X-Ftn-To: Petar 

"Petar"  wrote:
>Draga Zeljka, pretpostavljam da ti nisi "zapadnjak", i bavis se "The"
>yogom.Jesi li sigurna da na zapadu nema "prave" yoge? Pozdrav, Petar
>(petar.sakic@fsb.hr)

Khm, if I just respond to this, it'll have a limited audience, so I'll
translate first (please, stick to English on alt.* hierarchy, we're
not in Croatia):

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>Dear Zeljka, I guess you're not "from West", and that you practice 
>"The" yoga. Are you sure that there is no "real" yoga in the West? 
>Greetings, Petar.
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:))
Yes, well, I guess that a real yogi should come from India, wear funny
clothes, talk bad English, read some rare books written on palm
leaves, that almost nobody else can read, and charge nothing. That's
because everybody knows that God lives in India, and so everybody
outside India, who claims to have realized God, must be a fake.
Chakras, nadis, prana and Kundalini also exist only in India, and
nobody else can figure them out unless he reads about them in ancient
books.
Also, a real guru would never accept money. Guru daksina is, of
course, invented by the Westerners; rumors that it's an ancient custom
in India to reward the guru with money in order to honor his effort is
of course a malevolent lie. One should never accept money for anything
spiritual; money should be accepted only for the bad things, done
against the laws of nature and one's feeling of rightness. So, if you
have enough hard time working against your will, you can accept the
money, but not if you really enjoy what you're doing. One should pay
the doctors for keeping you sick, not for keeping you healthy. If so,
why would one pay the guru for showing the way to liberation? One
would of course only pay a fraud. The good things should never be
rewarded, because only the bad guys should have the money and rule the
world. If someone spiritual attempts to create enough might on the
planet to make a real difference, we should immediately stop him and
recognize him as a fake; real spiritual people should live in caves,
letting the bad guys rule undisturbed. God of course wants the world
to be governed by polluting industry and Microsoft, not by the yogis.
Yogis should stay out of the way. They can preach things only if they
have no real power to implement them. They should also restrain from
sex, because if they have sex, they could also have children, and if
they have children, they would give them the education inconsistent
with our perfect society, and society doesn't want enlightened
children, who practice sadhana from early youth. Children should learn
how to fit the society, how to become a well serving part of the
machine. They should not think, examine, criticize, or, even worse,
change anything. We should therefore keep the gurus poor and celibate,
we should render them powerless, and say that the only ones worth
something are from India; God forbid that anyone thinks that the
principles of yoga are as universal as the laws of physics, here for
anyone to discover. Yoga should be restrained to Indian folklore, with
all the funny rituals. We can even make a TV show about them, or put
them in the ZOO, when they become an endangered species.

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