Re: Hi Genny
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09/22/2017, 05:51:26
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"...I popped in and saw your name...13 and others too...and was just so happy to see old friends re connect..."

Exactly how I felt and feel every time I see so many familiar posters here!

The following quotes taken together...

"The guru's demands for total devotion and dismantling of the mind were just what he'd need to erase himself... I see that he was probably always looking for the feeling of total freedom... the abandonment of past pain... the kind that only comes from death... the guru is just an enormous enabler of mental and soul unease."

... all ring so true.  To understand my vulnerability to Rawat in the first place, I needed to understand the paradox of the pain I was in combined with my natural exuberance, perhaps a hallmark of many early premies (until Rawat wiped away the exuberance and left us with only buried conflict and plastic smiles!)  I LOVED the perfect excuse to abandon myself... to dissolve my very identity into the amorphous and gaseous HIM -- the essence of ashram life.

"You bring the DEATH of attachment.  You bring the mind true detachment.  Save us from our problem lives..."

A perfect recipe for self abandonment and the unraveling of our very core.  I have to say, though, as time goes on and I/we continue to reflect and deconstruct our involvement in such a twisted cult, I think it's true that the entire experience gave us a certain type of uncommon depth, wisdom and insight -- hyperactive bullshit meters? -- that serve us well.

Your wisdom certainly shined in your post!

Bob






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