arjun wrote:Omshanti. It is really sad to know that the Godly knowledge which is supposed to be given free of cost to all the souls of the world is being given (rather sold) at such a premium.
In fairness, as the individual that posted the original comment, I must point out that the fee was not solely for a pure Raja Yoga course and was part of a one day seminar which also the advertised lesson. However, the seminar did also include general material or training that without a doubt would contain training that would have been colored by Raja Yoga teachings, and BK Brian trains, employs or contracts other BKs to work with him and in this field. He, and they, also seem to have "trained" BKs and groups within the BKs. All the same; lucky few that can afford $2,000 for a day's seminar, and even more clever few that have worked out a way of extracting it.
Rather than just the money, what I am exposing here or rather just querying, is the ambiguity of where the line between Lokik and Alokik is being drawn, how and why certain privileged individuals within the BKWSU are allowed to blur the borders and how the Seniors come to these preferences. In short, "what their cut is".• If I was to open a restaurant and offer "Special 6 Course Luxury Meal $ 250 [which is expensive but not extravagant] WITH free Godly Knowledge and meditation class after" - would the Senior Sisters allow me to do it?
• House cleaning services with "secret arcane Indian wisdom"?
• Or if I ran garage that advertised a "Special Offer ... full service for you taxi $400 including private Ancient Raja Yoga teachings" - would I be allowed?
• And closer to what this new "cult within a cult" is offering, if I was a counsellor or psychotherapist, who can charge $120 to $240 an hour or more to sit and talk about people's feeling, would I be allowed and encouraged to teach my patients Gyan Raja Yoga meditation as part of that hour to fix them?
The answer would seem to be, "
it depends on how rich, famous and powerful your clients were and how useful they are to us and our credibility". Although I dare say that the Seniors have examined BK Bacon thoroughly to check his degree of Godly surrender and detachment from the financial aspects. Perhaps the Yugya is getting a cut as it also seems to allow the use of the Godly "Big House in the Country" Retreat. Can any BK use the Big House in the Country to run their business? Another high status and "serviceable" BK Neville Hodgkins seemed to allowed to write his book. Can I use a shed at the the Big House to fix bicycles or advertise by window cleaning service?
There does also seem to be a bit of a growing trend internationally with Western BK being encouraged, inspired or trained up to be coaches and consultants that are in an essence selling, or including, what they have taken from Gyan and using the service that did for Baba as a reference, credibility or advertising to promote their business - such as in the case of BK Ken in South America - with a blurring of the borders between what was pure service and is private business. I am investigating others likewise right now.
It does also raise ridiculous questions, such as;
• If Raja Yoga teachings are perfect Godly teachings, in what way and why is God deficient that BKs have to have to be additionally trained up in 'Leadership' by Mr Bacon and their group? In what way is Mr Bacon superior?
• If, as it is taught within the BKWSU, all teachings and inheritance come from BK God Shiva - either this or last Kalpa - does Mr Bacon have some special connection with Shiv and is he being inspired is some special way to reveal new teachings for the Family and Humanity? If so, why are they being sold at such a high premium to nasty big companies and politicians only?
• And has God Shiv given the Shrimat to go ahead with trend?
To me even the advertisement that these seminars are being given for free to some within the BK family, certainly defeats the old fashioned understanding of Gyan that "incognito service is the best". How can one blow one's own trumpet about service one has given to the BK community, where actually it might have just been trying out a new idea on a guinea pig audience or the extension of what one has learned from the Yoga and knowledge one has taken from GOD?
Lastly, such a trend also expose one of the dangerous and damaging lies perpetrated by the BKWSU that is used to seperate and encouraged outright dependency amongst the mostly vulnerable individuals that preys on. That lie is that "ONLY the BKWSU and their god is the source of wisdom". Obviously, in the case such as BK Bacon, George and DeCarteret, these are intelligent, educated individuals that continue to study non-Gyan sources and learn from other teaching methods. These non-Gyani sources are being fed back into Gyan to change and "enhance" it. Sources that the rank and file BKs would be told to keep away from as they were only "Bhakti", the teachers impure Shudras, the course against Shrimat. These are being used so artfully in a way to enhance the credibility of Gyan by using the other's name and forms so wonderfully but, ulimately watering it down. Are the children fed by the god or is the god fed by the children?
Are rank and file BKs encouraged to learn such arts, study such sources, spend their time in social climbing, invest their money in travelling to exotic places, enhance themselves with professional courses, read a book on mysticism so that one can quote it artfully, engage in dinner parties circuit with VIPs ... like Hell.
Like animals, in my opinion, they are kept busy down the farm doing the grunt work; cooking, cleaning, handing out leaflets and stupifying themselves looking for meaning in extremely limited sources. By encouraging total dedication to BK Gyan, the rank and file BKs are being mentally starved iinto positions of dependancy.
What I suggest we are talking about here is not so much the acquisition of knowledge but the acquisition of power. The game of worldly power that the BKWSU play so well.
For a few.