Message #38549

[mccoy]

Regarding mccoy’s observations, I wonder about what he calls ‘yielding to the lures of sex.’ I think most of us have done that and yes that too is an expression of ego. Yet Paramahansa Yogananda expressed balance in such matters; not suppression. At times I discovered, from being around monastics, many leave the monastery over such matters.

That's the point. A person should choose with honesty. Swamy Kryiananda was clearly not apt for a monk's life, yet he decided to deceive himself and the others. Why? I can only guess. In the SRF, he was VP of a worldwide organization, outside he was no one at that time. Maybe.

He went on leading a life of deception, being eventually unmasked as things went too astray.