Hi everyone, I haven't posted in a while - but I think it's a good thing. It's a sign that I'm moving on in new directions. I'm glad to see that we have a...
I am reading "Space Between the Stars: My Jouney to an Open Heart" by Deborah Santana (ex Urmila, Carlos'/ex Devadip's wife). Here is a woman who successfully...
Thanks for this post. Many people who have left the SCC after years as disciples are often very negative with themselves and angry because of feeling that they...
I agree with Tas (and Terra) about taking the good from the experience of being in the SCC and moving forward, instead of regretting and lamenting that it was...
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Apr 10, 2005 8:31 pm
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I think this post of Rudra's is fantastic! It says it all! I haven't posted here in a long time but was editing my yahoo group memberships today so decided to...
I have always had a spiritual nature, I was raised Catholic and thusly "faith" has played a big part of my spiritual picture. My parents wanted me to become a...
Hriday (Hridoy?) was chinmoy's eldest brother, the one who joined the Aurobino Asram first, supposedly a favorite of Sri Aurobindo. My brother was a disciple...
I regret to report that Jeff Toy died several days ago. He was doing well in the Denver area, had recently bought a lovely home in the mountains, excercised...
The Sri Chinmoy Open Forum has been in existence for over a year now, and I feel its time we cleared the air on our relationship with the Sri Chinmoy...
Over the past 3. 1/2 years a large number of excellent articles concerning the cult experience, gurus in general, and ghose in particular have appeared on...
Thanks Rudra, that's an excellent summation. Groups such as the one we belonged to are in fact more common than we might imagine....ours was simply larger...
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Hi, I am an ex-disciple, very short lived I might add. My total time in discipleship was about 2 - 3 months. After I shaved my beard off, and then had a talk...
Hello and thank you for sharing your story. I think that your comment about the disciples' dedication and effort coming from a belief that they are 'serving...
I heard Sri is giving a concert in San Diego soon.. May 16, I believe the day is. Apparently Sri has lifted the previous advertising "ban" in California, so...
I got this info from a disciple: (Sri Chinmoy) World Harmony Concerts: FRIDAY MAY 13TH, 8PM -- COX ARENA, SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY SATURDAY, MAY 21ST, 8PM...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru Some editors want to remove critical information from this version, instead of trying to balance the article with more...
Clear Day The Future For God's sake, be done with this jabber of "a better world." What blasphemy! No "futuristic" twit or child thereof ever in embodied light...
excuse me would I ask this? chinmoy centers are organising many sport and shopping activities and are mostly known by this. But if You ask about their ...
Yes, I agree totally. There are wonderful aspects to having faith - it must be the highest motivator but when it's placed in a person or more like projected...
Dear Friends, tomorrow will mark the 7th anniversary of the passing of Olivier Greif, well known by most of you as Haridas. In the SCC he was known as a great...
Oops, I made a mistake... Tomorrow May 13th will be the 5th anniversary of Haridas's passing and not the 7th. Not that it makes a big difference... I got...
I'm remiss if I haven't posted this poem in the at least once before. It says it all. Love to you on this bitter sweet day. Dayal RIPENING The longer we are...
Hi Poohbear, It's so nice to hear from you again, albeit at a bittersweet time. Oliver was a great man and artist, I felt he was both sweet and noble. I'm...
Thank you Steve and Penny for your kind words. The event "Hommage à Olivier Greif" on May 13th, the exact 5th anniversary of his passing, was a success. In a...
When the Cold War was ending and the USSR was imploding, ghose claimed credit for ending the Cold War and having prevented nuclear war between the US and USSR...
Recently I was studying a theory of Economists that everyone, without exception acts soley out of self-interest. Even big philanthropists and do-gooders are...