Autor: Danijel Turina
Datum: 2001-04-22 20:39:06
Grupe: alt.yoga
Tema: Re: Cover story about Yoga on TIME Magazine.
Linija: 50
Message-ID: 0f86etk54qjqj2ahbgcohgn92cvhbo38ql@4ax.com

X-Ftn-To: Tracy Miller 

tracym@pipeline.com (Tracy Miller) wrote:
>I checked out this web site, and I think this guy is starting a cult.

Actually, he's _running_ a cult for some years now. :) A benign one,
though... non-violence, vegetarian diet, yogic practice, ego massage,
good sex, that sort of stuff... "let's all be happy and good looking"
stuff.

>I think it is fluffy crap, pardon my language. 

Yes, that would be a good description. :)

>Here's the worst:
>
>"The aim of every human deed is, basically, to bring about a state of
>complete physical, psychic, social and, finally, cosmic harmony. The
>realisation of the state in which all one?s needs are fully satisfied
>at any given time. All living beings strive towards reaching this
>state of blissfulness...?
>
>Every need?  Is this like a magic basket that supplies everything?
>Doesn't sound very transcendent. 

It would even make sense if he actually knew what he's talking about;
in fact, this is mostly recycled Aurobindo. That, plus some theosophy,
and he creates an appearance of someone who actually has a clue.
Appearance deceives.

_Aurobindo_ probably wanted to say that the point is not to transcend,
but to manifest the transcendental in our lives.

>?Komaja is born within a terrible cleft separating that which is
>offered by today?s Christians, Hinduists, Materialists and all other
>?same-ists?, on the one hand, and the essential need of contemporary
>man, on the other. For this reason, this term is not to be found in
>any spiritual or worldly literature, not even in the dictionaries for
>foreign terms. Komaja stems from a time in the future. Komaja is a
>scream (...).?
>
>
>A scream?  * What* is he talking about?  

:) He's just into pompous bullshit. 
A friend of mine met him today, she said that he looks far worse than
she figured from my descriptions. :)

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