tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20262482028265784192024-03-13T08:44:48.465-07:00 SRF Living Prophets, Self-Realization & Kriya YogaPYisLovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00028042000230720662noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026248202826578419.post-52918353795355565702014-12-11T16:29:00.001-08:002014-12-11T16:29:35.230-08:00PYisLovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00028042000230720662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026248202826578419.post-81335513334176875072014-12-06T17:17:00.002-08:002015-01-21T15:45:56.720-08:00<b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><i><br /><span style="background-color: #93c9e3; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://swamikriyanandatruth.wordpress.com/srf-yogananda/expulsion-from-srf/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">https://swamikriyanandatruth.wordpress.com/srf-yogananda/expulsion-from-srf/</span></a></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f76c5;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This above site is a series of factual essays about how J Donald Walters</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">committed copyright theft, fraud, sexual abuse of his position, </span></span></i></b><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #1f76c5; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><b><i><span style="color: #1f76c5; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">and confusion of devotees who thought they were following Yogananda's spiritual path. They were not. They were swept up in the obsessions and unstable whims of a wannabee guru JDW. His real power was his ability to manipulate others to fulfill his own personal ambitions. This goes on a lot in the field of religion in this world - devotees beware.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #1f76c5; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">On those pages you will find the true story about a monk whose obsession with power and narcissism disillusioned & Harmed many devotees.<br />"It is so easy for a great talker and smooth operator to smile and talk about religion even though such a charismatic person is an empty shell."</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span style="color: #1f76c5; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Self-Realization Fellowship is the true Paramahansa Yogananda,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span style="color: #1f76c5; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I refer here not to the bricks and mortar of an institution, but of the true spiritual quality and fidelity of Paramahansa Yogananda's spiritual community through His YSS/SRF everywhere. And of the high spiritual standards of the leadership and integrity that devotees have known.</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span style="color: #1f76c5; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></span>
<b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-size: large;">This article is on this site to show what can and does happen to so many seekers who are misled by wannabe teachers. The following data is a cautionary tale for all those looking for a spiritual teacher. It is not so easy to tell the real ones from the wannabees.<br />If the "living Guru" has passed on, one can safely study his life and teachings without personal influences and hopefully make a proper connection with His path - SRF.</span></i></b><br />
<b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-size: large;">Kriyananda (who was not a swami when he passed on) and his timely removal from SRF in 1962.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; line-height: 16.5454540252686px;"><b>There are other organizations with their own agendas in this world.</b></span></i></span><span style="line-height: 16.5454540252686px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Some will use the name Paramahansa Yogananda, or show his name on their books, and even publish some of His outdated editions, but may not truly represent Him or His teachings and Legacy as he taught.</span> </b></i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Find Yogananda's true original path at </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://www.yogananda-srf.org/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.218s; color: #427fed; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5454540252686px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.218s;" target="_blank">www.yogananda-srf.org</a><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5454540252686px;"> and </span><a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://www.yssofindia.org/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.218s; color: #427fed; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5454540252686px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.218s;" target="_blank">http://www.yssofindia.org/</a><br style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5454540252686px;" /><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5454540252686px;">To get more of the true data about Self-Realization Fellowship history since the master passed on see; </span><a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/SRFYSSYoganandaAnswers" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.218s; color: #427fed; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.5454540252686px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.218s;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/SRFYSSYoganandaAnswers</a></span></span><br />
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<br />PYisLovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00028042000230720662noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026248202826578419.post-34191082057843085152013-02-06T09:36:00.003-08:002016-11-02T23:16:16.477-07:00What is a LIVING PROPHET ?<div id="google_translate_element">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Who is a Living Prophet?</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The living prophet is a Living Christ</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><i>Who is Paramahansa Yogananda?<br />Who is MahAvatar Babaji ?<br />Who is Lahiri Mahasaya ?</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>by<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>PYislove<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>2013</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>also see these Links >>></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>www.yogananda-srf.org</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">https://www.facebook.com/PYislove</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">https://plus.google.com/114180011391449498988/posts</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>First of all - a living prophet is usually NOT someone we see in this world of relativity who is occupying a physical form like yourself. Those persons whom you imagine to be "living " may like yourself, be spiritually dead.</b></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><b>Those who are "true Living Prophets" are not concerned about having physical bodies or living in this material world forever.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>When the body's work is done they drop it, and after that we still see them working in and through the lives of serious devotees and truth seekers.<br />The "Living Prophet" is often seen by His sincere, loyal, devotees.<br />This "seeing" can be in visions or in physical form. By the time one reaches </b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>such experiences, ones mental state is far more clear than average and not usually subject to vain imaginings. The mind has long ago been mastered by the devotee.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The <b><i>Living
Prophet</i></b> is not necessarily someone, who in an institutions religious or </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="background: white;">political process is elected to some
patriarchal high office, or sanctified as a saint. </span><span style="background: white;">Now there are some cases where such persons
that are elected can be </span><span style="background: white;">very advanced spiritually, but not always necessarily. </span><span style="background: white;">This at times only proves that he/she has loyally
served the organization and has kept out of trouble.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Certified does not always mean Qualified! Truly great leadership is a precious Gem.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>living prophet</i></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> may [or may not be] someone who founds a new church or spiritual path. In English we could say that such a person is a small "p" prophet. Such a one may or may not be spiritually reborn- spiritually alive/established in cosmic consciousness or Christ consciousness..</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The </span><b><i>living prophet</i></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> is not someone who, by his/her own bold claims, charisma,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">or opportunism, has attracted a lot of attention
and is in a living bodily form.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">It is not the adored icon of millions of
blind followers who have succumbed<br />
to the hooks, lines, and sinkers of a
great orator/writer or people mover.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">Such followers/devotees have already been
programmed to be fed the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">on the popular beliefs of a particular culture
or system. <br />Many can always find a great </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 15.199999809265137px;">following by simply preaching to the converted through a lot of books or public appearances. Telling masses what they want to hear.</span> This can be quite and ego booster. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">That is why it is better to master the ego via meditation before attempting to </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"remove the speck from your brothers eye."jc</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><b><i>Beware;</i></b> There are religious groups that are claiming that their church has the worlds only living prophets who speak not only for their church, but by some vain claim they say they have the authority</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> to give some God's edicts to all mankind. This is a totally false claim!</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">They are not living prophets by any means - they just like to give themselves vainglorious titles. Beware of those who make claims that are totally unsubstantiated. I assure you that those claims have already been proven to be false!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">The true <b><i>Living Prophet</i></b> is a
Great One who has reached Union with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">God/ the Reality of our existence. And is thus
qualified to show others</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">the way out of these cycles of reincarnation, Awakening us from this dream of<br />the every day unreal world of relativity. Such persons are so very rare!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">A real Living Prophet fulfills this scripture: </span></span><span style="background-color: #ffff66; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">John: 14:12</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ffff66; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #444444;">"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the WORKS that I do he will do also; and GREATER WORKS than these he will do, because I go to My Father."</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">And, "</span></span><span class="crossverse" style="background-color: #fffefd; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://bible.cc/john/8-51.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">John 8:51</span></a></span><span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"> I </span><span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."[of awareness]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Some scholars like to rationalize that He didn't really mean that literally. I would say to read this literally finds a great deal of support in the rest of scripture. Such as in ;"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;"> The </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">disciple</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;"> is </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">not above his master</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">: b<b>ut every one </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;"><b>that is perfect shall be as</b> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">his master</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">. </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;">...</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;"> Luke 6:40</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">This is part of the description of a genuine <b><i>Living Prophet.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><b><i>Don't rely on the clerical promises of a salvation on the other side, or the theological promise of a maybe resurrection in a realm unknown to us. Work now to resurrect yourself</i></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><b><i>from a matter bound slave into an unlimited and free soul. Seek that Reality which is God!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="background: white;">The true <b><i>Living Prophet</i></b> is one
who through divine grace and </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.199999809265137px;">great</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.199999809265137px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Personal effort effort over many lifetimes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">in this world, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> has been able to overcome his/her endemic human blind</span><br />
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his consciousness and the natural world. This is one who has reached the pure state of Self-Realization. Such a person lives a pure life of disciplined inner bliss, and has a great deal of healing power and wisdom to share. Working in harmony with the divine plan for this world, such one appears free of the misdirections of ego, and is content with whatever he has. Such a one is a being of light. This great soul is also clearly described in the Bhagavad Gita. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">The true <b><i>Living Prophet</i></b> stands
out as a man/woman of truth</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">purity, and balanced wisdom, and does not display
ambitions <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">of the ego and
arrogance attempting to become a celebrity.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">He - the Living Prophet - is a remarkable
example of humanity's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">future evolutionary prospects. He is secure in
His unity with His <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">divine nature,
and in all dealings in this world he is never </span><span style="font-size: 15.199999809265137px;">desperate</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Because of His/Her mastery of the elements of
this world, including</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">physical, psychological, and spiritual areas of
life, the Living Master</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">can work equally well whether his/her body as we
have come to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">know it is dead or alive! Check your history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Many masters such
as Jesus the Christ, Paramahansa Yogananda,<br /> Krishna etc., </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="background: white;">are still clearly working with their devotees in
this world.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The rest of us, until we experience the
evolutionary state of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Samadhi/Nirvana/Salvation, are as it is written
- are spiritually dead.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This is then also the stature of those whose ego
seeks followers,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">wealth, or celebrity status, without first
achieving divine Self-Realization.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">If the Guru is in a body it is nice for a while! Will you see Him much?</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">He/she may be a very busy person. Most devotees rarely</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">have the opportunity to spend much time with their Gurus.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">What if He dies tomorrow? Nothing is guaranteed in all this.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The wisdom writings left behind by a Great Soul are more than</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">just words on paper, they are spiritually charged spiritualized </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">teachings of the divine law and inspiration.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Here one may want to ask - what about Guru
Shishya/ Paramapara?</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This long held belief of many past teachers is
carried on in SRF/YSS</span><br /><span style="background: white;">through the successive Self-Realized presidents of the organization. </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">This in certain ways, when one is advanced
enough, takes</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">care of the need of lineage succession. And
thus, the serious devotees <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">of Jesus and
Krishna and Yogananda, Lahiri Mahasaya, continue to receive the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">personal help,
protection and assurance in their lives from these Living Prophets,<br />when they maintain the sacred spiritual link directly with the Master's work[SRF org].<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Living presence – Two true experiences </span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=572355886154605&set=a.226537650736432.55617.100001405970170&type=1"><span style="background: white; color: #3b5998; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Very beautiful
Story by Bramachari David (now known as Br.Jitananda)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LDWa2Yh_ZC4/VLvlpmF60lI/AAAAAAAAEuE/5RPSN2jJd5A/s1600/PY%2Bplaying%2BHarmonium%2B2%2B2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LDWa2Yh_ZC4/VLvlpmF60lI/AAAAAAAAEuE/5RPSN2jJd5A/s1600/PY%2Bplaying%2BHarmonium%2B2%2B2013.jpg" /></a>Paramahansa Yogananda </div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Br. David told a
story about how <b><i><span style="color: blue;">Brother Bhaktananda</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow">used to chant inwardly all day long, “I love you Master.”
Then one day after about a year of chanting this, Master came over to Brother
in the gardens at Encinitas and whispered sweetly, “I love you, too.”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">This
story so impressed Br. David that he started using the mantra, “Guruji, I love
you.” But he felt a little sad because he knew that Master, having left the
body, could never respond to him in the same way he had with Brother
Bhaktananda.<br />
Time went by, and he persisted with this mantra wholeheartedly. Then after a
visit with family in Australia, as he was waiting at the Sydney airport to
catch his flight back to the U.S., he thought, “This is a good time to use my
mantra”, and he began to chant inwardly. After some time he noticed a little
girl coming toward him and the next thing he knew the youngster climbed up on
the chair next to him, leaned over, and whispered in his ear, “I love you.”
Br.David was quite charmed by this little girl and he replied to her, “I love
you, too.” She told him her name was “Lizzy”. Just then Lizzy’s mother came to
retrieve her, apologized to Brother for the bother, and escorted Lizzy back to
their seats, some 50 yards away in the airport. But pretty soon Lizzy was back
again, and once again she climbed up on the chair next to him, put her arms
around his neck and whispered, “I love you, I love you, I love you!” Soon the
mother came to reclaim Lizzy again, and repeatedly apologized for the trouble.
But in a little while Lizzy was back again for the third time, hugging Br.
David and saying over and over, “I love you, I love you, I love you!!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Suddenly Br.
David realized what was happening. He recalled the sadness he had felt in
thinking he would never get a direct response from Master, and he realized that
the guru was responding to his devotion through this little girl. God can work
through many channels.~~</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">~OM GURU DEVA~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">******* </span><b><i><u><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">USING
THE GURUS PHOTOGRAPHS </span></u></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">*******</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">by
Br. Ramananda..</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Brother R says
that one of his favorite tools is using the guru’s photograph. On the eve of
Master’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow">departure for the United States, Sri Yukteswar told him,
“All those who come</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow">to you with faith, seeking God, will be helped. As you
look at them, the spiritual current emanating from your eyes will enter into
their brains and change their material habits, making them more
God-conscious."<br />
</span>There is a silent language that takes place between the guru’s eyes and
yours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">One time during
a ceremony, Brother said he saw many devotees coming before Master’s picture,
pronaming to him with such devotion that it seemed as if Master himself was the
lighting on the picture.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
** Brother saw two beams of light coming out like headlights from Master’s eyes
and there were fast-flowing tears coming from them. He turned to some other
devotees and asked him what they were seeing, and they said they saw the same
thing, too.<br />
“Any devotee who ardently meditates on the picture or form of a true
guru-preceptor or any other master becomes attuned to him, imbibing his
qualities, and ultimately feels in that saint the presence of God.”<br />
That’s why we use the photo of the guru. The guru is like a diving board, and
when you are ready he pushes you off into the Ocean of Spirit. - Om Gurudeva
!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The Guru</span></i></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> <b><i>Paramahansa Yogananda</i></b></span><b><i> once said to a
group of disciples;</i></b><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">“I
never miss you all when I am away, because inwardly you are always with me now,
and will be forevermore. Whether we are living here or pass through the portals
of death, we shall always be together in God.”<br />
</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>What is Faith?</b></i></span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Faith is not blind belief, Blind belief is not Faith. Blind belief is simply blind belief !</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Faith is; the power of creativity, intelligence, and love that changes things in real ways,</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">from personal self-Realization/self-transformation to ridding ourselves of failure </span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">and disease, of ignorance and lack, of fear and doubt.</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">If there are no results, you are practicing blind belief, not faith. If your ideas of belief contradict all evidences of reason and sound research, then you may be involved in Blind belief. But as the scripture wisely says; "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." <span style="font-size: x-small;">Hebrews 11:1 KJV</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><b>I will add to this again, that blind belief is the absence of evidence and results by incorrect ideas. Blind belief is an idea that is emotionally, not rationally held on to. Faith is an idea that stands the proper tests of reason and research.This is where intellectuals often get confused, Faith is the real thing, Belief can be true or false.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;"><b>Even reason, without proper data, in a mind that has been programmed by society to see only the most limited aspects of a matter, is still caught up in blind belief. This is called "building a house on sand" - it won't stand up for long.</b></span></span></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: 18.0pt;">Guidance from the Worlds
Great Scriptures;<br />(</span><span style="color: blue;">the legacy of those who have reached the highest states of Human evolution.)</span></u></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>In The Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna Says</i></b>;</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Ch 5, V 17-26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Edition re "The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita" by
Paramahansa Yogananda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(c) Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers LA USA 2007<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“He who perceives Me everywhere and beholds everything in Me never
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looses sight of me, nor do I ever lose sight of him.” 6:30 <br />
"That Yogi stays
forever in Me, who, anchored in divine Unity whatever<br />
His mode of existence,
realizes me as pervading all beings.”
6:31<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Their thoughts immersed in That (Spirit), their souls one
with Spirit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">their beings purified from poisonous delusion by the antidote of
Wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- such men reach the state of non-return."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Self-Realized sages behold with an equal eye a learned and humble Brahmin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a cow an elephant, a dog, an outcast."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The relativities of existence (birth, death, pleasure and pain)
have been overcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">even here in this world, by those of fixed equal mindedness.
Thereby are they<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">enthroned in spirit - verily, the taintless, the perfectly
balanced spirit."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The knower of Spirit, abiding in the Supreme Being, with
unswerving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">discrimination, free from delusion, is thus neither jubilant at
pleasant experiences,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">nor downcast by unpleasant experiences. "20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unattracted to the sensory world, the Yogi experiences the ever
new joy inherent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in the Self. Engaged in divine union of the soul with Spirit, he
attains bliss indestructible." 21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"With sins obliterated, doubts removed, senses subjugated,
the rishis (sages), contributing to the welfare of mankind, attain emancipation
in Spirit."25<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Renunciants who are desireless and wrathless, mind-controlled,
and Self-Realized,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">are completely free both in this world and in the beyond."26</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: 18.0pt;">The KJV Gospels where Jesus says;</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"</span><span style="background: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">To him that overcometh will I grant to sit
with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father
in his throne." Rev. 3:21</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">"Him
that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go
no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the
city of my God, <i>which is</i> new Jerusalem, which cometh down out
of heaven from my God: and <i>I will write upon him</i> my new
name." Rev 3:12<br />
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every one</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">that is perfect shall be as </span><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">his master</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">. </span><b><span style="color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">...</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> Luke
6:40 Kjv</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "microsoft sans serif" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“He that
hath my commandments , and keepeth them , he it is that loveth me; and he that
loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest
myself unto him.” John 14;21 Kjv<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>“<span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; </span><span style="background-color: #fffefd; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">and greater<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>works<span class="apple-converted-space"> than these shall he do; because I go
unto my Father.</span><span class="versiontext"><b><span style="background-color: #fffefd; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> John 14;12 </span></b></span></i><span class="versiontext"><b><span style="background-color: #fffefd; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
<a href="http://kingjbible.com/john/14.htm"><span style="color: #0092f2;">King
James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)</span></a></span></b></span><span style="color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">“<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #486fae; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;"> </span></a><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #486fae; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;">John 14:</span><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;">1 </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Let not your heart be </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.27?lang=eng"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #486fae; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">troubled</span></a>: ye
believe in God, believe also in me.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="2"><br />
</a></span><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #486fae; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;">2. </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">In
my Father’s </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.27?lang=eng"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #486fae; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">house</span></a> are
many </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.27?lang=eng"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #486fae; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">mansions</span></a>: if <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">it were</span></i> not <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">so,</span></i> I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="3"><br />
</a></span><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #486fae; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;">3. </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will </span><span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.27?lang=eng"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #3333ff; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">come</span></a></span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> again, and receive you unto myself; that <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.27?lang=eng"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #486fae; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">where</span></a> <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.27?lang=eng"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #486fae; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">I am</span></a>, <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">there</span></i> ye may be also. </span><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #486fae; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;">4. </span><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">And
whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="7"> </a>JOHN 16:7 Nevertheless
I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if
I go not away, the <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">Comforter</a> will
not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="8"> </a>8. And
when he is come, he will <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">reprove</a> the
world of sin, and of <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">righteousness</a>, and
of judgment:<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="9"> </a>9. Of <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">sin</a>, because they
believe not on me;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="10"><br />
</a>10. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me
no more;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="11"><br />
</a>11. Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="12"><br />
</a>12. I have yet many things to <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">say</a> unto you,
but ye cannot <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">bear</a> them now.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="13"><br />
</a>13 .Howbeit when he, the <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">Spirit</a> of
truth, is come, he will <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">guide</a> you into all <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">truth</a>: for he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, <i>that</i> shall
he speak: and he will <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">shew</a> you things to
come.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2026248202826578419" name="14"><br />
</a>14. He shall <a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/16?lang=eng">glorify</a> me:
for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew <i>it</i> unto you.”</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><u>Devotees who are in tune with Him through this great work.........</u>..</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>"God has sent you to me, and I shall never fail you...
"Even when I am gone my help will always be given to devotees all over the
world, if they keep in tune.</b> Never think for a moment that when I am physically
absent from you all, I am not otherwise with you. I shall be just as deeply
concerned for your spiritual welfare when I am no longer in the body as I am
now. I shall always be watching over each one of you, and whenever a true
devotee thinks of me in the silent depths of his soul, he will know that I am
near." </i><br />
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<i>Paramahansa Yogananda, quoted in the SRF calendar, August, 1993. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> In a letter to
Rajarsi Janakananda from Yogananda, September 19, 1935;</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">" To be known by God
is everything. Like Buddha who gave up everything,<br />
live only for God, Self-Realization Fellowship, and Guru's work,<br />
and you will attain everlastingness in heaven."</span><b style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">“There are those pure souls
who have attained peace and greatness. The bring good to mankind, like the
coming of spring. They themselves have crossed the dreadful ocean of the world.
Without any selfish motive, they help others to cross.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">“A Teacher[Guru/prophet] is
one who is deeply versed in the scriptures, pure, free from lust, a perfect knower
of Brahman, calm like the flame when its fuel is consumed, an ocean of the love
that knows no ulterior motive, a friend to all good people who humbly entrust
themselves to him.” <br /> Page 38-39 , Vedanta
Press, Crest-Jewell of discrimination, 1947 translation by Swami Prabavananda
and Christopher Isherwood. Mentor Books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">that is perfect shall be as </span><b style="color: #001320; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">his master</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. </span><b style="color: #001320; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">...</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #001320; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Luke 6:40</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> Where Paramahansa Yogananda writes;</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">While Yogananda was meditating for hours at the holy Dakshineswar Temple</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">near Kolkata this was one of His great experiences in Yoga Samadhi;</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"My instant petition to the divine mother was instantly acknowledged. First , a delightful cold wave descended over my back and under my feet, banishing all discomfort. Then to my amazement the temple became greatly magnified. Its large doors slowly opened, revealing the stone figure of the Goddess Kali. Gradually the statue changed into a living form , smilingly nodding in greeting, thrilling me with joy indescribable As if by a mystic syringe, the breath was withdrawn from my lungs; my body became still though not inert.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #001320; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">An ecstatic enlargement of consciousness followed. I could see clearly several miles over the Ganges River to my left. and beyond the temple to the Dakshineswar precincts. The walls of all buildings glimmered transparently; through them I observed people walking to and fro over the distant acres.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"though I was breathless and my body remained in a strangely quiet state, I was able to move</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">my hands and feet freely. For several minutes I experimented in opening and closing my eyes,</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In either state I saw the distinctly the whole Dakshineswar panorama..............................."</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>[from page 183, Autobiography of a Yogi, (c) <b>Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers </b>LA USA.]</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was during this experience that Yogananda's prayer was answered that changed his sisters </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">marriage, and resulted in a major transformation in the life of his brother in law."</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is the power of a living master to effect change and experience life beyond the limits</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of human sensory limits. This ability of the Living Prophet continues after the death of the body - thousands of witnesses </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">have testified that after Paramahansa Yogananda's body death they have received a great deal of amazing help and healing from Him personally and indirectly.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><u>SRF/YSS Living Prophets </u></i></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b>Jesus Christ </b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>4bce - 29ce</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b>Bhagavan Krishna</b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b>3000 BC</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b> Mahavatar Babaji</b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b>unk</i></span><i style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">n</i><i style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">own Birthdate.</i><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b>Lahiri Mahasaya </b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b>1828 - 1895</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b>Swami Sri Yukteswar</b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b>1855 - 1935</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b>Paramahansa Yogananda</b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b>1893 - 1952</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">Read this complete edition for the real Yogananda!<br />The founder of SRF ordered this work so that we can all learn and grow to our greatest potential.<br />This is the book that really tells the world about Living Prophets (Some of the world's historical living Christs -those who still live eternally</span></i></b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: red;">.</span></i></b><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: red;">) </span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">It is this classic that destroys all those false"only One Way" claims.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">Check in here for more data on the how to of meditation</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">& Paramahansa Yogananda:<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2042048173"> </a></span></i></b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.yogananda-srf.org/">http://www.yogananda-srf.org/</a></span></i></b><br />
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PYisLovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00028042000230720662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2026248202826578419.post-86338566620528980862012-07-31T11:00:00.000-07:002016-06-15T12:40:14.438-07:00Paramahansa Yoganandaji's Ways of Wisdom, Love and Grace.<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>This site is about the example and life lessons one can learn from the Revelations, life, and Inspired teachings of a modern day Saint/Yogi/manifestation and world class Teacher/Guru.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>The founding of the Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogada Sat Sangha, and the legacy left by Paramahansa Yogananda are an advanced global spiritual dispensation needed by many </i></b></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>in this 21st century and beyond. Thousands of years will pass before it even looks out of date.</i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Yogananda brings great emphasis on creating more harmony among the worlds religions and nations, bringing Peace & Brotherhood instead of war, and how to attain communion with Reality/God through Grace and Personal Effort.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>This site will also deal with the great question of the need for a Guru of Self-Realization on the path of self-transformation.//////</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>SRF/YSS is not New Age, although it is similar to New Thought.<br />It is not a cult, it is a community of souls working towards spiritual freedom before death, </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Self-Transformational growth and Self-Realization.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>"It is not a branch or offshoot of any other major faith, It is not a creed or dogma" said Yogananda, " it is the science of the soul and Spirit," The Science of Kriya Yoga.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>A non-sectarian society sharing the essence of all great spiritual paths.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Self-Realization Fellowship does not seek to take anyone away from their faith,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>or abrogate the essential teachings of true previous divine dispensations.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>But it has come at this time, after centuries of misdirection of the masses,<br /> to restore the original teachings of Jesus, Krishna, Sankara, and other Christs, and<br />show the essential truths underlying all great faiths as a common basis for world harmony.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i> You can start right where you now are and transform your </i></b></span><b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>understanding</i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i> and consciousness from external popular ideas to inner true belief and wisdom.<br />Without this major reversal of the direction of your attention and concentration,<br />there is no true spiritual experience or salvation, no matter what your faith is!</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>You must learn the art of switching your attention/awareness from the outer </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>world of relativity to the inner world or Reality - God.</i></b></span><br />
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I hope to share ideas with all open minded persons free of dark prejudices, attachments,<br />
resentments, and competitive attitudes, the many blessing to be obtained from one of<br />
the modern worlds greatest Self-transformational spiritual Masters/ life coaches.<br />
I write here as a witness from the progress I have made in my <br />
own life by listening to and working with a true Guru/Master, a Living Christ.<br />
From when Yogananda first came into my life greater freedom and awareness<br />
and many other blessings continually flow into it. Obedience to a true Living<br />
Guru, freeing one from sense slavery and increasing mastery of all aspects ones life<br />
is the road to real freedom. Stay the way you are and you will never leave slavery!<br />
The glowing history of so many divinely God Realized persons <br />
who are in this YSS/SRF lineage, and with the sincere practice of these <br />
teachings are an unbroken testimony that is undeniable to honest seekers.<br />
The evidence is completely in the results, are you humble enough to take many<br />
years to learn about such results through study and practice?<br />
Anything worthwhile is worth the effort! meditation + devotion is the way!<br />
If not - this may not be for you!<br />
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This is a profound, demanding, and advanced spiritual, mystical path, based upon the science of Kriya Yoga. It is a balanced path of love, austerity, and service with great rewards. It is not for those of shallow intellectual disposition, or for the undisciplined loafers, who egotistically never will change themselves. It is not appealing to person who seek to be missionaries or teachers long before they are ready. You can't save the world until you save yourself. If you imagine in your small intellect you know more than these great ones/the living prophets, this path is clearly not for you..<br />
It is not a path for those who are lazy, restless, and weak of will, or cynical.<br />
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Persons self enamored with their own overblown intellects are correct in thinking<br />
a real God cannot be known by their prime intellectual method alone, <br />
truth will be most often evasive. Those who have penetrated to the heart of <br />
Reality/Brahman have done so by adding the powers of devotion and intuition<br />
to their great intellects. It is not intellect alone that will break the barriers <br />
of the worlds illusions, of your limited programming - but intellect plus intuition plus yoga sciences! <br />
This is now a real intelligence which leads to true faith true realization of the Self.<br />
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Reason alone, working through an undisciplined mind that is still locked into the<br />
cultural limitations of ones childhood programming is equally as blind as blind faith.<br />
Half of our brain - the intellect works with reason, good but still just the<br />
intellect rehashing its old patterns. Thus reasoning can be just a s flawed as blind faith.<br />
Intellect is also the victim of limitations of wrong data and/or incompetent assessments. The missing ingredient is highly developed intuition. This is how the Great Ones found their way to Reality/Salvation and knew God before death. We all have the opportunity of accelerating our<br />
evolution and permanently be free of forced reincarnation.<br />
Intuition is from the other half of our brain and is most effectively developed <br />
through Kriya Yoga meditation and spiritual devotion.<br />
When these two faculties are developed and balanced then one is blessed with a very clear and insightful clear intelligence. Intuition and reason together can show one the way with the help of one who is already there. The Guru is in a class beyond expert and is indispensable to the totally serious seeker. Whereas a teacher or cleric is suitable for the average devotee.<br />
A true savior -Guru- Spiritual master...One who has attained Yoga<br />
[union with the One Reality] and knows God no longer depends upon a human body<br />
to work with His/Her devotees. So he/she does not need a succession of gurus for parampara<br />
to be validated.<br />
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In the 19th & 20th century, India, Santana Dharma, [yoga] produced a<br />
number of great souls who are the equal of any savior to ever be<br />
known in Human history. Yogananda and many other credible writers have<br />
now brought this to the world's attention. Claims to the contrary are made by<br />
fearful protective bound believers who cannot bear the competition. Who may<br />
yet be steeped in the towers of intolerant exclusivism.<br />
Why do we need to follow anyone at all? Without religion many can lead a life of<br />
goodness. That does cover the level of leading a moral live. However in the<br />
field of true religion morality is only the foundation - nothing more.<br />
So until one is self-realized, we are as blind people wandering through<br />
unproductive years full of the false promises of our ancestors.<br />
In this relative world we are still only barely existing in another level of<br />
dreaming. Relativity is not reality - it is relativity!<br />
The Great Ones are Masters who have found the way to reality, they can<br />
show us the way out of all of this false programming. <br />
They know the best way out of this dream world of Relativity.<br />
Do you still believe this world is real, or that it can meet all your needs?<br />
Millions have found otherwise.<br />
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All endeavors are similar, if you want the best guidance and success<br />
you must work with an expert, one who has already made it there and<br />
back and knows the way...only such true Gurus can really help you in this<br />
most difficult of all human quests.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Persons with self-exaggerated presumptions of their own status who have imagined that by a few short readings and brief periods of practice they think they have an clear understanding of Yogananda and the Self-Realization teachings and history are sadly mistaken. You don't!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Or persons who are under the influence of copy cat teachers and are not what they seem.</span><br />
We see this all the time from detractors of Yogananda's work<br />
who have somehow assumed, either with misunderstanding or <br />
by other private agendas, that they know only the presumed faults of a<br />
spiritual master whose stature they have not yet even begun to grasp.<br />
Many of these detractors are still suffering from a deep <br />
stress of cognitive dissonance. Follow them NOT!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: lime;">Paramahansa Yogananda nos dice que;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: lime;">"Self-Realization es el conocimiento-en cuerpo, mente y alma, que somos uno con la omnipresencia de Dios, para que nosotros no tenemos que rezar para que venga a nosotros, que no somos más que cerca de él en todo momento, pero que la omnipresencia de Dios es nuestra omnipresencia, que somos sólo una parte tan importante de él ahora que nos volverá a ser .............. Todo lo que tenemos que hacer es mejorar nuestro conocimiento ".</span><br />
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I can appreciate that some of you have a longing of many questions to be answered. It is a sign that you sincerely would like answers to your
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My heart goes out to you - I have been there!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before I was ever introduced to Paramahansa Yogananda and Self-Realization Fellowship I was
studying the Bible, and only knew a little about Yoga, and nothing about
biblical languages. <br />
Yet, even then I saw that Reincarnation and Yoga are all
through the bible - especially the Gospels.<o:p></o:p><br />
But it was not until after I began to understand the intimacy and significance of the master/disciple relationship that I became aware that Jesus never implied that He was the only way to salvation for all nations and culture. A mind expanding pluralism that is now well supported by the availability of much the worlds great historical data and sacred writings the WWW has brought to our fingertips.</div>
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Moreover, just like our friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, once I
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I knew I was on the right track. It was a beginning on the path to true salvation. Once Emerson read that
remarkable holy book and He used it as his personal bible for the rest of his life.
[read what he has said about it - it's amazing].<o:p></o:p></div>
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Buddha also was a Yogi through and through. As was Jesus and others too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you can't see these things in the bible, it is because of your cultural programming.</div>
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They also had teachers and Gurus. Make no mistake, these are two very different types
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It can be somewhat disillusioning when one runs into a
mystical advanced path like Kriya Yoga before one is ready and is still
drifting in the wind looking for everything else. <br />
Those "who have grasped the
import" and value of SRF yoga by and large [like 98%] have gained immeasurable
freedom and self-transformation in their lives. This is one of the main reasons
why Yoga is literally sweeping the world- and this is just the beginning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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beginning of this wonderful life enhancing adventure. And if you've read that book only once</div>
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Reincarnation? Just how all this started who in the world
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Just like people now living on Aboriginal lands of the western world.</div>
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The whole process seems to have come about by the greatest of political evils and genocide. </div>
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The problem is we now live here and it is too crowded to all head back to
Europe<br />
so we must work at life where we are and make something good from now on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Likewise here we are born into this world, and the scientific
and spiritual evidence in mounting like crazy that reincarnation is the most
plausible process re souls living in these bodies over and over. <o:p></o:p></div>
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this truth and now have various great paths and methods of bringing the
process to an end. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The decision is fully and clearly ours.<br />
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AS we can see from Yogananda's definition of Self-Realization -</div>
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"<b style="background-color: #66ff99; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><i><span align="center" style="background-color: silver; color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";">"Self-Realization is the knowing-in body, mind and soul- that we are one with the omnipresence of God; that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God's omnipresence is our omnipresence ; that we are just as much a part of Him now as we ever will be. ...... All we have to do is improve our knowing."</span></i></b><br />
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stuff of paying a priesthood or club to guarantee us a place in some heavenly
realm. Promises, Promises...by those who have no power to guarantee them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus was never about intolerant exclusivism. "Only one way " Reincarnation
was not from any form of paganism, It was at that time a beloved wisdom of even the Hebrews and Greeks, even though some pagans did come to believe
in it. And of course today nearly half of Christians believe in it - and still growing. So much for
Justinian's terrible edict passed by a kangaroo court to make it an anathema! That change was not dictated by any spiritual wisdom, not by some theological rational, it was purely for political control.<o:p></o:p><br />
The result being that after 1500 years of blind religious programming when most church goers read the Gospels they can only see the resurrection day themes. This is the power of programming, and until you free yourself from it, you will continue to only "see through a glass darkly." as Paul said.</div>
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Few in history have made this all so clear as Yogananda. Read again and you will see that!<o:p></o:p></div>
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SRF is not perfect - and as they themselves teach so clearly
-" that nothing in this world is perfect so don't expect it." But
they are a great and caring organization. The Master set it up in a manner that has avoided many of the common pitfalls that plagued previous divine dispensations. Yogananda has brought to the world a great deal of spiritual understanding and the methods of how to become a Christ, how to enrich your life, and the most advanced self-transformational approaches in this modern era.<o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some of India's greatest saints acclaimed Yogananda as
a true Paramahansa.</span><br />
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http://www.yoganandafortheworld1.com/<a href="http://www.yoganandafortheworld1.com/">Paramahansa Yoganandas Spiritual Legacy</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b><i>ANANDA and Self-Realization Fellowship - My Story !</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">It was at a very youthful age that I was attracted to the study of </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">comparative religion. Out of this search of many years for a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">better way, a clearer awareness of truth, I was eventually directed to the life and work of Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship/YSS.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">At that time my disposition was one of serious anti organization </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">and strong independence - and not consciously seeking any kind of spiritual teacher. It was an intellectual one sided quest until I found SRF/YSS. Then my life slowly came into more balance.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">When, out of the vast everywhere, the great prophet Paramahansa Yogananda introduced himself to me through a book written about Him, given to me by someone very close to me. It became immediately evident that through a series of very exact influences over the years</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">in my life, that it was He alone who had been directing my steps and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">educating me for several years in the great quest of the Spirit. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Reading His book, although I was momentarily in sort of a state of shock, I knew both intellectually, and intuitively that Yoganandaji was my true and "living Guru" - my spiritual living teacher.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">It was 1958 and I clearly felt His living presence radiating from this wonderful publication from SRF, “The Master Said,” by Paramahansa Yogananda. This volume is now titled, “Sayings of Paramahansa Yogananda.” The book He used to introduce Himself at the right moment in my life. Then I received an even greater awakening once I read "Autobiography of a Yogi" for the first time. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">I promptly took the SRF lessons course, but later momentarily hesitated re receiving Kriya Yoga, and only through a little reflection and some wise guidance from SRF Mother Center did I decide to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">go for it! The best decision I ever made in my life! Eventually I experienced all the good that comes from listening to the Guru.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">He created this organization, this sacred community, for a divine purpose. It was also due to the devoted work , loyalty, and saintliness of many who serve SRF that we can all enjoy the great benefits and inspirations of their publications, personal guidance and counseling, and the many blessings that millions have known over the years through various contacts with the life and work of Yogananda through Yogananda’s only church – the Self-Realization Fellowship.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">For those of you who are still searching for a spiritual path,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> and salvation in God-Realization. I give my personal testimony</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">that if you are attracted to this Yogananda, this truly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Living Guru, through YSS/SRF He still provides all that you will ever need to reach your highest goals.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Be it greater creativity, self-empowerment, happiness, divine realization understanding and getting along harmoniously with others,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">inner psychological and spiritual healing, success, or cosmic consciousness.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Between the SRF/YSS Lessons Course and other SRF/YSS publications – it is all there. And this all comes with personal counseling and guidance from SRF/YSS monastics, ministers and other staff members who are always helpful.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Nowhere did our gurus say that “after you learn such and such</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">you need to find another path to take you further.” That is not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> the Guru/discipleship system works, and any such talk is by those who may be desperately seeking power and more followers. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">The record shows that without doubt, what the master left us </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">works for all attuned sincere and loyal devotees.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">With the right effort, loyalty, & attunement, you will find it all in the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">SRF/YSS masters and teachings. These teachings supply</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">many important elements that have been missing from most popular religious movements for a long time.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">That most advanced “science of religion” that makes all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> the difference in the world, given in a balanced teaching, and the example of such divinely advanced leadership that we have seen in </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">SRF/YSS lineage in both India and America.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">This Spiritual Legacy [a divine global dispensation] will</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">will surely go a long way to bringing peace, unity, and understanding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">to this divided world for future millenniums.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">There was a time many years later that I met J Donald Walters</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">on about 3 occasions. The last time, around circa 1979 I was driving through California after attending the wonderful SRF World Convocation My family and I had the opportunity to visit Ananda up near Grass Valley/ Nevada City area. We stopped there as I was </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">considering getting involved in some kind or spiritual community.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">I must credit Mr Walters with saving me from a very serious </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">misdirection of my spiritual life. It wasn't anything negative he said.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">But when I left Ananda after a long visit and a chat with JDW I had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">the clearest feeling that this life was not for me. I felt something was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">very wrong here and I could not put my finger on it.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">We live and learn! It took me many more years to see that great </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">evils can and do occur in these communities when the leader is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">too spiritually immature to be selfless advanced spiritual teacher.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Then there was those terrible court sessions that really exposed </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Walters ignorance of his own sad psychological problems. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Problems that he failed to sort out even to the very end of his life.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">He was truly the Judas of all of Master’s devotees, who did many</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">foolish and unspeakable things while struggling with the absurd obsession that he should have been the leader of all of Yogananda’s great work. [ See LA Times article from December 18, 2010 re film]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Even though Walters was very persuasive and cunning, he never had </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">any real spiritual depth, this especially showed up in his later years.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">He writes in his book that after moving to America, at school he was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">made to feel like a “worthless human being.” [ The Path]The problem</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">never really went away. Shortly after Sri Daya Mata’s passing, Walters had the nerve to say to someone {la Times etc] that, “SRF and Ananda could join,” if SRF made him the next president. Not on your life..</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">What egotism! What gall!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Even Yogananda warned Walters about the future, “Donald, you are not going to disappoint me- are you?” said the Master. And when all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">is said and done, history shows Walters to be one of Yogananda’s </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">very great disappointments. He did much harm emotionally and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">spiritually to many naive, trusting devotees. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">There is an extensive documented history on all of this.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Much of what J Donald Walters wrote and Crystal Clarity wrote was </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">either twisted, plagiarized, and stolen from the intellectual material rights that Yogananda himself had clearly deeded solely to the Self-Realization Fellowship</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">He was essentially a thief, which he justified as he imagined himself</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">to be Yogananda’s number one boy. Such delusions are ever painful</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">for those who seek power long before they are ready. And I feel for all those who innocently imagined that Walters was some kind of guru. He was not even close to being anyone’s guru.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">For some he was and interesting inspiration of sorts.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">He had broken his monastic vows in various ways [by his own admissions] long before he was fired from SRF/YSS, and of course continually after founding Ananda. He was fired by SRF only after extreme patience on the part of Daya Mata and the board, and the final straw was when he was deported as “persona non grata” by the Indian government. Now why would the Gov of India do that??It left a very dark mark on YSS when the vice-president creates such offences that the government of India order Walters out of the country. Can you imagine how much that set back master’s work in India for many years! This is only one of many harms by JDW against Yogananda's great cause. All because of an obsession.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">You may wonder why the Self-Realization Fellowship has never detailed all the reasons why Walters was fired. [It is very rare for an organization to fire and executive in the first place] This was a courageous and difficult decision for Sri Daya Mata and the SRF board of directors. But in the long run it proved to be a divinely wisdom guided decision that save the SRF from many future scandals and harms. Many thanks to the Board of Directors! Of course Ananda members will always want to cover up and stand by their pseudo guru. They were knowingly covering up his sexual exploits for years and years. And thought nothing of all his plagiarisms and personal struggles. Covering up the sins of another is not what friends do.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">It amounts to a head in the sand consciousness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">to be continued ......................don't yet presume anything.</span>PYisLovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00028042000230720662noreply@blogger.com0