Is this SPIRITUALITY "Sahaj Marg(tm)" Style?? Or is this another example of SPIRITUALISM or SPIRITISM? Is this what will make the world more SPIRITUAL and less "materialist" or "sensualist"??
I guess, like some "businessmen" and/or "agents", some must think that if a pseudo-spiritual agent pushes (like a street drug dealer?) a commercial product while standing on his/her 'tippy toes" (ballet?), it shows that he/she has "class"!! It does not, of course. And, if a sales agent promotes or pushes a crass or "corrupt?" material commercial product while entering in a daily navel-gazing bliss, then it must mean that it is "SPIRIT-uality". Again, it does not!!
NOT ... NOT ... NOT ...
From the Newspaper
Times of India article by Rajiv Singh, Sept. 20, 2011:
Flying Machine's new advertisement draws controversy"....One of India's early home-grown jeans brands, Flying Machine (see below), over the weekend, released a print advertisement that shows the picture of a female model wearing tight fit jeans around her buttocks, with the catchline in big, bold font screaming: 'What an Ass!' It was probably meant to highlight the oomph and cool quotient in an old brand, perhaps even mimic the edginess of the 'All asses were not created equal' tagline in an advertisement last year by larger rival Levi Strauss & Co. While the jury is out on whether Flying Machine's latest campaign has found resonance with the cool set, the advertisement is generating heat in some quarters. "The new advertising campaign for Arvind Mills' blue denim jeans is drawing controversy in India. According to an article in the Times of India ( Rajiv Singh, Sept. 20, 2011)
Flying Machine's New Advertisement Draws Controversy, Arvind Mills is promoting their new brand: "Flying Machine" blue jeans, by depicting the ass of a woman. This is allegedly not as acceptable as the company thought, and some women's rights activists are crying "foul".
What does this have to to with Sahaj Marg(tm)??
Here is the profile of the
Lalbhai Group, and for
Arvind Mills and their "
board of directors"
The Chairman and Managing director of Arvind Mills, Sanjay Lalbhai, is (or was) also a trustee of the Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation (SMSF). The "chairman" stated in an interview that the immediate goal of his company was 10% of the US "blue jean" market. (
see here from the patent office of the USA). Accpording to Chari (in one of his speeches), Sanjay also made donations to the SRCM. Later, Chari was seen (and photographed) wearing a new pair of "
western blue jeans", which were rumoured to have cost (accompanied by a donation of?) "
a million bucks".
Corporate structure for
Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation (SMSF), Roswell Georgia (of UFO fame ... Flying Machine?? ) ...
Women's rights groups are incensed, and rightly so. Betrayed again, and by the women of Sahaj Marg(tm) who say NOTHING!! Would you, the "judas goats" inside Sahaj Marg(tm), also sell your girls to this type of advertisement campaign, (simply because a businessman, a profiteer donated to your so-called "corrupt" new religion??
Apparently some "GURUS", who preach and point at others, also have flexible ethics and morals and would trade their endorsement for a price or a donation. (
the end justifies the means ... Machiavelli). All are FREE to build their commercial and nationalist empires, but stop preaching at the rest of the world, like pseudo-spiritualist hypocrites. BE HONEST !!
Ah! Ah! Ah! What a mess! What a mess!! What a SPIRITUALIST mess!!
First, with Sahaj Marg(tm), the company-line was "think with your heart (the PUMP for blood) not with your brain". And then, from one of its pseudo-spiritual trustees, it now is: "What an ASS"!! Is Sahaj Marg(tm) drifting toward: "Think with your ass"?? I thought it was western men who were said (by some women) to "think with their penis"??
Come on Women!! Are some of you still led by the nose by some pseudo-spiritual old farts who want to see your young girls in "what an ass", sexy, pair of western blue jeans! Do you still believe in their MALE GOD?? Their BRIGHTER WORLD?? Are you still kneeling before those who discriminate on the basis of gender (sexism), or "skin complexion" (racism), or sexual preference (Homosexuality) ?? According to Chari, all religions promote violence and war (see your
VBSE curriculum, lesson X). Is that "tolerance" for other religions??
How "FUNDAMENTALIST" !!
Call your anonymous French Lady MEDIUM and ask the "spirit" of deceased Babuji (SPIRITUALISM) !! ... and Chari or his so-called "medium" will answer!! (Is that "spiritualist" CONTROL??) You will of course believe that it is Babuji who spoke the message. How silly!! How SPIRITUALIST!!
Women have struggled long in opposition to being branded and/or marketed as: chicks, foxy, rabbits (breeders of loose morals), broads, etc...
An "ass", beside being a "behind", and hence, not a leading part of the human anatomy, is also the name of an alleged dense, and "dumb" animal !!
But: "
What an ass"!! eh?? Ka-ching, Ka-ching!! It's all about MONEY!! And POWER!! Taking over commercial markets!! That is the SPIRITUALITY of India, being exported to our shores!!
Sahaj Marg(tm) and SRCM(California-1997) is once again shown to be simply a gang of nationalist, imperialist, SPIRITUALIST businessmen, who are not very SPIRITUAL ... Sahaj Marg(tm) claims to be a Raja Yoga, starting at step #7. Now we know why. One can do anything as long as one "meditates" or "prays", ignoring steps 1 to 6 of Patanjali's Raja Yoga. Does that now sound like every other RELIGION??
I join John Lennon of the Beatles:
"Imagine there's no country and no religion too..."Where in Raja Yoga is the ethics and morality of: "What an ass" ??
No sex please ... we are SPIRITUAL!! ;-))
I have only one (facetious) complaint or suggestion:
Could "Flying Machine" use the "ass" of a more "mature" woman !! ;-) Say, a 70 year old woman?? lol lol
Maybe all the "mature" women in Sahaj Marg(tm) are chasing the young men!! So they live with shame and can't "speak out"!! Ah! How Power corrupts!!
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is particularly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations– to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image. Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
J. William Fulbright.
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See also:
Chari' s Million Dollar "Western Blue Jeans"Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation (SMSF) acts like a Privately-owned Fund.
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