Spiritually Laid Back

This was just brought to my notice. No end to people being suckered.

Billing business as “sacred pursuit” Vithal C Nadkarni Economic Times February 2^nd, 2008 

For a country like India, the search for spirituality is hardly new. But when movers-and-shakers, bankers and businessmen from around the world, including a Grammy-award-winning pop singer like Noel Schajris (of Sin Bandera) and Bollywood diva Manisha Koirala, begin to swear by something called Oneness Blessing, you become curious.  

Of course, captains of industry running after ‘captains of soul’ aren’t new either. Remember the merchant banker from ancient Magadha, Anathapindika? To please the Buddha, he supposedly bought Jethvana Park by paying as much cash as needed to carpet the vast acreage with gold coins!  

In our own times, we’ve had the Beatles jumping onto Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s TM bandwagon. And celebs like Sting and Madonna going gaga over yoga. Does that make the Oneness Movement the latest spiritual flavour of the month? More pertinent, why is it being called what the California-based aficionado of awakening, Arjuna Ardagh, describes as “the fastest-growing spiritual development in living memory” in his paean to the movement Awakening into Oneness?  

The answer depends on who you are, and where you come from. As Jagdish Capoor, chairman, HDFC Bank, says, “All of us endeavour to approach the Ultimate Truth. But what matters is the way one approaches it. That’s where the guidance provided at Oneness helps."  

What this does not stand for is an eclectic, do-it-yourself sort of spirituality. For one basic tenet of the movement is that enlightenment cannot be "obtained". In an earlier interview, Sri Bhagawan, who founded the Oneness Movement with his spouse Sri Amma, back in the 1980s in South India, says, "Buddha advocated self-effort, whereas we advocate the opposite. We ask you do nothing."  

For some that may evoke visions of mind control and loss of free will. "(However) almost every spiritual tradition has recognised that surrender to divine will, or to a wise guide, may be a saner way to live," assures Ardagh. "`Wash me clean of myself’ says Rumi. `Not my will, but Thy will be done’ says St Thomas Aquinas.”  

Says Samadarshiniji, director, Oneness UniverCity, "Oneness is not a cult or a faith that demands any conversion or change in one’s beliefs or practices; It’s a system that helps you discover the truth of your own faith through a direct personal experience. To quote Sri Bhagawan and Sri Amma: ‘Belief binds. Experience liberates’." That may explain its growing popularity.

For 20 years, soft skills trainer Meera Kotak had been doing Vipassana, Yoga, Reiki and even conducted therapy using past-life memories, hypnotherapy and kinesiology. For all her effort, she could not jettison feelings of being unwanted, unloved and unworthy until she had the Oneness experience. "I feel truly alive, for the first time," she enthuses. "On day two of my first programme at Oneness, I suddenly understood and accepted my parents’ love for me — it was as if a huge iceberg had melted…  

During training programmes throughout India, we meet thousands of individuals," Kotak, who is COO of Energy Centre, adds. "But rarely do we meet people with high self-esteem. We make this the focus of our workshops, since it plays such a crucial role in personal and professional success. At a time when we are growing very fast in our global presence, it is important that we learn to be service-oriented and not servile, self-respecting and not grovelling for respect from clients," she elaborates.  

This can truly happen "when we are able to love and respect ourselves," adds Attluri Subba Rao, president of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI), talking about "Himalayan tranquility" coupled with "firmness with human touch", which has come from what he calls transformative experience of the Oneness deeksha.  

The most common effects of Oneness range from reduced mental chatter and heightened awareness to effortless peace and cessation of unwanted habits, says V R Ramesh, MD, DORMA India. And Anil Mathur, COO of the furniture division of Godrej & Boyce, believes that his own experience of the Oneness deeksha may have had a ‘ripple effect’ on the efficiency of his entire division!  

"I know this will be hard to explain to the rest of the world," concedes Jitendra Mohanty, owner of Orissa-based Swasti Group. "But my own experience is that the transfer of positive energy though at the individual level, goes on to help society and business at large."

In the final analysis, business itself can be a sacred pursuit, which in no way is at odds with spiritual life, explains Sri Bhagawan. "Prosperity and poverty are dependent on the mindset of the individual. If your thinking is defective, it will result in failure and disorder.  

People who worship poverty and have a wrong understanding of detachment ruin their lives. (But) to create wealth and to succeed, by itself, is a spiritual sadhana, given it needs a focused mind, creativity, and hard work."

 

News is going around that the Interpol is finally waking up to the money-laundering and other crimes of the self-proclaimed God-of-the-Universe Kalki Bhagavan (aka Kracki), his goddess wife and their son, Krishna.

It’s likely that a lot of money will change hands, and divine justice will never come through. What with divine pedophiles and child-abusers STILL being worshipped all over India as God. 

If he is incarcerated for cheating large, nay, HUGE numbers of poor Indians, what is likely is that some poor deranged devotee in a fit to prove his devotion (to the other scatter-brained devotees) will self-immolate (in front of the prison), leaving behind a wife and children to struggle all their lives, while the dasas ask them to pray for Kalki’s grace and make donations in order to get grace (money).

 This is India — sadly things don’t change, and Kracki and his family know that only too well.

A lot of people in the police and Justice department should see a lot of green "grace" coming their way soon. Will they be allowed to carry the divine throne into the prison cell — that is the most important question at present. 

I am faced with a readership which wishes to live in darkness and denial of the truth. I get emails regularly denying all the predictions made by the one who calls himself Kalki and Sri Bhagavan. And these are predictions I have heard with these ears from the "holy" orifice of the one who calls himself God.

Either the ones leaving comments are dishonest, or perhaps they are new (joined after 2004), or perhaps not informed. The best i can do for you hypnotised folks is to remove the pictures of VK from here (done that), and remove my comments on him. My comments and analysis. But in the interest of the truth i CANNOT remove what he himself said in the lawn darshans, and what his dasas said. And how they fleeced us. And how they pressurized us to get more people into this MLM (multi-level marketing) scheme, this spiritual AMWAY. These things happened and are not opinion.

No matter how much you scream and shout and defend. The more comments you leave denying the truth, i will highlight  it even more. The predictions of doom are a reality used against us to get more people. The predictions of spreading in the north were spoken in lawn darshans in 2004-5. If you do not know about the above, then you do not know about your so called God. You are in denial or living a lie.

Most of the people i came across in the K cult, were really decent people — some in trouble, some in pain of some sort. Most people in India are poor and suffering anyway — easy targets for someone promising to alleviate their suffering. First for free. Then for donations and paid darshans (when nothing really happens). And then for getting more and more people in. THats where all these Mahadeekshas and their levels come in. You will NOT get your so-called enlightenment even in Level 3 of the MD. then they will invent some other thing. And keep feeding on your hopes.

Those who left the K cult, left not because they got no grace. They left because the true satguru pulled them out, showed them the light. At the right time, God (the Self) rescues us from fake gurus. But you have to be ready for that. Ready for the truth. Acco to Sri Nisargadatta, when the seeker is sincere, the true Guru comes. The fake guru is a sign of an insincere seeker. When we were in the K cult, we too were insincere seekers. Wanting boons, and other material gains. Our bhakti was for our own material gain. It is only when you are fit for bhakti for bhakti’s sake, that the real Guru can appear.

It is precisely the grace of the Lord, that has pulled us out of the K cult. Pulled us out of darkness and ignorance. Perhaps the Lord sent us there to see and recognize the farce, so we could be free of it.

MAY YOU SEE THE LIGHT, MAY YOU SEE THE TRUTH.

Someone mailed this to me. I am no longer adding my comments or thoughts on this cult. Its upto the readers to decide.

Pls do go thro this recent powerful msg of Sri Bhagavan in His third Class recently held in Nemam. Pavitra dasaji has sent across a message that "all those devotees/sevaks who wishes to participate in MahaDeeksha level 1, 2, 3, and move ahead in their spiritual journey leading to enlightenment, OR to get liberated from your suffering, attending / participating Sri Bhagavans classes in Nemam is a must for them".

As Just participating in these classes would lead them to many breakthroughs in their lives. Next breakthrough insight of Bhagavan is on this Sunday 9th Sept at Nemam 9.30 am onwards. Dasaji has asked the participants to stay one day in nemam itself so that the process which Sri Bhagavan and Sri Amma would be doing in the Darshans should sink into us. We can leave for our places on Monday night.

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Hello,

Last Week I went to Sri Bhagavan’s Darshan at Nemam.

Words fail to describe the wonder, power and love of how Bhagavan came and shared his time with us. It is no wonder that the Dasas are so illumined and experience filled, since they are directly been taught by this Supreme Intelligence - Bhagavan.

Once we entered the Darshan hall, we are immediately shown a short film, which describes a few of the various crisis, which can completely eradicate not only mankind, but most of the important species on this planet.

This film and the description of Dasajis confirms that it is almost impossible for mankind to run smooth on this planet unless there is divine intervention or unless something happens on its own accord to set things right.

After this very short film, Sri Yohannan Dasaji explained to us how we are are also indirectly responsible for most of the damages done to this planet. He reminded us how our responsibility as a living being in this planet comes first rather than the citizen of country or a member of a State or family.

Once the film is over, the dasajis present there chanted the Moolamanthra and BANG - Bhagavan was sitting there in front of us. There is a short Bhajan and Bhagavan then opens his eyes and bless us graciously.

There is a sudden silence in the hall and Sri Bhagavan describes how he is revealing the 12 Brahmastras or the ultimate teachings . These teachings are already revealed in various stages in the past periods and past times by Bhagavan through various avatars and manifestations, but not so extensively as now.

I failed to attend the first two teachings as Bhagavan revealed in brief the first two classes for a short period. Then he starts this Brahmastra by describing in brief the secret of creation and how the nature of creation is but joy. This also correlates with our own creativity as we get joy when we create something.

He then goes on and on to describe the Moolamanthra in a very different dimension which has never been explained earlier. The teachings are so liberating as Bhagavan gives them as experience to us while he speaks. Then Bhagavan explains the ways of the unconscious mind and how the conscious, unconscious and super-conscious mind plays their own part in the process of creation.

He then explains the 4 arch types - King, Magician, Warrior and Monk and then installs all the 4 arch-types into us at the end of the session. The two-and-a-half hours moves as if only two minutes are gone by and he closes his session while the Dasas perform Harti to Bhagavan. The whole sessions goes something like Magic making us wonder-struck and joyous. Hearing all these teachings from Bhagavan directly is a lifetime dream for someone like me and I personally take a sankalpa that I’ll attend the remaining 9 Brahmastras without fail.

Thanks,

S.Krishna

It appears that Tapasya dasa has finally left the Kalki cult. At least nothing else makes sense to us. Someone is manically putting in comments pretending to be the owner of this blog, and saying that s/he is actually Tapasya who had psychiatric problems and childhood problems etc.

Now this seems like a very cheap way of hitting at some person. I can hardly imagine anyone announcing such things in a blog about himself.

So it seems Kalki’s stooges are now hitting below the belt, hiiting out at dasas who had the sense to leave, to save their own lives before they were devoured by the dark energy of Kalki and crew.

And if you are Tapasya, which you aren’t, has your dear God Kalki asked you to issue public apologies and run yourself down like this. Tsk Tsk, how shameful. Whether you speak the truth about being Tapasya, or a lie, you shame your own so-called guru. 

One can’t help feel a bit sad for all those devotees of Kalki who are unable to face the truth even after seeing thru the whole scam.

Someone left a large number of comments on a post claiming to be "Tapasya" a dasa of Kalki and Amma. Claiming that she/he was the blog author and had maligned KB all this while due to her own psychiatric problems and was extremely sorry. And ofcourse then saying how great KB was, and he was God blah blah blah. (Why am i even wasting time responding to some nutcase?). 

 If I had to say anything to all readers, I would say so in a blog post (like this one), and NOT in a comment.

 Well, guess what … I knew or remember Tapasya dasa, and I don’t think she was a psychiatric case (who the commenter claimed was not allowed to attend deeksha cos she had psych problems). Or to put it another way, by that logic ALL dasas must be mental in some ways to throw their lives away like this, to fool themselves for so long.

So whoever this bag-of-nuts is, who left 8 comments, you are only showing what fools all devs of K are.

The purpose of this blog was never to bash Kalki, which still doesn’t mean that if some persons (kalki and company) steer people away from the truth, then others will not point this out. The truth remains (as has been said by Sri Krishna in the Gita) that the Lord/Paramatman resides in ALL beings. There is nothing other than God. There is no single person or couple who are God. And we will ridicule anyone claiming to be the only God.

If you wish to know the truth, you have to go no further than Sri Ramana Maharshi. (K has particularly denounced Ramana so that his followers don’t accidentally discover the real truth. Devotees and dasas of K would do themselves a great favor by reading the simple teachings of Ramana Maharshi). Love to all of you.

In response to Why Kalki Bhagavan …, one wellwisher writes in: 

hi sunyata. your name betrays your true identity, your brains are empty. people like you jody, freddy and sarlo have a serious personality disorder. you are suffering from a severe inferiority complex. so much so that you have to keep insulting someone in order to feel great about yourselves. the collective junk in the human unconscious is flowing through you, and thats why you exhibit the qualities of a scizophrenic in every word that you say. a person with a vision and purpose in life would not be doing all that you are doing. in fact i think it is your deepest desire to become a guru and since you do not have that calibre you are trying to become a guru of the negatives by putting down great beings like Sri Amma Bhagavan. You suffer from the Narcissist complex coz every word that you write speaks only about how smart you are in deriding these great beings. Your ideas and concepts are worth nothing and dont mean anything coz they are the rantings of a delusioned mind.
If you truly desire to be sane then please visit your nearest psyciatrist.

From your wellwisher
Shivam

Even Kalki and Amma never wished me so well in all the years i was there, but the dasas certainly cared for my donations and my wallet. Currently, my "wellwisher" is on a comments rampage on this site, defending his God on various posts. We wish him well too. Oh some things you certainly have right, like no caliber to be a guru, brains are empty etc. But friend, i only puts facts across, NOT ideas and concepts. And thanks for not recommending that i visit my nearest dasa, a shrink is far better than your Amma Bhagavan. Heck, AB should be the first ones in line.

An attendee writes in:

"We were given that lehyam in the fisrt processes of 21 days and we really had peak experiences after its process in the intestines. Now, they have stopped to give lehyam before the deekshas, so noone has any more peak experiences, they have psychotic experiences caused through extreme mind brainwashing.They say that that substance was to be eaten to clean the chakras before the deeksha was given. i still remember how the dasas placed buckets all around the rooms ,so that we could bring up that stuff. As with other psicoactiv drugs, once you bring it up ,it gets into the blood and then you think it is like the kundalini working, but actually is nothing but a drug that destroys your physical and subtel bodies.The man who shared the room with me nearly had a heart attack.

It is a shame for India that such organizations and false gurus are still conning people over there just to give them drugs in the end of the processes.Western authorities should take legal steps against this clear unhealthy and dangerous groups which give drugs and abusive mind programmations to cheat people and ban them inmediatly. "

Dear friend: it is INDEED a shame for India that such people can continue to cheat people indefinitely. It is a shame that no amount of warning others has any effect. Educated people are falling for this dope, and defending it DESPITE mounting evidence against Oneness University and "Kalki". People still write in to say they are having "miracles" but no mention (forget proof) of any. See earlier post.

Pseudo-scientist Christian Opitz (featured earlier) comes out with more mind-numbing crap on the effects of the Diksha.

Oneness Diksha and the Hormones

by Christian Opitz

Until now, I mostly emphasized the effect of diksha (Oneness Blessing) on various brain centers in my writings. An equally important aspect of the process of awakening the brain is the change in hormone and neurotransmitter production. I would like to give an overview of some of the significant changes in regards to hormones and neurotransmitters that I have found in people who have been receiving diksha for a while. First, let’s take a look at some of the important neurochemicals and their effect on our experience of life:

Dopamine:

Produced in the substantia nigra in the mid-brain, this important neurotransmitter is almost always out of balance in modern people. We need sufficient dopamine to feel alive, vibrant, to be able to concentrate and have good discernment. Lack of dopamine leads to boredom, depression, brain fog, one merely exists but is not truly alive.  This in turn leads to cravings for dopamine stimulation, mostly through destructive means. Intense but short-lived dopamine stimulants are, for example, cocaine, amphetamines, junk food, aggressive behaviors and conflicts with other people.  Those suffering from ADD are restless and often have hyper aggressive tendencies because they are desperately trying to stimulate some dopamine production.

Too much dopamine at once leads to a dulling of the dopamine receptors and that in turn has undesirable consequences. Delusions, including hallucinations that are mistaken for genuine mystical experiences,
often go together with prolonged overproduction of dopamine. People addicted to computer games have similar dopamine imbalances, which shows an interesting correlation between the addictions to virtual realities, whether on a computer screen or on the screen of one’s own mind. In some people, excessive dopamine can lead to stuttering. People who stutter usually have twice as much dopamine in their system than average people.

It is easy to see that for a balanced spiritual awakening, we want a consistent level of dopamine without the detrimental effects of extreme highs and lows. A consistent dopamine production goes hand in hand with awakened frontal lobes, which Bhagavan associates with God-Realization. Given the fact that dopamine is essential to feel truly alive, it makes sense that we need it to also feel the Source of all life.

Oxytocin:

Oxytocin is the hormone of love, open-heartedness and gratitude. Happily married people produce more oxytocin, but relationship stress severely decreases it. Oxytocin is the neurochemical foundation for compassion, for truly caring for others. When we care for others, we ourselves are rewarded many times over, because oxytocin regenerates the body and induces a very deep sense of well-being. Love is great health insurance because of oxytocin. Indifference and cruelty are accompanied by very low levels of this hormone. I  assume that these biochemical facts are one of the reasons behind Bhagavan’s emphasis on setting right relationships.

The production of oxytocin is severely hindered in most people today and this often starts at birth. In the late 1940s, medicine began to use drugs at birth as if it were some kind of disease. Among those drugs, petocin (synthetic oxytocin) is used to induce contractions and thus birth, on the hospital’s schedule instead of following the natural interaction between baby and mother. Whenever we receive a huge dose of a synthetic version of a hormone, our receptors are overwhelmed and the body’s own production can be compromised. If this happens at birth, there can be permanent damage and a life-long pattern of producing too little oxytocin.

It does not help much that the most important bonding phase between mother and child right after birth has become a medical procedure of taking blood, measuring the baby, cutting the umbilical cord too early and not allowing the baby a direct bonding with the mother and thus a gentle entrance into this world. The combination of petocin and the lack of empathy for the newborn baby in medicalized birth procedures is almost certain to severely compromise oxytocin production.

It is interesting to note that heavy drug use at birth, from petocin to pain killers to even some psychedelic substances that are no longer used, was introduced after WWII. When the first generation of babies who came into this world on drugs had arrived at young adulthood in the 1960s, they where the first generation to seek a deeper meaning of life through drugs. I believe the lack of natural oxytocin caused by drug use at the entrance into life can set up a strong recapitulation pattern of seeking life through drugs.

Cortisol:

The opposite of oxytocin, in terms of effects on our life experience, is cortisol, the stress and death hormone. We need cortisol in life-threatening situations, but, as Dr. Hans Selye discovered, we tend to overproduce it much of the time when there is no threat to survival in sight. On cortisol, all of life takes on the quality of struggle, including relationships and even the spiritual search. Cortisol activates the parietal lobes, which are supposed to give us a sense of our physical boundaries. When overactive, this sense of physical separateness is extended to our general experience of ourselves and we then feel existentially separate.

This is at least part of the reason why Bhagavan emphasizes the deactivation of the parietal lobes. Cortisol makes us walk around with chronically over activated parietal lobes. In that state, we are not able to feel our feelings fully, to embrace ourselves as we are.  Being in the here and now, being in the flow, requires abundant oxytocin, sufficient dopamine and low levels of cortisol.

The Effects of Diksha:

Although it is very difficult to measure hormones and neurotransmitters in the brain directly, electromagnetic signature testing allows for some conclusions about the effects of diksha in this regard.  One of the main effects I have found with people who have been receiving diksha for a year or longer is a regeneration of receptors for both dopamine and oxytocin. This automatically leads to greater efficiency of these neurochemicals and a decrease in cortisol production. Diksha can also regenerate the substantia nigra, where dopamine is produced,and this directly shows up in changed electromagnetic brain patterns.

Many times I have observed a natural release of addictive patterns through diksha that were clearly related to low dopamine levels. Another interesting parameter is the electromagnetic communication between the brain and the heart. This seems to progressively get stronger in people through diksha and is one of the most important energetic correlation’s of the flowering of the heart and true compassion. In some of the Dasas and in Ron Roth, this connection was off the charts when I measured them. Oxytocin is the biochemical bridge between the brain and heart.

From the data I have gathered so far, diksha seems to be effective in strongly enhancing oxytocin in the vast majority of people.  I also believe that this is one of the aspects of birth trauma that can be healed through diksha and that this effect makes diksha so worthwhile for children.  Even though children are not supposed to enter into an enlightenment process, growing up with lots of oxytocin will give them a much more beautiful life experience.

Finally, the neurochemical effects of diksha are one reason why other methods people utilize for inner transformation can become so much more effective when people receive diksha. If someone does not need meditation anymore to lower cortisol, meditation can go to much deeper levels right away. If emotional or physical healing work is done on a person who already has high levels of oxytocin, the receptivity to receive healing is enhanced.

The synergy of diksha with specific methods of inner transformation is a fascinating subject for more exploration and the role of neurochemicals is essential for the effects such synergies produce.

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Just what is wrong with big time gurus ? Is it just a lust for power (which also implies money, sex, having a nice piece of whoever comes along, whenever you want it, for free, your right in fact). Or is there some serious pathology linked with it … such as NPD (Narcissist Personality Disorder).

Here’s what wikipedia gives as the criteria for judgment:

At least five of the following are necessary for a diagnosis (as with many DSM diagnoses, they must form a pervasive pattern; for example, a person who shows these criteria only in one or two relationships or situations would not properly be diagnosed with NPD):

1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by other special people
4. requires excessive admiration
5. strong sense of entitlement
6. takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7. lacks empathy
8. is often envious or believes others are envious of him or her
9. arrogant affect

 Now lets pick any one guru of the many floating around … okay let’s take Kracki the whackie, VK, self declared God, Kalki Bhagavan, etc and check him out point for point. Let’s test drive the bugger.

 MATCHING DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA of NPD with VK (aka Kalki aka Kracki)

1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance - Give him 10 on 10 for this. Thinks he is GOD, the saviour, higher than the Buddha, Ramana, Christ and ALL others. The only liberator etc, etc. Incarnation of "Delusions of Grandeur".
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love - Full marks here too. Wants to take over the world. Has a temple being built for himself so he can be immortalized forever.
3. believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by other special people - You bet your stinky butt. No one fits this bill better than "Kalki Bhagavan" does. Calls himself God and everything else. Claims on video that he comes from a cosmic conscious whereas all the others come from "some sort of planetary consciousness". To understand him you have to undergo his Mukti Deeksha (brainwashing, paid ofcourse) first. (Guess what, we still don’t understand the old fart)
4. requires excessive admiration - that’s an underrstatement, requires devotion and worship by all, after all that follows if you have declared yourself to be The God.
5. strong sense of entitlement - Yup, he is entitled to everyone’s money, belongings and life
6. takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends - check. takes advantage, take everything in fact
7. lacks empathy - check again. Doesn;t care for followers once they have done him service and spread his crack
8. is often envious or believes others are envious of him or her - well, very envious of Buddha and Ramana, and does all he can to run down truly enlightened people
9. arrogant affect - see previous points.

Now check your Guru out.

See also Guru Phenomenon and How Some Gurus operate.

A. Raman on why people need a guru:

The Guru phenomenon is baffling and mind-boggling because it breaks religious, national, social, racial, linguistic and cultural barriers. The appeal and presence of this global and industrious Guru business seems impressive. In some instances, the mere presence of a guru seems to heal the devotee of his apparent illness or psychological depression because the disciple is desperate for a cure and he will accept any lie to cure himself of his psychological problems. Gurus seem to provide motivation, inspiration, and a purpose or meaning to the lives of their numerous followers. The strong need for this authority and the need to follow, wonder and admire the guru seem deeply seated in the serious and committed followers or disciples. Gurus also seem to provide answers, certainty and security to their faithful flock.

 If one were to develop a strong faith in an idea, a belief, a way of life, a philosophy or in a person, one could, unconsciously or consciously, end up modelling one’s whole life based on this strongly held conviction. This could gradually develop into a passionate devotion resulting in a commitment. Belief in God or a religious faith falls into this category. A committed communist or an atheist could also be committed to his faith in the fundamental principles of communism or atheism, like a believer in God.

Apparently, this form of passionate faith offers security and adds a sense of purpose to people’s lives. Most people find it difficult to live without this investment in faith or hope or conviction or an idea or a philosophy to hold on to. The person in question could be intellectually capable and yet may not feel secure without one or more of the aforementioned crutches that offer him psychological and emotional security or certainty.

In my personal observation, I have noticed that in Europe, especially in north-west Europe, people feel lost with the fading away of religion. There is nothing to give them certainty, a sense of belonging or a family feeling. The welfare-state has split the family, the state has taken over much of the pastoral functions of the clergy and terribly failed in providing the pseudo-spiritual cover essential for people to have hope and a semblance of sanity. Gurus from India have taken advantage of this vacuum in the market to make hay while the sun shines.

Kalki Bhagavan (Oneness University), (Sathya) Sai Baba and other numerous Indian gurus claim to be incarnations of the Creator. Few of their disciples seem to doubt their claims. Our world should be such a paradise with so many incarnations of gods on earth or especially in India. What is ironic is, India, the land of these gurus or gods, is rife with poverty, social backwardness, lack of education and religious and communal conflicts! These gurus are busily engaged in exploiting their disciples in different ways (viz. financially, emotionally and sexually).

Politicians, judges, police officers, technocrats, diplomats and people from all walks of life become gullible victims or followers of these gurus and offer protection, cover and credibility to these charlatans. When these gurus or glorified con-artists commit crimes they are not prosecuted because they have all the powerful people in politics, judiciary and bureaucracy ready to bail them out.

A.Raman
Please see this: How gurus operate.

A few times Pragyanand (Oneness University) said to me: “Please bring lots of rich and famous people to the VIP campus”. Another time he told me (something like this): “Once they come here, we will bring them to our fold; and then we won’t have problems with money”.

If someone was donating money, (Vijay Kumar, aka Kalki) Bhagavan would spend hours with that person. The more money a person gave, the more time he/she “happened” to get with Bhagavan. These things were never told directly to people, it was simply an unwritten law. I haven’t seen Bhagavan have a private meeting (free of charge) with an ordinary person in more than 10 years. I have only seen him meet people that can help him to become influential, famous or rich.

I had been given strict guidelines regarding what kind of people who were welcome (and who were not) to come for the “VIP process” – a 21 days process, free of charge, in luxurious surroundings. I also got guidelines as to who among the VIPs additionally could get a private meeting with Bhagavan. Only VVIP’s (lit. very, very important person) were invited to meet Bhagavan: rich or famous people, famous spiritual teachers who could make Bhagavan (world)famous or a possible big sponsor.

RAVANA REINCARNATES …

Thousands of years ago the good versus evil battle was fought between Ravana, the personification of evil, and Lord Rama the personification of virtue. Today the battle continues , not on land but on the modern day battlefield, the internet/blogosphere.

King Ravana has incarnated as VK aka K "Bhagavan" (founder of Oneness Unifarcity aka Golden Egg Foundation) and the forces of good are represented by Jody "Guruphiliac", Freddie Nielsen (we hope) and others.

This time round, Rama has seen that there is no pure and unblemished wife, Sita, getting stolen by Ravana (Kracki). But then what moves Jody to gun for Kalki’s ten head(s)?

This time round Ravana is trying hard to abduct and rape the Self, the pure, unblemished Self. And so it is to the Self’s rescue that Jody is going.

Readers will remember that Jody has indigted VK for crimes against the Self ("For crimes against the Self, the Upanishads and spiritual understanding all around the world.")

Maybe Sita even then represented not a living woman, wife of Rama in the physical sense, but the pure Self.

Aah, now it all makes sense. Rama although considered to be a God by many, has many dissenters who critize him for abandoning Sita in the end. Well, Jody too has many people critizing him for his unorthodox language (his weapons against the Ravanas of the world).

Jnanis sure have a tough time. They gotta do what they gotta do, whether anyone else likes it or not!

I was photographing Vijay Kumar (Kalki "Bhagavan") on that fateful day. He was trying to fake the compassionate look, the Buddha look, the Ramana look, but the closest to compassionate he could get was somewhere between murderous and criminal. The shoot was going on, I was wanting to call it a day, but others were egging on.

Just then someone dropped Kalki the news of Freddie Nielsen leaving the show. And this is how Sri Kalki Bhagavan’s face was when he heard the news. This was ofcourse the last photo I took that day.

(Note: The predictions stated below are ABSOLUTELY TRUE and have been witnessed by hundreds of partipants to the Lawn Darshans. I am getting many comments that these are false. This only shows that people defending K, are either not informed, or are telling lies to protect KB. These predictions will not be removed). 

Predictions of doom are a great way to augment one’s business. So we learn from correspondent nayanar. In 2004-2005, Vijay Kumar (who claims to be the 10th avatar of Vishnu, and The Kalki Bhagavan/Avatar) predicted disaster for the city of Mumbai (aka Bombay). Kalki predicted (in public darshans) Mumbai would slide into the sea, or crumble like a biscuit dipped in hot tea. And so to save Mumbai it was necessary that a certain number of people (several thousands) from the state of Maharashtra achieve the mahadeeksha. And to achieve mahadeeksha required sending 60 peple for the deeksha (costing Rs 5000), plus of course many paid donations of far more that that sum.

Only then could Mumbai be saved from crumbling into the Indian Ocean. And so crazed devotees, brainwashed and frightened by gory predictions of death and destruction went on a rampage through the state of Maharashtra convincing all and sundry to come for the deeksha to save their relatives in Mumbai, their state and its major city.

Similar targets of several thousand mahadeekshas were laid out for other states, although these were never publicly revealed. For all of these deadlines were also laid out, the penalty of course really being death for that city/state.

In his public darshans, it was also revealed that about 60% of mankind would be destroyed in a mega-tsunami that would come in 2006. A few months later, others gave me a figure of 90% !!! Of course, the only way to prevent all this was those 64,000 people who had to get enlightened, for whom 64,000 times 60 had to have the deeksha. If we go only by Indian costs, at a rate of Rs 41 per dollar, this comes to 470 million dollars. Add to that the donations that must be given for Amma’s darshan, Bhagavan’s darshan (Rs 100,000 then, now far more pricey we hear) and washing her dainty feet for Rs 100,000 (old rates, her feet are more expensive now) and you have a much larger sum.

The above prediction of global doom was carried over to the north by his dasas such as Pavitra and Rupali. In one place the dasa stated (smiling) that the Indo-Pakistan problem would be finished since there would be no Pakistan left.

Of course all this money was not for Krishna, the prodigal son sitting in the US with a real estate business, or for his own future, but for that monstrous Oneness Temple that was to finish by June 2004, which was never to immortalize his name, but only for the enlightenment of mankind.

It makes sense that the public darshans have stopped, for now one can never quote Vijay Kumar (Sri Kalki Bhagavan) as having said or predicted anything. Orders/predictions etc will henceforth spring forth from his enlightened, celibate dasas whose words can always later be refuted.

However, unlike Indian drop-outs who rarely speak out, westerners are vocal, so the truth will come out.

One of our correspondents, Justforkix, writes in saying:

A Kalki Bhagavan parallel may be found in Vitalstatistix!

Vitalstatistix, the chief of the tribe has only one fear: he is afraid the sky will fall on his head tomorrow। But as he says, tomorrow never comes! (Ed: he hasn’t seen guruphiliac yet. The sky fell yesterday!).

Deep down Vitalstatistix is very insecure, constantly worrying that his "Little Piggywiggy" (Amma) would desert him and go back to her brother Homeopathix (whom Vitalstatistix hates) in Lutetia.

It almost appears that he and his wife have a love-hate relationship although it is apparent they love each other very much.

From wikipedia:
Impedimenta (Amma) is the matriarchal wife of Chief Vitalstatistix, leader of the village wives and the best cook in the village. She is often disappointed with the other villagers (calling them barbarians) and wishes Vitalstatistix was more ambitious. Consequently she zealously defends and flaunts every privilege due her as first lady of the village such as skipping the queue at the fishmongers. She frequently says she wants to go back to Lutetia and live with her successful merchant brother, Homeopathix - the one part of the family her husband is openly not fond of.

She nicknamed Vitalstatistix "Piggywiggy" (Ed: Ah, i love this) when they were courting, and starts doing this again in Asterix and the Soothsayer as a plan to make Asterix and Obelix erupt in hysterical laughter when she calls him with that name in front of them, thus irritating him and making him punish them by forcing them to stay in the village, away from the soothsayer.

Ed: "Piggywiggy": doesn’t that sound just apt for our Kalki and Amma.

This piece came to us from an insider in the Kalki/Amma Oneness University maha-scam:

I have been associated with the cult of Sri Kalki Bhagavan (Vijay Kumar and his wife Padmavathi Amma), who positions himself as the Vishnu Avatar, and a God - although in recent years he has made his claims a little indirect, perhaps due to media criticism, and fear of ridicule.

I have served this cult for 2 year[s], attended their Deekshas, darshans and made large donations. I would like to bring to your notice that this cult is pressurizing its INDIAN devotees to donate large sums of wealth, if they want to remain in the good books of the disciples (dasas) who run the show, and progress further. We have even been told that if we don’t have the money we should take loans (the last case was Rs 100,000 [$2,220.50 US] which is a huge amount) , and donate the same to them. We have been told that we can repay the loans over a few years!

From the day we join we are pressurized to bring in new people and send them for the initial 3-day deeksha (costing Rs 5000 [$110 US]). This is because to qualify for the higher level we must send 60 (now 30) people for the program. First we are told that the 3-day program will enlighten us (for only Rs 5000!), then we are told - sorry the higher process will enlighten you. So we have no option but to talk others (family, friends etc) into joining and going for the 3-day program.

Once we have sent so many people, and we find no change in us, it is very difficult to step out. I have still not told my family that I have left, for loss of face. In order to convince 60 people to go, we have to exaggerate and make tall claims. We have to create a miracle out of each little incident that happened to us (such as getting a green light on the way to work) etc. We have to keep talking of unending grace, and say things like "our whole life has changed". We are all basically sincere people, but we start telling lies without realizing it, and a time comes when we are stuck.

New people are lured in by promises of unending "grace", and then after we tell them lots of stories (most of them are just heard from others, no one has any evidence of them actually happening.), then the disciples ask them to make donations, or go for paid darshans in order to get that "unending grace". These darshans are expensive and the latest one is that we can touch Amma’s feet for Rs 100,000. Prior to going for the higher process we were all told that in order for the higher process to be a great success we should make this donation. Many of us are very ordinary people, some have left our jobs to pursue a spiritual goal, so the amount is no small order.

Even the higher process (known as Mahadeeksha, for two weeks) has made no difference to anyone. Although it does seem to us, that the program for foreigners (21 days, USD 5500) has resulted in some enlightened people (such as Freddie Nielsen and Kiara Windrider - we are told by the dasas that they are enlightened), however in India there is not even an attempt at spiritual growth of devotees. It is only talk of great "celestial miracles", and enlightenment is always round the next corner, after the next darshan (read: donation).

Because of all the stories we perpetuate, the number of devotees has really gone up dramatically, each wondering when his turn for endless grace will come. They claim over 30 million devotees, although I don’t know how this figure has been computed.

Sarlo, I write this to you primarily because I am concerned that large numbers of poor and low-income people in India are being fleeced by this cult, each hoping that his string of problems will magically vanish after a darshan or deeksha. When nothing happens their suffering increases.

We actually convince ourselves that we are happier than even before for a while after the deeksha. In that short period we are pushed to recruit more people and share our great experiences with others.

The experiences we narrate are always the tales we were told by the disciples about others who got great grace.

More updates from Oneness University (aka Oneness Unifarcity) delivered by Freddie Nielsen, a close disciple of Kalki (Kracki) "Bhagavan" for 15 years:

For many years it was popularly called the Kalki Movement as Kalki kept on changing the names, and it was pretty confusing for the followers.

When "Bhagavan" found out that there are more than 300 gurus in India calling themselves Kalki, and one can go to prison by claiming to be Kalki, he became very cautious and tried to make it known that he never wanted to be called Kalki, it was forced on him, people refused to call him any other name even if he protested. Until he found out that one could go to prison for having the name Kalki, he never protested, that is a fact. Even his brother Ramesh called him Kalki, as did I for many years. Ramesh published tens of Kalki Bhajans cassettes (devotional music in praise of Kalki), and the company owned by "Bhagavan" and/or his son which published the cassettes, was called “Kalki Publishing house”.

The trust to whom we donated money was for a long time called “Kalki Trust”, that was active until at least 2004.

Severe Depression after Oneness University Deeksha/Oneness Blessing 

After the 21 days processes (of Vijay Kumar aka Kalki Bhagavan of Oneness University), many went into a deeper depression than they ever had had before. To explain why the majority got into deep depressions, Bhagavan introduced a great concept: “The dark night of the soul”. The deeper you went into the dark night of the soul, the more profound would your enlightenment be once Bhagavan had given it to you.

Psychosis after Oneness University Deeksha 

Even after local deekshas, in Europe as an example, there are people who have become psychotic. Some have to be admitted to mental hospitals, a few have even committed suicide. How many, I do not know.

The officials of Chennai airport soon began to complain about Bhagavan. They contacted Golden City wanting to know what they do to all these Westerners who come to the airport in psychotic states after going through the 21 days process.

 
New ways to save the world

This is a pattern I have seen many times during my 15 years of being Bhagavan’s disciple. Bhagavan comes up with new ways to save the world. When one “experiment” doesn’t work, or the temporary results fades away in people, he quickly starts a new project with full enthusiasm and new extreme promises. The fervor he and his disciples have for every new “infallible” approach to give mass enlightenment is so intense that the old failures are easier to forget. Why should we think about the past when THIS TIME Bhagavan will definitely make mankind enlightened?

— Narrated by Freddie Nielsen here

A reader was kind enough to post details about Vijay Kumar (aka Kalki Bhagavan) in a comment. He also posted the same on guruphiliac. Please check the link on gp since there will be a lot of discussion there.

The story is authentic. I would know since I am one of those millions waiting to be one of the chosen 64,000 enlightened beings. Keep waiting forever, brothers. Eternity is a long time.

The reader shares how Kalki was a follower of J Krishnamurthy, later denouncing JK. JK was dismissive of Kalki’s so-called experiences, which Kalki could not forgive. Some snippets:

Vijaykumar exhibited some narcissism but always felt he lacked the handsome looks or charisma to attract a following. Shankar, on the other hand, was very articulate, had scientific credentials and very good looks. VK found people trusted Shankar and were prepared to donate land and offer financial support. When Shankar spoke people listened with rapt attention. Here was his ideal marketing manager; Vijay sprang at the opportunity of using Shankar.

Vijaykumar had a great ambition to become a Spiritual leader and this required no verifiable qualifications or education. Knowing how Indians think, I believe, with his looks and manners, he needed a man like Dr.Shankar to promote him. All he needed was an intelligent, trustworthy and sincere man like Shankar, a person who believed in him more than he himself did, to launch him on his brand name: Kalki Bhagavan. He mesmerized Shankar and possessed him and made use of him until he no longer had any need for him.

I often heard VK saying that we need people to do things and help our cause, and after they have served their purpose they can just go on with their lives. In short he meant he would use people and discard them when they have outlived their usefulness.

 

… He often said that Malayalees, that is people of Kerala, are not to be trusted and to be watched!

… Vijaykumar was rather distrustful of people and often charmed people to get things done. He was charming, treacherous, tactful and a master manipulator of events. He knew how to sideline people when they had outgrown their usefulness or have taken ideologies too seriously or sincerely and had unwittingly obstructed his personal agenda.