--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "suziezuzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This sounds exactly like what the Hari Krishna people use to tell me > when I hung around with them in the LA temple back in the 80s, that > meditation is not for this age and that an experience of the > impersonal absolute is inferior to a personal relationship to Krishna, > i.e., Bakti yoga, and that this impersonal experience would eventually > get you to Krishna anyway so why waste your time meditating besides > being too difficult? I didn't argue since I had become rather friendly > with some of the Krishna devotees but did tell them that it wasn't > hard for me and I preferred this path, TM. They were quite amazed that > it was so easy for me and encouraged me to continue since I would 'get > to Krishna Consciousness anyway, even if it did take longer'. That was > fine until one day, I decided to meditate in the temple upstairs on > the balcony and in the middle of TM, experienced a Hari Krishna astral > entity who came up to me and said, 'you can't do that here' so I got > up and left. A few years later in Hawaii I stayed the night in a Hari > Krishna temple on the big island of Hawaii and in the middle of the > night while asleep, was confronted by Hari Krishna astral beings who > asked me why I continued with TM and felt I should convert to Hari > Krishna. I refused and left the next morning. In Chicago, I spent the > night at the Hari Krishna temple and while sleeping, again was > confronted by astral beings but this time it was a wrestling match > much like Jacob wrestling the angel and I won. The next morning I > headed for Fairfield in Iowa.
A group of ISKCON people showed up at the Fairfield farmers market a few years ago, and they danced and chanted around the market, handing out pamphlets. I read the pamphlet, and it was all about sexually repressing yourself in this lifetime so that maybe you'll find liberation is some future lifetime. It struck me as being a Hindu version of fundie Xianity... um, no thanks.
