Oops, the title was "Pseudo Spiritual Icons and Enlightened Masters -
The Mob vs Individual dichotomy".
--- In [email protected], "Ravi Yogi" <raviyogi@...> wrote:
>
> Part I>
> The year 2002, I was the only one watching in disgust as my beloved
> mother and my Guru Ammachi, a self-realized Guru received an award
named
> for the so-called icons of peace and non-violence MLK and Gandhi.
> Ammachi is an embodiment of love and she accepted the award with
> humility but I mocked and ridiculed in disgust while everyone around
me
> applauded. Of course one could have asked me then the reason for my
> derisive protest and I would have been at a loss for words other than
> that this person was a Mahatma and the other two were just political
> personalities, but now with my own spiritual awakening which resulted
in
> much maturity, balance and integration I think I can do a pretty job
> addressing it.>
> But it seemed the people I considered as merely politicians seemed to
> have a much higher admiration among the liberals that I seemed to
love,
> identify and lean towards. The personalities like MLK, Gandhi and
Dalai
> Lama seemed to be more than politicians and there was lot of adulation
> for the values championed by these individuals. I have always been a
> social liberal but I didn't share the same zeal for these individuals
as
> the majority of my spiritual liberal brethren. These liberals seem to
> also have a lot of enthusiasm for social inequities and political
> revolutions especially in far distant lands, the farther and the
remote,
> the more fashionable and admirable it seemed.>
> Please don't get me wrong, I think the values of peace, non-violence
and
> justice are good values to cultivate, my only objections is to
associate
> them with spirituality.>
> I cringed whenever a Q/A session at this Mahatma's retreats invariably
> started with a question of the form - "Oh my dearest mother, what I
can
> do to help the suffering people in Sudan" (or substitute your favorite
> farthest remotest country here). The answer would be typical of the
> loving and compassionate manifestation of this Mahatma and would be
> replete with numerous parables and would invariably hint at personal
> transformation. Though I would internally scoff at the person for this
> entire duration I would invariably enjoy the beautiful metaphors and
at
> times hilarious parables and stories Ammachi used in answering the
> question.>
> I was absolutely positive that no one would ever ask her question
about
> world suffering again, but I was shocked repeatedly and the question
> would get repeated always albeit with the latest country that was
> suffering a crisis !!>
> It seems no one wanted to be enlightened like Amma but everyone wanted
> to be a revolutionary, no one was interested in the individual
> revolution but were more interested in the revolution of mobs.
> I would like to illustrate the difference between enlightened masters
> like Amma and the pseudo spiritual icons like MLK, Gandhi and Dalai
> Lama; the differences between the revolution of the individual and the
> revolution of the mob.
>
