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        <title>Dealing with my doubts</title>
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        <![CDATA[ One of the first reactions to finding out how Mother Center runs is often doubts about Master or the spiritual path. Ask questions, make suggestions or share stories about how you coped with what exposure to SRF has done to your spiritual life. ]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Doubts on Meditation ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Has anyone ever had any problems with meditation? Or doubts that it even works? Or has anyone wondered if it could be dangerous?
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<a target="_blank" href="http://urbanecohermit.blogspot.com/2009/02/dangers-of-meditation.html"><font color="#956839">http://urbanecohermit.blogspot.com/2009/02/dangers-of-meditation.html</font></a>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:53:30 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Words of Yogananda - What I would have done ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Greetings all,<br><br>There is a lot talk on the Walrus that is centred on what Yogananda did or did not say (write), and where the evidence is. Some parts of this can be solved.<br><br>Things like the following are what I would have done if I had had access to all the old SRF magazines and books with lectures by Yogananda:<br><br>I would have <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>scanned</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> them. And then <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>made them... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2004 08:15:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ SRF is to Blame, But I am More So. What, You, too?  Part II ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ [The following is the conclusion of my response to Chuckle Chela from a discussion we had that was wiped from the board back in summer 2002. Part one may be found here under the same title, but posted by Chuckle:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://pub78.ezboard.com/fsrfwalrusfrm39.showMessageRange?topicID=13.topic&start=41&stop=60">pub78.ezboard.com/fsrfwal...41&stop=60</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Given the discussions that have been going on lately re SRF, spiritual... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2003 03:27:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ my solution for now ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ So it's a strange place I find myself at, a bit different than before I found Walrus about a week ago, yet strangely the same.<br><br>I've decided to continue with the lessons and the techniques.  I've decided to disregard any part of the lessons that do not feel right or true to me.   Regarding going to the local center, I am more cautious regarding that as I am definitely not of the same mindset as most of the people there now.<br><br>At first I thought the SRF administration being corrupt... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:02:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Is it a cult? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I see some people here refer to SRF as a cult here.   I'd really value a discussion about this topic.   What makes a cult a cult?   Is any religion a cult?   <br><br>Thanks! ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:14:31 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ so disappointed and many doubts ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi,<br><br>I'm new here and need some advice.  It is my nature to investigate thoroughly anything I get involved with or buy or place I visit.   I got involved with SRF a couple months ago and am doing the lessons.   I really have felt inspired by Yogananda and the teachings. <br><br>So finding out that there is so much trouble in SRF and that the people who run it have feet made of clay is a real blow.  Does that imply something negative about the teachings themselves that the people in... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:57:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Spiritual Death and Transformation ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ It occurs to me (and I don't know why this took so long) that what the majority of us are experiencing is also a pretty normal and expected part of the journey of the spiritual aspirant.  Also, that we could be having a shared karmic/astrological connection in that many of us joined within a similiar time period (between 1970 and 1990, or thereabouts) and are experiencing this transformation now.<br><br>It is simply not unheard of and is very well documented that the spiritual traveler simply... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:14:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ ? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I was going to print a letter from SRF on Nerode, but I can't do that, because I really don't know who is telling the truth here. ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:41:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Should I forget about my trip to India? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I came onto the path of Indian spirituality via SRF and Yogananda.  Previously I had studied it but was always turned off by the extreme poverty, filth, and backwardness of India.  I figured, how could a religion from a place like that possibly be any good?  But then through Yogananda's writings, so permeated with his love and devotion, I came to see a different side of it.  I continued my studies of Hinduism with renewed vigor thanks to him, and had come to embrace the religion and the land... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:09:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Drunk with God ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ &quot;Be so drunk with the Love of God that you don't know anything else but God.&quot;<br><br>I want to post one method of how I coped in the ashram. I don't know if I quoted the above correctly but I think it is close enough. <br><br>I witnessed abuses of power and abuses of people in the ashram. And I found these things extremely disappointing. Extremely disappointing. Even when discussing things with my counselor I would find that I was misunderstood then. I realized that some things just... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:17:43 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Is Yogananda Really My Guru? ]]></title>
			<link>http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/598/t/Is-Yogananda-Really-My-Guru-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I feel the Guru-disciple relationship really is a forever thing.  I dont believe someone decides on a true guru, it is more of a discovery of an existing relationship.  SRF takes advantage of this belief to make you feel that loyalty to SRF is the same thing, and that brings in all kinds of cult issues and leads to some of the weirdness we read about here on the Walrus.  They are a cult and use Master as the draw.<br><br>From my experience the relationship with Master develops stronger... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:12:37 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Walrus Guilt ]]></title>
			<link>http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/597/t/Walrus-Guilt.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A Walrusite posted a message down in the following thread concerning guilt.  This person was feeling guilty just reading the Walrus, much less telling his/her friends about things they have experienced themselves.<br><br>I have been there/done that and know exactly what this person is feeling.  Criticizing SRF is criticizing Master isnt it?  The answer is no.  Many members will think so, and SRF itself certainly will treat it so, but it is not the same thing.<br><br>To think that all of SRFs... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2002 07:51:54 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Kriya Initiation discipleship? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I have been caring some doubt in my heart concerning whether PY is my guru.  Which is weird since I've considered him to be for over 30 years.  <br><br>It says in the AY (1959 edition) that &quot;In 32 years the great guru personally initiated in yoga 100,000 students.&quot;  About a year or more ago, out of the blue I had the thought, 'how can Master be eternally responsible for so many disciples, and the one's that he has never known (those who came after his death). How can any guru accept... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Gray beard)</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2002 22:25:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Remarks at Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Remarks at Joint Services Conference<br>on Professional Ethics<br><br>(JSCOPE 2000)<br><br>January 27, 2000<br><br>by General Charles C. Krulak, USMC (RET.)<br><br><br>We study and we discuss ethical principles because it serves to strengthen and validate our own inner value systemit gives direction to what I call our moral compass. It is the understanding of ethics that becomes the foundation upon which we can deliberately commit to inviolate principles. It becomes the basis of what we areof... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:32:47 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Hundredth Monkey ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ by Ken Keyes, Jr.<br><br>A story about social change<br><br>Transcribers note: the following was transcribed from a book with copyright information as follows. Library of Congress catalog No. 81-70978 / ISBN 0-942024-01-X.)<br><br>This book is not copyrighted. You are asked to reproduce it in whole or in part, to distribute it with or without charge, in as many languages as possible, to as many people as possible.<br><br>The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, has been observed in the wild for a... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:28:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ How I'm handling doubts ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><b> first glimpses of trouble</b><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>My first experience with these problems goes back many years. A relative of<br>mine obtained a position working in the offices along side the renunciants at<br>Mt. Washington under somewhat unusual circumstances. After he had been<br>there for several months, he began to wonder why the environment was so<br>negative--a lot of complaining, grumbling, criticism of staff by supervisory<br>monastics. There was one... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2002 14:11:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Motivation ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ One of the items I struggled with after leaving the ashram is motivating myself to do <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> anything</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. It was difficult for me to look at any writing outside of SRF literature because of the indoctrination inside the ashram. I found this website:<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.tradersdigest.com/motivation/main-index.htm">www.tradersdigest.com/motivation/main-index.htm</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>It is a Daily... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:15:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Theory of why we deny what we see ]]></title>
			<link>http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/611/t/Theory-of-why-we-deny-what-we-see.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I have seen many people, who either work for SRF, are monastics or which otherwise have seen what SRF is really like on the inside yet they dont acknowledge it.   I have heard things like I have just decided I need to work here or I just wanted to be a monk/nun all my life or I still think this is the best way to serve Master or It is like this everywhere.<br><br>When I finally admitted to myself that the bad ladies were just a cult it was devastating.  I had to admit that I had made a... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2001 09:36:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Gaining Insight ]]></title>
			<link>http://srfwalrus.yuku.com/topic/603/t/Gaining-Insight.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Greetings<br><br>I am a new visitor to this board. While I seldom participate in boards, I will occasionally post to this one if I can offer any insight, solace or information.<br><br>I have been trying to resolve the discrepancies of SFR organizational culture and their professed values.<br><br>At times it saddens me to read some of the banter: I can see that many of you are hurt, angry and disappointed that what you invested a large portion of your life did not turn out to be what you... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2001 00:00:43 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Distance is only cure ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I don't feel there is anything that can be done at this point to recover SRF from the dark side.  As I see it the conditions are probably an indication that the direction it was taking was not the right direction.  It was not supposed to be a centrally managed organization dictating things to millions of students.  Probably a much more diversified approach is what is being indicated.  Small groups of people getting together and individually studying.  Not a massive Guru replacement... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:44:35 GMT</pubDate>
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