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Date Posted: 14:44:02 02/15/05 Tue
Author: 1 - 28 Jan 2005
Subject: Re: The Ramakrishna Order and Yogananda
In reply to: H - 27 Jan 2005 's message, "Re: The Ramakrishna Order and Yogananda" on 14:42:26 02/15/05 Tue


You have made some very good points. Here is some more.

My hats off to Sri Paramhansa Yoganada as he never hesitated to train Sri Daya Ma as a future succesor. He practiced what he preached.

Most of the feminine views are written by men. Vedanta and advaita flourished in Adi Shankar's time. He composed several spiritual writing in which he denigrated and faulted the non-attainment of enlightenment or a fall from spiritual path due women. Then in later of his life, when he was sruck with the sickness, then one woman took care of him and then he realized the forbearance and compassion of feminine aspect. And started composing hymns for glorifying the feminine or Divine Mother. However, it was little too late. The initial work has created an irreversible damage towards the treatment of women in all organization including the his own established Shankara Maths. There are no female Shankracharyas.

If you would analyze or hear the Ramakrishna Mission Swamis' talks, their doctrination is mainly endored &/or based on Shankara's writing.

If you read the Book "Holy mother" you will find that when Saradamani Devi came back from her parents home to take care of her Husband, Sri Ramakrishna, he chided her saying to the effect that "why are you here? Are you here to bring me down from my spiritual path ?" and then she was left alone in a small room. It was later in his life, he formally performed a worship of SaradaManiDevi as an embodiment of Divine Mother.

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