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SsSsSnake
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(1/23/04 4:36 pm)
Reply 		Satyeswaranda
www.sanskritclassics.com/yogananda.htm

I read his books some years back,anyone else got any info on the guy?:rollin

SsSsSnake
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(1/24/04 6:41 am)
Reply 		Re: Satyeswaranda
?:rollin

ugizralrite
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(1/24/04 10:47 am)
Reply 		Re: Satyeswaranda
If your intent is pure, then it will not get tangled up in endless possiblities. We Westerners had a need for a novel spirituality and Best Buy, or was it Circuit City, or maybe somewhere on the internet, we found the hardware and software that we thought might fill the bill. Then we brought all the stuff home and unwrapped it on the floor and proceeded to untangle the wires and to obtain the object of our original intent as best we could.

There is a distinction between purity of intention and purity of means. The purity of means school would say, "If my parka doesn't have an L.L.Bean lable, then it isn't really (sniff) a parka." Such a person might freeze to death rather than throw a blanket over their shoulders (purity of intent).

Hope you get my drift.

Sydfrukter
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(9/13/05 12:28 pm)
Reply 		Re: Satyeswaranda
Hi.

I have been in contact with the swami.
His personality may not be of so much interest to one who seeks to know the Self (Atma). His *teachings* very often speak disparagingly of Yogananda's methods, and that bothers me - the disparaging comments, with appeals to Vedic Tradition, Vedic people, that conservatives would laugh out loud about SRF methods of meditation, including kriya and how it is taught in SRF in the footsteps of Yogananda.

So, according to him, Vedic, the tradition, being concervative in it, Babaji, and Self is good, but those who start meditating in the SRF way, are held up to ridicule. That should not be the best a swami can do, but here is some:

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Those who cannot make proper postures [asanas] and cannot abandon the expectation of the results of the practice, should not try Yoga discipline. Those who recommend liberally to practice otherwise, for example, sitting on a chair, spine erect, resting the feet set on the floor, are not practicing yoga or Kriya at all.

If you ask any Vedic person whether one can practice Yoga or meditate through the Yoga discipline sitting on a chair resting the feet on the floor the person would LAUGH.

To conservative people, it will appear RIDICULOUS if they hear that Yoga is taught in a group for the masses.

If Vedic people hear about practicing Kriya yoga in the West sitting on chairs in churches who claim the practice is Pure Kriya, they will say, "Practicing Kriya Pranayam sitting on a chair and claiming the practice Pure Kriya! Those Westerners are really crazy. Let them fool themselves for this incarnation."
www.sanskritclassics.com/yogananda.htm

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Even though we may not like all we hear or read from that swami, he has supplied us with notions of some possible dangers on the SRF path, and should thank the swami for it.
Here goes:

Thank you for telling how gurus in his tradition or his mind should behave. Yogananda gradually turned less conservative Hindu in America, by the way. He first talked down on creativity in a caste-fixed perspective, later for creativity - you get the drift - he found innovations should help.

And the swami equals devoted SRF devotees with crazy fools, more or less - but how can the swami say they "fool themselves"? If anything there is wrong, they were/are deceived - but by whom? - But they were not self-deceiving at first. *Misled* may be the word the swami refrains from using.

OK, there seems to dangers to wonder about here.

Edited by: Sydfrukter at: 9/13/05 12:36 pm
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