bkti-pit wrote:To swordofjustice and clearernow:
So I am asking: are you actually doing BK Raja Yoga or is it simply your take on it? How can you dismiss the teachings on the 5000 years Cycle, including the imminent Destruction through international atomic war and cataclysmic natural calamities, etc?
I, personally, know many BKs who, even after 25 years of following strictly, are still saying that they never had an experience of God's love.
Yes, most BKs are well meaning, just as are most Scientologist, Satya Sai Baba's and Guru Maharaji's followers, and others ...
Rajayoga means union with God through Meditation - and that's what I did and still do. What was the goal of that?
a) To churn about 5000 years or Destruction? Or,
b) To remember the all loving God and purify yourselves?
I asked this to myself many many times and answer was always b). Answers from Murli matched my own answers and it was resonant. Key teaching was always to constantly remember God to become pure and rest was periphery.
Tell me one thing - if some day it gets proven that The Cycle is actually 10,000 years or, say, Destruction is 50 years away - would the technique of Rajayoga meditation change? Or the purification effect or other experiences will change with it? Can anyone guarantee I will live for another 50 years or predict dates for my own life?
You can never prove based on whatever evidences you produce who is wrong and who is right till the date it actually happens and clearly revealed by God or Nature. So to me it was always a waste of time and energy to debate about this and totally irrelevant for my personal benefit in this life. I would say do not choose any spiritual path based on predictions of destruction- if you choose a path for God - it must be because of love of God and surrender to him - Not because you just have few years to live or want to escape.
For me other principles and practices were always more attractive.
I have said in a post before - if someone is a BK for 25 years or 5 years is not what counts. What counts is the depth of the divine connection. Just putting a tag of BK doesnt purify you - it has to be powerful Yoga with God. There may be many souls in the world having different experiences with God and I respect all such experiences.
I would have done, yes, because I was one the 100% people. I surrendered to the Yagya. I would have died for Shiva happily.
I have endured hardships. I have slept in conditions worse than that before but, yes, they want us to come because they need our money, so they make it as kushti as they can.
Also, it wasn't built on this. It still is this way, Westerners get the cream, the Indians get the rough end. If everyone was equal the meetings couldn't happen
Great - it touches my heart to see the level of surrender from you and I get tremendous respect for you looking at your comitment ... lot of westerners may not be able to endure that, especially the beginners ... I, myself, have heard from many of the Western ones who even did not feel comfortable with some of the facilities offered because the sanskars of living in high comfort don't change in just an year or two. Indian families have Western connections and they treat them with lot of hospitality ... even beyond what they can afford ... its part of the culture. Not everything is for deception, I don't carry the glasses to see only negative in everything they do ... in fact, all of this started out of feedback from very early Western travelers who said they simply can not live without those facilities.
Keep that divine connection on, Mr Green, and rely on his guidance. If you don't trust the mediums and system, fine. Just rely on that source and let it guide you. I am inspired by you.
All the best.