The topic is you, and so we are still 'on topic' here.
onvalianthorwatch wrote:I had my 'Amrit Vela' routine ...
Aye ... in my day, that meant sitting up in bed to do it. Dadi Janki would have fallen on us like a ton of bricks had we ever have dreamt of doing so!
My chart here, really?! Well I ever :)
Well, of course, I am joshing with you a little bit ...
The only reason I ask is that we have been often challenged by people who have had only the most superficial of BK involvement, or the most subjective interpretations of what they think it is. In short, people who would not have been considered proper BKs in my time, or by the leadership.
Even though I have 'zero' faith or investment in BKism, from my own experience, I would still agree that unless you are following the Maryadas fully ... which account for more than 2 hours meditation a day ... you have not got a clue what it is nor are really experiencing it.
I think it's one of the big problems with BKism. There's no proving anyone is really doing or achieving anything, as per "the chart" (e.g. nonsense like "how many hours were you soul conscious for?"). There's no objective quantifying degrees of soul consciousness or depth of Yoga, or even checking whether one is or one is achieving it. The entire religion seems to be based on false confidences, e.g. "I am having Yoga because I think I am having Yoga" or "I am remember Baba because I remember to remember Baba" or simply mentally chant "Om Shanti" or "Baba" 10,000 times a day, as Janki Kirpalani literally used to exhort us to do.
And yet there were folk who religiously sat down at night and gave themselves marks out of ten for an increasingly long scoresheet believing it to be in anyone significant.
You will get that from that that I gave up on the practise pretty quickly ...
. I understand it's still a big thing, especially in India. It must appeal to the OCD Wing of the BKWSU.
Folks should not be too fooled thinking that their online presence is anonymous for we both know that web pages include code to extract a lot of personal data when we visit them *nudge *nudge *wink *wink and all that hahaha so I've noticed interesting stuff when I use various browsers to log on.
There's no "magic code" and no personal data being "scrubbed" on this websites.
You have to log on to read 'New Posts', so you'll get a cookie to say when you logged, or logged on last. That's all. Obviously, you'll have given an email address to join but that is not made public to anyone and you can always change it. All webservers, as a rule, record IP addresses and browser types for the purpose of visitor statistics but, again, those are not made public.
To be honest, no one even looks at them except, perhaps, once a year when the domain and hosting are paid for.