Cults In Yoga - Siddha / Brahma Kumaris / Sahaja Yoga, etc (often non physical Yoga)

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#30

Absolutely, nothing compares to the Vedic tradition because nothing is as concentrated in knowlege From the Vedic corpus we learn the following:

We learn about the principles of dharma
We learn about the science of discernment between matter and consciousness
We learn about the science of economics
We learn about the science of Yoga
We learn about the science of medicine and surgery
We learn about the science of logic and epistemology
We learn about the science of linguistics
We learn about the science of metre
We learn about the science of astrology
We learn about the science of engineering

In which other tradition of religious scriptures do we learn this knowledge? The Dhammapada only focusses on moral teachings and teaching the four noble truths. The Tao-te-ching is just a collection of wise sayings. The bible is just a book telling you the history of the Judeo people and the conditions at the time. It gives you wrong information like the earth is flat, because that is what people believed then. Ethically, it is highly backwards.

The Vedic corpus gets the praise that it does because it is teaches you knowledge. You can still pick them up today and and increase your knowledge and learn something, and actually gain something. They also teach you practices you can go practice like pranayama etc. I am not the only one who says this. Look at the conversations we have on this board and look at the terminology we use: maya, prakriti, purusha, brahman, guna, atman, kosha, chitta, vritti, buddhi, prana, kundalini, chakras, nadi, vata, pitta, kapha, mahabhuta, yuga, karma, dharma. Where do all these terms come from? The Vedic corpus. We obviously use these terms because they are the most precise terms to describe what we want to describe.

The truth is clear we get all our knowledge of spirituality and Yoga from the Vedic corupus. This is why I praise the Vedic tradition. I once bumped into somebody on the street, a black man, before I could say Veda, he said it for me. He started talking about in all his studies he has done in his life into spirituality, he has found the Vedic tradition to have the most clearest and most advanced knowledge. All experts in spirituality agree. This is why we use Vedic terms. The very least we can do is show a bit of respect to this tradition.

We should not engage in jealousy games by comparing other scriptures like the bible, quran, tao-te-ching to them - because there is no comparison. These texts do not give you clear and precise knowledge on spirituality like the Vedas do. We use Vedic terms on this forum because the Vedas are the best sources of spiritual knowledge.

As for Kabbalh. I don’t care what Jewish scholars say. Kabbah is a mystical interpretation of the OT. It is not authentic, because the meanings are invented using dubious methods of interpretation as credible as numerology is.

#31

[QUOTE=Surya Deva;56316]Absolutely, nothing compares to the Vedic tradition because nothing is as concentrated in knowlege From the Vedic corpus we learn the following:

We learn about the principles of dharma
We learn about the science of discernment between matter and consciousness
We learn about the science of economics
We learn about the science of Yoga
We learn about the science of medicine and surgery
We learn about the science of logic and epistemology
We learn about the science of linguistics
We learn about the science of metre
We learn about the science of astrology
We learn about the science of engineering

Certainly apart from the last two I have studied or touched upon all the above in buddhist teachings , in sangha settings , no doubt influenced and originally coming from a culture of which you champion. Shakyamuni Buddha was not overly keen on relying too much on astrology from what I understand .
It took seven weeks for the moslems to burn the books at nalanda university thats a lot of effort and a lot of books !

#32

The entire Buddhist canon, I would have to say, is more voluminous than that ascribed to hinduism.

Yup.

Ewwwww.

Burn.

Tsssssssssssss.

Stings don’t it.

Back in the olden days. Buddhist scholars would straight up school the ‘learned brahmins’

Shantideva owned them hindoos!

At least thats how the story goes - as told from the Buddhist point of view. :slight_smile: Of course.

I also am slightly disappointed that some time ago you engaged in debate on the Buddhadharma when your primary exposure to the system was the 30 page long (if that) dhammapada - that you flipped through on the toilet?

Ugh.

maintain your integrity.

#33

I am not a big fan of astrology either, not because I don’t believe the science is real, but I don’t believe in astrologers. Jyotisha is a very precise science and requires experts to analyse your star charts, and many so-called experts are commercial astrologers who just want to make a quick buck.

Vedic Astrology is of course superior to Western astrology :wink: You can do a search for yourself online and get expert opinions. Vedic astrology is superior and actually gives accurate results.

#34

It is sad that they burned down Nalanda university. Nalanda university contained thousands of Sanskrit texts which unfortunately we will never hear about. Just think about what kind of knowledge was stored there.

The Buddhist scriptures only focus on teaching the Buddhist religion. Hindu scriptures teach you the sciences. They are more useful to us because they give us scientific knowledge in all fields. There is not a single field of science the Vedas does not cover. Unfortunately, we have lost so many of these sciences, because a lot of the Vedic schools have been lost. It is believed that at one time the Vedas covered every single science, even the science of aeuronautics and space sciences :smiley: You will find Hindu web sites talk about these sciences. The so-called Vimanika shastra, and Ansu Bodhini(spectroscopy) I don’t find it hard to believe, considering how advanced Vedic science was. There is an allusion to microscopes in Ayurvedic texts when it gives a description of 20 types of microorganisms.

#35

“We learn about the principles of dharma”

That which one is calling the dharma is not something that can be organized into any principle, and those who have organized it into a principle are just chasing figments of their own imagination. Truth cannot be organized.

“We learn about the science of discernment between matter and consciousness”

There is no discernment at all. What one is calling “matter” and what one is calling “consciousness” are made of the same stuff - it is the same energy manifesting itself in different forms. It is like trying to separate water from ice, or the fragrance from the lotus flower. To discriminate between the two may be convenient as far as one’s intellect is concerned, just as a means, but it has no roots in reality. This universe is one holsitic existence, it does not belong to any of the sharp divisions which are just projetions of one’s intellect.

“We learn about the science of economics”

As everything is in a constant state of change, the current is unceasing. In such a situation, one cannot function according to fixed economic principles. One will have to be as flexible as existence itself, responding according to whatever is needed in the moment. Because of this, what may be effective today may become ineffective tomorrow. So I would not form an attachment to any of those “sciences” of economics, whether it comes from the Vedas or anywhere else.

“We learn about the science of Yoga”

This has it’s roots not in the Vedas, but in direct experience. In fact, there is so much superstition and nonsense which is written in the Vedas, particularly the Rig Veda, that unless the science of yoga is separated from Hindu mythology, Hindu cosmology, and all of the belief systems which are part of the Hindu tradition, then yoga has yet to become a true science.

“The Vedic corpus gets the praise that it does because it is teaches you knowledge.”

It also teaches you much superstition and nonsense which is just a projection of the Hindu mind. And because you yourself are blind, it will be impossible to discriminate between what comes closer to the Truth, and what is just a dogmatic attachment to a certain belief system.

“Look at the conversations we have on this board and look at the terminology we use: maya, prakriti, purusha, brahman, guna, atman, kosha, chitta, vritti, buddhi, prana, kundalini, chakras, nadi, vata, pitta, kapha, mahabhuta, yuga, karma, dharma. Where do all these terms come from? The Vedic corpus”

It does not matter in what language these words are. They are things which are out of a direct insight into things as they are. They are already there - whether the Vedic tradition exists or not, whether there is even a single human being on Earth or not.

“The truth is clear we get all our knowledge of spirituality and Yoga from the Vedic corupus.”

More nonsense. You are far too attached to these scriptures which are functioning like a veil over one’s eyes. The Truth is to be found nowhere else other than through your own being. No scripture can transmit even a single drop of the ocean, only an entry inwards to come to the discovery of the ocean itself.

“I once bumped into somebody on the street, a black man, before I could say Veda, he said it for me.”

No, you did not.

“He started talking about in all his studies he has done in his life into spirituality, he has found the Vedic tradition to have the most clearest and most advanced knowledge.”

He must have been sleepwalking on that street. There is no such thing as advanced knowledge, it does not matter how much knowledge you gather - it is just like a particle of dust in the desert. As far as having clarity is concerned, if one has an eye to see, one’s knowledge is not to make one knowledgeable, but only to bring one closer and closer to the recognition that you know nothing.

“All experts in spirituality agree”

There are no experts, and those who think of themselves as experts are just deceiving themselves.

“As for Kabbalh. I don’t care what Jewish scholars say. Kabbah is a mystical interpretation of the OT.”

Most of the terms that you are using in Sanskrit all have equivalents in Hebrew, there is not much difference. Whether you say that existence is an interaction between “Shiva” and “Shakti”, or whether it is between “Chokmah” and “Binah” makes no difference at all. And whether you call the original nature of things “Shunya”, a void, or “Ain Soph”, nothingness, makes very little difference at all. Those differences which are there are just superficial. The fundamental differences are that in Hinduism, everything is twisted to fit a Hindu ideology. In the Qabalah, everything is twisted to fit a Jewish framework. Neither are their methods totally different. Rather than chanting the mantra in Sanskrit, they are chanting their mantras in Hebrew. Rather than visualizing the yantra with Hindu symbols, they are visualizing the yantra with Jewish symbols. If the Hindu yogi is visualizing certain letters in certain parts of the body in Sanskrit, the Qabalist is doing the same in Hebrew. They are not really so different - they are just as dogmatic as the other. That is always going to be the case as long as one continues clinging to one’s knowledge, whatever that knowledge may be.

#36

S.D.
You make grand, broad, sweeping generalizations - A LOT.
I don’t think this dharma helps you - the making of grand, broad, and sweeping generalizations - alot.
Because the Buddhist scriptures don’t only focus on the buddhist “religion.”

You should know by know that it’s tough to pull the wool over this guys eyes. Meaning me.

#37

Amir, you know that I do not consider you an authority. You speak nonsense, you have no idea what you are talking about, and you are an imposter claiming to have already reached enlightenment, and now are in your post enlightenment training. You deny everybody else, every expert, every enlightened master who has gone before you. Now you are claiming to know more than the Vedic tradition. You are full of it :smiley:

The truth is you are a wannabe cult founder. It is indeed ironic you would deny Shri Nirmala Devi Mata ji, because she has succeeded in creating a cult, and you have not :wink:

#38

“The Buddhist scriptures only focus on teaching the Buddhist religion.”

What you are calling “Buddhism” is just an umbrella term for many different philosophies and belief systems which come under that category, many of which are absolutely opposite to one another. It is a word which is useful, but more or less meaningless. In “Buddhism”, you will find materialists, idealists, realists, nihilists, and even some streams which come very close to being theistic or pantheistic. There is even one school, the Pure Land Buddhism, which is not all too different than Christianity. They emphasize that the way to liberation is through simply believing with devotion in Amitabha Buddha, one of the Buddhas in paradise who has given a promise that if you believe in him, you will enter into the Pure Land. Hence, the whole Pure Land Buddhism is just having faith in Amitabha Buddha, just as Christians have faith towards Jesus Christ who is their savior. Many other Buddhists will not agree with this approach. In fact, most of what has arisen in Buddhism has nothing at all to do with Gautama Buddha - who was not a Buddhist at all, or belonged to any particular belief system or tradition. He was simply an ordinary man who had come to know himself, through and through.

“Hindu scriptures teach you the sciences. They are more useful to us because they give us scientific knowledge in all fields.”

There are so many things in the Vedas which are entirely unscientific, they were still entangled in this superstitious idea that if you are inflicted with a certain illness, or if you are insane, it is not because of anything scientific, but you are possessed by certain demons and devils which have to be cast out. If you were insane, then you were taken to a Brahmin in a temple who would try to excorcise the demon out of you, and if that did not work, you were beaten. Most of the rituals of Hinduism are filled with this same kind of fanatic dogmatism, that by performing certain rituals in the right way, or by performing animal sacrifices, that somehow you are going to please the deities who will work in your favor. The Vedas itself declares itself to be a revelation from God, which is just a hallucination of their authors. There is no “God” in the sense of a Supreme Being which is created in one’s own image, and like every other religion which has been clinging to the idea of God, one has projected ones own identifications of the mind.

#39

“Hindu scriptures teach you the sciences. They are more useful to us because they give us scientific knowledge in all fields.”

There are so many things in the Vedas which are entirely unscientific, they were still entangled in this superstitious idea that if you are inflicted with a certain illness, or if you are insane, it is not because of anything scientific, but you are possessed by certain demons and devils which have to be cast out. If you were insane, then you were taken to a Brahmin in a temple who would try to excorcise the demon out of you, and if that did not work, you were beaten. Most of the rituals of Hinduism are filled with this same kind of fanatic dogmatism, that by performing certain rituals in the right way, or by performing animal sacrifices, that somehow you are going to please the deities who will work in your favor. The Vedas itself declares itself to be a revelation from God, which is just a hallucination of their authors. There is no “God” in the sense of a Supreme Being which is created in one’s own image, and like every other religion which has been clinging to the idea of God, one has projected qualities of one’s own mind.

You don’t know what you are talking about :wink: You have not read the Vedic corpus you fraud, but you still talk like you are an expert on them :wink: We have already proven that all you have done is read a bad translation of the Vedas on sacred-text.com, and now you think you know it all :wink: I have read 5 different translations, and read them myself with a Sanskrit dictionary. I did this for a year. Your knowledge on Hinduism will not match up to mine. I have studied Hinduism for 10 years and read 100 books by scholars on it. Actually, even your knowledge of spirituality will not match up to mine. Don’t you see how many cults I have attended :wink:

You’re a wannabe cult founder and leader. Half of the forum knows you are a wannabe.

#40

“Amir, you know that I do not consider you an authority.”

That is fine, I am not interested in being considered as an authority.

“You deny everybody else, every expert, every enlightened master who has gone before you.”

Not everybody, only those who were not enlightened. And one may find it difficult to believe, but many of those who are considered masters are not really masters at all. All that is needed for somebody to be considered enlightened is for him to fulfill ones own ideas about how an enlightened one should be. For the Jews, Moses is enlightened just as Jesus is enlightened for the Christians. There were even some Germans who had considered Adolf Hitler enlightened. Anybody who fulfills your own projections as to how a master should be can be considered awakened. But whether they are really awakened or not is something entirely different. Entering into deep states of samadhi does not mean that you are awakened either, and to find yogis who can enter into samadhi is just as common as finding heat in the summer. One has to understand that what one is calling “enlightenment” are just ones own relative ideas about it. That is why those who have really come to their awakening have done away with the idea completely, even enlightenment is another idea that is to be emptied out.

#41

“I have read 5 different translations, and read them myself with a Sanskrit dictionary. I did this for a year. Your knowledge on Hinduism will not match up to mine. I have studied Hinduism for 10 years and read 100 books by scholars on it.”

Even if you read a hundred more, or ten thousand more, it will not bring you even a single step closer to the Truth. On the contrary, from what I have witnessed, all of ones borrowed knowledge has only helped to cloud your understanding even more.

#42

[QUOTE=Surya Deva;56065]Sahaja Yoga
…
But within 2 weeks I realised it was too good to be true. I became acquainted with their pseudoscience of checking vibrations and soon realised they used this pseudoscience to push their organizational dogmas.[/QUOTE]If you want to examine something you should be like a scientist. First step in SY is to prove yourself that there is vibration and you can feel it. If you can do this, you can continue. If not you will leave SY.
We need to be honest people and there is no need to deny truth. The MAIN difference between SY and others yoga?s is that SY was able to awaken your Kundalini Shakti and in this way you can feel vibrations/All Pervading power/.

#43

What you are calling “Buddhism” is just an umbrella term for many different philosophies and belief systems which come under that category

No, what I call Buddhism is a term to describe an officially recognised religion. Like every religion, Buddhism has sects and each sect has slightly different interpretations. The Buddhist version of heterodoxy is Mahayana Buddhism, which does not accept the doctrine of anatman.

There are so many things in the Vedas which are entirely unscientific, they were still entangled in this superstitious idea that if you are inflicted with a certain illness, or if you are insane, it is not because of anything scientific, but you are possessed by certain demons and devils which have to be cast out.

Everybody who has heard of Ayurveda know you are speaking complete and utter garbage right now. Nope, in Vedic culture if you get an illness, they take you took to an Ayurvedic practitioner. He would examine your entire body, analyse your pulse and tongue, take a very extensive questionaire of your lifestyle, symptoms. Diagnose your prakriti(vata, pitta, kapah or combination) and your vikriti(current dosa which is out of balance) and then prescribe treatment consisting of diet, lifestyle regulations, and herbs.

Casting of demons because somebody has an illness is not a part of the Vedic treadition. But it a part of the tradition you come from: Abrahamic. Such unscientific medicine was practiced by your ancestors - not mine. We performed brain surgery for petes sake :smiley:

Stop speaking about Hinduism to me. You’re speaking to a Hindu with 10 years of study in the area. You cannot match my knowledge. I will own you at every step of the way :wink:

#44

Seeker,

If you are truly liberated with Sahaja Yoga, then remain with it. But if you find that somehow, it has still not managed to bring oneself to a contentment, that you are still unfulfilled, then you should leave it. But the problem is that to inquire with a penetrating honesty into the matter requires some courage. Human beings enjoy deceiving themselves with countless things, because man is much more interested in self-preservation rather than coming to his awakening. Naturally, if you have been following a certain stream which is false and you discover that it is false, that one has just been deceiving oneself, one of course does not want to feel like a fool. To realize that one has been wasting ones whole time can be quite painful. But if one is interested at all in ones search for Truth, then one will be struck with gratitude that another delusion has dissolved from ones vision. But it requires one to first have enough courage to inquire, and seeing how much you are attached to Sahaja Yoga, I do not see such a possibility happening anytime soon.

#45

[QUOTE=AmirMourad;56329]“I have read 5 different translations, and read them myself with a Sanskrit dictionary. I did this for a year. Your knowledge on Hinduism will not match up to mine. I have studied Hinduism for 10 years and read 100 books by scholars on it.”

Even if you read a hundred more, or ten thousand more, it will not bring you even a single step closer to the Truth. On the contrary, from what I have witnessed, all of ones borrowed knowledge has only helped to cloud your understanding even more.[/QUOTE]

I see what you did there. Very slippery. But also very weak.

Why do you even bother to step with such weak sauce?

You quickly change the subject from

“if amir has indeed read the vedas, the translation he read was done by a hillbilly.”

to

“Amir’s same ol tired song and dance.”

The only person who would tell you NOT to read scripture is either an Idiot or a moron.

Maybe both.

:wink:

#46

[QUOTE=AmirMourad;56334]Seeker,

If you are truly liberated with Sahaja Yoga, then remain with it. But if you find that somehow, it has still not managed to bring oneself to a contentment, that you are still unfulfilled, then you should leave it. But the problem is that to inquire with a penetrating honesty into the matter requires some courage. Human beings enjoy deceiving themselves with countless things, because man is much more interested in self-preservation rather than coming to his awakening. Naturally, if you have been following a certain stream which is false and you discover that it is false, that one has just been deceiving oneself, one of course does not want to feel like a fool. To realize that one has been wasting ones whole time can be quite painful. But if one is interested at all in ones search for Truth, then one will be struck with gratitude that another delusion has dissolved from ones vision. But it requires one to first have enough courage to inquire, and seeing how much you are attached to Sahaja Yoga, I do not see such a possibility happening anytime soon.[/QUOTE]

I also love how you follow along and copy what I do.

Can’t say your the first. I [B]know[/B] you won’t be the last.

Here’s how it’s done. I - the scales - tosses an Idea out into the audience.

I make a response to a poster.

You take my idea and then wrap it with your dry words and catch phrases and then present it again. Sometimes to the same person!

Fascinating.

#47
#48

[QUOTE=Seeker33;56330]If you want to examine something you should be like a scientist. First step in SY is to prove yourself that there is vibration and you can feel it. If you can do this, you can continue. If not you will leave SY.
We need to be honest people and there is no need to deny truth. The MAIN difference between SY and others yoga’s is that SY was able to awaken your Kundalini Shakti and in this way you can feel vibrations/All Pervading power/.[/QUOTE]

Seeker,

Let me tell you a real scientiic method that real scientists use :wink:

  1. A random patient with an ailment will be worked on by 5 randomized
    SY workers who claim they can check vibrations and diagnose. Each one will do this at different times, and the others will not know about about other.

  2. Each SY worker will provide a diagnosis and the diagnosis will be put inside a sealed and opaque envelope.

  3. At the end of the experiment the experimenter will check each diagnosis.

If the SY vibration checking method works. All diagnosis should be identical and the ailment should be detected.

Find an independent scientist from your local university to do this experiment.
Not for me, but for you. I already have got my results when I observed with my own eyes and heard with my own ears how each SY worker gave a different diagnosis when they worked on the same person. One said, your throat chakra is acting up, the other said your solar plexus chakra is acting up.

You will prove to yourself the SY vibration checking method is bunk. The experiment I have proposed is a lot more rigorous than what I did. You will have proof in your hand SY is a total fraud. Report back to me when you do :wink:

#49

“Casting of demons because somebody has an illness is not a part of the Vedic treadition.”

It is not really the case. In Hindu and Vedic mythology, there is a whole hierarchy of spirits of various different natures - Asuras, Yakshas, Vetalas, Rakshasas, Devas, and so on. That man interacts with these beings, or these beings can interact with man, is not something which is unusual in the Hindu mythology. There are even various methods as to how to use such beings to fulfill ones own desires, which is in fact the reason why all these rituals are there in Vedas. So it was not an unusual thing, that one who would be trying to control such entities, a Brahmin priest or a yogi, would be "possessed " by a certain spirit once in a while, and would have to go through a certain ceremony to expel the demon.And just as there is a heaven and a hell in Christianity and Judaism, the same is the case in Hinduism. If you have been living an impure life, then the soul would be sent by Yama, the Lord of Justice, to a Naraka , a kind of hell where the soul receives purification for its sins before it can continue in its evolution.

That the Vedic and Hindu tradition is free from these kinds of superstitions is not really the case, it is filled with all kinds of fictions. There are some rare traditions who have simply seen these various “deities” as different aspects of ones own consciousness as well as being symbolic of certain forces of nature both within and without oneself, but they have always been very rare. It is possible to become “possessed”, in the sense that a certain psychological force or an idea starts overflooding the conscious mind which may create severe imbalances in the personality, but it has nothing to do with any of these mythologies which are simply man manufactured.