Translation of an article by Alexis: "Une Longue Vie de Solitude" on his Blog in Europe: Le Projet Sahaj Marg
Aug. 22, 2013
A Long Life of Solitude
On July 24th, Chari gave a speech "Be Committed to Yourself" on the occasion of his 86th birthday. Here is the conclusion, an overall summary:
“So remember, the life of spirituality
is a life of loneliness, because as you evolve, you find fewer and fewer
companions on the way. So when I started this talk, I told you in Sahaj Marg
there is no friendship. What can friends do for you? Spend ten minutes with
you? You want eternal companions. So look for them in your spiritual
life.”
The spiritual life is a life of solitude. Friendship prevents spiritual evolution. If you want to improve, your wife or your husband, your children, your friends and relations are a nuisance. For your spiritual life, there is no room for others, except your Master. Love him who loves everyone, that is enough. More simply, obey him and serve the mission, that's enough.
Sahaj Marg (tm) is based on a huge lie: Babuji said that his method was simple and accessible to everyone in their daily lives. Chari says otherwise! If one wants to be part of the Elite of the Apocalypse, one must grow spiritually, because (apparently?) there will be few winners. To progress, you have to sacrifice everything to your spiritual life. Especially your relationships, your friends and family! There is no room for anything but the Master ...
Ultimately, Sahaj Marg is only effective for solitary hermits like the sanyasis of old. In
ancient India, the sanyasi (renouncing), or the ascetic, had to renounce his
family life and his property, living with minimal clothing, not having a
roof (a dwelling?), keep moving, living on alms, and be consumed by the spiritual quest.
This human being, does it have to be a spiritual being or is it a social being? The choice is yours! But according to Chari, it can't be both ...
Comments by 4d-Don:
May all the disciples
of Sahaj Marg (tm) (Chari's Clan: SRCM California-1997) be moral and
honest with their friends and family, as they tell them "Good-bye" for
ETERNITY. They can also explain to them what is expected of them in
Sahaj Marg (tm) (this Apocalyptic Spiritualist Group, trade marked for
Trade and Commerce). (Explain why the "tm"... and the division
(schism?) of this "Chari's Clan" (SRCM California-1997) from the family
of the founder of Sahaj Marg, Babuji, and his original Shri Ram Chandra
Mission, Shahjahanpur-1945)
See
Chari's nomination letter presented to the Board of Directors of SRCM
(Shahjahanpur-1945) which letter, the Board rejected, calling it a
forgery, in favour of Babuji's son, Umesh and his nomination letter.
See scans of both letters here: Sahaj Marg and SRCM Legal and Important Documents
See Babuji's Family Site and read their opinions in "SPOTLIGHT" This site is co-owned and managed by Sharad, who is Umesh's (now deceased) son and Babuji's grandson : Society for Babuji's Mission
They
can tell them that they will not be with them, their REAL "God-given"
family and friends in Sahaj Marg's "Brighter World" (Heaven??) but that
they will allegedly be with their fellow "cult" members, and their
"eternal companions", as arranged and authorized by the Guru, to whom
they pledge eternal obedience, in every aspect of their lives (not only
for "Spiritualism") ...
.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
The Apocapypse and Sahaj Marg(tm)
Translation of an article by Alexis, "Apocalypse et Sahaj Marg", on his blog: "Projet Sahaj Marg" in Europe.
Aug. 7, 2013
Apocalypse and Sahaj Marg (tm)
Excerpts from the presentation of Roxana-Malina Chirilă during the conference of FECRIS "Apocalyptic Sects: Failed Utopias and the Consequence for Adherents" in Perpignan, (France), on October 13, 2012, in Bulles No. 118 (The Magazine of UNADFI).
(...)
"An Apocalypse is an emotional affair. I do not here use the word "Apocalypse" in its usual sense of catastrophe (disappearance of man, the destruction of civilization, the end of our world). I mean the phenomenon that occurs when a sect integrates the end of the world into its doctrine: one is preparing for a very specific Apocalypse, which is part of the mentality and the everyday life of a small group of people.
The Apocalypse then presents itself as a specific response to some universal questions related to the fear of death, translated into death and destruction on a large scale, it may, paradoxically, give the individual the impression of having a better control over his own destiny.
This Apocalypse is a judgment which will decide once and for all who are virtuous and who are sinners, who had the good faith and the bad. It gives one the opportunity to fight evil and to prove that one is a savior, a deserving person or a hero able to face any challenge.
In sects, apocalypses are many and varied depending on the specific teaching of each. The heart of the various scenarios of doom, however, remains the same and generally forms a knot of emotion, of senses, concepts, desires and fears. In my opinion, to begin to defuse the concept of the Apocalypse it is generally not sufficient to provide evidence against the theory of the Apocalypse cherished by the group. It is also necessary to understand how the members came to believe that Apocalypse then, and what it means for each of them."
(...)
On the eve of the year 2000, a French newspaper had mistakenly believed that SRCM was being monitored by the General Information, because of its apocalyptic character. At the time, to confuse this meditation movement with an apocalyptic cult was a mistake. Today, things are much more confusing ...
"Apocalypse" does not only mean the end of the world. The Apocalypse is also a prophetic narrative in which divine revelation is made to man. Revelation of an invisible spiritual reality, inaccessible to the common experience, but critical (determinant?) to the human destiny. The Apocalypse will save the world, it announces the imminence of a new spiritual world while the old world comes to an end. The Apocalypse is also marked by the last judgment and the wrath of God, a divine intervention that judge the wicked and the damned to better reward the elite (chosen?) by offering them salvation. After the disaster comes the era of the survivors, the reconstruction and the rebirth ...
As the Christian religion has its Apocalypse of St. John, the SRCM has also had its Apocalypse for 8 years now, since the beginning of the publication in 2005 of "Whispers from the Brighter World" reportedly by an anonymous French (lady) medium and supposedly dictated by Babuji.
If the abhyasis had been able to undertake the same spiritual journey as Kasturi Chaturvedi, the only saint of Sahaj Marg, Chari would never have needed to publish the whispers of the Apocalypse. But Chari and his preceptors are unable to provide sufficient experience to hold the abhyasis for long enough in the womb of the Mission. Hence the publication of these revelations, daily apocalyptic whispers from another more "brighter" world ...
Faced with so many problems and uncertainties in our societies, and faced with a deep dissatisfaction vis-à-vis the current world situation, apocalypticism responds to some basic human needs. To believe that one knows the objective being pursued, and to imagine being part of an elite who can be the saved who will then re-build the world, has something to seduce even the most lost and to relegate their feelings of impotence into forgetfulness.
Without failing to adhere to the system of meditation of the SRCM, the abhyasis want to believe they are involved in shaping the future and will be the (chosen?) elite of the future. But even this is far from being "a given", as their Chari on July 22nd, in his speech said: "It all depends on You" (Guru Purnima Day). When the Mission had 4 to 5,000 abhyasis, Babuji would allegedly have told him that only 2 or 3 abhyasis would accompany him into the Brighter World
"(...) I said," Babuji, I know from my own little experience of Sahaj Marg that finally I think you will be the only person to go to the brighter world "- from the four or five thousand at that time who were abhyasis . He said, "Yes, it looks like it. Maybe two or three more." You see, what he said? - Himself, plus maybe two or three more! (...) "
Must Chari be one of those 2 or 3 people? Nothing is less certain ...
...
.
.
Aug. 7, 2013
Apocalypse and Sahaj Marg (tm)
Excerpts from the presentation of Roxana-Malina Chirilă during the conference of FECRIS "Apocalyptic Sects: Failed Utopias and the Consequence for Adherents" in Perpignan, (France), on October 13, 2012, in Bulles No. 118 (The Magazine of UNADFI).
(...)
"An Apocalypse is an emotional affair. I do not here use the word "Apocalypse" in its usual sense of catastrophe (disappearance of man, the destruction of civilization, the end of our world). I mean the phenomenon that occurs when a sect integrates the end of the world into its doctrine: one is preparing for a very specific Apocalypse, which is part of the mentality and the everyday life of a small group of people.
The Apocalypse then presents itself as a specific response to some universal questions related to the fear of death, translated into death and destruction on a large scale, it may, paradoxically, give the individual the impression of having a better control over his own destiny.
This Apocalypse is a judgment which will decide once and for all who are virtuous and who are sinners, who had the good faith and the bad. It gives one the opportunity to fight evil and to prove that one is a savior, a deserving person or a hero able to face any challenge.
In sects, apocalypses are many and varied depending on the specific teaching of each. The heart of the various scenarios of doom, however, remains the same and generally forms a knot of emotion, of senses, concepts, desires and fears. In my opinion, to begin to defuse the concept of the Apocalypse it is generally not sufficient to provide evidence against the theory of the Apocalypse cherished by the group. It is also necessary to understand how the members came to believe that Apocalypse then, and what it means for each of them."
(...)
On the eve of the year 2000, a French newspaper had mistakenly believed that SRCM was being monitored by the General Information, because of its apocalyptic character. At the time, to confuse this meditation movement with an apocalyptic cult was a mistake. Today, things are much more confusing ...
"Apocalypse" does not only mean the end of the world. The Apocalypse is also a prophetic narrative in which divine revelation is made to man. Revelation of an invisible spiritual reality, inaccessible to the common experience, but critical (determinant?) to the human destiny. The Apocalypse will save the world, it announces the imminence of a new spiritual world while the old world comes to an end. The Apocalypse is also marked by the last judgment and the wrath of God, a divine intervention that judge the wicked and the damned to better reward the elite (chosen?) by offering them salvation. After the disaster comes the era of the survivors, the reconstruction and the rebirth ...
As the Christian religion has its Apocalypse of St. John, the SRCM has also had its Apocalypse for 8 years now, since the beginning of the publication in 2005 of "Whispers from the Brighter World" reportedly by an anonymous French (lady) medium and supposedly dictated by Babuji.
If the abhyasis had been able to undertake the same spiritual journey as Kasturi Chaturvedi, the only saint of Sahaj Marg, Chari would never have needed to publish the whispers of the Apocalypse. But Chari and his preceptors are unable to provide sufficient experience to hold the abhyasis for long enough in the womb of the Mission. Hence the publication of these revelations, daily apocalyptic whispers from another more "brighter" world ...
Faced with so many problems and uncertainties in our societies, and faced with a deep dissatisfaction vis-à-vis the current world situation, apocalypticism responds to some basic human needs. To believe that one knows the objective being pursued, and to imagine being part of an elite who can be the saved who will then re-build the world, has something to seduce even the most lost and to relegate their feelings of impotence into forgetfulness.
Without failing to adhere to the system of meditation of the SRCM, the abhyasis want to believe they are involved in shaping the future and will be the (chosen?) elite of the future. But even this is far from being "a given", as their Chari on July 22nd, in his speech said: "It all depends on You" (Guru Purnima Day). When the Mission had 4 to 5,000 abhyasis, Babuji would allegedly have told him that only 2 or 3 abhyasis would accompany him into the Brighter World
"(...) I said," Babuji, I know from my own little experience of Sahaj Marg that finally I think you will be the only person to go to the brighter world "- from the four or five thousand at that time who were abhyasis . He said, "Yes, it looks like it. Maybe two or three more." You see, what he said? - Himself, plus maybe two or three more! (...) "
Must Chari be one of those 2 or 3 people? Nothing is less certain ...
...
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