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Perhaps it is an appropriate time to suggest what SRF could do to make itself again into the flagship Western institution for Yoga. This is intended to start a discussion. Of course, we have no influence, but why not be positive? We would all prefer striving toward an ideal world.

1) SRF should drop its doctrinal insistence on the Uniqueness of Yogananda, and treat him instead as one of a pantheon of those who have sought the same goals based on the Gita. Recent figures include Ramakrishna, Aurobindo, and Lahiri, the spiritual father of the Kriya tradition that was the basis of Yogananda's accomplishments.

2) SRF should encourage all forms of advancement in physical, intellectual, and spiritual powers, whether obtained from other schools or from books.

3)SRF should encourage understanding the whole historical background of all branches of Yoga, of Kriya in particular, and its own history as well.

4) SRF should encourage its members to evaluate the spiritual advancement of all its teachers for themselves, and to pay attention only to those who demonstrate in person by living example their spiritual stature. Those who emphasize ritual as opposed to spirit would fall by the wayside.

5) SRF should welcome those of all religions into its non-religious folds. Kriya Yoga is compatible with all religions.

5) SRF should encourage membership by householders such as were Black, Lewis, and Warnack in the old days.

6) SRF should replace its Board of Directors by outside householder members of the same character as Black, Lewis.

Like Enron and Worldcom, SRF suffers from self-serving self-perpetuating leadership, whose way of life depends on maintaining control over the organization. The Board should hire administrators and handle all finances and all external activities, such as evaluating and using law firms.

7) Nuns and Monks should have no administrative positions. They should be devoted to attaining the unity of self with universal consciousness.

Desire for and exercise of power are proscribed for them by all the classic sources from which Kriya Yoga was developed, back to the Gita.

Edited by: srflongago at: 10/6/02 3:01:42 pm

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While they are still trying to maintain the big lie of God Realization for the leadership then no change is really possible. That one lie, used to control the membership and raise their decisions above question, introduces the chink in the armor that Satan has needed to destroy the credibility of Yogananda’s work here on Earth.

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