After being a disciple of Sri Chinmoy for twenty years,I feel a great need to be free. I feel I have to rebel from being trapped by dogma, from conforming to...
Dear Banned, When I read your post just now, and you expressed you regrets for any you might have hurt or offened, I had the thought "of course you might have...
One thing I have noticed about both disciples and ex-disciples is that many carry a certain level of anxiety. Whether it is a fear of displeasing the master,...
Hi Bob, I totally agree with you. You and I have many common experiences on the path, and from what you wrote, we are learning a great deal since we left. I...
This is so true. I remember as a disciple even after two decades of running pretty much every day I would still have to get in that "compulsory two miles". I...
People should check their computers for viruses. I have been receiving emails that say..."your computer has been used as a trojan proxy and is sending out...
Hi James, In your experience, now that you have freed yourself from the constraints of being in the Center, other than meditating, what has helped you to feel...
Hi Anne, (What classes are you referring to? BTW I recently finished my counselling studies). Moving away from NY to a more tranquil place, closer to nature...
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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Feb 13, 2005 8:34 pm
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The other day I was reflecting upon the fact that a person can achieve quite amazing things if they believe they can. There is little doubt that disciples in...
Architect Phillip Johnson died recently, aged mid 90s. He was one of the world's premier architects, noted primarily for his buildings in the Internationalist...
When asked about fake gurus, Ramana Maharshi has said that if the devotees are sincere they will be fine. "In fact, many a false guru himself has been lifted...
Not only that, as part of his repentance Phillip Johnson designed a Jewish Synagogue in NY or NJ for free. Sreedhar ... were revealed, most of their former...
If a person is sincere, then their own inner self, or highest self will teach them, even if the guru is false, all is not lost if the disciple is sincere. I...
I am in the unusual position of having closely associated with members of the San Francisco center without having been a disciple. I worked at Man's Health -...
Dear Nicolas I remember you, but not your face, just that you were helping Pratiik with the store, you and Lin, Saumitras ex wife (the second). I helped him a...
As Terra so aptly wrote, the power of faith is indeed awesome, greater than the urge for life itself. Witness the almost daily Muslim Iraqi suicide bombers...
I fully agree with Rudra and Terra. They wrote eloquently about the "actions" we may take to express views that challenge another's "faith". Another aspect of...
Thoughts on Sri Chinmoy February 5, 2005 My name used to be Pujarini and I left the Sri Chinmoy Centre in late 1979. I joined in 1969 when I was 20 years old...
Dear Pujarini, I remember the days very well. It was in your house in Connecticut that I first became a disciple. The dog Isha, the then Marty, Rudra and S,...
Dear Pujarini, I do remember you. I even remember that house in Connecticut. Old Mill Farm, right ? It was a good time, full of joy and hope, and a blissful...
When I checked in on the Sri Chinmoy Open Forum, the narrative was up as well as the picture of Sri Chinmoy. However, it was stated that there was no activity....
A close friend of mine who left the Sri Chinmoy Center Church Inc (trademark registered) in early 1994 and whom I kept in regular contact with, had knowlege of...
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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Feb 27, 2005 9:08 pm
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This was sent to me to put on the board. t has been mentioned before that CKG borrowed most elements of his "path" from his experience at the Sri Aurobindo...
Others on this site have chronicled how ghose, in the late 60s and throughout the 70s, claimed to be the 10th and final Avatar, higher than any being that has...
... includes the realization that God is everywhere, reached several times during meditation by Vivekananda and other God Realized souls, is a lower state of...
Thankyou Rudra for that post....I believe it was Hitler who said "Create a lie big enough and people will believe it"....in other words say something so...
Sara, just a slight correction. I believe the quote is "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes true." Hitler's appointed agent of propaganda had exclaimed...
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