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Posts on the Nun's Life
From the SRF History section we have these insights into the lives of the nuns. The first message is from Crogman1 on 11/14/02:
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crogman1:
I am interested in the history of the nun's lifestyle. All we members hear about are stories of of the old days when the nuns staying up all night to fix food for guests or eating one meal a day or living several to a room. Nothing like that takes place today!

Today some of them have to work at an offsite location. Not only do they only have to work about 6 hours a day but they have a private cook at the facility (the employees can’t eat the cooking), a private exercise room the employees can’t use, a private resting room the employees can’t use and who knows what else.

While the lifestyle is one of cult induced stress for sure, outwardly they live a life of leisure. They don’t clean the grounds or buildings or even clean up their own offices. They don’t cook their own meals and all have private rooms, some live outside the ashram gates in large homes, not just the president.

How did this transition happen? Who decided the life of renunciation was no longer what was needed for Yogananda’s monastics?

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Response from X Insider:

Correction: One large home, across the street. Except for the elite who live next door to Daya Mata in Sierra Madre.
Six hours work a day is a myth. For most.

And even if it were true that the nuns don't work at all, SRF members are still getting what they pay for, because what they are paying for is the illusion that the monastics' lifestyle and meditations are somehow helping them spiritually. Think about it. It is realization by osmosis. "Oh, I was so blissed out by the talk given by Bro. So and So .." "Oh, she looks like an angel on earth in her ochre robe!" "I am so relieved that Ma is still alive and running SRF from her state of realization"
Wrong.

But that is what they pay for and it is obviously worth it to them. It is pain relief (yes life is hard) and easier on the body than narcotics.

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