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KS
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(12/22/02 6:34 am)
Reply 		Who is left that practices Yogananda's ideals?
At the end of this Tara Mata thread a statement is made that there are no living practitioners of Master’s ideals.
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I feel a good number of living practitioners do exist, but none in the SRF ashram. There are also a good number of practitioners who have never heard of Yogananda or even yoga. Master’s ideals are not new, as he himself said.

SRF is presently a wasteland of self deceit and bad ladies. Even most of the employees will claim the place will tell you the place is pretty disappointing while at the same time being completely burned out. Yet, they don’t leave. There are many messages here about it.

People currently closely associated with SRF would NOT have gotten involved with SRF if they had known then what they know [/i]

srflongago
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(12/22/02 8:28 am)
Reply 		Re: Who is left that practices Yogananda's ideals?
I would recast the question in two forms

1) Who are the spiritually advanced teachers of the Vedantic Kriya discipline of Lahiri, compatible with all religions, be they Vedic, Christian, Muslim, Old Testament, Zoroastorian, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist? This represents the "Message to the West" of Sri Yukteswar communicated Yogananda originally. Those of all religions may follow the Kriya path to enlightenment.

2) Who are the spiritually advanced teachers of the Vedantic Kriya discipline in the context of Christian Christ Consciousness? This represents the "Message to the West" as delivered by Yogananda before 1935 in the context of Christianity. It is compatible with membership in all Christian denominations.

Whether a teacher is one to emulate can only be answered by the prospective student's intellect, heart, and spirit. These questions can only be answered by personal contact with the teacher, not from books, not from authority, not from ritual. The student needs to perceive directly the purity of the teacher's mind, heart, and spirit of compassion and his or her steadfast dedication to the renunciation of all fruits of action.

This is the basic tenet of Kriya as the Yoga of Action. Renouncing the fruits of action is incompatible with wanting to control people's lives, wanting to lead a large organization, wanting to acquire inheritances to support it, wanting to control information and publicity, or any other material concern.

So we have a paradox. The more the master works to become known and have influence on others, the less likely is it he or she is worth emulating. The "secret Yogis" who are adept and yet shun publicity are often the best masters, and are hardest to find.



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