--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Always keep a light-saber handy. > ----------- > "It is no surprise that Westerners mainly find false gurus. When you > have cheated your own guru in the past why should you not be cheated > on now? You get what you pay for; that is the Law of Karma." > > "So why is this? Why do most of the people in the West want knowledge > from the wrong motive, and get only cheats as gurus?" > > "Why? Because most Westerners are asuras at heart. All the > celestials, including the asuras, have to go somewhere when they fall > down to earth. Many of the asuras--who are very fond of indulging > themselves with meat, alcohol and sex, remember--have been born in > the West, where they continue to indulge themselves. Occasionally one > of them wakes up, a little; but because asuras are egotistical they > conclude, as soon as they learn a little, that they know everything. > Almost as soon as they learn how to meditate they start calling > themselves gurus. But what do they really know of Indian wisdom? > Nothing! They are still just probing our spirituality now. They will > be learning spiritual things from us for the next 500 years. Even the > dog of one of our Rishis could teach them for one hundred years and > still have more to teach. Westerners are so far behind us in > spirituality that to shine out among them is nothing. It is child's > play for our so-called swamis to go abroad and try to impress all the > monkeys over there with their so-called knowledge. I can tell you one > thing: A real guru will come to the Westerners only when they decide > that they are ready for real knowledge, and they invite Shukracharya > [rishi and guru of the demons]... > > ...They won't need to search for him; when they are sincerely ready > he will appear. They are his disciples, he is responsible for them. > It is a great blessing to be guru or king to a bunch of asuras, > because you are in a position to improve them. Unfortunately they > tend to fall back into their old habits very easily, since their > innate natures cannot change. Even Shukracharya tires of them now and > again. I call people asuras when even though they have the desire for > sadhana they cannot seem to follow the basic rules of discipline. I > am willing to try to help such people out, but most of them are by no > means ready for spirituality yet and I grow tired, of them too." > > from "Karma" by Robert Svoboda > detailing a conversation between the Aghori Vimalananda And Robert > Svoboda
That comes across to me as spiritually elitist ego chow, but I suppose it could also just be the paradox of Brahman. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
