At Sahaj Marg(tm), Still and Always the Diaspora! (IUSCM)

Taken from an article by Alexis: "Encore et Toujours la Diaspora" on Elodie's Blog in Europe: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg

Comments insertions by 4d-don are in "red italics"



April 1, 2011

Still and always the Diaspora

Swamiji Sahaja Marga & the IUSCM

In the Diaspora of the disciples of Babuji, I just discovered yet another movement.

The IUSCM (Institute of Universal Self Conciousness Movement at: http://www.iuscm.com) is controlled by a master called Satyanarayana Chillap (Swamiji), from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh.

Retired university professor in agriculture, his spiritual teaching was spread around him in his profession and around the Pacific Ocean region, mostly in Australia where there are many ashrams. (and one Ashram in Monroe, New Jersey, USA, site of the new Sahaj Marg(tm) Ashram of SRCM(California-1997), Chari's faction ... Also they have one in Liverpool, UK, one in Fiji, amid the on-going "revolutions" of the Fijians?)

His spiritual path is called Sahaja Marga Raja Yoga Dhyana Gruhastha Ashram (SMRYDGA), which follows the precept of "Marjalla Niti". It rests essentially on the concept of universal consciousness, which he tried to theorize in a beautiful mathematical formula (a distortion due to his scientific career?), discover it below.

The movement publishes a periodic newsletter since at least 2006. Lalaji, Babuji and Saint Kasturiji are widely cited (there are other extracts from the correspondence between Babuji and Kasturi) and to a lesser extent, Dr. K.C. Vardachari.

One will note that President Swamiji talks about himself in 3rd person singular, like Alain Delon [famous French actor "imbued with himself" (or "full of himself" or "holier than thou")], swami being an honorific title meaning master, besides his followers call him Master ... Finally he says he does not have an opinion on other personalities and movements related to Sahaj Marg, nor what distinguishes them from his own, but that all the disciples of Babuji have as much right to propagate his teachings.

Read his answers to my requests for clarification.

Alexis


Swamiji, Sahaja Marga and the IUSCM


Dear Alexis Mielkarski

Ashirwad

Your interesting, & thought provoking em. (e-mail?) is welcome, though recived unexpectedly, like'' A Bolt from the Blue''.

*- Glad to learn that you are interested in yoga-process, more particularly, Sahjamarga Raja yoga as propounded by My Master Samartha Sad Guru Sri Ram Chandra Maharaj of Sahajahanpur, Up. India.

*- It is true that our organisation, Institute of Universal SELF Consciousness Movement ( IUSCM) runs, a website www.''IUSCM.com'' and a Monthly Spiritual News Bulletin, which is updated every month in the website, as you have noticed. The Spiritual News bulletins of the months, carry summary extracts, of feature essays of writtings of Saint Kasturiji, Sri Babuji Maharaj's, Dr. Kc. Vardhachari's, & Sri Lalaji Maharaj's, besides Main Aricles titled as '' Message from Master'' & ''Editorial'' written by Swamiji.

*- We have two openings of IUSM, the One Head Quarterd at Hyderabad, INdia; and the other functioning fron Sydny, Australia, catering to the spiritual needs of Aspirants in Aceono-Pacific Region, heade by Sri. Govinda Sami, as President.

*- Swamiji had the previliged occasions, to be at th feet & Serve, of his Guru Smartha Sad Guru Sri Ram Chandra Maharaj ( Babuji Maharaj) during His Earthly Sojourn in thois world.

*- Saint Kusturiji, is in good health even at her prime age of above 90 years. and she tours regularly,to varios places in India more particularly, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, And Tirupathi, propagating the True Message of Mater.

*- It is a fact that different deciples like, Saint Kasturiji. K.c. Narayana, Grand-sons, of Babuji Maharaj's Family etc. running parallel organisations, thouh conveying the same Message, of Master, throgh the medium of Pranahuti.

*- Sri Rajagopala Partha Sarathy is the president of SRCM, & he is concerened with that organisation.

*- Spiritual Message of , the Parabrahman, the Absolute Reality cannot be the property of any person or organisation. And all Deciples of Master has the Equal Right to learn, imbibe, internalise, and propagate the Divine Message to postirity.

*- Now the answert to your question-- Why did you create another organisation titled as '' Institute of Universal SELF Consciousness Movement ( IUSCM)?

*- My Master, tought the Messge to realise he Ultimate Reality that He designated it as '' Tam'' the very Source of, origin of Consciousness, located anatomically positioned at the back of the head '' Occipital protrubenance''. For that a long yoga -process of crossing various knots or '' Granthis'' by merging in '' Layavastha'' attaining ''Zero'' state of Ego at each & every knot on the course of upward journey.

*- My Master even after attaining the State of perpetual- Zero or Sunya the yoga state of Sahaja Samadhi used often the term ''i'' as personal referrant. Naturally, it was not to His parochial person of Ego; but, to Universal SELF Consciousness, the mode, of expression of reality.

*- IUSCM, refers to this conceptual, Theorisation of univesal consciousness.

Postulation Equation :

Ix1, Ix2, Ix3……………….Ix=I

• I= ParaBrahman =Reality (sat) =Absolute Consciousness (Akhanda Bodha)

• x=Nama-Roopa (Name &Form)=Individuality=Ego=i=Mr.So&So

• i=Body-Mind-Intellect=ego=(Subject-Object-Predication=Thripthi)

• I= Parabrahman (Reality) +[0(i)=0]=Atman (Soul)=Absolute Awareness

Therefore Individuality is a combination of Infinite & Finite (Anantha-Alpa) or/and,absolute&relational

-Meditation on Heart By sahajamarga system of Rajayoga method helps to orient individual conscience to Universal Self –ParaBrahman,an evolutionary process on the Time-Space continuum of sat-chit-ananda

Reality (sat) is in the nature of Absolute Knowledge (Akhanda-Bodha) or knowledge –lessness-mind acts as an Inter Positional Reflective Medum (IPRM) between parabrahman & objective –world (Jagat).

*- The stages of ego's sublimation & transmutation passes through the following phases:- Waking stage of Consciousness to-- Transcendental consciousness-- to-- Cosmic consciousness to-- godly consciousness

IUSCM aims at this kind of transformation of the individual through yogic process of Sahajamarga method aided by '' Pranahuti'' the cosmic will power of the Creater's Macro cosmic mind known as '' Hiranya Garbha in Vedic-parlance. The Pranahuti power is bestowed on Swamiji by His Master.

(See IUSCM "Introduction")

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Regarding,the different agencies now in the service of Master, that you have mentioned, & the difference between IUSCM, & them, Swamiji has not given any thought on this issue. What IUSCM, stands for & how it is to be achieved, has already been informed in the previous em. Atman is Infinite, eternal, never born & so never dies. That You, me, & entire humanity IS. It is the Adhara (Base), Kutastha, Achala, Dhruva, Anantha, that supports the life activities in three phases of consciousness viz. waking, dream, & sleep. Ego, the personal identity of the phsycal & mental sheaths, is only an image of Atman,reflected in mind, that acts like amirror. The quality of image of Atman, reflected, depends on the quality of purity of mind the mirror. At Macro-Cosmically, Maya, acts as a mirror & the reflection of Reality- Parabrahman is cast in it as Ishvara, the so called god, who is responsible for creation, sustenance, & dissolution of the univese. Thus creation is taking place both at micro-cosmic & macro-cosmic levels respectively in Man & God ( Ieshvara). Yoga with Pranahuti helps to purify the mind that acts like mirror, to creation in waking & dream states & is not availabe in sleep; so there is no creation activity as there is no ego formation. In the same way, a Vishudha Satvatma, a yoga state of highly purified state of mind, the ego formation is transcended. This is the state of sahaja samadhi. The Moksha libration from thraldom of birth & death. As stated this is how we differ from other agencies that have come in to existence in Sahajamarg.

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With Master's Blessings, Your Own Self,

Swamiji.

(Professor Satyanarayana Chillapa B.V.Sc. ; M.Sc (Ag); Ph.D.

President INSTITUTE OF UNIVERSAL SELF CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT SAHAJAMARGA RAJAYOGA DHYANA GRUHASTHA ASHRAM # 143/B Old Santhoshnagar Colony, Hyderabad – 500 059 IND Visit: www.iuscm.com, Email: sn_chillapa@yahoo.com, Ph. 91-40-24531106)

See also:

Tamil Association of Western Australia
IUSCM Spiritual Merit Awards
Recent History of Fiji
Fijian Revolution
Journal of South Pacific Law- The Fiji Crisis
Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
Beauty Queen not "dark" enough for Miss India New Zealand Beauty Pageant


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Sahaj Marg(tm) and the Japanese Earthquake/tsunami !

Hello to everyone ...

There are two Sahaj Marg(tm) preceptors (Colleen Lecour, and A.J. Born) from the USA and Canada who have been sending this prayer to abhyasis via e-mail ... This prayer from a Shinto monk from the Shinto shrine at Ise, Japan, made it to me.


You will no doubt notice that, like Chari and some members of Sahaj Marg (tm), they believe that prayers will save them from disasters, even those which are most likely caused by their (or our human) ignorance and arrogance. One does not build nuclear reactors at sea level in an earthquake and tsunami zone!

Adherents to Sahaj Marg (tm), like the "religious", who claim to need only the MASTER, their Messiah, for their liberation and salvation, now apparently need us, the infidels, the heretics, and the atheists who are not their true "brothers and sisters" so as to convince nature and/or GOD ... hmmmm! There is something perverse, (corrupt?) here! ;-))

Why this disaster and not others? Did prayers stop the flood at Babuji's Memorial Ashram? Will prayers really stop Natural processes?

I wonder how many investors in this nuclear technology are religious? Sahaj Marg-ees? Are wealthy members of Sahaj Marg(tm) investing in nuclear technology? Genetic Engineering? No doubt! If there is money to be made, then they, the capitalists are there!

We know that some Indian GURUS have been trying to attract European investments for research on "cloning" or GE (genetic engineering), or Franken-foods to India.

So all you atheists, pray for the salvation of the RELIGIOUS materialists and the SPIRITUALISTS! ;-0

They seem to think that it is the Earth (nature) which needs healing, and not men (THEM)! Oooops! ; -0


This is the prayer which comes from the Shinto monastery at Ise, Japan, which is near the nuclear reactor in Fukushima (200 miles?): (I took the translation from the e-mails here:)

http://theforgottenpeace.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/japan-earthquake-prayer-request/


A Japanese Monk Sent this Prayer Request

The damage of earthquake in Japan is devastating.
Unable to cool down the reactor we are facing a possibility of nuclear
plant explosion.
Please join our prayer. Feel free to forward this prayer request to anyone.
It would be great if more people can pray.

Here Is A translation of a message / oracle From The Ise Shrine in Japan:

After the sunset we need strong power of prayer.
Please let me deliver the message to as many as possible.
We can stop this earthquake with our prayer but right now the nuclear
plant is in danger.

Please everyone heal the suffering, sadness, anger, worry about nuclear plants.
Please do not think that this accident will bring justice.

Please care for each other.
The energy toward conflict and fight is also fueling the things happening right now.
Please stop the conflict and stop the fight and change the worrying voice to the power of prayer.
Please pray that as many people as possible can be saved.

We will be O.K. if our hearts start connecting with each other, the earth will be healed.

There are the sound/vibration that can release the karma of earth.
Anyone who can make prayer sound, anyone who can do reiki,
anyone who can do long distance healing
please direct your energy to the center of Japan .
The exact location is above the Hachiro gata, Akita Prefecture .

If you can sing, please sing.
Humming is fine too.
Let the earth listen to the sound.

Please send gratitude to the earth.
If the mother earth wakes up then everything will stop.
The word Song/Sing writes in Japanese Kanji that small possibilities
support a big lack.
Please send your prayer to the earth to wake up the spirit.

I will be in meditation after the sunset.
I will pray for the light shining the sky even in the darkness.
Please everyone be safe.
Thank you for supporting my heart at this very difficult time.
Gratitude for the life.

Fuma

Sahaj Marg(tm) and Shintoism ... religions?

If anyone REALLY wants to help the Japanese citizens, they can send money, material and/or manpower!

What about the other "nuclear reactors" in Japan? What about the many reactors around the world? Those also in earthquake and tsunami zones.


Chari, the President of SRCM (California-1997) and the Master of Sahaj Marg(tm), sneered at the Pope because he offered prayers for AIDS sufferers; and he sneered at Bill Gates who donates some of his money to help AIDS sufferers, calling them "morally degraded" (hear the speech with sneers, on their Web site)!! And here that same group (SRCM California-1997) offers prayers to magically attempt to repair a "nuclear reactor" whose core could be in "meltdown" mode?

And of course, they also prayed for PEACE after attacking their own "brothers and sisters" and took over the ashrams of old preceptors loyal to Babuji and his family. (see article on this blog, and Exposing Sahaj Marg by Babuji's family on Youtube).

Ah! Ah! Ah! What a mess! What a religious mess!

Don
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P.S. - To the Leadership of SRCM(California-1997) and their Followers...

Here is a disaster of your own making ... You can do something about this one without praying for intercession from Sahaj Marg's (male) God! You can stop this impending disaster for one homosexual person created by your leader and your group, with just your word!! Speak it! ... or get the MASTER of your group, Chari, to Recall his HOMOPHOBIC speeches. If you can't convince the leadership of SRCM(California-1997) to stop discriminating against homosexuals and trans-genders, then you can make a moral statement and leave this racist, sexist and hompphobic "clan"!! .

Mr Chari of Sahaj Marg(tm). Recall your HOMOPHOBIC SPEECH!.

Earthquakes are NATURAL ... HOMOSEXUALITY is NATURAL ... One can't pray them away with religious rituals !!
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At Sahaj Marg(tm), Babuji Speaks In All Times, With Many Mouths, To Say Anything!

Taken and translated from an article by Alexis: "Babuji Parle à Tous Les Temps", on Elodie's blog in Europe: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg.

Comments, insertions and explanations by 4d-don are in red italics


March 26, 2011

Babuji Speaks In All Times


Babuji is the common reference for all when speaking of Sahaj Marg. Whether it be Kasturi, the Saint of Sahaj Marg, K.C. Narayana, son of Dr. Varadachari, Navneet Kumar Saxena, grand-son of Babuji, or whether it be Chari, all refer to Babuji. He is THE essential reference point! But Babuji speaks in all times: he spoke in the past, he speaks in the present, and he will speak again in the future ...

During his lifetime, Babuji spoke much, he left us many writings and is still in the memory of some, even if there are fewer and fewer who have known him.

Kasturi has rubbed elbows with him for almost 40 years, and Chari nearly 20 years, between 1964 and his death in 1983. They regularly quote, recalling anecdotes which are at times unverifiable. And sometimes the memory plays tricks on us. It is prone to oversights, omissions and distortions, whether deliberate or unintentional.

This even affects his writings since his famous quote on religion, spirituality, reality and bliss was truncated of its last two elements, then transformed by Chari into a comparison between union and division. Thus, where Babuji said, "Where religion ends Spirituality begins, where spirituality ends Reality begins, where reality ends bliss begins." Most of the time, the SRCM has kept but the first terms: "Spirituality begins where religion ends." And Chari eventually completely distorted the situation by saying: "Religion divides, while spirituality unites. "

A complete change of meaning, unrelated to the thought of Babuji ...

Memory is one thing, interpretation is another. What's common between Narayana, Kasturi and Chari? The dogma erected by K.C. Narayana is based on the writings of his father and those of Babuji, including the Ten Commandments. No dogmatic attitude in Kasturi who speaks of love, prayer and meditation, and immersion in Babuji. SP Srivastava has attempted a scientific approach, and Navneet swears by the founding document of the association in 1945. As for Chari, he has revamped the commandments of Babuji to the rank of maxims, simplified and ritualized the whole of his teachings to such a level that they now appear to be a caricature of the original.

When Kasturi speaks Love, Chari counters Obedience and Service. Two visions diametrically opposed to each other ...

Babuji speaks in all times. He spoke before his death, but he started talking about twenty years later, at least for the clan of Chari. Since 2005, "Whispers From The Brighter World" revived Babuji through a medium who serves as a conduit between him and Chari. And he'll still speak to us in the future because we have been promised at least four volumes of "Whispers". What Chari has not hesitated in calling the new "Sahaj Marg Bible" or the "Four Vedas of Sahaj Marg". And now, "Whisper a Day" (section of the SRCM website) is distilling a daily message of Babuji, dated from 1999 to today.

For her part, Kasturi was offended by the output of "Whispers" which she considers harmful, because they peddle an "incorrect" message.

What about the Ten Commandments? Does "Whispers" replace them?

Kasturi listens to Babuji speak to her heart, Narayana peels the texts of his father and those of Babuji. Chari more and more often, puts his faith in the words of Babuji from beyond the grave (Whispers?) . And so he now often begins his speeches with quotes from "Whispers". So much so that on April 30, 2010 at Tiruppur, Chari's speech to mark Babuji's 111th anniversary contained no less than three quotations from "Whispers".

The "Whispers" phenomenon is thus not a simply a cash cow (pump for money?). By delivering the words of Babuji daily, "Whispers" has come to surpass Chari. One is not dealing with just memory or interpretation as before, one is dealing with an intermediary who by definition he (Chari) does not fully control. And this medium says what she wants, starting with the promotion of an elite (indigo children) to regenerate mankind. About the ability of Chari to muzzle her, it is reduced with time.

Babuji is really not only speaking in all times, but with every (many) mouths, and to say anything. The profusion of mediums is an obvious sign. From Catherine Lauret who promised the destruction of England (in 2010), to Erin, Babuji's messenger and the AFLM (Anonymous French Lady Medium) ...

Sahaj Marg is not really what it was! It has been distorted ...

Alexis


... to be Continued

"Chari promises he will change the world (2)"

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Sahaj Marg(tm), An Infamous (Racist & Homophobic) Hypocrisy!

Taken and Translated from an article by Elodie: "Une hypocrisie Infame", on her blog in Europe: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg.

Comments and inserts by 4d-Don are in "red italics".

See links to articles listed below for the racism, homophobia, sexism, at Sahaj Marg(tm), as they cloak themselves (They think), with the flag of the UN.



March 19, 2011

An Infamous Hypocrisy

March 21, the Shri Ram Chandra Mission is partnering with the UN International Day against Racial Discrimination.

They forget that Babuji was particularly concerned about the "color" of his daughter in law, so concerned that he even sent Chari on a mission to verify the skin complexion of the possible future wife for his son, Umesh Chandra Saxena.

Meanwhile, Chari has adopted a different tune. He encourages mixed marriages (between Indians and whites or with those non-Indians blessed with a "fairer complexion") and has erected them as a rule for the coupling of his abhyasis. (racism??)

Other days, other ways. Sahaj Marg Spirituality has very scalable moral values.

What the SRCM does not tell the UN is that its medium makes a long-ago dead and buried Babuji say that we are promised the coming of a enlightened spiritual elite to regenerate mankind, the indigo children. By publishing this, the SRCM and Chari endorse the establishment of a new and equally infamous discrimination.

What Chari hides from the UN is his ambition of a conquest in a warrior-like allure, just as mentioned rightly by 4d-Don and Alexis (a speech entitled "Soldiers of Spirituality" and head-hunting for trainees in Sahaj Marg April 2004, where they talk strategy, territory, generals, (using military terminology), etc..)

SRCM intends to replace our current democratically elected global elites, imperfect though they be, by a pseudo-spiritual despicable and unacceptable totalitarianism.

This double speak (speaking with "forked tongue"?) is an infamous hypocrisy.

Elodie



See Also:

Anonymous French Lady Medium of Sahaj Marg, and the Spiritual Elite (indigo children)!

Sahaj Marg and their Soldiers of Spirituality!

Babuji, Sahaj Marg and Skin comlexion". COLOUR DISCRIMINATION?

Blatant Colour (Race?) and Sexual Orientation Discrimination by Babuji and Chari of Sahaj Marg (tm) and SRCM (California-1997), a Member of UNDPI

Mr. Chari of Sahaj Marg(tm). Recall Your HOMOPOHOBIC Speech!!

Sahaj Marg (tm) and Homosexuality

Chari-ty (of Sahaj Marg(tm) Creates a "Gay bashing" egregore!

Sahaj Marg(tm), Moral Degradation and the UNDPI

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Sahaj Marg(tm) Becomes Militant! Earthquakes And Tsunamis Are Our Fault!

Translation of 4d-don comment to an article by Alexis on Elodie's Blog in Europe: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg.


4d-Don said ...

Alexis ...

It is interesting that the followers of Sahaj Marg (tm) now have their "Spiritual Soldiers" as the Christians, the Jews, the Muslims, and even the Buddhists (Shaolin) ... So they are a RELIGION and an Army. And they have their "missionaries", and now, they are training their "soldiers". And they still claim that they do not proselytize and that they are "unique"!!

So what's new?

With Chari, Sahaj Marg (tm) is rather Spiritualism, with egregores, mediums, messages channeled from spirits (beings of light) and/or from humans who have died.

This is not only religion but a religion which has becomes ridiculous, and a mixture of New Age spiritualism, with meditation and prayers (for peace, for a favorable egregore and?, but not for AIDS sufferers ... lol), and rituals, parties (holiday), etc. ...

Do not forget their other side, nationalist and imperialist (Diaspora) of SRCM (California-1997) from which comes a big percentage of the money. We already know of the donation of one million dollars (followed by a photo of Chari in blue jeans), and of an Ashram completely built ... I call it the "Battle Star Galactica, " out of which come the new graduates, the "Spiritual Soldiers" ... The Space Cadets (at Sahaj Marg (tm))

The gentleman who made ​​the gift (of the Ashram) to Chari is now "preceptor"! (Spiritual Capitalism?)

I wrote an article about it on my blog. (with photo)

Sahaj Marg And Their Soldiers of Spirituality

http://4d-don.blogspot.com/2011/01/sahaj-marg-tm-and-their-soldiers-of.html

Don

Tuesday, March 15, 2011



Alexis Said:

@ 4d

About the warrior spirit of the SRCM there is no doubt.

Just before the speech by Chari about the "Soldiers of Spirituality" from April 20, 2004, there had been training at Hyderabad April 4, 2004, when the Zone-in-Charge was compared to the general, the Center-in-Charge to a" field commander ":

"Strategy formulation. The zone-in-charge is like a General, in charge of a territory. He has to evolve a strategy for effective penetration of his territory. He has to communicate this strategy to all the centres-in-charge, and convince them of its efficacy. He has to evolve a tactical plan to make this work (…) Tactical plan. The zone-in-charge has to plan where and how to grow the Mission. He has to device the means to achieve this growth. He has to train the functionaries in his zone to undertake this task. He has to monitor this activity and make corrections where necessary. He has to conduct annual reviews of this plan, and send a progress report to Chennai.”

Historically, Sahaj Marg maintains the analogies between their unbridled proselytizing and the religious war of conquest, as a crusade or a spiritual jihad! This is not new ...

Spirituality, spiritualism and spiritism intertwine:

Yes, during the 2000s, Chari took a very spirituals turn with the SRCM. The enemy of Chari, the scapegoat, is clear in his speeches today, they are the traditional religions. Babuji sold spirituality, Sahaj Marg. Chari began by imitating him, but emphasizing his own concerns, the tools and the methods. This had the effect of ritualizing Sahaj Marg, which is now open-handedly close to a religion with respect to its dogmas and its priests, the preceptors. But the big turning point came in 2005 with the sale of "Whispers". First seen as a money-making machine, it has vulgarized the medium and the spiritualist and spiritist "Brighter World". Delusions of egregores, indigo children, etc. etc.. lead us today to set the Sahaj Marg(tm) as a sad New Age movement of the bottom floor, practicing spiritualism and surfing on the fears of the Apocalypse ...

I remain more cautious on the nationalist aspect of SRCM and Chari ... but I could be wrong!


From previous News

In these difficult times for our Japanese friends, a brief reminder of the Sermon by Chari January 1, 2006, following the earlier tsunami that hit the Indian coast, and my comments then.

Excerpts from "The Art of Listening to Nature":

"(...) And when we charge the Earth with our grossness, and it accumulates, Nature wants to dismiss all this grossness, and you have manifestations like earthquakes, tsunamis as we had a few days (...) So brothers and sisters, it all depends on you (...) Whatever you do, good or bad, affects the entire universe. In this awareness, if you continue to work and to fight in your spiritual life, automatically the world will become a better place. "

In short, the tsunami [in 2005] is our fault, and if we meditate more then there will be no more. So meditate while others are dying. The Christian religion promised paradise after death, failing to promise it on earth, thus legitimizing all their abuses. Sahaj Marg helps one to live in an imperfect society, replacing the legitimate revolt against the outside world by the inside, as a pseudo-solution. Changing oneself is more important than changing or improving the world. Without saying so, Sahaj Marg helps in its own way to legitimize the abuses of our world.

Religion is the opium of the people, Sahaj Marg and Rajagopalachari are too.

Alexis

Wednesday, March 16, 2011



See Also:

Sahaj Marg(tm) Has a "Recreational" Flavour! (legal opinion)
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Chari Of Sahaj Marg(tm) And The Psychology Of Crowds

Taken and translated from an article by Alexis: "Chari et la Psychologie des Foules" on Elodie's blog in Europe: Pour Que Vive Le Sahaj Marg.

Comments and inserts by 4d-Don are in "red italics"


March 14, 2011

Chari and the Psychology of Crowds

I seem to have already made the analogy with drugs. But Lea's comment on the social psychology makes me think of something else. I already expressed all I thought was wrong with the truncated thinking of our sociologist friends who see sectarian groups in terms of new religious movements and what they bring to our society, regardless of their internal organizational structure.

There is a scientific discipline, already quite old, which has especially been interested in the relationship of the group/leader, it is the Crowd Psychology of Gustave Le Bon and his successors, such as Serge Moscovici.

In contrast to the individual, the crowd is presented fairly negatively. Irrational and versatile, the soul of the crowd is psychopathological in nature and is subject to dogmatic beliefs and is utopian in nature. It never ceases to look for an idol and scapegoats.

In this scientific theory, the leader gives it (the crowd) a goal (an ideal), and binds the group and organizes its actions. All explanations of this phenomenon of the influence of the leaders on the crowd use the mechanism of suggestion. Lebon speaks of the prestige of the leader and his hypnosis of the crowd. Gabriel Tarde speaks of suggestion on the part of the leader and imitation by the people who admire him, forever in search of a model. Freud explained this using psychoanalytic assumptions, the principle of identification, in a component love-relationship of the up-rooted crowd, reconstructing the father figure. Weber spoke of the charisma of the leader.


Gustave Lebon (1841-1931) -"The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind", 1905 (Religious forms which dress all religious beliefs of the masses, pp. 45-48) - Excerpts:

"We have shown that crowds do not reason, they accept or reject ideas as a whole; tolerate neither discussion nor contradiction, and that suggestions acting on them invade the entire field of their understanding and tend to immediately turn into action. We have shown that crowds when properly suggestionned (manipulated?) are ready to sacrifice themselves for the ideal that has been suggested. We also saw that they only know violent and extreme sentiments, and that among them sympathy quickly becomes adoration, and, barely born, antipathy becomes hatred.

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When one looks closely at the convictions of the crowds, both in times of faith, and in the great political upheavals such as those of the last century, we find that these convictions are always dressed in a special form, which I can not better determine than by giving it the name of "religious sentiment".

This sentiment has very simple characteristics: worship of a being who is supposedly superior, fear of his supposed magical power, blind submission to his commands, inability to discuss his dogmas, (but) the desire to spread them, a tendency to consider as enemies all those who do not admit to them. That such a sentiment applies to an invisible God, an idol of stone or wood, a hero or a political idea, as long as it presents the preceding characteristics, it remains essentially religious. The supernatural and the miraculous meet there in the same degree. Unconsciously, the crowds dress with a mysterious power the political formula or the victorious leader who, for the time being, fanaticizes them.

One is not only religious when one worships a deity, but when one puts all the resources of mind, all submissions of will, all the heat of fanaticism in the service of a cause or a being who becomes the purpose and the guide of thoughts and actions.

Intolerance and fanaticism are the necessary accompaniment of the religious sentiment. They are inevitable for those who think they possess the secret of earthly or eternal happiness.

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The convictions of the crowds re-dress these characteristics of blind submission, intolerance and the fierce need of violent propaganda, which are inherent to the religious feeling; and that is why we can say that all their beliefs have a religious form. The hero for wich the crowd cheers is truly a god for it. Napoleon was thus for fifteen years and never had deity more perfect worshipers. None sent men to their death so easily. The gods of paganism and Christianity never exercised a more absolute power over the souls which they had conquered.

All founders of religious or political beliefs have managed to found them because they were able to impose on the crowds these feelings of fanaticism that makes man (humans) find happiness in worship and obedience, and is ready to give his life for his idol.

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Today most of the great conquerors of souls no longer have altars, but they have statues or images, and the worship that is given them is not significantly different from that given to them in the past. We are able understand a little of the philosophy of history, only after we are well penetrated by this fundamental point of crowd psychology. One must be a god for them, or be nothing.

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So is it a useless banality to repeat that the masses need a religion, as all political, social and divine beliefs become established for them, only if it takes on the form of a religion, which shelters them from discussion. Atheism, if it was possible to have it accepted by the crowds, would have all the ardor of an intolerant religious sentiment, and in its outward form, would soon become a cult. "



Serge Moscovici - The Age of the Crowds, 1985 (The Secular Religions, pp. 467-476) - Excerpts:

(Moscovici here deals mainly with political parties and relies on the example of the Russian Communist Party, which he calls a secular religion).


"So far we have considered the leaders as long as they have charisma. We have defined them as the union of two characters in one: Shadow cast by the founding father and the heroic son. But these shades are attached to a doctrine, a goal they have set themselves the task to achieve.

(...)

On the other hand, mass psychology has taught us that the leaders can not accomplish their task without recruiting individuals temporarily detached from their usual group. These form the nucleus of a crowd. They undergo the ascendancy of a leader who transformed their encounter into a stable organization. The Church and the Army, it was the audacity of Tarde and especially of Freud to recognize, are the model for every crowd of this kind. The party is the translation of one and the other crowd, in a society like ours that does not govern the family, local and aristocratic tradition. In short, the parties are both the churches and the armies of the age of the crowds.

(...)

The common characteristic of all these artificial crowds, the proof of their good health is always and everywhere a belief system. It binds them together, holds them together and allows them to mobilize men and to ask them to sacrifice their lives. A leader can not establish and lead such a party, necessary for his task, if he does not have such a system. For the masses act only when driven by a belief - and beliefs exist only with the masses. The prophet became the archetype of the contemporary leader precisely for this reason: he must give rise to a robust faith around him.

So, the example and the most complete form of a belief system is religion.

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They have a dogma and sacred texts which one obeys, having heroes as saints.
Moreover, such a secular religion strictly responds to some psychological needs - the need for certainty, the regression of individuals within the mass, etc.. - And nothing else.

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Let us take a closer look such religion, ignoring its spectacular events, we have already described. What are its functions? The first is to compose a total vision of the world, which overcomes the fragmented and divided views of each science, each technology and knowledge in general. There is in the depths of our human nature, a basic need to harmonize, in a perfect togetherness everything that, in our experience, seems inconsistent and inexplicable. When we have no more simple principles, one model to explain what is happening within us and around us, we feel threatened. Worse, we feel helpless in the face of the diversity of economic forces, psychological problems and the mass of uncontrolled events. This lack of coherence prevents us from participating in definable social action. There is no order or security possible for individuals in a society where the number of questions exceeds the number of responses.

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True, the scientist or the technician can cope with this fragmentation, to accept the perpetual oscillation between conflicting solutions and the uncertainty of ephemeral truths. But man, in his ordinary life, rejects it. He is hungry for solid certainty, unchanging truths.

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In essence, secular religions provide a total vision. They offer a view of the world where every problem finds its solution.

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All the sacred religions offer a design of the physical world. They explain the origin of the universe and provide for its future. Contrarily, the secular religions are formed around a vision of the social world.

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Only religions (and their missionaries) can still inspire such attachments. They lead people to accept in their heart of hearts what the community demands of them.

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Religions recognize the desire for happiness, the need for protection which humans experience since childhood. After painting with darker colours the forces which threaten them, they offer a solution.

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So these are religions of hope. They guarantee to humans that they will finally emerge victorious from the turmoil which torments them, provided they identify with the ideal that transcends them and to respect the requirements they decree.

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... concealing a mystery. Each religion has its own. On its behalf it imposes rules and announces truths on which it does not explain itself. Instead, it casts thick shadows on their reasons and hides them so that nobody notices. Everything is done to prevent accidental contact. Everything conspires to prevent the revelation of the secret which is hidden from public view and also of the faithful. This secret is presented either as a beneficial thing, and sometimes as something evil.

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Arguably the most artificial crowds - armies, churches, political parties - are related with such a mystery. They have a set of ceremonies, emblems (symbols), passwords (think of the Masons!) that protect and censor any attempt to find out. It is used to justify the hierarchy. The man who climbs the ladder approaches this sacred point, the others remain at a distance.

(...)

Religions are the work of the "sons", the successors of the founding father of a people or a certain society. They legitimize and exonerate them at the same time by concealing their crime to the point that it is no longer seen in them, its authors.

(...) "


The cult phenomenon, the Shri Ram Chandra Mission Chari can be reviewed using the elements provided by this discipline at the border between psychology and sociology:

Worship of a being who is supposed superior, fear of his supposed magical power, blind submission to his commands, inability to discuss his dogmas, the desire to impart them, (his dogmatic teachings), a tendency to consider as enemies all those who do not admit it, need for certainty, regression of the individuals into the mass, submission of one's will, the zeal of fanaticism in the service of a cause or a being which becomes the goal, and the control of one's thoughts and actions ... inevitabilities among those who think they possess the secret of earthly and eternal happiness.

All founders of religious beliefs have been able to impose on the crowds these feelings of fanaticism which make one find happiness in worship and obedience, and who is ready to give his life for his idol.

The leaders (manipulators) can not accomplish their task without recruiting individuals temporarily detached from their usual group. The prophet has become the archetype of the contemporary leader, he must create a strong faith around him.

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