My SRF experience

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Boys will be boys, Girls will be girls, Gurus will be Gurus


Pictured: Tara Mata ('Star Momma')

SRF : A blend of Hinduism, Mormonism and the New Age.

While in the process of building his Spiritual Guru-land business, Yogananda attracted a number of Mormons (mostly very young girls from polygamous families*) to his ashram.

TARA MATA 
Among them was Laurie Pratt (Tara Mata). She was a descendant of Orson Pratt. 
Orson Pratt

Orson Pratt was one of the original 12 disciples of Joseph Smith.  Joseph Smith was founding father of the Latter Day Saint (Mormon) church. He was the man who found the vanishing golden tablets.
Here is a picture of Joseph Smith receiving the golden tablets and silver spectacles with seer stone lenses from the angel Moroni
Example of an early Mormon family after much begetting

Orson Pratt had about 10 wives. After much begetting and a complicated family tree, Laurie Pratt was born (note of interest: She was a distant cousin to Mitt Romney). She met Yogananda in 1924. Taking up the family business of creating a religion around magic tales, disappearing  golden tablets and disappearing golden castles, she commenced the work of making Yogananda into a Prophet of God and spreading his message to the masses. She was the editor of the Autobiography of a Yogi.


CAYCE READINGS
Tara had readings with Edgar Cayce. From what I understand (though I haven't spent much time investigating) Edgar Cayce was the father of New Age Religion. He channeled beings (were they from the lost city of Atlantis?), who gave him information and made future predictions and Health cures. 
These include:  
CURES FOR HEMORRHOIDS 


 The predictions that Atlantis would rise from the ocean in the 1960's and Arizona would have ocean front property (after California falls into the ocean) are attributed to him. I have not read the origin of these predictions or if he actually made them. 



According to SRF Laurie Pratt was a Saint.
I am not sure why she needed readings from Cayce since she had a personal relationship with an all knowing, God Realized Yogi-Christ and she was a saint herself.

Tara  Mata was an expert on the history of Plato's  Atlantis and wrote about it for Yogananda's INNER CULTURE magazine Atlantis and Lemuria. She was also an expert on Astrology and Higher age Yugas.



TELEPATHIC UFO EVENT
She and Yogananda reportedly watched a UFO land one starry night. (According to one account; Brother Achalananda once told people at Hidden Valley Ashram that Tara Mata was quite interested in UFOs. 

Authentic UFO photo from the Billy Meier collection


One day, while in the desert, Master telepathically asked one to land for her, and it did). 

I have never heard what variety of Aliens they were,
Possibly a "Grey" Alien?

I do not know whether bright lights or anal probes were involved in this close encounter, so I really have no additional information to share on this subject.


HIGHLY ADVANCED


In 1929 Tara Mata became pregnant. She had at least one child (Mona, pictured below) after taking her monastic vows.
Bookends

Tara Mata was so super-awesomely spiritually advanced she didn't need to meditate (everyone else had to do hours of meditation morning and evening and worship continuously at the Guru's feet). Yogananda moved her into a private house at the Mount Washington ashram. 
The Yogi-Christ Yogananda (God's right hand man) set a place up in heaven for her as a reward for editing his Autobiography. 
He said:
"It is not necessary for her to meditate in this life. By editing my writings, and because she came here a highly realized soul, she does not require this. I have already set her place for her in heaven."

 I guess he meant she was on a first class ride on the Astral plane to Hironyaloka to be saved by the Christ Yukteswar... Or maybe she was so advanced she got her own planet to be savior of...Or maybe she was destined to eternal life with Jesus but didn't need to do the soul liberating, air plane ride to the Divine via Kriya Yoga...Or maybe she just dissolved into infinite bliss and became one with the universe.  


I am not sure where he set her up in Heaven, but on Earth she was set up in a private home in Los Angeles.

There is a lot of gossip about his relationship with her. I say this to point out that they were likely just ordinary people and possibly not the celibate virgin Saints they would have you believe.


ORIGINS OF HIRANYALOKA
Hiranyaloka is an Astral planet from the Autobiography of a Yogi. Chapter 43. It is highly Spiritually advanced and peopled with millions of astral beings who have come from the earth, and also with myriads of fairies, mermaids, fishes, animals, goblins, gnomes, demigods and spirits, and possibly unicorns and Hobbits. 


They eat luminous raylike veggies. Flowers and fish can change themselves into Astral people. Communication among the Astral beings, fairies and mermaids is completely by Astral telepathy and television.
There are also Astral planets where gloom drenched dark angels go at each other with mental rays and lifetron bombs and vibratory rays. 

GOBLIN
Possibly One of Yukteswars Goblin disciples in the Astal world

Yukteswar is the Savior Yogi-Christ of the highly advanced spirits, Mermaids, goblins etc. on Hiranyaloka.

I do not know if it is possible to get there by riding the Hale-Bopp comet with the Heavens Gate bunch or if we have to get on board the Kriya airplane.

You may be thinking;
 'Yikes! I was hoping to go somewhere BETTER when I died! Now you tell me the best I can hope for is eating luminous ray salads with a Mermaid while dodging lifetron bombs? Whats up with that?
Well cheer up. Maybe after a few million lifetimes on Hironyaloka you will eventually be "liberated" and dissolve into the infinite.


HOLY TOLEDO! Where did all of THAT come from and was Spielberg involved?

The belief in advanced planets with Mormon descendants governing them is part of the Mormon religion. Kolob is a God planet first mentioned in Joseph Smith's mistranslation of an Egyptian funeral text.
I think this is the origin of Hiranyaloka in the Autobiography of a Yogi. 


MIAMI 
At some point around this time Yogananda was run out of Miami by a group of angry husbands who accused him of having improper relations with their wives. There is an article about it in the TIME magazine archives and also from local newspapers of the day.


THE WRIGHT STUFF
Another group of Mormons who came to live with Yogananda were the Wright family. 
According to her own accounts, Faye (Daya) was just 17 or 18 years old at the time. Her brother Richard, her younger sister (I have been told she was just a very, very young 14 years old ) and their Mother all came to live at Yoganandas ashram.


Little girls are playful and fun to be around

Their grandfather was Abraham Reister Wright, another polygamous founder of the Mormon Church. I do not know who their father was and I am unable to find a reference to him.
When Yogananda and his successor James Lynn died, the Wright family took it over, and along with Tara Mata (and a small governing board), continued to build it into the successful Amway- esque business it is today. 


We were told that Daya scans the mind of every Monastic and member nightly while they are sleeping. She then knows everything they are thinking and doing. Kind of a  Big Brother is always watching you at all times mind game. Apparently she missed the affair between Brother Arjunananda and his lay disciple Patricia Lyons. This reportedly cost the SRF organization over $300,000 in hush money to Miss Lyons. 



Currently, at the time of this writing, Daya is the President of SRF. The President of SRF is to SRF what the Pope is to Catholics. The President is thought to be a perfect channel to the Guru, and the Guru is 'one with God'. Many SRF Devotees keep pictures of Daya and pray to her for divine intervention.
She is elderly (if she is still alive) and reportedly lived with her sister in a million dollar home in California until 5 years ago. Over the years that I was in SRF she was rarely seen or heard from among the rank and file members. (I left SRF in 2005). The story was that she was too Spiritually advanced to endure our worldly vibrations.

I have no reason to doubt that she is a sweet little old lady. A sweet old lady, yes, but I doubt she is a "God realized saint".

No better, no closer to God and no Holier than the rest of us. 

Peace and Best Wishes,
KD


*Tara Matas Grandfather, Orson Pratt wrote about polygamy in The Seer. He wrote that 
Mary, and Martha her sister, and Mary Magdalene were all holy women and the wives of Jesus. Secret spiritual marriages were considered not only normal but a necessary path to God. This is the shared tradition of the "Crisp young women" who had rooms adjacent to Yoganandas . One Christ with several holy wives. 










             

3 comments:

  1. Daya Mata scans members minds? HA!! I used to believe that gurus could read your minds, but then I learned that the gurus in Vedanta couldn't read my mind at all. If they had my own self-realized guru would have never initiated me. He would have known that I was going to complain big time when I learned that the gurus were all abusive. I used to do pyschic readings before ever joining SRF, which was why the Auto book interested me so much. And I can tell you this, you don't get a lot of information that way. Just bits and pieces, and then my guru in Vedanta said that they can only read tendenies. Well, I tend to not take orders from abusive gurus, so he should have at least been able to read that.

    There was a story about Yogananda going to Salt Lake City Mormon Temple once in a while, and one wonders what that was all about. Or at least I wonder. So do some other people.

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  2. Anonymous11:43 PM

    Again you have a lot of evidence supporting your claims, which almosts sums up to overwhelming evidence --- but still nothing absolutely concrete, nothing that completely proves your claims. If you were trying to prove this in a court that SRF is a cult and Paramahansa Yogananda was not a self realized master do you think you have evidence that would prove without a shred of doubt to a jury that your claims are true? I am just trying to decide for myself and your site is extremely informative.

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  3. Hi,
    Thanks for stopping by to comment.

    I do not have absolute proof that Yogananda was not a God, no.

    I do not have absolute proof that Zeus is not a God either.

    It really comes down to what you believe. I believe Yogananda was a yoga teacher that was corrupted by power and adulation. It just went to the mans head, in my opinion.

    I do not have this blog to convince anyone of anything. I have the blog to give information that I wish I would have had 30 years ago. It would have saved me much grief. In the end it all comes down to you. If you can bow down in front of a picture of this dead guru after reading this blog, then that is up to you. I wish you a peaceful and happy journey in life.

    Peace and Best Wishes,
    Katie

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Thank you.

Katie

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