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Re: God and Demigods-is Ganesha demigod?
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To: alt-hindu@cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: God and Demigods-is Ganesha demigod?
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From: susarla@great-gray.owlnet.rice.edu (H. Krishna Susarla)
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Date: 16 Jan 1995 04:34:00 GMT
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Distribution: world
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From news@larry.rice.edu Sun Jan 15 23: 21:32 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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References: <3f6psa$p9m@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
Nagulapalli Srinivas (srinivas@Glue.umd.edu) wrote:
: >You didn't answer my question. You said:
: > We are all understanding Him at different levels, that is all
: >Then I asked:
: : >The great Bhagavan Sri Rajneesh, who advocated free sex and machine gunned
: : >down any follower who tried to leave his congregation, had his own
: : >understanding of the Truth. What level of understanding of the Truth was
: : >he at?
: >If everyone is understanding of God at different levels, as you claim,
: >then what level of understanding was Rajneesh at? Just give me a general
: >answer, I don't need you to quantify it. Was Rajneesh relatively advanced,
: >or is he better for the neophyte spiritual inquirer?
: I do not know whether Rajneesh was relatively advanced or not, as I do not
: know him and did not read his works. Also regarding the question "Is he better
: for the neophyte spiritual inquirer", I can answer if I rephrase the question
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: as "Is he better for me?". Now that depends on what I take myself as! If I
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: think I am a guy who is satisfied with the approach he recommends and think
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: that gives me best benefit, I will go for it. I may be right or wrong at this
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: point. But even after I begin practising his approaches, if I still feel I am
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: gaining more and that gives me the Peace and Joy that I want, I can continue
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: and if at any point I think it is not doing what I wanted, I will stop. Of
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I just realized something. You actually were not able to condemn Rajneesh.
This is the same guy who advocated free sex, and you simply said that you
would follow him if he was "better for you."
: course not always I have to test it myself this way. If I am inspired by him,
: probably I can go over his works and step further only if I am still inspired
: by it. God gave me ability to think and analyse not to pack it and keep it
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Obviously, God was playing a joke on you, since what you were given was
not even up to the task of telling the difference between a sex-crazed
fraud like Rajneesh and a genuinely spiritual person.
Is there anyone here who still thinks that personal experience/taste is
the best criterion for selecting a spiritual master?
That's the problem in this Age of Kali-- people are not generally
interested in God. They want to find someone who tells them that what
they are doing is okay. Hence, many popular swamis these days don't
speak out against meat-eating and illicit sex. And this is exactly why
so many people go for chinmayananda, vivekananda, and rajneesh... and
dislike Swami Prabhupada and ISKCON.
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