Now it is at this point that I differ from most. Dadi Janki is an accomplished yogi. Unfortunately her methods and those of her charges can appear completely ruthless. We hear her demanding transformation from students in just a few days or moments, this seems a form of spiritual bullying or forced growth, though it may have parallels with the force used in Zen.
The safeguards that other systems adopt are not present in Raja Yoga. It can be that a person is sent on the wrong track completely, for example, to become Emperor of the world or to think beyond their strength. This results in the student coming a cropper. When this happens the student may bond to The Knowledge and may in the long term benefit greatly, but at what price for those strewn along the way? One excuse is of course that Destruction is just around the corner and that the population of heaven will be small - cobblers!
All of Gyan is about thought control and bringing all levels of oneself into alignment to specific ends. You can let others control where you place your attention or you can do it yourself. One can approach the Murli from the perspective of a soul learning about God or someone who feels very close to God or someone who has become very like God.
Each person understands Gyan differently, the person who behaviourally has made much effort to modify the facade they present to the world may have refined their personality but Gyan goes far deeper than that. It aims at a radical transformation in ones very being thinking and doing. When one accesses the areas of oneself that Bap Dada is talking about it is well worth while. Few truly knock on the door of the highest on high and we are told that DJ is one of the magical 8. The Dalai Lama has visited Madhuban for a short while, is so amazing that during those few days he managed to pick up sufficient to sustain him for so much of the Kalpa. What if he had stayed for a fortnight? Hehe.
Extracts fom the introduction to Concentration and Meditation, a book by Christmas Humphries.
There is no compromise once the path is entered. Once the feet are turned towards enlightenment the hearts attraction of the world is left behind. To move too soon is to intensify unduly the strain of rival attractions. Therefore let the mind and heart be single in purpose before the journey is undertaken and let the motive above all be pure.
And another
Knowledge, and the power that knowledge confers, is a neutral force. Becoming good or evil accordingly as is as it is applied. Rightly used it is the high road to perfection; abused, it can create a hell past human imagining.
And another
As it is said in the "Voice of the Silence", the branches of The Tree are shaken by the wind, the trunk remains unmoved.
And another
To live to benefit mankind is the first step, and therefore lend an ear at all times to the voice of compassion when it whispers: "Can there be bliss when all that lives must suffer? Shalt though be saved and hear the whole world cry?"
And lastly
Most men are so immersed in the claims of the lower, selfish personality that they have lost all sense of that Golden Age of spiritual perfection to which they must eventually return, and for them the warring of duality, of increasing inward strife has not yet begun.
So what are my points?
We can see that in 1968 The Tree and Golden Age are spoken of by Christmas Humphries before Gyan came to London in the form of Dadi Janki. Who is this God that has borrowed knowledge from a Bhuddist/Theosopher or a Bhuddhist scripture? Is compassion replaced in Gyan by authoritarianism? "If ya do not like it lump it, someone else will like it" how many times have we heard that?
There is much in ourselves and there are methods of progress other than Gyan as we know it. The BK have practised spiritual knowledge for many years and they are remarkable yogis but, they can be so very very unkind. It may be that their unkindness or ruthlessness, as more percieve it, is an assault on the lower aspects of our nature that is ultimately for our own good, but look at the havoc which they have left in the lives of so many. it was once said to me that the purpose of Gyan in to make its adherents happy. The Braham Kumaris have not yet perfected this art, it may be that they have an awful lot to learn. Coming to think of it the very same applies to me. Hehe. If you are estranged from the BK you can still be on the right track and may well be on a better one!
I have much better things to do than criticise anyone. There are great challenges in my life, it is the same for all of us. I speak my truth. As the praise of God could not be written if all the trees were pencils and all the oceans were ink the expression of the negative effects of BK activity, if fully expressed, would greatly deplete the worlds natural resources. The weird thing about all this? I love Gyan to bits! As Bap Dada once said, I paraphrase, no one is angry with me, its those Sisters!
The safeguards that other systems adopt are not present in Raja Yoga. It can be that a person is sent on the wrong track completely, for example, to become Emperor of the world or to think beyond their strength. This results in the student coming a cropper. When this happens the student may bond to The Knowledge and may in the long term benefit greatly, but at what price for those strewn along the way? One excuse is of course that Destruction is just around the corner and that the population of heaven will be small - cobblers!
All of Gyan is about thought control and bringing all levels of oneself into alignment to specific ends. You can let others control where you place your attention or you can do it yourself. One can approach the Murli from the perspective of a soul learning about God or someone who feels very close to God or someone who has become very like God.
Each person understands Gyan differently, the person who behaviourally has made much effort to modify the facade they present to the world may have refined their personality but Gyan goes far deeper than that. It aims at a radical transformation in ones very being thinking and doing. When one accesses the areas of oneself that Bap Dada is talking about it is well worth while. Few truly knock on the door of the highest on high and we are told that DJ is one of the magical 8. The Dalai Lama has visited Madhuban for a short while, is so amazing that during those few days he managed to pick up sufficient to sustain him for so much of the Kalpa. What if he had stayed for a fortnight? Hehe.
Extracts fom the introduction to Concentration and Meditation, a book by Christmas Humphries.
There is no compromise once the path is entered. Once the feet are turned towards enlightenment the hearts attraction of the world is left behind. To move too soon is to intensify unduly the strain of rival attractions. Therefore let the mind and heart be single in purpose before the journey is undertaken and let the motive above all be pure.
And another
Knowledge, and the power that knowledge confers, is a neutral force. Becoming good or evil accordingly as is as it is applied. Rightly used it is the high road to perfection; abused, it can create a hell past human imagining.
And another
As it is said in the "Voice of the Silence", the branches of The Tree are shaken by the wind, the trunk remains unmoved.
And another
To live to benefit mankind is the first step, and therefore lend an ear at all times to the voice of compassion when it whispers: "Can there be bliss when all that lives must suffer? Shalt though be saved and hear the whole world cry?"
And lastly
Most men are so immersed in the claims of the lower, selfish personality that they have lost all sense of that Golden Age of spiritual perfection to which they must eventually return, and for them the warring of duality, of increasing inward strife has not yet begun.
So what are my points?
We can see that in 1968 The Tree and Golden Age are spoken of by Christmas Humphries before Gyan came to London in the form of Dadi Janki. Who is this God that has borrowed knowledge from a Bhuddist/Theosopher or a Bhuddhist scripture? Is compassion replaced in Gyan by authoritarianism? "If ya do not like it lump it, someone else will like it" how many times have we heard that?
There is much in ourselves and there are methods of progress other than Gyan as we know it. The BK have practised spiritual knowledge for many years and they are remarkable yogis but, they can be so very very unkind. It may be that their unkindness or ruthlessness, as more percieve it, is an assault on the lower aspects of our nature that is ultimately for our own good, but look at the havoc which they have left in the lives of so many. it was once said to me that the purpose of Gyan in to make its adherents happy. The Braham Kumaris have not yet perfected this art, it may be that they have an awful lot to learn. Coming to think of it the very same applies to me. Hehe. If you are estranged from the BK you can still be on the right track and may well be on a better one!
I have much better things to do than criticise anyone. There are great challenges in my life, it is the same for all of us. I speak my truth. As the praise of God could not be written if all the trees were pencils and all the oceans were ink the expression of the negative effects of BK activity, if fully expressed, would greatly deplete the worlds natural resources. The weird thing about all this? I love Gyan to bits! As Bap Dada once said, I paraphrase, no one is angry with me, its those Sisters!