I know what you mean about Chinmoy sneering -- word got back to me once how Chinmoy was insulting me to people on the porch, because I wanted to go to Miami to...
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Sara Sparks
karmadog22000
Oct 22, 2004 1:33 pm
Oh God yes I remember that too, in fact I tried it but being Canadian, had an ample supply of "home brew" from our maples here at home. ... [Non-text portions...
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dogmother47
Oct 22, 2004 3:19 pm
In the early 70s a few disciples were seeing some doctor who put them on special diets. All their food was planned out for each meal. Some of the disciples...
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desertblooming
Oct 22, 2004 10:04 pm
Special diets - when did Sri Chinmoy get into them? Well, I remember being in his house in the 70's or early 80's and Ran and Lav and other "Gopis" were saying...
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okoyemaya
Oct 22, 2004 11:19 pm
This is very core of the Sri Chinmoy mission. Very ordinary man, grown in an ashram not out of choice but lack of any other option. He goes to the America the...
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Steve Jeffries
sjineug
Oct 23, 2004 12:02 am
Hey Okoyemaya I think your right about this, but it will never happen. <<"It will make it easier, better <<for you and everyone else if before you leave this...
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Sara Sparks
karmadog22000
Oct 23, 2004 12:03 pm
Yikes, chilling is right, but you are correct, chinmoy doesn't give any of his present or ex disciples a thought unless it somehow reflects on him. If it's...
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bbobb2004
Oct 23, 2004 2:27 pm
What I remember of the lemon juice and maple syrup diet was looking at the ingredients and seeing that it wasn't pure maple syrup, but there was palm syrup in...
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okoyemaya
Oct 23, 2004 5:35 pm
Try to find this forgivness Sara, it is for your own and the rest of the world, look at all the past calmly, it was all your own choice. You and everybody else...
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rudra tamm
rudratamm
Oct 24, 2004 3:25 am
In describing to me their years spent as followers of ghose, a number of ex-disciples have summarized their experiences with him in remarkably similar words. I...
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dogmother47
Oct 24, 2004 3:58 pm
Thank you so much, Rudra, for this post. I think this is the real reason I am still reading posts from this group so long after I thought I had "moved on". I...
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Sri_Chinmoy_Informati...
Oct 24, 2004 5:58 pm
Some guidelines when posting: 1)Do not try to assume other people's identity - this is not nice. 2)Please do not use foul language or profanity. There are...
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cp3po2u
Oct 25, 2004 6:08 am
One of my favourite Simpsons episodes--and one that all current Chinmoy minions should see--is the one where the Simpsons get recruited into the...
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g_realized
Oct 25, 2004 3:09 pm
Great posts, Rudra and Dogmother. I think it's really valuable and brave to acknowledge that we may still be carrying on conditioning from the SCC after all...
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pavka4a
Oct 25, 2004 3:11 pm
Excuse me, do You love the idea of "velvet revolution" so much or what?? Are You sure the best way to deal with SCC is to forgive and forgot??? You perhaps...
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Steve Jeffries
sjineug
Oct 25, 2004 3:30 pm
Here's poem of letting go. Either you can or you can't. Either it's an important place to get to or it isn't. For me and others it's important to let go, but...
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dogmother47
Oct 25, 2004 4:00 pm
I just want to put in a word (that has been said many times before) for anyone who is feeling that they are still very very angry and cannot forgive: it's ok....
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okoyemaya
Oct 26, 2004 12:47 am
The real forgivness can come only through understanding. Realising and accepting some simple truths. Except for some disciples children, every single person...
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bbobb2004
Oct 26, 2004 2:19 am
Rudra, how good to hear your voice and read your insights. The attitudes and philosophy we carry with us has been so conditioned by chinmoy that we forget how...
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penny1300
Oct 26, 2004 2:53 am
I think it's very important to be able to look deep inside and face our emotions. Even if it's not very "inspiring" Anger, pain, grief, the feeling of...
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cp3po2u
Oct 27, 2004 3:03 am
What Rudra and Anne both separately outlined in their recent posts is very resonant with my post-disciple experience. I know a few ex-disciple friends who,...
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dogmother47
Oct 27, 2004 1:26 pm
I have a friend who was put in The Impurity Club by chinmoy at the same time as I. She was sexually abused by our "spiritual advisor", D*l*l much much worse...
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J. Sreedhar
jsreedhar
Oct 28, 2004 2:35 am
Wasn't there a discussion a couple of weeks back regarding getting together? Are there any ex-disciples in the San Francisco area: I would like to meet over ...
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whowho786
Oct 28, 2004 1:28 pm
There is one more acpect of this behaviour - it is very hard to face the fact that we helped Chinmoy in many ways. Yes, he is a liar, we are abused, but we...
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rudra tamm
rudratamm
Oct 28, 2004 7:46 pm
Dulal has been dead over 10 years. He had no spouse or children. His only relative was an elderly sister from whom he had been estranged for years. This web...
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desertblooming
Oct 28, 2004 8:33 pm
Thank you Rudra - this is a sane and compassionate description of Dulal, whose story represents a great deal of insight into how Sri Chinmoy worked - using...
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dogmother47
Oct 28, 2004 11:11 pm
Yes, he was kind. He once loaned me money when a fellow disciple swindled me out of very large amounts of my money. His sister was also kind to me. I had...
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cp3po2u
Oct 29, 2004 1:12 am
Thank you for this post Rudra. It has been mentioned on www.chinmoycult.com and also on this forum that Ghose actually owns that apartment building Dulal lived...
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penny1300
Oct 29, 2004 4:01 am
Rudra's and dogmother's posts both resonate for me. On one hand you have the appearance of Dulal, kind, soulful, seemingly benign. On the other hand actions...
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Sara Sparks
karmadog22000
Oct 29, 2004 12:12 pm
I this doesn't come across as irritated okeyemaya but in the past several years of posting on this site I would think you'd have a little inkling as to where I...
