tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4179595007554980645.post2076311106230787457..comments2024-03-05T12:29:43.693-08:00Comments on The Abode of Yoga: Guru's DeathY.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06691766827578927691noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4179595007554980645.post-58792010406314618512010-11-22T08:00:54.718-08:002010-11-22T08:00:54.718-08:00Hello.
I tried the Chinmoy path for certain time ...Hello.<br /><br />I tried the Chinmoy path for certain time and gave out for feelings of uncertainity and disgust. So I am not disciple, but I have some friends in SCC.<br /><br />When in 2007 I was told by certain ex-s the Guru who claimed himself near to be immortal, suddenly died on heart attack, I did not believed.<br />I decided to ask my friend, who is still disciple.<br />He told me this is, unfortunatelly for all the Devotion Space, true.<br />And, he did shown me 2 photos of poor quality. On first of them was Chinmoy lying on floor, on his belly, with hand touching near his left armpit. On other was detail of his face, with not much nice grimace.<br />He described the situation their Guru was lying there like someone shot him dead. <br />If his death was caused by sudden heart attack, there is nothing mysterious on the fact.<br />But if I imagine myself to be one of the faithfull, such experinece will gave me unbearable shock. <br />Is there anyone else who saw the photos? <br />I simply can not believe the photo showing Chinmoy lying in a casket with peacefull face, what appeared in funeral times, is the authentic one.<br /><br />Thanks.<br />George.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4179595007554980645.post-90432807876712584742009-07-28T06:27:29.146-07:002009-07-28T06:27:29.146-07:00I have heard of tibetan lamas who have consiously ...I have heard of tibetan lamas who have consiously "crossed over" in modern times, but that may also be part of a myth. <br />The mother of the Sri Aurobindo ashram allegedly cured herself from a heart attack, perhaps a myth. <br />Jesus, an undisputed Master, was supposed to have felt abandoned for a while, while on the cross."My Lord, why have you forsaken me." <br /><br />The last hours of Sri Chinmoy, as they were told to me over in Europe: Sri Chinmoy was in his house, Paree and Govinda was in another room, then they found Guru dead, lying on the floor with folded hands in front of a picture of Mother Kali, with his head toward the Kali-image and with a leg drawn up in a Kali-dance way. <br />This story, differs from Sahishnu's story but does not contradict it.AMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4179595007554980645.post-9652540424335135242009-05-20T20:33:05.073-07:002009-05-20T20:33:05.073-07:00For what I think are obvious reasons, this post is...For what I think are obvious reasons, this post is the most viewed of the entire blog.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the naturalness of Guru's death -- from an apparent heart attack or stroke -- and Guru's surprise and/or fear of the event has led some to sniff at the irony of an all-seeing "avatar" or "god realized soul" dying in such a human way. This kind of superficial -- small minded, really -- understanding is both sad and counterproductive.<br /><br />"Mahasamadhi" -- the great trance -- is one of the first Indian words I learned as a teenaged seeker. The idea, as I idealized it then -- and as many fundamentalists still idealize it -- was that great souls would, at a time of their own choosing, leave their bodies consciously by first going into trance. Of course, this idea is extremely attractive in that it posits control over one's own death. This, however, is the stuff of myth, the stuff of pure hagiography.<br /><br />In reality, "mahasamadhi" is a euphemism for death. Of those spiritual masters that made up my early heroes -- and of whom there is any credible record -- none left their bodies via trance. Sri Ramakrishna: long, painful battle with throat cancer; Vivekananda: diabetic coma; Paramahansa Yogananda: stroke, right in the middle of a speech.<br /><br />Here's the take home point: don't make spiritual masters out to be anything other than human beings. They don't descend from the clouds and crap sandalwood (and if they did, they wouldn't be of any use to the rest of us). They are people, not gods.<br /><br />That's where I find the most inspiration. If my spiritual heroes struggled with the same issues that I struggle with, then I am more like them than I had once believed.<br /><br />And the real downside to those who publicly sneer at Guru's very human death -- aside from being classless -- is that it puts pressure on those running the Center to come up with their own myth as to Guru's passing, to continue the age old disservice of spiritual movements throughout history which have foisted upon after arriving seekers the fog of hagiography, covering the Truth with a fog of deceit made even thicker with good intentions.Y.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06691766827578927691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4179595007554980645.post-4026235774451092482008-11-04T19:37:00.000-08:002008-11-04T19:37:00.000-08:0011-04-08Hello, I am an old close friend and spi...11-04-08<BR/><BR/>Hello,<BR/> I am an old close friend and spiritual brother of Sahishnu. I am so deeply touched by his recounting of the last hours on Earth of Sri Chinmoy, our Guru.<BR/> I extend my deepest love to Sahishnu and all those there in N.Y. that know me.<BR/>with great fondness<BR/>rich Navroth<BR/>e-mail: richienav@excite.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com