Loyalty-A Waste of Time I have read the banter in the last couple of FFlife issues and the bashers and the gushers are still going at it. It is common in India for a guru to send his disciple to another guru for various trainings. No one has it all. So one guru may send his disciple to another for hatha yoga training, then to another for sanskrit grammar for 6 months and then to another for jyotish. This loyalty issue is about business. It is a loss of revenue for a disciple to go to another guru so those interested in finances dont recommend it. It is common knowledge that some gurus come t othe west for women and $$$$$. the power is irresistible. The stories of abused disciples are legendary. MMY has done a huge service for humanity. Millions of us enjoy enriched lives as a result of his persistence. But it is over. No one out there(percentage wise) gives a hoot whether the TMO survives or not. i live in a sidha village where half the people dont even meditate anymore. Why? Because how many 5-8 year programs are people going to do before they realize that TM does not produce enlightenment? If the flying sutra produced flying there would be people flying. The only thing i have heard of flying is monkeys out of someones butt. Hardly worth the time and effort. I spent 6 years in an ashram. Sometimes i did many hours of sadhana, including a few hours a day of meditation. Nobody got enlightened. Pujas (and not the 10 minute Tm kind) , yagyas, chanting, japa etc. Perhaps I earned some punya because when i left that ashram deeksha found me. No teachings, no diets, no scripturesl, no guru. Just pure experience. I had the knowledge to know what was happening as the Grace flowed in. after all we had been talking about waking up to ourselves for 30 years!!!! Religions, spiritual organizations etc have produced enough divisions amongst humanity. it is all too evident on this forum. Those who post their views here almost take their lives in their hands. Everyone wants to be right. We are all so invested in ours being the right and agreed upon point of view. remember the great saint Ramakrishna said "the paths to God are as many as there are people'. namaste steve klayman
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