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AtThyFeet
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(11/29/05 7:17 am)
Reply 		A historic gesture of Mahavatar Babaji?
Dear reader,

I made a mistake and posted the “Dhirananda” discussion here a second time. So the idea came to me to edit the post, change it completely, and import this new one on Mahavatar Babaji, which originally I had placed in the “householders vs. monastics ” section. (It felt kind of lonely there, anyway, far away from its brothers and sisters!)
There, at any rate, a few comments by others can be found, if you are interested.

Bowing to the supreme Guru,
Mahavatar Babaji,
AtThyFeet

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Here, just for fun, is quite a "juicy" question for you all (which will probably horrify some of our more orthodox friends....):
"Does the Kriya Yoga tradition allow for a married person, a householder, to become a swami???"

"WHAT? NOOO WAY!" thunders with indignation the chorus of orthodoxy...

Yet, in The “Autobiography of a Yogi” we read about an historic event at the Kumbha Mela Babaji made Sri Yukteswar a Swami at the Kumbha Mela. This happened during(!) Lahiri Mahasaya's lifetime (in January 1894, according to the "Holy Science").

Then we read that Sri Yukteswar was later formally and officially initiated in Bodh Gaya: "After my wife died, I joined the Swami Order and received the new name of Sri Yukteswar Giri." That event, as we read, happened after(!) Lahiri Mahasaya's lifetime (after September 1895), as Yogananda explains in a footnote: 'Yukteswar' was his monastic name, which was "not received by my guru during Lahiri Mahasaya's lifetime."
(Swami Prajnanananda, who wrote a book on Sri Yukteswar, writes about this formal event: "Swami Shriyukteshwarji was initiated into sannyas, monastic life, by Swami Krishna Dayal Gir of Bodhagaya, on Guru Purnima, fullmoonday, of July in 1906.")

Looking clearly at Yogananda's quotes, we see with surprise, maybe even being a bit dazzled: When Babaji made Sri Yukteswar a Swami at the Kumbha Mela, his wife was very much alive: He was still a married man!
Babaji, then, to our divinest amazement, made Sri Yukteswar a "married Swami"!
(He fittingly calls himself "Priya Nath Swami" in "The Holy Science". Priya Nath was his family name- thus he was a "family Swami")

Fasten your seatbelts, friends... there's more to come...:

Interestingly, Yogananda made Rajarsi a Swami, giving him the orange robe and a Swami-name in 1951, complete with vow and ceremony, while he was a married man! His wife Frieda died after him. (She, according to Durga Ma's book, was the reason why Rajarsi ended up being buried in Kansas, not in Los Angeles, next to his Master).
Yogananda, to our surprise, made Rajarsi, too, a "married Swami."

Isn't that 100% fun (for some of us, who don't love all those neat boxes)?

Is the Kriya-path, after all, maybe not an extremely orthodox one? Maybe because this is Dwapara Yuga? Good bye, oh ye old stiff boxes! See you next Kali Yuga!

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Edited by: AtThyFeet at: 11/30/05 7:09 am
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