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YogiBear
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(9/29/01 12:07 pm)
 Hurtful self-serving legends: Master said many would leave
Calling these things listed by “REPORTER” urban legends glosses over the real reason for the spreading of these ideas, the control of SRF members. Once people see behind the curtain of conceit and selfishness the leadership throws up around themselves a different world appears. Only monastics should run SRF? In fact, only nuns should run SRF? The president has been selected by Master? The president is a saint? Sounds like a cult out for control, and in fact it is.

Once Daya Mata is gone this stuff will overwhelm the membership and SRF may well just dry up and blow away. But there is a very hurtful “legend” that I really wish we could get them to stop perpetuating:

“Master said many would leave.”

This is used as an excuse for people leaving the ashram. Many people won’t be able to “cut it” and will “fall”. It is used to discredit and humiliate those that leave, indicating that they have failed at something. Rather than admit their own failings, their own problems, their own mistreatment of people, they chose to destroy the reputations of those that leave to make sure the general membership doesn’t figure it out.

Shame on them. What a disturbing lack of morality.

Those of you reading this that have been in SRF for years think back on all the wonderful monastics you have known over the years that have left. Were these people failing in their quest for God? I have heard some of the rumors spread about them. They left to get married or left to seek money, or could not handle the discipline. It is a very poor reflection on those in SRF management that they don’t treat these people with respect and instead spread these rumors.

I would suggest SRF management introspect each and every time someone decides to leave. People leaving have devoted 15 to 25 years of their lives to serving SRF and in spite of all the mental pressure not to do so, they leave the ashram. Why? What is affecting them so? WHY AREN’T THEY ASKING THIS QUESTION?

Web site surfer
Unregistered User
(9/29/01 3:40 pm)
 Asking the question
The reason the question is not asked is that it is not allowed. When Sr. Dhriti left, the nuns were called together and Sr. Savitri asked that question. Look what happened to her.

YogiBear
Unregistered User
(9/29/01 5:30 pm)
 Who
WHO won't allow it to be asked? Who?

Web site surfer
Unregistered User
(9/29/01 7:24 pm)
 Answer to your question
The leadership; i.e., the Board of Directors and Management Committee. Maybe if you call up SRF they will tell you who these people are. Or ask a member -- most of them know. They run things, as you know. They hold all the cards. Sr. Dhriti used to call it a "benevolent dictatorship." But she obviously changed her mind about that.

xmonk
Unregistered User
(9/30/01 5:56 am)
 Sr. Dhriti
And let it be known that Sr. Dhriti, a marvelous nun, was not "gotten rid of" by the bad ladies. She had put up with the antics of Daya Mata and the Board as long as she could bear it. She saw through the facade that SRF projects. There was much that she had to say, but was effectively stopped from saying it. So, her last act was to E-mail her sister nuns with her stand, saying, in part: "I am leaving because I can no longer grow spiritually in this place."

Quite a statement from a true spiritual soul! Think about this when you are bombarded with the propaganda that the monastics are leaving because "they just can't cut it." It took great courage for Sr. Dhriti, and others, to stand up and refuse to go along with what they know to be cultish practices of control and abuse.

KS
Unregistered User
(9/30/01 7:11 am)
 The reason for this forum
The actions of the Bad Ladies need to become more publicly known before more people are hurt. As you know, xmonk, Sr. Dhriti's story is not unique. Many people feel the same way. Many many people have had their spiritual lives hurt and relationship with Master challenged as a result of interaction with central SRF.

THIS IS THE REASON WE NEED THIS FORUM.

Web site surfer
Unregistered User
(9/30/01 7:48 am)
 The Sr. Dhriti contribution
Yes, Sr. Dhriti's e-mail was a stroke of genius. There was no chance for it to be censored! She also said that she was saddened by what had become of Master's ashram and the disfunction she perceived. She said that the personal cost to her had become too great to continue. She surely was referring to her health and sanity. Of course, Uma Ma believes it was delusion that drove Dhriti away and her response was "We must just pray that something like that does not happen to us!" Whoaa..!

Raja Begum
Unregistered User
(9/30/01 11:23 am)
 Delusion my @#$@
Does anybody have a copy of Sr. Dhriti's email? If so, could you post it on this message board?

When a person leaves an insane and dysfunctional environment and chooses rationality and sanity, I'd call that spiritual courage, not "being overcome by delusion."

EVERY SINGLE CULT THAT HAS EVER EXISTED USES THIS SPECIFIC GUILT TACTIC TO CONTAIN ITS MEMBERSHIP. FOR WHAT IS A CULT WITHOUT AN UNQUESTIONING, TRUE-BELIEVING MEMBERSHIP?

What does Uma Mata know anyhow? Her only perspective of the world outside of the SRF ashram was from ages 0 to 14.





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