stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

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I believe that Jesus was not a more important teacher than
Buddha, and that neither Jesus nor Buddha is more important
than any individual.
Amen, Larry. You tell ‘em.
Please explicitly note one more thing: The apparently unstable
and/or radically unreliable “best” sagely individuals considered
herein are in large part exactly the same ones upon whose claims
and authority the very existence of the realization called “enlightenment”
is widely accepted. If they cannot be trusted in the details,
the half-baked half-wings, the firewalking, the inedia, the “thinking
animals,” the prophecies, the subtle Forces, the “astral moon
cannibal slaves” and the coronas, however, can they really be relied
upon to accurately represent the higher realizations from
which they have derived their greatest fame? If so very, very much
of what even the most revered spiritual Realizers in the history of
our globe have said or written was a probable hallucination, provable
misrepresentation, or demonstrable exaggeration, can you
really afford to take any of their claims “on faith”?
And if not, what are we to make of the ageless, high regard for
the institution of gurus, and the belief that they can lead you to an
enlightenment which they themselves most likely do not possess
beyond mere self-delusion, via your unconditional obedience to
them? Is such belief and surrender any more of a mature, rational
approach to life than is the belief in receiving comparable secular
gifts from Santa Claus, through following his instruction to be
“nice” (i.e., obedient) rather than “naughty”?
I, personally, do not believe that it is.
After all that, then, in both theory and practice, if you persist
in clinging to the belief that saints and sages who are everything
that they are claimed to be exist now or have ever existed in this
world, I have to ask you:
Which mall do you think the real Santa Claus can be found in?
Because that same non-existent mall is where you’ll find the Cohen
Claus, Wilber Claus, Aurobindo Claus, Yogananda Claus and
Ramakrishna Claus. And, in that same purely imaginary mall,
each of those figures will truly be the “wise, compassionate sages”
they have long publicly, if utterly fallaciously, been held to be ...
and indeed have grandiosely claimed to be, themselves.
Of course, for over a decade of my own life, I bought as fully as
anyone into the “myth of the totally enlightened guru.” But in my
own defense, I didn’t have access to the wide swath of information,