"New Approach" Open Letter
From: chamunda108@fastmail.net
To: chamunda108@fastmail.net
Subject: "New Approach" Open Letter
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:18:22 -0800
Dear leaders and yogis of the United States, Canada and the World:
Many of us received concerned emails in the recent weeks. Those letters
encouraged me to put forward a few questions of my own. My identity does
not need disclosure due to the threat of being targeted and therefore a
loss of emphasis on the matters really at stake. Instead, what's need
to be disclosed is an explanation of the issues below which are of great
concern to myself and fellow yogis.
Therefore, I believe it is our right as yogis to request that the
following issues be addressed through the platform of an OPEN LETTER
to the entire US & Canadian collective. The Era of hiding behind
"confidential" leader discretion must end. The collective is entitled to
know everything as it is ...so if there is really nothing to hide then let
these concerns be addressed. To all those who might question the
validity of this letter, let us use our vibrations and decide
independently (before consulting the so called authority) about the
issues being raised.
So here are a few questions that you can begin answering, fulfilling
your duty as leaders and yogis:
Let's dig into this "US New Approach" with the help of the vibrations:
1) Shri Mataji founded Sahaja Yoga. Who decided to remove "yoga"
from Sahaja Yoga without asking the opinion of the collective?
(Obviously vibrations did not play any role in this decision)
2) Did they pay the "dropped out" new seekers when they contacted
them for feedback? If they paid them, when was the collective asked for
permission beforehand? How much was paid for the feedbacks?
3) In these difficult economic times, how much was paid to the PR
agency to analyze the feedbacks and to come up with a "master plan" of
making Sahaja Yoga the next "McDonald's" of meditation with no mention
of yoga, kundalini, chakra, any Sanskrit word and not having Mother's
photo etc...
4) Why was the collective made face the irreversible fact, instead
of being asked whether the "New Approach" was the right direction at
all?
5) Who are the forceful masterminds behind this attempt? Which
leaders believe that a for-profit corporation can seriously give advice
on how to spread spirituality? (Mother always warned us on this issue of
marketing...). How was the "Growth Team" set up? Who is in it? Who gave
them the supreme authority?
6) Who approved the spending?
7) Why is there still such forcefulness to comply with the "New
Approach" after Shri Mataji's Guru Puja talk in 2008? Yogis who were
doubtful about this new direction were branded as negative at Havans.
Isn't it ok to disagree with something after checking vibrations?
8) How much money was wasted on the 2nd PR agency in Maine before
it (wisely!) dropped the "New Approach" project at a beginning stage?
9) Why can't we get more detailed items on the yearly financial
reports presented to the collective? Who knows how the Kubera Fund was
spent?
10) Why did the total amount spent (wasted) on the "New Approach"
never show up on any financial report presented to the collective?
11) Why did the leaders feel authorized to spend money on such big
projects without seeking approval from the collective? (They may argue
that it was financed from the Kubera Fund but the sponsor did not give
the money to waste it.)
From day One the vibrations showed the dead end nature of the project
(PLEASE CHECK FOR YOURSELF) but no one paid attention (isn't that what
makes us yogis?). Throwing out money like this may make people retain
their pledges as evidently many have last year. The money could have
gone towards the back tax for Shri Mataji's house and the Ashram.
12) When did Mother bless the "New Approach"? Never. What took place
is that some leader thought he understood this from Her facial
expressions. There was never a "Good", "Go ahead", "May God bless you"
in regards to this project.
It became the practice of the US leadership that when they want to
impose their will on the collective they say the fake-mantra: " Oh, Shri
Mataji blessed that and that too...."
Practical people in Sahaja Yoga know that the awakening of the Kundalini
in people is beneficial but that the real collective growth comes from
establishing new yogis and helping them to become members of the
collective. Not long ago the Tri-State collective gave over 10.000 SR
through street fairs in less than 1 year. This was presented Mother as a
huge achievement but when She asked " HOW MANY GOT ESTABLISHED OUT OF
THEM? ", the answer was "NONE"
At that point the "New Approach" started...:-)
The way it was implemented in certain places by the leaders stripped
away the freedom of spreading Sahaja Yoga in a creative way. These days
some yogis like to think that the "New Approach/Sahaja Meditation" will
be successful with HealthCorps. There are blown up reports reaching
overseas telling about hundreds of students, staff, teachers getting SR.
That is all nice, very nice but how many of those people will get
established in Sahaja Yoga as Shri Mataji requested? Who will become a
yogi out of them? Very few, if any. We got the same poor results with
the good old street fairs for free:-). So really how does the
HealthCorps project measure up to its "extraordinary" reports? According
to many, HealthCorps had connection with TM before. (Transcendental
Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh.)
The "New Approach/Sahaja Meditation" is not producing more established
yogis so why do we, as a collective, tolerate wasting our money on it?
(just a note: the "New Approach" is so right-sided that some people say
it can not be the real part of Sahaja Yoga. Well, we all have hands to
check if that is true or not....:-))
Hoping the leaders will feel the spiritual obligation to respond to this
sensitive collective issue.
Jai Shri Mataji!
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