Message #23736

[ding dong]

Forgive me if this seems disrespectful to Yogananda, but one can't help noticing that he died quite a young man and no SRFers that I am aware of have lifespans which deviated significantly from average. One wonders why he would teach such a thing when he either didn't practice it himself or he did practice it and it didn't work exactly as expected. Or maybe I am misconstruing his words to mean "never dying" when instead he is talking about some other aspect of the physical aging process. His exact words quoted here are cease to grow old. In any case, it is quite a claim for which there doesn't seem to be an overwhelming amount of evidence.

Again, please, forgive me for casting doubt on your guru's advice. I just...I mean what's the point of a forum if we can't discuss honestly?

I'll admit I never got the spiritual eye stuff. All I ever got from it was a headache. That doesn't mean it's not got some reality, of course.