....What kind of hard evidence can u give for some one who is no longer living?
Well then you confirm my thesis that professor's Falks allegations were based on rumours. Are we being naive in not believing her allegations or is she being naive in believing the allegations of Yogananda's enemies? Naivetè can often be turned the other way around. This appears to be one of those cases.
But the fact remains Kriyananda was chosen by Yogananda and he was put in a high position of SRF. To put all the blame on Kriyananda for decisions by others who were suppose to have the wisdom and intuition to know better is a rather shoddy way of passing the buck. i see it much differently: Judas was very spiritually developed; Otherwise Jesus would not have chosen him as a disciple. There r many others who were spiritually developed who like us have made mistakes along the way. If it were not for Paramahansa Yogananda and decisions made by the highest board at SRF Kriyananda would have never been able to have the fame he had when leaving SRF to write such things and attract such crowds and develop such a following. We can make scapegoats out of others and turn them into something evil. But let us look back and see who let such power be given to such a person in the first place
Steve, it is so evident that Yogananda's decision was influenced by Satan himself and his discrimination when choosing D. Walters as a disciple was not working. We have an example of an avatar who can take huge blunders and this in a way is a consolation to us lowly mortals.
Also, some people feign humbleness and meekness until they obtain some power exercising a devilish cunning, then they start behaving in their own crazy ways, influenced by ego and hubris. This is exactly what happened and why Tara Mata did such an enormous mistake in having DW nominated vice-president. As soon as DW got teh position, he started to feel the real boss if SRF (yes, women are lesser beings good to little beyonfd satisfying men's material desires, so Daya Mata could not really be her superior). Swami K ended up behaving like a parasite of Yogananda's fame and taking advantage of his position. I read his book where he recounts of his dismissal from SRF and that's a total fake, where all events are distorted. The real truth was known many years later, in a court of justice.
It is not that S K made some mistakes on the way, more exactly he badly betrayed his guru, he took advantage of his position as a self-proclaimed spiritual teacher to have sex with young female devotees and nuns, filled his books with lies, committed fraud with malice, all with an outward mask of bonhomie and friendliness.
A professional conman. We cannot call these 'small mistakes'.
Believe me i defended Paramahansa Yogananda when i talked to Professor Nancy Falk who was head of the religion department at the time and she just laughed at me as though i was naive. i presented views like u did about Daya Mata. As you know some devotees will willingly follow the rules of others and not expect those 'above' such rules to have to follow them. To her (Nancy Falk) i was following just another religious cult. But i may add this: It is not a prerequisite of intelligence to have wisdom as well. That is something i learned over and over in college.
Again, I may be called naive if I refuse to believe something in the face of hard evidence. I find prof. Falks' attitude very biased. Yogananda passed the DNA test on Ben Erskine case, was found not guilty in the trial initiated by Nerode (an harem in Mt. Washington), speaking of the cases I know. Tara Mata's daughter (whose father some people say was Yogananda) does not resemble Yogananda at all.
So why should I believe the mere words of an unknown professor of the Michigan university in Kalamazoo? Has she been so naive to be influenced by the internet fora against Yogananda? She would be much more honest in saying that hers is but a personal opinion, unproved and unprovable.
They couldn't even agree about what Paramahansa Yogananda said himself at SRF. i remember distinctly asking Brother Bhaktananda about Paramahansa Yogananda saying he was Shakespeare in a previous life. He said "That is what the Master said" and then hearing Daya Mata refuting that claim.
Steve, those disagreements between spiritual giants are really unfortunate. Besides, it shows that any references to previous lives are utterly unreliable.
You can imagine if I can believe Kryiananda who said Stalin was Gengis Khan and Hitler Alexander the Great.
