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Large Breasts without Many Worries

Solomon's Temple Patterned after the Female Organs

You may have wondered how Solomon's temple looked like. It is good not to add to the number of speculations, but the descriptions have a basic structure that resembles female sexual organs (the building). What takes place in them is like a coitus.

To know this makes some people happy. The idea that the true temple is the body, is another delicacy here. "Your body is a temple . . . Therefore honour God with your body," said Paul [1 Corinthians 6:20]. And "We are the temple of the living God." [2 Cor 6:16]. It is as simple as that.

❖ A temple of bone is more than a temple of stone (Proverb). It is good to take that learning with you when you go sightseeing too.

A god-spirit worrying about clothes?

"Paradise was greater than honouring clothes!"

Jesus: "And why do you worry about clothes?" [Matt 6:28-9, cf. Luke 12:27]

Paul: "Honour God with your body." [1 Cor 6:19-20]

Paul also insists that some get saved simply by having sex [1 Corinthians 7:13-14]. Accordingly, in a woman temple salvation can be going on [1 Cor 3:16-7]. That is the teaching. There are probably lots of living temples out there.

Pompousness captures

The impression of worth and greatness is formed by pomp and power. In the history of Jews, it represented things that God had striven to warn Israel against beforehand, before things got out of control. [1 Samuel 8]

Solomon spent more time and effort on building a "stable" for all his women than on God's temple - a harem of a thousand women that succeeded in leeding him astray so that his dynasty crumbled and fell. Thirteen years for his palace, seven for the temple, and materials for the latter had even been collected earlier, by his father, a David. [1 Kings 6:38 and 7:1]

Either Solomon had a sense of proportions and what helped the best, or he had not. And even though God of the ark had instituted ritual worship that involved the ark forever, the ark was lost during the reign of Solomon. The pact and artifacts that God had designed and revealed through Moses, were lost during the reign of Solomon despite all the massively repeated words earlier about how extremely important the goat-skin tent and ark were for correct worship.

Solomon speaks of "this temple I have built! [1 Kings 8:27]. However, we may figure he had workers to build it. Some do the work and others get the credit -

"God himself made it all"

"The Lord wanted it like this in Paradise!"

Paul, again: "We are the temple of the living God." [2 Cor 6:16]

"Never judge by appearances." - British wisdom. [Dp 10]

Much likely, future disturbances caused by going far away from nature's designs and schemes of coping and thriving balances need to be taken into consideration.

Mermaids and God

Mermaids

Do you believe in mermaids? In SRF they believe heaven is peopled with them. According to Yogananda his departed guru communicated one day: "The ordinary astral universe . . . is peopled with . . . myriads of fairies, mermaids, fishes . . . goblins, gnomes, demigods and spirits." - Autobiography of a Yogi [Au 355].

Ramakrishna: "The Paramahansa (patent spiritual) is like a five year old child." [Tas 207]. Maybe it suggests you are free to believe in mermaids as a little child may be induced to, and which they do in Self-Realization Fellowship. At any rate suit yourself and go for benefits.

The Greatest Help

Have you considered that as for mermaids and fable monsters, "There can be no real doer if all is illusion," is not part of Yogananda's output, but you find this:

"Self-analysis is the greatest art of progress" [Ak 73]

"You are free to come and go as you like." [Ak 31].

"The Lord is the Sole Doer." [Ak 163]

When he [man] awakens in cosmic consciousness, he will effortlessly dematerialise the illusions of the cosmic dream. [Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, ch. 34]

"The world is nothing more than a cosmic dream." [Yogananda, Ak 237]. "This life is a dream." [Yogananda, Ak 240] "Babaji observed. "The divine realm extends to the earthly, but the latter [is] illusory"." [In Autobiography of a Yogi, ch. 34]

You may want to enlarge on it. The kriya yoga guru Lahiri Mahasaya says,

"All is illusory. There is no doubt about this. People are mad . . ." [Lahiri Mahasaya, Abadhuta Gita, 2:7]

Compare it with a translation: ". . . the primordial form of matter called mahat ['giant'] is no other than the Self (Atman). As the rays of the sun differ not from the sun, so matter does not differ from God." [Avadhut Gita 2:7]

"When you are liberated from the world of illusion [inhaling and exhaling], then you will not feel worried about good or bad words and comments by others." [Lahiri Mahasaya, Yoga Sutras 2:52]

Compare it with a translation: "[By transcending external and internal objects] is worn away the veil which covers up the light. [Yoga Sutras 2:52]

Above we have been taking one more cursory look at a difficult lore. For example, it would appear that the greatest progress is had by God who seemingly, only seemingly, keeps analysing himself, if Yogananda has "seen the light and got it right". Has he? That is the question, also for mad people who breathe in and out (Lahiri) . . .

What is not illusory is underneath the surface of appearances, is the good old teaching. Seeming successes may prove to be turnarounds and full of pitfalls at any rate, to the degree we disregard that Field, also called the Divine Ground.

The unified ancient view of ekam sat (Oneness is), and Oneness is real, indicates how some may receive messages from peas - for among the former secrets of gardening of the Findhorn Community in northeast Scotland, messages from the inner being to garden peas - and other devas (shining ones) too - helped in making Findhorn and its founders on a caravan camp in northwest Scotland thrive for a long while, we are told.

Unreal

What do we find outside nature, outside the universe? Is there room outside space? A tavern for gurus to sit in and watch the illusory drama unfold according to something like "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is it"?

The world will go on—All nature is unreal. [Yogananda, Ak 446,448]

The SRF stand is: "We do not find fault with Paramahansa Yogananda's guidelines. Since we believe that he had attained complete union with God and therefore his wisdom is flawless." [More]

A little initial criss-crossing yields:

• The world is unreal, although it goes on [just because I decree so within it.]
• What is unreal, will go on [in these circles.]

You can't have your cake and eat it too; you can't say the world is unreal and expect to be counted among real gurus, for example.

No Reductionistic Promotion

In genuine self-help yoga there are no pressing advocates. James Hewitt's book Teach Yourself Yoga may serve as an example. [Lsy]

Pranayama involves breathing exercises; some are violent. The core kriya yoga technique, ujjayi, is public, and a rather basic pranayama technique. Further, it has been known and practiced for hundreds or thousands of years. Kriya yoga, if done properly, is soft, gentle pranayama. Think of a halfway dead someone and his needs to get air by slow, measured, almost inaudible pants, or think of someone having a sweet orgasm, and you have got an inkling of how it is done, perhaps.

And tools in the hands of fools may work harm, but it does not have to happen, although some things depend on how good you are, or on your associates, and so on in a widening circle. There is a need for proper measure in so many things, including the amount of kriyas daily. There are some basic rules to adhere to so as not to overdo the "excellent, gentle panting".

Things that seem good in the start, may not work well after a while, or may work astoundingly well: There is no currently available research into this - to what degree kriya has long-range benefits and/or harms. At least thirty years must go into the study of long-range effects of doing SRF's kriya yoga, the kriya that Yogananda simplified and modified for "stiff ones", here it means Westerners.

"Do not believe, make sure (Proverb)". As Edmund Burke writes in another context: "A claim is . . . ill-suited [if] unsupported [Bur]." First get the facts, then seek remedial measures as fits.

It is hard to relate unless upright sincerity is mature and reciprocal.

Gauge possible harmful effects of going far off from nature's schemes for coping and thriving. Guess a fish caught in the net has a period of gasping - before it is slayed. Being hooked and fished should not be "the very last resource of the thinking and the good (Burke)." He rounds off by, "Found your doings on sound precedent, authority, and example."