Spiritually Laid Back

June 11, 2007

Compassion exists in this world

Filed under: thoughts, mind-droppings

Compassion and humanity do exist in this cruel world, as I was pleasantly surprised to find last night. But in the hearts of ordinary people, not the Vijay Kumar/Kalki Bhagavan’s and Ammas of this world.

Accident found us watching a movie about a medical student who goes on a tour of South America. The tour takes him through lands impoverished, to the San Peblo leper colony where he spends several weeks as a medico-volunteer. Ernesto is a regular guy, falling in love with girls, having fun, not a stuffy spiritual type. The movie shows his love for the inmates of the leper colony whom the nuns refuse to touch. He refuses gloves and shakes hands with lepers breaking the rules laid out by the nuns, which include not giving food to those who don’t attend mass.

His parting with the inmates is especially touching. It is to be seen. Made me feel ashamed, being such a spiritual type myself, it brought tears to my Kalki-hardened heart. The movie is "The Motorcycle Diaries".

Thank God there is love and compassion in our world, and it doesn’t require a Kracki and his fat-as-a-tick gluttonous wife to awaken.

May 31, 2007

Carl Sagan of Spirituality

Filed under: thoughts, mind-droppings

Kiara trying to be a Carl Sagan

Now that the book "Fire from Heaven" is out, I guess Kiara Sagan, oh sorry, Kiara Windrider, cannot back off from Kalki Bugwan. Carl, er Kiara, talks of the usual pseudo-scientific crap, Violet children, indigo children, super-races and now something called Ilahinoor. I never knew fecal matter could be so smelly. It’s basically more of that deeksha crap with some pseudo-astrophysics thrown in to improve credibility.

 Much like they tried to bring in the pseudo-neurobiological angle using Christian Opitz. Hold your nose and click on this.

Kiara quotes a "scientist" named Paul LaViolette (who from whatever i can find on the net seems like another Von Danikin), here’s a tidbit that hit me:

 Ilahinoor is a cosmic evolutionary energy. Like many other such energies sweeping the planet today, its purpose is to help humanity awaken to its infinite potential. Astrophysicist Paul LaViolette refers to a “galactic superwave”, emanating from the super-charged center of our Milky Way galaxy that pulses through our solar system every 13,000 years or so. Although this superwave, traveling close to the speed of light, has not reached us here in our solar system yet, it seems that we could be in the preparatory phases for it. Our bodies, hearts, and minds are being gradually re-wired in anticipation of the rather sudden evolutionary energies that may shortly be coming our way.

 First reaction: if the superwave is travelling at close to the speed of light, then how on earth can you know it is coming before it does !!!! If it has not even reached the solar system, then how can anyone detect it.
"The energies may shortly be coming our way", at the speed of light, let us not forget.

Thus, i hope readers will forgive me for jumping to the conclusion that "Fire from Heaven" or hell for all i care, and whatever scientific theories are presented in it, are just a crock of shit that should be washed down the toilet with your next dump.

May 28, 2007

Coffee-without-Jody Day

Filed under: thoughts, mind-droppings

This is one of those awful mornings when you wake up to chirping birds, and a cup of steaming strong coffee but you find that there’s nothing on guruphiliac to read with the coffee! Now i suddenly don’t know whether i need the coffee more, or Jody!

So i clicked absently on some of the links which Jody thankfully provides (avoiding my own). The Chi-Ting Guru Gossip really made my morning. I am quite a regular at Tiruvannamalai (seeker, not Guru) and I am often irritated by the stream of funny-named so-called Gurus who land up in winter like an infestation of some vermin, all claiming spiritual connections with Arunachala or Ramana. I was thrilled to see that "Kevinananda" does a nice take on them. Some excerpts, but you must read the full details on this page.

"… I know a thing or two about fraud! Since I relocated to my winter residence in Tiruvannamalai, I have noticed that seasonal trickle of Guru’s on the make, has become a veritable flood. Like a dose of dysentry flushing out the colon, they linger for a short while and then evacuate themselves to more fiscally rewarding pastures, leaving a rank and pungent stench behind them"


[Ed: Yup, he could not have put it better. And one of the places in India they evacuate themselves to is Dharamshala. The others places are the cooler climes of Europe and Southern California. The next one is about a chap called Florian Tathagatha (haha, hilarious name) who claims connections to Ramana. I too saw him frequently at the Seshadri Cafe making silly gestures with the waiters and children nearby, trying to put on the "enlightened" act. How horrible it must be, having to fake being enlightened! ]


"Apparently he has the finest sound system in Tiruvannamalai, it must be great listening to his own voice in an empty hall. He is often seen outside Sri Seshadri Ashram on the Chengam Road trying to mug (sorry hug!!!) passers by. He possesses an inherently evil smile, which marks him out as another day release from the Nuremburg Nazi hall of fame."


[Now here’s one about the hilariously named Mooji. One can clearly visualize the cow mooing. Saw him going round town on a mobike with a white lady stuck to his back. Posters stuck outside shops and cafes spoke of the "fire of self-enquiry" that he got from Papaji. Westerners must realize that when you visit a place, you respect the culture of that place. Tiru is not the place you enjoy mobike rides wrapped up in women.]

Mooji was destined to be another sad case standing outside Brixton tube station, selling 10 pound bags of weed, smack and crack. Unfortunately after a trip to India and a stay with Papaji, he hit on the jolly wheeze of becoming a guru and scamming the stupid.

[Ed: there are a bunch of other scoundrels too on that wonderful page. What His Holiness Kevinananda forgets to mention is that Kracki’s goons are also infesting Tiru, one Romanian couple were even giving their infernal deeksha on the top of Arunachala!!! Of course,they were asking for a decent figure for their "deeksha", all this on Arunachala.]

The purpose of this post was not to make fun of the non-Indians offering satsangs and programs in Tiru. You will find enough posters of smiling indians too, stuck by the sewers on the road side, offering grace and bliss. It’s just that their choice of names is just not funny enough as the above two. So go on and check the side bar on guruphiliac, on a rainy day, when Jody is not slapping Kracki and his wife with a large trout on their ever-widening butt cheeks

May 10, 2007

How I got enlightened for 5000 bucks

Filed under: thoughts, mind-droppings

This post truthfully narrates how I (and Freddyji, and Kiaraji, and millions of others) got enlightened. Yes, we did. Glory to us! Kalki Bhagavan and Amma are absolutely great and sooo loving etc etc blah blah blah.

Stooges, losers and suckers can close this page now, please.

I am tired of hearing from commenters how "full of hatred" I am. I would like to ask you, what would you do if you spent a lot of money buying a car, computer, fridge and it didn’t work. And you realized it could never. Would you sit quietly and buy another one, never uttering a word, or warning anyone else. 

Some condescending, smart commenters pop in to say "You get what you look for". So does that excuse someone for selling fake cars/computers or medicines or anything else. If someone handed you counterfeit currency or fake medicine, can i say that was what you were looking for?

All i can say is, sadly, such people are born suckers, and you will learn the hard way, if you learn at all. 

I certainly will make my voice heard. If you don’t like it, keep away.

April 26, 2007

Pseudo-enlightenment or getting spiritually laid

Filed under: thoughts, mind-droppings

Or even a case of sour grapes for this unliberated soul, u mite say!

It is sooo sad, how people on this path, can get so desperate to be enlightened that they can (or their egos can) finally create an enlightened ego/self, which thinks it has died, that there is no one there etc. I really hate to mention specifics, becos then it becomes a hate campaign, but if i don’t then there is no example to show the desperation. 

After Freddyji’s leaving his "guru" i was waiting and waiting for when the other leading westerner, K Windbreaker (name changed to protect ego) would call it a day, and confess he had got laid spiritually. But he did a greater one on himself, by declaring himself enlightened. His description of course clearly reveals its own falsity. If he had to fake it, he could have at least read Sri Ramana or some others and faked it properly.

Here is some of the crap KW writes:

"I had always seen enlightenment as the end of my spiritual journey, the ultimate in human attainment. I now see that it is merely another beginning. Enlightenment is both an event and a process. The event corresponds to the restructuring of the brain following the ‘diksha’. It is also an ever-deepening process. Consciousness has its own intelligence, its own cycles, and it is an endless journey of discovery."

And so here we have it. The illusion still hasn’t ended, there is STILL someone there, experiencing change, experiencing some "ever-deepening". And so KW has laid himself.
Interestingly, for a couple of years after he attended the ‘dicksha’, he had admitted not being enlightened and that Bugwan told him it would happen soon. But KW’s business (books, workshops etc) could not wait. Now he has gone back and re-written the whole thing to appear as though he did get enlightened.

And so we have one more enlightened ego on the loose.
Someone writes:
"I work as a healer and gave a treatment to a lady in Germany who just came back from the 21 days trip in India with (name removed). There was absolutely no trace of super divine light; she was full of entities and other wierd stuff. I didn’t tell her anything because I knew she would tell me I’m an idiot. She had already planned the next trip to see (name removed)!!!
Anyway, ultimatly it’s their karma! "

Here’s what an acquaintance of the divine couple has to say:
"I used to know ***** Bug-wan as Vijay Kumar, a clerk in the Life Insurance Corp of India. He was involved in running a school in Rajupeta. He used to be quite a charlatan. He was a basically promoted by a naive and gullible Dr. Shankar , a former Principal of Valley school. These two chaps got the land through Dr. Rajasekar Reddy and Mr.Shreeniwas.

It is your choice: You can join this band and live a lie or you could see through such Charlatans and dare to live alone. This ***** fellow has stolen the ideas of J.Krishnamurti, Osho, Vipasana and others. He is a veteran crook!"

 So if you still want to be gang-banged, head on to South-India with only $6000 in your pocket for 21 days, and if you are indian, you get laid a lot faster, at a heavy discount (in 3 days for about Rs 5000). But that’s just the account opener. Soon the demands for the Rs 100,000 darshans start coming in.

 What more can i say? I am quite speechless.

January 17, 2007

Mankind saved from destruction !! Thanks Kalki !!

Filed under: humor, mind-droppings

While you were all popping the bubbly on Jan 1st, we were heaving a big, huge, sigh of relief that Kalki Bhagwan’s prediction of 60-90% of mankind being exterminated in 2006, did not come true.
We dont wish to annoy KB and Amma who are doing great work in (en)lightening your pockets and thus relieving you all bliss-seekers of the stress of managing so much money, so we will go with what HE and HIS deluded/long-suffering dasas are saying, that the earth was saved due to Kalki’s grace.
Did we ever doubt that !

So we can all now live peacefully, that we and the earth are going to be around for some more time, till the next godman predicts it doom.

October 12, 2006

Sunyata on Guruphiliac

Filed under: thoughts, mind-droppings

Recently, this unassuming and unworthy blog was thrust into the limelight by the kind attention of Jody"Guruphiliac" Radzik.  Well, he was  generous enough to think that  we (i mean "I" really, but i love the way he calls himself "we")
 have had a major transformation. Well, as truth has it, we haven’t, we are scarecly anymore advanced on Kalki Bhagavan’s enlightenment evolutionary scale of 1000, than his (Jody’s) imaginary dog’s posterior.

But we can’t resist declaring from the rooftop that the bhakti of our Beloved Lord has removed all the rancour against the one we previously ranted against here quite an bit. Completely, totally, no question of ever going back on it.

Which is not to say that things were right there. That we condone them. (Today we understand by what unethical means "experiences" were triggered in us and others close to us, including family members, some of those unethical techniques rather long-lasting, unfortunately). We have spoken, it was recorded by others, posted around, quoted in several places, so our silence today doesn’t make a difference. It is just that the internal struggle against it, the asking God, "Why did it have to happen with me?" - all that is gone. I understand why God sent me there, I thank Him for pulling me out fast, I thank God for clearing my mind so that i could recognized, accept and fall at the feet of my Beloved Sadguru.

There is such a deep need in the bhakta to love everyone, to see his Lord in everyone, that one has to wash the resentment out of one’s mind, and it is this desperation caused out of (if i may say, sincere) love for the Guru that helped us to overcome the rancour and sense of hurt and violation of one’s self. Plus the loving warmth of the Guru’s Feet which helped us forget those whom we felt had wronged us.

Jody-ji does call us "optimistic" at a later stage. We would say we are worse than optimistic, we are naive, totally. Even after one ‘bad’ experience. What can we do, having fallen into the Feet of the glorious Arunachala ; what can we possibly do but love everyone and everything.

Perhaps Jody will understand our feelings, being a bhakta himself, or perhaps he will mock us and our Beloved; either way we will remember that he is the same soul as us.

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