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I got an intelligent comment from an SRF devotee!
Here it is:
Katie,
There are about 12 unaccounted for years during Jesus life. Jesus very well could have studied in the far East and returned home with new teachings...
Also The books of the bible have had more human intervention than any religious texts in history. To assume that the current versions are all correct is asinine at best. Some of the gospels themselves where written decades after the fact...I don't know about you but my memory is not so great about things form 10 years ago.
I have to agree with Yogananda that Yoga provides a real spiritual practice where-by one can directly experience God over a period of time. Contrast this with the Christian view that only by faith in Jesus as the only Son of God can man be saved...mind you Jesus himself actually said "Ye are all the sons of God".
I don't know it just seems like the pot calling the kettle black for Christians to look at other religions as inferior when Christians can't provide any more proof than anyone else on this planet.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--Ghandi
MY REPLY
Dear anonymous letter writer,
Hi,
I liked your email so much I decided to make an entry in my blog featuring your post. Your post was WAY more intelligent then 99% of the posts I get from SRF members. I like that. Since you only spent 14 minutes on my blog, you may have missed some of my other posts, where I have addressed many of the matters involving your observations and opinions. I see you found my blog by googling "Aum sound in right ear", so I suspect you are an SRF member. If so then I also know that every morning and evening you are sitting in a chair in a dark room with your thumbs in your ears humming aum internally over and over trying to hear the cosmic vibration of the Holy Ghost in your right ear. In front of you are six Guru pictures. I know this because I have been there done that.
http://srfcultmystory.blogspot.com/2010/02/six-gurus-of-srf.html
There are at least 12 years of everyones life that is "unaccounted for" in the sense that no one wrote about it. Jesus may have gone to India or he may have joined a traveling circus for all anyone knows.
Jesus in Kashmir and the God alien connection
In all likelihood he apprenticed with his father in the family business. Carpentry and skilled trades took longer to learn back when holes had to be drilled by hand and wood had to be planed and fashioned without power tools. None of the authors of the Gospels were eye witnesses to his birth yet they wrote about it. Why didn't they write about his 12 "missing years"? Well, I certainly don't know, but my guess is that during that time nothing happened worth writing about. It seems like a trip to India to meet with the three wise men (former incarnations of Yukteswar, Babaji and Lahiri) would have been noteworthy. Since the entire philosophic foundations of the teachings of Jesus were learned on this India trip it does seem odd that none of his 12 chosen disciples thought it was noteworthy enough to write about. We may never know....
I do not currently belong to a religion. I do think the purpose of Religion is to give us comfort. If sticking your thumbs in your ears and listening for a hum in your right ear gives you comfort, go for it. If believing that faith in Jesus is comforting to Christians, go for it. Either way you are " All Sons of God". The truth is no one knows, so just go with the thing you like.
You are correct, NO one can prove anything.
I don't know that Christians look at other religions as inferior any more than others religions view Christians as inferior. My impression of Christians is that they believe their ideas to be correct. My impression of Muslims and Hindus and SRF is that they believe their ideas to be correct. They all seem to think their beliefs are the RIGHT beliefs. That may be the only universal truth there is about religion. They all THINK they have it right but none of them KNOW anymore than anyone else. The one thing I have noticed though, is that while Hindus and yogis are eager to hitch their cart up to the Jesus, Christians seem content with what they have and don't feel the need to add the 800 year old Babaji into their teachings.
I agree with the Ghandi. Be the change you want to see in the world. The change I personally want to SEE is NOT a bunch of people sitting around with their thumbs in their ears, but your vision of a perfect world may be different from mine.
Peace and Best Wishes.
Katie
PS
You may find this information concerning Gandhi's ashes interesting:
http://srfcultmystory.blogspot.com/2010/01/wheres-waldoluther-gandhiji-adolph-and.html
I got an intelligent comment from an SRF devotee!
Here it is:
Katie,
There are about 12 unaccounted for years during Jesus life. Jesus very well could have studied in the far East and returned home with new teachings...
Also The books of the bible have had more human intervention than any religious texts in history. To assume that the current versions are all correct is asinine at best. Some of the gospels themselves where written decades after the fact...I don't know about you but my memory is not so great about things form 10 years ago.
I have to agree with Yogananda that Yoga provides a real spiritual practice where-by one can directly experience God over a period of time. Contrast this with the Christian view that only by faith in Jesus as the only Son of God can man be saved...mind you Jesus himself actually said "Ye are all the sons of God".
I don't know it just seems like the pot calling the kettle black for Christians to look at other religions as inferior when Christians can't provide any more proof than anyone else on this planet.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--Ghandi
MY REPLY
Dear anonymous letter writer,
Hi,
I liked your email so much I decided to make an entry in my blog featuring your post. Your post was WAY more intelligent then 99% of the posts I get from SRF members. I like that. Since you only spent 14 minutes on my blog, you may have missed some of my other posts, where I have addressed many of the matters involving your observations and opinions. I see you found my blog by googling "Aum sound in right ear", so I suspect you are an SRF member. If so then I also know that every morning and evening you are sitting in a chair in a dark room with your thumbs in your ears humming aum internally over and over trying to hear the cosmic vibration of the Holy Ghost in your right ear. In front of you are six Guru pictures. I know this because I have been there done that.
http://srfcultmystory.blogspot.com/2010/02/six-gurus-of-srf.html
There are at least 12 years of everyones life that is "unaccounted for" in the sense that no one wrote about it. Jesus may have gone to India or he may have joined a traveling circus for all anyone knows.
Jesus in Kashmir and the God alien connection
In all likelihood he apprenticed with his father in the family business. Carpentry and skilled trades took longer to learn back when holes had to be drilled by hand and wood had to be planed and fashioned without power tools. None of the authors of the Gospels were eye witnesses to his birth yet they wrote about it. Why didn't they write about his 12 "missing years"? Well, I certainly don't know, but my guess is that during that time nothing happened worth writing about. It seems like a trip to India to meet with the three wise men (former incarnations of Yukteswar, Babaji and Lahiri) would have been noteworthy. Since the entire philosophic foundations of the teachings of Jesus were learned on this India trip it does seem odd that none of his 12 chosen disciples thought it was noteworthy enough to write about. We may never know....
I do not currently belong to a religion. I do think the purpose of Religion is to give us comfort. If sticking your thumbs in your ears and listening for a hum in your right ear gives you comfort, go for it. If believing that faith in Jesus is comforting to Christians, go for it. Either way you are " All Sons of God". The truth is no one knows, so just go with the thing you like.
You are correct, NO one can prove anything.
I don't know that Christians look at other religions as inferior any more than others religions view Christians as inferior. My impression of Christians is that they believe their ideas to be correct. My impression of Muslims and Hindus and SRF is that they believe their ideas to be correct. They all seem to think their beliefs are the RIGHT beliefs. That may be the only universal truth there is about religion. They all THINK they have it right but none of them KNOW anymore than anyone else. The one thing I have noticed though, is that while Hindus and yogis are eager to hitch their cart up to the Jesus, Christians seem content with what they have and don't feel the need to add the 800 year old Babaji into their teachings.
I agree with the Ghandi. Be the change you want to see in the world. The change I personally want to SEE is NOT a bunch of people sitting around with their thumbs in their ears, but your vision of a perfect world may be different from mine.
Peace and Best Wishes.
Katie
PS
You may find this information concerning Gandhi's ashes interesting:
http://srfcultmystory.blogspot.com/2010/01/wheres-waldoluther-gandhiji-adolph-and.html
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