stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

336 STRIPPING THE GURUS
• Yogananda founded separate uniformed schools for boys
and girls in India. Hidden Valley’s administrator once publicly
voiced the opinion that Yogananda would definitely
have wanted the same setup implemented in America as
well, had he founded schools here.
Such separation of the sexes, of course, could do nothing
to decrease SRF’s concern over homosexual activities,
given that residential boys’ schools are widely renowned for
exactly the latter.
It is not surprising that proportionally more gays
would be active in the world of the [Catholic] seminary
and rectory.... That is true for any exclusively
male situation—in the army, the non-coed school, the
Boy Scouts (Wills, 2000)
• SRF’s emphasis on the conservation and transmutation of
sexual energy as a means toward effecting spiritual (kundalini)
awakenings leads readily to a Catholic-like, guiltridden
attitude toward sex on the part of its devout members.
For, if the choice is between sex and spiritual advancement—i.e.,
if sexual activity leads one away from God
—how could one not feel guilty about indulging in it? Notwithstanding
that, in response to a satsanga question, the
HV ashram administrator once explicitly recommended
that anyone who decides against entering a monastic order
for life should get married, so that his/her ego won’t be
strengthened by “being able to do whatever he wants,
whenever he wants.” (As if the “real world” is so lenient and
flexible to one’s desires! and as if there were a stupider reason
to fall in love.) That leads to the obvious conclusion
that, unless one is going to become part of the official monastic
in-group, he shouldn’t even try to live a hermitic lifestyle,
lest he be guilty of being “egoic and selfish”
• The same administrator asserted in a satsanga that SRF
members shouldn’t even live together before marriage, as it
would “set a bad example” for others’ perceptions of persons
on the spiritual path. As to how a piece of paper called a
marriage license makes cohabitation more acceptable in the
eyes of God, that was never really explained.
One can, however, fairly easily track down the source
for that fossilized position. For, all of it is simply a repeti-