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Rationalism

Marring things
Sound rationalism helps in clearing the mind of dogmatic debris and may assist fresh, personal perception. Rationalist views, how far can some of them they help under certain circumstances? Under what conditions can they win and become effective?
      In the case of disordered or jumbled communications the rational instance of the mind (the ego) assists in sorting out and ranking old ideas or even evaluate (judge) things (better) on top of them. A rationalistic view can help people attain at least a minimum of control or mastery in their living patterns. Cogent rationalism can assists in attaining excellence or mastery over this and that, including sorting our basic ideals.
      The rational parts of the mind may help us reflecting on our own native ideals (if any) in comparison to ideals (overt and hidden) as given through groups and societies.
      Calm evaluation of one's conditions and various cult-linked facets comes about on top of being basically sound and well informed, and going on from there on the ladder of cognitive development. Dr. Benjamin Bloom and colleagues have shown such steps. Eventually, candid evaluation often serves a turning point or three. Good and fair solutions may be found through accessed and ascending sober rationalism.
      Nice evaluations may be expressed in several ways, and many of them need not be cogent. Symbols and idea-pictures are the examples of that. - The steps of rational inquiry often assist in arriving at conclusions, and firm conclusions may be needed to work against having got minimal or limited control. Also, being rational can help many persons from getting hurt in various ways.
      Pertinent, sound conclusions can eventually help people to arrive at their own evaluations, and also attain personal, dear conclusions that are to be preferred than many statements that are based on just hearsay.
  • One can sober up by rationalist thinking and handling. It could be needed.



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Yogananda Killed Yogananda

The following is based on a talk that Swami Kriyananda gave at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on 10 March, 1996. He refers to Yogananda:
FOLLOWS There is a tendency for his disciples to think of him as the things he did or said . . .
As he often said, "I killed Yogananda long ago."

I remember him saying to me once about entering a new incarnation, "When I have to take on a new personality, it's like putting on a warm overcoat . . .
uncomfortable."

- Swami Kriyananda. Paramhansa Yogananda - Incarnation of Divine Love.
http://www.ananda.org/AnandaChurch/ClarityNews/050696/sk-pylove.html

It seems to me that if the old disciple and newly realised Yogananda had been of substantial worth, it would have been bad, what he said he had done. Yet he lived to tell of his suicide rather often . . . and it was nowhere like Dr Jekyll killing Mr. Hyde or the other way round. Yogananda also wrote a story of that sacked life instead of burning the manuscript! It turned into a bestseller, believe it or not.

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      Ak: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1975.
      Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
      Ay: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 1st ed. New York: Theosophical, 1946. Online. [oaks.nvg.org/pv6bk12.html]
      Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006.
      Pa: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971.
      Say: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.
     
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