stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

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2002, to teach. Lis Harris’ (1994) article on SYDA, however, contains
numerous segments involving Durgananda, all of them very
much worth reading.
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Of Muktananda’s own sagely guru, Nityananda (who died in 1960),
the following information is extant:
He was a born siddha [“perfected being”], living his entire
life in the highest state of consciousness (Muktananda,
1999).
He was an omniscient being; still he appeared as if he didn’t
know much....
Only occasionally would he speak; however, you could
not understand him (Muktananda, 1996).
“He was the best of gurus; he was the worst of gurus,” etc.
[W]hen in his twenties, he would hide behind trees, patiently
waiting for a cow to come his way. The moment the animal
stood to drop a cowpat, he would rush forward, scoop up the
dropping in midair, and then swallow it (Feuerstein, 1992).
Yum. Nor did such feasting exhaust the yogi’s interest in cows
and their rectal output:
He would at times be seen in the middle of the road (there
was hardly any motor traffic in those days), catching the
dropping from a cow before it fell to the ground, putting it on
his head, and then whistling just like a railway engine and
chugging away, as children often do (Hatengdi, 1984).
“Woo-woo! Next stop, Looney Station.”
[Nityananda] would speak quite frequently about devotees
who had the mentality of a crow. A crow, even in heaven,
said Baba, insists on eating shit, because that is what he has
been accustomed to. And this is exactly how these faultfinding
devotees behave (Muktananda, 1996).
Cows, crows, choo-choos ... and more: