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Raja Begum
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(11/18/01 2:54 pm)
Reply 		SRF is a war of personality types...I agree
This thread continues egonanda's discussion on personality types... Also check out: keirsey.com/

PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME II by David Keirsey

A devotee turned me on to that book this year. It's probably the single most important key to understanding why the Mata's WON'T change.

Guardians are by nature the gatekeepers of society --- for better or for worse depending upon your subjective relationship to their agenda. I am convinced that these Mata's are drunk with their own energies. Meaning: in their use of judgment, as leaders of the SRF organization, they are not expressing realization so much as their temperament bias. Observe closely and you will see that the people who are most comfortable with rules and formal structure, often the ones with beaurocratic minds (other guardians) are the ones who seem to feel at home working in the present SRF environment. Also we can say that those of other typologies who have become dissociated from themselves by constant outer conditioning may express some form of surface contentment with the organization. But these latter types are due for a miserable awakening at some future point. I know because I happen to be one of them.

I took the test and turned out to be an idealist. More specifically, I am a fighter for causes -- what Kiersey calls "The Champion" My typology was similar to revolutionary and colorful historical figures and celebrities such as Thomas Paine, Leon Trotsky, Oliver Stone, John Lennon, Joan of Arc, and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" (survived the sinking of the Titanic, commanded a lifeboat while oaring and directing others and then helped to nurse the ill aboard the rescue ship). Thus it is natural for me to get involved in causes -- which is why I'm on this message board and so vocal as well as why I chose the name Raja Begum.

There are three other subtypes of the Idealist. Keirsey also identifies the following: The Healer, The Counselor, and The Teacher. Many of you probably fit into one of these categories. It may very well be that the "war" in SRF is a war of types as Rigititananda so eloquently explains.

A Guardian administration would reduce us all to managers and clerks. It is the nature of Keirsey's Idealists to express authenticity.... like our Guru for heaven's sake!!!

....."DARE TO BE DIFFERENT"

Guardians are threatened by change. Their nature is to keep things the same. But God created us too. And our nature is to introject change and stimulate progressive thought. Those of you reading this right now who have felt out of a purpose with SRF should take heart by what I'm about to say: Your purpose is to challenge the rigidity going on in SRF. You are to speak up. You are to make changes. You are to make a place for your type in SRF. To call SRF "universal" when it is actually a lair and spiritual resort for the Guardians is doubletalk.

We must make a place for ouselves in our Guru's work. I now understand that Kriyananda, a Kiersey Idealist, had to be kicked out. He was the oil in their water. Same thing is happening to us. I don't want to join Kriyananda or any other organization. I have a new understanding about him, myself, and all the rest of us who a been roasted on the spit of disdain and criticism from "on high." I don't want to become some prefab, die cast rendering of an ideal Self-Realizationist, I wan't to reach down into my essence and express the very core of who I am. That is my service to God. For, in doing so, I inspire others to do so.

Somewhere else on this message board, it was mentioned that Anandamoy isn't truyly happy. Of course he's not. He's an abstract thinker -- what Keirsey calls a Rational. His natural ability to sense incongruencies in structure has been stifled. He has become a party man who has enslaved his intellect and his rational gifts in the service of a bunch of narrow thinking Guardians. The result is he's a lot like Orwell's Winston Smith in "1984" who, by the end of the story, is conditioned so thoroughly that 2+2 equals whatever the party says it equals.

Shadowman
Unregistered User
(11/19/01 1:34 am)
Reply 		for example?
What would Daya Mata be? Yogananda?

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