practice.
Better seek one lovable, ideal mate if you can find one, and "be off with the old love before you are on with the new," if needs be.
But do not forget to believe better than that - believe you can do better than that - some way or other - that is possible too, according to gospel sayings, and might be greater works than Jesus ever did [John 14:12]. And a Christian is called to do greater works . . . and that is remarkable, considering that Jesus says his followers are ill sheep of a sort.
Do not expect much from an ill sheep, and you may not end up greatly disappointed either.
Tantric Sex Along with Regular Whisky Drinking
In both these cases - healthy copulation and sound whisky drinking with gasping as cleverly as you can, you "gasp and pant" a lot. That seems to be the overlooked knowledge. Plenty of skilled kissing and cosy hugging may go along with it. And there can be more than one risk involved. However, back-up instructions may save you. These things are all much treasured in insider traditions of Tantra Yoga.Culinary art is to get a terrible impact with a minimum of work.
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| Keep an eye to much, saving copulation too. |
Thus, by orgiastic Tantric sex or Taoist, slow-motion copulation you may enjoy yourself and attain to the supreme good too, if things turn out that way . . . [Cf. Jc]
The main focus here is to make the best out of, well, figurative whisky drinking. Good and skilled Tantra contains main keys, and so does Taoism. But "Hurry and find out on your own" can be a danger in very uncharted waters. And Pan orgies in the woods might have been ritual, ecstatic and transcending. [Cf. Gh]
Watch out: Slavish followers are likened to farm animals
IN HINDU mythology Krishna is the shepherd and millions of men - his calves - and Greek Cirke kept men turned into swine as her herd. Yogi disciples are likened to a herd. That is the old imagery. Krishna is the shepherd, and his herd are the Hindus of Visnuism. In Christianity the animal that is used is the sheep, not pig or cattle. To be a prison inmate is much like being a master's slave of a sort. [Gh; Sh]Apply artist skill in drinking. Speak against perverted outlets and bulwark against egocentric maniacs. And some demand renunciation of you.
It is good to be a tactful man, that sort of artist.
Odin got wisdom by hanging himself. [Ng]
Watch out for the all too common trickeries of unsound evangelist, and word charades, and freak salvationist play, or you may be taken in. Opposite to it, appropriate language assists un in managing better.
There Is a Lesson Here
Imaginary terms abound. On this site you could find such as the Atlantic Ocean and the salmon among pet figurative expressions. There are many others. One should add to this: "The comparison halts." Figurative expressions are not exactly correct, but at best they are approximations where the descriptions are resonant to some idea or experience.And thus we could loosely call the little self-assertive monk a clown of a sort. His brothers in the habit are not real brothers, mothers are not real mothers, and he has not abandonend the world: he has entered a narrow setting where others have the control, rather, and obedience to lots of rules is fostered and labeled virtuous, without necessarily being so. It depends on the rules too, and how maturely they are enforced. [Hom; Bob]
Those who decide to live like monastics, need little self-assertiveness, and must be adaptable too. To adapt well is not exactly the same as to comply or comply like an idiot. There is reason to suspect: If you cannot assert yourself reasonably well and adapt all right outside the cloister, maybe monastic living is fit for you, after all.
Silly obedience to top-dogs is not much, nor is operant-conditioning and play on facades and decor to make some impression. The terms "top-dog" and "underdog" stem from Gestalt psychologist Fredrick Perls. [Fuf 229]
Trickery in the name of Jehovah easily results in stultified individuals.
Those who become monks and nuns to serve "God" and gurus, have lost their sense of proportions, it seems to me. After all, God is in heaven within themselves, it is taught. If they sacrifice or molest and punish themselves as dictated by others, they are others-ridden, and disregard the higher teaching of going within and realise the Self directly.
Self-floggers have missed the bus - their libido development has gone too wrong. Catholicism is full of such "maiming holy clowns". Bulwark against those things even before such things as "holy love, holy fakir, holy mom" manifest. As it often turns out in the West, godly monkey-business is not a good thing.
Jungian individuation is to manifest our unique traits from inside as they pop up. The artist is marked by that sort of process. To manifest unique sides of existence is to differ. To differ is to deviate, and deviant persons may be met with negative sanctions, such as:
- Being laughed at loud.
- Being blocked, thwarted, hindered in gross ways over and over again, finding no refuge.
- Being ostracised, "frozen out".
- Being flogged to death and burnt - in other words killed.
To Die by Whisky or Not to Die
Word-parroting, mimicking monky-business looks like a TA Game or more. One call is for "reverence" by outfit. [Gyl; Bob; Hom]To be made to believe that a Hindu swami brings true Christianity when he instigates his Mother worship, Krishna worship and ignores many basic assets of true Christianity, is to be fit for dressing up like a clown to be swindled as part of the entertainment (Sanskrit: lila).
I came to realise something that resembles:
I have not felt any love for the sixth SRF guru the whole day. I did manage to live up to the SRF Kriya Pledge Fudge. So I had better quit.I did too, in disgust, dismay, and with alarming guru dooms over me. Before I left, I had also felt myself bound, like a guru-ridden stallion. Guiding dreams I had, brought wisdom to me as to what to do, and personally. Some might say I chose good loving instead of dying by Yogananda's kriya, but it was not that simple, it never was. In Tantric Buddhism it is not an either-or issue either.
I had also become gravely disappointed with how little there was in Yogananda's wordy teachings to actually apply, how very little useful they were to me. As a result I grew disinterested in his works, such as his Rubaiyat Commentary. The book is a farce to me.
I woke up to see I had been played on. The SRF Lessons - I think many do better without them, but not without the Atlantic Ocean and its salmon richness. Do I speak contrary to basic, personal experience?
Religious Quackery Is Common
Good custums that are handed over regularly for all right living, come under the heading "The Parent" in Dr. Eric Berne's costly Transactional Analysis, or TA. It is centred on how we relate, and tries to present common man with a non-dwarfed methods of inspections and relating - more or less incomplete. [Hom]Watch out for a cult that uses:
- Religious terms over and over can be a very good sign of personal inferiority and insufficiency.
- Thinking and talking highly of holiness for social esteem.
- Quack Bible teachings serving to accommodate it to Hinduism.
- Etc.
Guidance
As for guidance, children love well designed, artful figurative maxims, as found in fables and implied in various tales, such as Red Riding Hood - it is a warning tale. Youngsters need specified instructions, and should be able to interpret. Adults may not like guidance, and some old men love to give it.Jesus "always" talked in parables in public, writes Matthew. He went on to explain great stuff only to close or fair ones. The disciples asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?" He replied why, but Buddha's reasons are much better. [Matthew 13;10-17]
Maybe you should improve yourself to get straighter guidance. that might be a good inspiration from "When a prophet of the Lord is among you, I speak to him in dreams. But this is not true ... My servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles." [Numbers 12;6-8, excerpts]
Most people dream during several periods a night. For the lack of sound sleep and good dreaming, people manage less and less. [Sue, Medm] We may learn to interpret recurrent dreams fairly well. The Talmud says: A dream that is not understood, is an unopened letter. And the Old and New Testament focused on dream interpreters - Jacob's darling Joseph; Daniel; Joseph and Mary and others:
Visions described are hardly much different, when we speak of the essential stuff such "see-inside" phenomena are made of. And in our century much has been opened up in the wake of Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalysis. His famous book The Interpretation of Dreams (3rd ed) is online.In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride. [Job 33:15-17]
(Pharaoh's) Joseph said to them, "Do not (sound and fair) interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams." [Genesis 40:8 (etc); cf. Daniel 2:16-23. Also compare Brd]
Dreamlike presentations could be good.
Speak plainly and friendly to close ones if you master it.
Further, good jokes bring friends together.
Kriya and Climbing
Much whisky drinking calls for sitting down or lying down after a while. And "When house and property are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent." [Dq]Good climbing depends a lot on skills. By climbing you gasp too. The higher you climb, the harder the goings get. Maybe you need to bolster up yourself and seek shelters as you make for the hovering summit.
1. Do not strive a lot to get glad, rather gain gladness of heart without striving, by mastery of wise methods of meditation.
2. Where conditions are not really good, meditators may not show off, but maintain a reserve.
3. Keep something in reserve.
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Literature
Bob: James, Muriel, and Dorothy Jongeward. Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1971.
Dq: Cohen, J. M., and M. J. Cohen. The New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations. Rev. ed. London: Viking, 1992.
Fuf: Shertzer, Bruce, and Shelley Stone. Fundamentals of Counceling. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1974.
Gh: Hjortsø, Leo. Græske guder og helte (Greek Gods and Heroes). 2. utg. Copenhagen: Politiken, 1984.
Gyl: Berne, Eric. Games People Play. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.
Hom: Berne, Eric. What Do You Say After You Say Hello? The Psychology of Human Destiny. New York: Bantam, 1973.
Iod: Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. 3rd ed., tr. by A. A. Brill. New York: Macmillan, 1913. Online. www.psychwww.com/books/interp/toc.htm.
Jc: Chang, Jolan. The Tao of Love and Sex. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
Medm: Hall, Calvin. The Meaning of Dreams. New ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.
Nm: Munch, Peter Andreas Norse Mythology: Legends of Gods and Heroes. Rev. Magnus Olsen, tr. Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1926 . Compare: oaks.nvg.org/norse-mythology.html
Of: Fuller, Edmund. 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions. New York: Wings, 1970.
Rof: Smith, Huston. The Religions of Man. New York: Harper and Row, 1958.
Sba: Prabhu, Anand A., tr. Srimad Bhagavatam. Filognostic Association of The Order of Time. [bhagavata.org], 2005.
Sh: Raghunathan, N., tr. Srimad Bhagavatam, Vols 1-2. Madras: Vighneswara, 1976.
Sue: Luce, Gay, og Julius Segal. Søvn (Sleep). Oslo: Gyldendal, 1968.
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