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Will the faithful need
Lemon and Chilli meditations for salvation?
From: "jagbir singh" <adishakti_org@...>
Date: Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:33 pm
Subject: Will the faithful need Lemon and Chilli meditations
for salvation?
--- In adishakti_sahaja_yoga@yahoogroups.com, "jagbir singh"
<adishakti_org@...> wrote:
>
> --- In adishakti_sahaja_yoga@yahoogroups.com, "jagbir
singh"
> <adishakti_org@> wrote:
> >
> > You must also understand that Muslims in Malaysia are
very
> > sensitive to the image of Islam and the Divine. They
will
> > vehemently reject and protest any rituals and treatments
or
> > external images - so be very careful about their
religious
> > taboos.
> >
> >
>
> i seriously doubt Muslims (and Christians, Jews, Sikhs)
will ever
> accept the rituals that are being promoted. This is the
latest
> update and we can see how vital cleansing rituals have
become.
>
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:48 AM
> Subject: Fwd: [aunews] Birthday Puja Update &
Registrations
>
> "See details of Books and CD's coming from India for sale
at our
> web site: http://www.sahajayoga.com.au/puja/news.html
>
> There will also be Clearing Sessions, Lemon and Chilli
meditations,
> Onion Treatment, Camphor Treatment, String Burning, Oil
Rubs and
> meditations"
>
> i wonder how will Muslims react to "Lemon and Chilli
meditations".
> Management SYs have alienated most of the religious
faithful and
> ordinary seekers with their obsession and insistence on
cleansing
> rituals. Muslims will never compromise their faith with
such
> practices. The only way will be the assurance that
external
> rituals are absolutely unnecessary to take part in the
Last
> Judgment and Resurrection. There is no room for compromise
here.
>
> jagbir
>
i was thinking out loud whether any future believer of Her
Divine
Message will require any cleansing rituals for salvation.
The more i
pondered the more i am convinced that absolutely no external
rituals
are needed for salvation.
But the least needed and lowest denominator for salvation
has become
the official sacred cow of Sahaja Yoga.
Yesterday i asked my wife Shindi, as she baked walnut-carrot
muffins,
why SYs need cleansing rituals. She replied that these rites
are
required to keep clearing themselves, just like taking
repeated
baths daily in order to constantly clean oneself.
So when will they become cleansed enough? Never, because
they are
forever getting dirtied by catches.
Then what is the purpose of all this ceaseless clearing? (i
liked
her answer) - so that they can become real yogis.
As i shook my head in disbelief i have come to realize how
much the
core teachings of Shri Mataji are being lost, discarded by
management SYs since they cannot declare these thunderous
Truths.
They are now comfortable with the cleansing rules and
clearing
routine that is officially endorsed as necessary for
salvation .....
..... er, i mean to become a SY. (Shri Mataji never even
once
endorsed this idea that has over time been increasingly
worshipped
as the sacred salvation cow of Sahaja Yoga.)
That brings the question that will determine its very
survival: Will
the faithful in future need the Sahaja Yoga organization,
with all
its cleansing rituals so alien to their religious
background, to
take part in the Last Judgment and Resurrection?
i will save you from the inconsistencies of speculation:
"Tolstoy argues, very persuasively, that the core teachings
of Jesus
have been lost to the modern Christian. Man is too
comfortable with
the way things are to really adopt Jesus approach to life.
Most of what passes for Christianity today is nothing of the
sort. A
great deal of it is self-serving. Jesus said salvation is
personal --
you don't need a "church" to be saved. As Tolstoy explains,
church's are largely the invention of men, who crave a
hierarchy and
order.
This book "The Kingdom Of God Is Within You" is a
revelation, and
can make Christians feel rebuked by Tolstoy's words."
i also cannot resist quoting the Bhagavad-Gita:
Undiscerning men, theologians preoccupied with scriptural
lore,
Who claim there is nothing else, utter words with ephemeral
results.
Their words promise better births through cultic acts,
Dwell at length on various rites, and aim at pleasure and
power.
These men are full of desire, zealous for heaven.
They cling to pleasures and power and are fooled by their
own
discourses.
They have no knowledge consisting in commitment, fixed in
concentration.
The Scriptures speak to the world's weave of integrity,
passion, and
sloth.
Transcend it, Arjuna, free from opposites, forever in
integrity,
Detached from things, in command of yourself.
All the Scriptures mean as much — no more, no less — to the
discerning spiritual man, as a water tank in a universal
flood.
Bhagavad Gita 2:42-46
My parting question: If all the Scriptures mean as much — no
more,
no less — to the discerning spiritual man, as a water tank
in a
universal flood, what will all the various daily rites
listed in
the "Manual Of SY Cleansing Rituals and Clearing Techniques"
mean?
jagbir
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