Chloe7
New Member
Greetings Ahau and thanks for your share. I also was becoming involved with Syda Yoga after reading Muktanandas book "Play Of Consciousness" which I totally adored. For a couple of years I did their correspondence study programme, loved it, and was considering going to the ashram but then I became informed of Muktanandas sexual misconduct with the pubescent daughters of his chelas. At first there was disbelieve but this turned to bitter disappointment after hearing a man who was present at the time when Muktanandas was alive and all this was going on, confirm it. Looks like in his final years the guru was more in service to his gonads than to the Self.
You were right ,warning of feeling resentment due to lost years when you could have been meditating. I too was a meditator but felt I had to give it up for the MP excercises. I recently have gone back to meditating with great relief and better results than ever. I have discovered that applying a "self chosen" practise with commitment quickly opens the door for further inspiration and instructions directly from spirit. No middle man needed.
In fact there were other things i gave up or forced myself to believe because that's what I believed I had to do in order to benefit from MP. So I felt controlled and resentful and in constant denial of self. No wonder I had a melt down. One such thing was that MP insists that dead masters and ascended masters are totally useless to help us and that only a living master can help us. This believe is very dis empowering and not true. These masters are in their infinite state and so not separate from us, part of our spiritual family, only a thought away.
With all that said I Still don't know if we can reach Self realization without a true living master. MP and the sant mat groups say no. Other groups say yes. I have also read swami Behari Lal "The Way Out Is In" and he also says we need one. I'm sure a true sat guru is worth his weight in gold but like you said they are most scarce in America. I personally find all this confusing. It may be a great topic to start another thread on this forum as I know lots of people are also wondering about this also.
You were right ,warning of feeling resentment due to lost years when you could have been meditating. I too was a meditator but felt I had to give it up for the MP excercises. I recently have gone back to meditating with great relief and better results than ever. I have discovered that applying a "self chosen" practise with commitment quickly opens the door for further inspiration and instructions directly from spirit. No middle man needed.
In fact there were other things i gave up or forced myself to believe because that's what I believed I had to do in order to benefit from MP. So I felt controlled and resentful and in constant denial of self. No wonder I had a melt down. One such thing was that MP insists that dead masters and ascended masters are totally useless to help us and that only a living master can help us. This believe is very dis empowering and not true. These masters are in their infinite state and so not separate from us, part of our spiritual family, only a thought away.
With all that said I Still don't know if we can reach Self realization without a true living master. MP and the sant mat groups say no. Other groups say yes. I have also read swami Behari Lal "The Way Out Is In" and he also says we need one. I'm sure a true sat guru is worth his weight in gold but like you said they are most scarce in America. I personally find all this confusing. It may be a great topic to start another thread on this forum as I know lots of people are also wondering about this also.
