Message #22171

[mccoy]

Steve, I admire your appreciation for wise things regardless of their source.
I am far more biased. If a thing is wise of course it remains wise, but if it has been pronounced by Rajneesh or Kryiananda, then I become suspicious.
For example, swami K, who I happen to know, mixed truth and lies. How can I know if that specific thing is true or false? I read some books of Kryiananda where he described things and made prophecies about himself and events. The prophecies failed miserably. The things he described turned out to be utterly false.
So, was Hitler Alexander the great in a previous incarnation, or Stalin Gengis Khan? Maybe so, but since swami K told it, tht remains very uncertain, so much uncertain that I'll dismiss that fact as totally unfounded. Unless some SRF monks can confirm it.

I appreciate Rajneesh' honesty. But to tell the truth, I was nonplussed when I read a book of him extolling celibacy, then another book saying the opposite. This is a way to confound devotees. His devotees actually were not spiritual devotees. His devotees were members of a cult with satanic nuances. he attracted people with satanic tendencies, and as far as I know it, he was poisoned by his same 'loyal' secretary (whom he surely bedded) who ran out with his money.
Bottom line, his writings are henceforth tainted by satanic suggestions. I read his books in the past, I burned them afterwards, as I burned all the books by swami K that I possessed.