Yoga Work 3

• Experiences
• Smoking, Alcohol and Women
• Those Texans

Experiences

I would not presume or assume anything about me, if I were you - not a thing. I am quite against assuming in general.


Q: What I wanted you to focus on was the bit where Blavatsky is quoted. Did you find it? This fellow seems to think himself some sort of world saviour.

Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), born to a noble Russian family, decreed, "No Religion Higher Than Truth". She met her master in Hyde Park in London when she was 20, and was trained by masters in Tibet from 1868 to 1870, it is told of her.


Q: I wish God would be more straightforward . . .

Ask or pray to that end too.


Q: The Master business really upsets me.

I see there is a moral issue involved here -


Q: I have spent the past five years doing nothing. Everything is nothing, except finding out about Yoga and things.

You survey while hoping in intellectuality. Yoga goes past such matters.


Q: I keep putting off the path to mastery to tomorrow cause I believe I want to "live" out my youth. That seems to happen to most people I think.

I see you have not found out that handy yoga leads to great pleasure, nay delight. It happens to some. Mantra training does not have to be so very severe.


Q: The pleasures of the senses, coupled with life problems, present a difficult challenge.

Of course . . .


Q: Another one I find hard to believe is levitation.

Flying is believing -


Q: I have told you this before. It is the whole nature/miracle debate again. By the way, have you read Aldous Huxley? He reverses Descartes' Cogito blah blah to 'I am, therefore I think'. In other words, I take that to mean that being precedes perception and not the other way round. Makes sense to me, at least.

Yes, I agree with the Huxley dictum.


Q: if you aren't too happy, why don't you ask for ecstasy?

I am pleased a lot as it is.

"The future is not far away."

Smoking, Alcohol and Women

Doctors go against smoking because of its accumulating detrimental effects in the long run. Health is far from bad for doing kriya.


Q: Please look at [a Web address] and tell me what you think?

This sounds tactless to me: "we take upon ourselves the responsibility of exposing all forms of religious misrepresentation and fraud to the best of our ability!"
      For they will perhaps not have time to expose their own abilities (constructive outlets) if they really lived up to that. . . . Maybe a more modest resolve could be fit, though.
      You can do good - [Link]


Q: What is your view of women?

It helps to attain to realism, and I favour the esthete's outlook along with that. You can do without them, actually, once you are adult.


Q: That is, do you see them in the same way you did after your marriage?

There are different sorts of women. Not all are fit to be with. A North African sheikh has written, for example, about Women Who Are to Be Held in Contempt.
      Let us lend ears to that well-known sheikh, for if he was not woman's best friend (one who criticises her the most and never condones her faults, just as defined by the guru Yogananda), at least he did little to hide his true sentiments -

Women differ in their natural dispositions: there are women who are worthy of all praise; and there are, on the other hand, women who only merit contempt. - Sheikh Nefzaoui

To be despised is the woman who is prolific in talk and light-headed in her relations with men, unable to keep her husband's secrets, and malicious. - Sheikh Nefzaoui [MORE]

In joining the woman you should not have your stomach loaded with food and drink, only in that condition will your cohabitation be wholesome and good. - Sheikh Nefzaoui (From Ch. 5 of The Perfumed Garden, a work which is on-line)

There could even be a fit reason for it. The question is if your desires are the masters of you. That could work much havoc.

Those Texans

In Hollywood I was once taken for a Texan myself, but not all the time . . .

How can one trust a theology that concerns itself with the invisible when it has been consistently wrong about the visible? [Sankara Saranam]