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Queries and Answers
My sole desire is to give you the truth — Lord Krishna praises the technological yogi. - Paramahansa Yogananda [Ak 398; Pa, ch. 26]
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| Clumsy Yoga won't fit you, is the bet. |
'Q' stands for 'query' or 'question' in the Q & A (question and answer) format that is adopted. The Q & A format is at times merely a presentation devise, just as in a two-volumed work on the architect Walter Gropius [Wap]. Apart from Q & A sections, there are sections that contain more explanations.
On rotten apples and id caught
"A rotten apple quickly infects its neighbour," or pomum compunctum cito corrumpit sibi junctum (Latin).If just a few pillars in a tall building are at fault, the whole building can fall. Just a few marring decrees of a trusted guru or trusted friend may ruin a life. Just a few wrong or individually unsuitable notions may do!
Disintegration may spread, do havoc, and create ruin. The more trust put in wrong teachings, and the more resources funnelled into them, the worse the results may be. Hence, it behoves us to correct faulty guru statements and reduce guru drivel so as to hinder that fools are made and next made use of.
The family is a haven for regulated id unfoldment. If all runs nicely and well through the stages of living, there is good hope that the budding grown-up will not suffer from severe trauma, lacks and deficiencies. Congenital id-development does not occur in all cases of stagnation; progressive disorientation deterioration; nasty, faulty development; or rotting (corruption). What seems irrepairable - like grave corruption - has to be avoided and fought against. Underlying causes have to be detected so as to go against faulty "developments" far better.
If your natural family did not fulfil yoru basic id drives, you may have longings that carry on, get fixed, and spill over into adult life. In other words, the love you did not get from Mom and Dad, may easily be played on by the demagogue to create havoc for you and use you too. If it is a fault to seek fulfilment "in the skies" by wailing for God Mom as Yogananda and his fellowship has half-ritualised, maybe his and yours mother-relations were strained. Maybe things did not work out well for him and yourself with women. Maybe some id-sides did not develop all right. Being straight in what matters can be a help. Vicarious outlets hardly so.
The id that is caught, fixated and next made use of in some way that blocks natural development, may engender hate, which may be suppressed too.
Maybe you can bore inside yourself if you have a stable, fairly sound mind. Be kind and check that before you take up yoga or listen to various Paramahansa Yogananda's counsels, including his crying for Mother God year in, year out. It goes directly against one foremost direction of yoga, which includes the guidance of Lahiri Baba (Mahasaya). He says one should not expect anything from doing kriya. During the contemplation (dhyana), that is good. The focus is to be on how to do the method(s), namely.
The Self is not had by a show of flowery descriptions. He is Intelligence. All the scriptures fail to describe Him. - Shyama Charan Sharman Lahiri [cf Hw 186-87]Try to be a little smarter than those who get caught.
Literature
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, 2007.
Hw: Satyeswarananda, swami, tr. The Commentaries' Series Vol. III: Hidden Wisdom. With Lahiri Mahasay's Commentaries. 2nd rev. ed. San Diego: The Sanskrit Classics, 1986.
Op: Simpson, John, and Jennifer Speake. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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.
Wap: Probst, Hartmut, und Christian Schädlich. Walter Gropius, Band 1. Berlin: VEB, 1986.
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