UNDERSTAND THIS IS A TRADITIONAL GURU AND AM NOT GOING TO PANDER TO EGOS NOR CHANGE THE PATH AS YOGANANDA WAS INSTRUCTED TO DO TO WORK WITH THOSE IN THE WEST. WHY? BECAUSE ONE DOESN'T GET TO REALIZATION THAT WAY... This Guru not interested in working with the superficial seekers...
READ Yogananada and Yukteswar's WORDS which will be following
IF THIS GURU IS A CULT THEN YOGANANDA CAME OUT OF A CULT. AS WHAT IS GIVEN HERE IS GIVEN IN THE SAME VEIN AS YUKETSWAR GAVE TO YOGANANDA AND THE SEEKERS IN INDIA....
CHAPTER 12 - Years in My Master's Hermitage
from Autobiography of a Yogi* "You have come." Sri Yukteswar greeted me from a tiger skin on the floor of a balconied sitting room. His voice was cold, his manner unemotional.
"Yes, dear Master, I am here to follow you." Kneeling, I touched his feet.
- NONE HERE ARE REQUIRED TO TOUCH THE GURU'S FEET NOR KNEEL.. ALTHOUGH THIS IS A TRADITIONAL SIGN OF RESPECT FOR ONES GURU....
* "How can that be? You ignore my wishes.""No longer, Guruji! Your wish shall be my law!""That is better! Now I can assume responsibility for your life."
* "I willingly transfer the burden, Master."
"My first request, then, is that you return home to your family. I want you to enter college in Calcutta. Your education should be continued."
"Very well, sir." I hid my consternation. Would importunate books pursue me down the years? First Father, now Sri Yukteswar!
"Someday you will go to the West. Its people will lend ears more receptive to India's ancient wisdom if the strange Hindu teacher has a university degree."
* Discipline had not been unknown to me: at home Father was strict, Ananta often severe. But Sri Yukteswar's training cannot be described as other than drastic. A perfectionist, my guru was hypercritical of his disciples, whether in matters of moment or in the subtle nuances of behavior.
* Master was apparently satisfied with my spiritual progress, for he seldom referred to it; in other matters my ears were no strangers to reproof.
* From transient teachers of my earlier life I had imbibed a few erroneous lessons. A chela, I was told, need not concern himself strenuously over worldly duties; when I had neglected or carelessly performed my tasks, I was not chastised. Human nature finds such instruction very easy of assimilation. Under Master's unsparing rod, however, I soon recovered from the agreeable delusions of irresponsibility.
* "Those who are too good for this world are adorning some other," Sri Yukteswar remarked. "So long as you breathe the free air of earth, you are under obligation to render grateful service. He alone who has fully mastered the breathless state16 is freed from cosmic imperatives. I will not fail to let you know when you have attained the final perfection."
* My guru could never be bribed, even by love. He showed no leniency to anyone who, like myself, willingly offered to be his disciple.
* Whether Master and I were surrounded by his students or by strangers, or were alone together, he always spoke plainly and upbraided sharply.
* No trifling lapse into shallowness or inconsistency escaped his rebuke. This flattening treatment was hard to endure, but my resolve was to allow Sri Yukteswar to iron out each of my psychological kinks. As he labored at this titanic transformation, I shook many times under the weight of his disciplinary hammer.
* "If you don't like my words, you are at liberty to leave at any time," Master assured me. "I want nothing from you but your own improvement. Stay only if you feel benefited."
* For every humbling blow he dealt my vanity, for every tooth in my metaphorical jaw he knocked loose with stunning aim, I am grateful beyond any facility of expression.
* The hard core of human egotism is hardly to be dislodged except rudely. With its departure, the Divine finds at last an unobstructed channel. In vain It seeks to percolate through flinty hearts of selfishness.
* Sri Yukteswar's wisdom was so penetrating that, heedless of remarks, he often replied to one's unspoken observation. "What a person imagines he hears, and what the speaker has really implied, may be poles apart," he said. "Try to feel the thoughts behind the confusion of men's verbiage."
* But divine insight is painful to worldly ears; Master was not popular with superficial students.
* The wise, always few in number, deeply revered him. I daresay Sri Yukteswar would have been the most sought-after guru in India had his words not been so candid and so censorious.
* "I am hard on those who come for my training," he admitted to me. "That is my way; take it or leave it. I will never compromise.
* But you will be much kinder to your disciples; that is your way. I try to purify only in the fires of severity, searing beyond the average toleration.
* The gentle approach of love is also transfiguring. The inflexible and the yielding methods are equally effective if applied with wisdom. You will go to foreign lands, where blunt assaults on the ego are not appreciated.
* A teacher could not spread India's message in the West without an ample fund of accommodative patience and forbearance." I refuse to state the amount of truth I later came to find in Master's words!
AS A GURU AM GOING TO CONTINUE TO GIVE WHAT MAY BE GIVEN IN THE BEST WAY TO BREAK THROUGH EGO TO TRUTH... AM NOT GOING TO CHANGE THIS TO SUIT THE GENERAL PUBLIC NOR THE WATERED DOWN SUPERFICIAL SEEKERS LOOKING FOR A FEEL GOOD PATH TO PROP THEMSELVES UP WITH.... AM NOT GOING TO APOLOGIZE FOR GIVING UNCOMPROMISING GUIDANCE AND PATH TO LIBERATION...
OM MAHA SHANTI
OM NAMO NARAYAN
GURU SWAMI-G
A Quote From a Student of Guru Swami-G:
While at Ananda church of Self-realization long time ago, when the direct disciple of Yogananda come to visit, he would tell all followers that is much easy to follow Yogananda`s teachings in written manner, while is much harder to follow Yogananda when he was alive. Many - he would say, whom are following Yogananda today, may have not submitted to him while he was alive.
I understood that when i found Swami-G, the difference to follow a book and a living Guru. The book i used to fit into my own ego-understanding, deluding myself that i am surrendering to truth, to the Guru, but it was just the idea of it, while in actuality the ego was glorifying itself with the teachings.
The first things that happened when submitted to Swami-G, was to receive a hard blow on the big mouth that I opened in proclaiming the actuality of truth. It took several days of inquiry to bring sanity and calm the mind from its offensive/defensive attitude, but since then i am been more focused on the practices and have no interested in philosophical accumulations for chit chat, thus the mind is so much calmer, there is this balance that was not before, for this i am so grateful its unspeakable, no book could have done this, such a blessings is to have true living Sat Guru. OM Kali MA........
