Never Build Ashrams!
Posted: 10 Dec 2014
When the Yogic student starts an Ashram, slowly luxury creeps in. The original Vairagya (dispassionate state, non-attraction to wordly things) gradually wanes. He loses what he has gained and is unconscious of his downfall. Ashram develops a begging mentality and institutional egoism. He is the same house-holder now in some other form (Rupantara-bheda) though he is in the garb of a Sannyasin. O aspirants, beware! I warn you seriously. Never build Ashrams.
- fromKUNDALINI Yoga by SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
I felt this was a worthy quote given the recent revelations at the Royal Commission into institutional abuse of childrenat Australia’s oldest Yoga ashram, the Satyananda ashram at Mangrove Mountain NSW, as well as the bourgeois ways of the BKIVV whose sole purpose has, since the repeated failure of their expected apocalypse, changed from one of personal ”salvation” to one of institutional sustenance, propagation, promotion and aggrandisement, accumulating real estate and supporting the lives of those who never expected to live this long and have no independent means of support!