Chewing Gum

Here is a great chewing gum TV commercial from India.

Awesome India Chewing gum commercial 

Allegedly, Yogananda could not learn to chew gum.

Example of a highly complex and complicated gumball

He would chew it with his front teeth only, but could not learn to chew the gum with his back teeth. His disciples tried to teach him how to chew gum, but he just couldn't coordinate the task.

 I do not know if he could pat his head and walk at the same time or perform other such feats of concentration and agility like blowing bubbles.

Love and best wishes, 

Katie

Mirror, Mirror on the wall, Driving Master Daisy and Labor

Book Review: Part Six

A Paramahansa Yogananda Trilogy of Divine Love

by: Durga Mata

"If all the Gods are pleased but the Guru is displeased, his displeasure counts, and if all the Gods are displeased, but the Guru is pleased, his pleasure will be the raft to the infinite shores.

"Paramahansa Yogananda

Driving

According to Durga, Yogananda could not drive a car. He did try once but he "Went on the sidewalk, ZigZagging all over the road."
So his Swanky Packard was driven by a Chauffeur devotee and not by himself.
Driving a car doesn't seem like it would be that hard to learn...

WORK: A four letter word
Yogananda did not do physical labor. He would occasionally do a little sweeping to set an example for the others. "He never lifted heavy burdens, for he had enough carrying our heavy karmic bundles without adding to the weight."

 Heavy Karmic bundles made his jacket buttons pop

Event Planner after the fact
"Master never told us his plans ahead of time, even if we had to work with him on the plans, for he said that Satan would step in to put a stop to it or change it somehow. After the idea had Materialized, then he would tell us what the plan had been."(Page 176)
Sounds like a great way to take credit for the good stuff that happens while skirting responsibility for the bad stuff that happens, or claiming to be all knowing AFTER the fact.
 I worked with a person like this once. Maybe he was actually an Avatar and I just thought he was acting like a dweeb....I don't know...
anyway...

Beautician magician
Once a boy saw Yogananda primping in front of a mirror before going on stage. He was fixing his hair just so (many thought he "Marcelled" his hair). Yogananda saw the boy looking disgusted at the coiffering.
He parted it in the center and pulled the back hair more to the front on each shoulder.The boy was mentally thinking how vain Master was. Master often demonstrated in his lectures what he did to give this boy a lesson. He said he stood for the longest time in front of the mirror deliberately taking more pains to affix each hair in the right places; petting his hair here and there, combing and re-combing; all the while watching the boys expression change in the mirror. Finally Master turned and said to him" So you think I am vain, because I comb my hair before going to face an audience. I saw you you in the mirror and received your thoughts. That is why I deliberately acted vain".
The boy apologized and was never critical of Yogananda for working his Doo again. According to Durga, Yogananda rarely washed his hair as he thought it would dry it out. He kept it clean by brushing it frequently and over and over, apparently applying the '100 strokes' rule for long hair.

Peace and Best Wishes,
Katie

Saints of SRF: Rajasi has a LOT of Baggage

Book Review: Part Five

A Paramahansa Yogananda Trilogy of Divine Love

by: Durga Mata

"Master did not allow Rajasi to carry light or heavy weights"

Durga Mata (page 41)

BAGGAGE

Durga would have to carry Rajasi's heavy suitcases, food crates (he ate special foods) and other items from the car and up the stairs.

Alone.

 Yogananda and Rajasi were too spiritually advanced to carry luggage or help.

"Most of the time the loads far exceeded my strength." 

Sister Gyanamata often told her: "When I see you bent with such heavy loads, my heart was prone to rebellion, but my mind quickly told me that Master's blessings are upon you for this service no matter how heavy they are."

-Durga (page 41)-

While Sister Gyanamata felt sympathy for her, apparently the two men (who were able bodied Yogi-Christs) had no problem sitting on their tushies while Durga lugged their junk up the stairs. Ommm...

Yogananda told Durga that if she rebelled it would reflect badly on him. When it came to Rajasi everyone had to walk on eggshells to please him and stay "In Character". 

In my opinion it was at this time that the spiritual "training" became the practice of putting on spiritual airs and piousness, which is still very evident in the organization today.

YOUR MOTHER DOESN'T  WORK HERE. 

"I remember one day I did not pick up a beach towel Rajasi used to lie on the lawn, which he had left after he had come in the house in the evening. Later, Master told me that Rajasi had complained about it to him. I answered, "My gosh Sir, can't he even pick up one little towel for himself?" Master gently explained to me that he had advised Rajasi to help me instead of complaining, and Master pointed out the wisdom of his advice, "Whatever you do reflects on me, for he complained to me and I got the rebuff not you." Thereafter, I was extremely careful that Master would not have to go through that again."

-Durga (page 41)-

When I was in SRF I remember stories about the harsh discipline the disciples received. I remember one story where Yogananda wrapped a turban around a monks head and shouted "Look at the great Swami, everyone look at him!" He did this to make this man humble and submissive, yet when it came to stuff like Rajasi and the towel, Yogananda is kissing Rajasi's rumpus. Why didn't Yogananda wrap the towel around Rajasi's head and shout "Look at the great Swami"? Why didn't Rajasi need to learn humility? Was it his multi-million dollars worth of spiritually enlightened yogi-Christness? I leave it to the reader to decide...

GIDGET AND MOONDOGGY HIT THE BEACH

Whenever Rajasi went down to the beach to swim (which was everyday) Durga would have to go along to carry his towel and lotion. She also had to protect him from his "Accident Karma" which Yogananda SAID Rajasi had (????) and people who were after his money. It was a good thing too, because after one disciple left, Yogananda revealed that the man was after Rajasi's money and had planned to blackmail him. If Rajasi had been left alone then this man would have succeeded in the plan. Luckily Rajasi was not left alone, so none of the bad devotees could approach him. He was saved by Yogananda (according to Yogananda). Hurray!!

"He (Rajasi) always went down our stairway...My legs would tremble so it seemed at times I would not make it back up again."

Though Durga asked many times to be released from this duty, Yogananda told her he could not trust anyone else to do it.

BROWN PAPER PACKAGES TIED UP WITH STRINGS, THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS...

" Replenishing Rajasi's toilet articles and food stuff does not sound like it would be such a chore, but it turned out that everything he used was a hard item to get or only particular stores carried them, etc., and I had to walk miles from one store to the other to find them."

-Durga (page 42)

Rajasi told her:

"I like good things and they are expensive."

Ooh-La-La!!

"Master was afraid because I handled Rajasi's money and lived in the luxurious hermitage that I would get luxury consciousness.

Simple, Humble, Monastic mansion by the sea

 During his June 1948 Samadhi ecstasy he was talking to Divine Mother regarding myself. I wrote it down and I quote, "I was afraid that luxury and money would make you luxury conscious and spoil you, but I now know that luxury and money will never spoil you"

-Durga (page 45)

Divine Mother told Yogananda that she was pleased with Durga's simple ways

PEACE AND BEST WISHES,

Katie

Mission: Spread the Gospel of Babaji

Great Masters’ Interest in America

Babaji is in constant communion with Christ. Together they throw out vibrations for the redemption of the world. It was Babaji who predicted, to my Master, Sri Yukteswarji, that I would go to America to spread the message of India’s sages. Sri Yukteswarji was asked by Babaji to write "The Holy Science" (which shows the union of the Scientific principles underlying Yoga and the Christian Bible) and send to America the unified message of Christianity and Yoga as Self-Realization through fellowship of all religions, or Yogoda Sat-Sanga. I was financed by Bhagavati Charan, my earthly father and disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, to spread this gospel in America. Babaji also predicted that there were many "would-be saints in America," and one wonderful soul in this great country has already been honored with that title, St. Lynn.

I am also writing the life of the great Babaji as I heard the story from my own Master, Sri Yukteswarji. It was Babaji who first honored Sri Yukteswarji with the title of "Swami" (Master). He received his formal initiation in to the Swami Order from the Mohunt of Budh-Gaya.
Paramahansa Yogananda

http://mysticalportal.net/9-5b.html

(Note: A Mohunt is a "Chief priest")

Eugenics and the all knowing

From the Hindus let us take their methods of Self-Realization through scientific psycho-physical meditation...  Let us take the pantheistic conception of God ...  Let us take [the] law of Karm or cause and effect which makes man responsible for his advancement or downfall, and explains why there are born failures, morons and other defectives, produced not by God but by the wrong actions of individuals in past lives. 

Paramahansa Yogananda

This is interesting. 

Of course Mr. Burbank and Yogananda could not have forseen how Hitler and the Nazi's would use this information. Lots of people were fooled by this. It is not like they were all knowing Saints or Avatars or anything like..oh..wait... they WERE all knowing Saints and Avatars...

YIKES!

Peace and Best Wishes,

Katie

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From Science and Civilization:
Will the growing intelligence of man (Science) forever tolerate the wholesale production of the ever-increasing proportion of idiots, morons, Mongoloids, insane, criminal, weak, destitute, nervous, diseased half-men and women ...who infest the earth to their own sorrow and disgrace and perhaps the ultimate destruction of our present state of civilization?
Science and Civilization by Luther Burbank
East West Magazine
Self realization Fellowship
November-December 1925
Volume 1

This article is interesting in light of Yogananda's praises of Adolph Hitler a few years later.
"uplifting guidance of Hitler"

Yogananda. "Christmas message". East-West Magazine, 1933


Luther Burbank belonged to a group of American Eugenicists who actually wrote the research and opinions that lead to Hitlers rational of creating a Master Aryan race.

Mr. Burbank does not say what the Final Solution to Idiots, mongoloids and morons is...but the Nazi's got the memo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EnthanasiePropaganda.jpg 

TRANSLATION OF ABOVE POSTER:

60000 RM this is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the Community of Germans during his lifetime Fellow Citizen, that is your money

From:

Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection

November 09, 2003|By Edwin Blac

Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a so-called Master Race... The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little-known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.

Eugenics was the pseudoscience aimed at "improving" the human race...In its extreme, racist form, this meant wiping away all human beings deemed "unfit," ...California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement.

Article Here

Rajasi and His Highly Advanced Bank Account

Book Review: Part three

A Paramahansa Yogananda Trilogy of Divine Love

by: Durga Mata

"It fell to my lot to intercede between Master and Rajasi when Master wanted funds for different projects."

-Durga-

THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

Durga was often sent by Yogananda to ask for funds from Rajasi (James Lynn). 

( Note Durga uses the name "Rajasi" not "Rajarsi")

Yogananda would tell her to hurry and come back with an answer from Rajasi, but Rajasi was never that quick in replying.  Durga said that Rajasi was very generous but Yogananda would come up with projects that always required more and more money from Rajasi. Durga was stuck in the middle of these requests. 

Durga told Yogananda it was easier to ask for money if she could use her own time and say it her own way. She found that asking when he was well fed, well rested and the conversation lent itself to fund begging requesting worked best. 

"That thought pleased Master" and he told her to do it her own way. She had to be very careful not to let the least negativity enter the conversation with Rajasi. If she did not quickly turn the conversation to a positive trend the deal was always off.

She often found herself asking for more money than Rajasi could easily supply. 

Yogananda did not want to discuss money as he felt it would bring "Disharmony" but he also "felt the right of a father to demand from the son whom he knew was destined to play the role of SRF's financial savior. Though Master knew this deep hidden truth and often wrote to Rajasi about it, still it did not penetrate as deeply in Rajasi's consciousness." (page 118)

Yogananda wrote many very, very flattering letters to Rajasi explaining to him that he was a Great Yogi Prince  and a very, very highly advanced soul and he was Yogananda's right hand man in previous incarnations and Divine Mother and all the great yogis of the Himalayas and God and Christ and everyone was blessing him and the money he was giving but still Rajasi didn't always get it. So Durga was sent to intervene. "Rajasi was human enough to get ruffled with some demands. He did not say anything or just a few words, but his jaw would be set more firmly with either determination or repulsion." (page 118)

Jethro and Jed Clampett discuss Milburn_Drysdale 

HOME SWEET HOME

"As early as 1934 Master began hinting to Mr. Lynn that he wished to go (back) to India." for a visit. Rajasi funded the trip.

At their first meeting Rajasi gave Yogananda a large sum of money to restart East-West magazine and also to promote Kriya yoga spreading lessons and such. In 1932 Yogananda asked Rajasi to pay off the mortgage on the Mount Washington mansion/ashram. Rajasi gave him some government bonds to the value of which was enough to pay the mortgage.

THAT TIME OF THE MONTH: BILLS, BILLS, BILLS

Yogananda sold the bonds and used the money for other purposes. When the mortgage came due neither of the two men had the money. Rajasi had given him all of the available money at the first meeting. While Yogananda was in India Rajasi was able to save the property and pay down the debts.

ENCINITAS

Yogananda wanted Rajasi to buy the Hermitage in Encinitas for the two of them to have as a retreat. on November 6,1934 he wrote that he was "principally thinking of your future retirement in god" (page 99)

When Yogananda went to India he instructed Durga to show Rajasi the Encinitas property when he was in California. He cooked up a little scheme...

June 5, 1935-Dear Duj:

When Mr. Lynn comes to Mount Washington, take him to Encinitas with Sister Gyanamata, you, Faye, and Costillo driving. First let Sister ride in back with Mr. Lynn and you and Faye in front. Coming back you ride with Mr. Lynn and Sister and Faye in front. Coming back talk to him about the great retreat we could make for him and my retirement.

From Calcutta he wrote another letter instructing her to show the property and try her utmost.

...Mr. Lynn purchased the property....

After the property was purchased Rajasi experienced some financial problems. He did not say anything about it to Yogananda. Yogananda continued to spend money on improvements on the property and he continuously wrote to Rajasi for funds which he could not supply. The funds that had been set up for India relief were used instead to pay the bills.

(to be continued....)

Peace and Best wishes,
Katie

Durga, Rajasi and a Virus : Saints of SRF

Book Review: Part 2
A Paramahansa Yogananda Trilogy of Divine Love
Durga Mata
(continued from previous post:  Saints of SRF )

So  Divine Mother has removed all of Durga Matas family from her life and she is free to serve the Guru.

COLDS
In her story she says that Yogananda was always curing her of colds (which only should last a couple of days anyway) and that he was very interested in cold "cures". When I was in SRF we were told that Yogananda said we caught colds because we didn't want to perform our duties. According to Durga , when he caught colds they were someone else's Karma that he was taking on. In all of his discussions with Divine Mother, I wonder why she didn't just reveal to him the Truth about frequent hand washing and keeping your hands away from your face? 

On the subject of colds...
Here is a sweet story.
The first visit Mr. Lynn made to Mt. Washington he had a slight cold that got worse during his visit. While gargling he coughed and the projectile sputum hit the bathroom ceiling. 


"Do you know, Master would not let us wash it off! Sweet sentimental Guruji wanted to keep it there as a memento"

-Durga-

It seems like something more hygienic could have been saved from the visit as a memento like maybe a pillowcase or something...
So Anyway...

Durga Mata never seems to have enough clothing and is always cold. She wears long housecoats to keep her legs warm. Yogananda tells her that her clothing "looks funny". She lives and works in cold areas of the compound. She gets some hand me down clothing from Karla Schramm who was close to her and a fellow disciple and nun. Miss Schramme was Jane in the silent Tarzan movies.

When I first saw this I imagined Durga Mata dressed as Tarzan, which would look "funny" as Yogananda said, but alas it was her long housecoats that he was talking about.

Tarzan

Rajasi (The way Durga spells it in her book)

 Rajarsi Janakananda was Yoganadas top disciple and principle Money bag benefactor. He was a wealthy and successful businessman. 

According to Durga,

James Jesse Lynn was born on May 5, 1892 in Archabald, Louisiana. Little Jimmy was a sensitive child. In 1953, his sister told me "Jimmy was more like a little girl than a boy"....He stayed home with his mother rather than play with the boys....Little Jimmy wore dresses and long hair up to age six.

(Page 74 and 75)

He was a very industrious and hard working, which I have no doubt led to his financial success. 

Articles 

In October 1913 he married Frieda Prill. According to Durga, he was in Law school at the time. They had no children and she was "mentally and physically unwell. Mr. Lynn's social position grew, but society did not accept Frieda into their circles". Mr. Lynn avoided social functions as she was embarrassing to him. She had violent fits of rage and apparently scared off his previous Hindu teacher, Dr. Gyani.  She took the SRF lessons with him for a while but eventually turned against Yogananda. By the descriptions in Durgas book it sounds like they were not a happy couple. Durga makes several comments in the book that imply Frieda was not well thought of at the Ashram. Yogananda even took the matter to Divine Mother, but unfortunately Divine Mother was "neutral" when it came to Frieda Lynn (Unlike poor Durga, who Divine Mother took to the mat for not giving up her room see 'Good cop, Bad cop' ).

Strange are the ways of Divine Mother. 

When Yogananda was giving lectures in Kansas city, Dr. Gyani told him about James Lynn and this made Yogananda's heart "leap with joy". Yogananda sent his secretary to Mr. Lynns office and a meeting was arranged. It was love at first sight! They were Guru and Disciple. Fearing that his association with the Guru would hurt his business associations, they agreed to keep their close relationship private.

Their great love for one another is apparent in these photos. I couldn't find any pictures of him walking hand in hand with any other of his Disciples.

link 

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Yogananda and Rajasi

I now pronounce you Yogi-Christ and Disciple. 

"Mr. Lynn began to refer to us here as his home and Kansas City as his residence" (page 92)

Christmas

"St. Lynn could not spend as many Christmases as he desired." His business was very busy at that time of the year and "the violent scenes Frieda enacted upon hearing of my leaving her at that time is very distressing"

Frieda was WAY over the line to expect her husband to spend Christmas with her. How Mr. Lynn must have suffered.

Yogananda wrote in response:

"The Christmas tree and everything seems so useless without your bright face divinely appreciative of all we do for you."

(Page 93)

St. Lynn would usually give Master a large sum of Money as a gift. (page 94).

In later years he would have Durga buy personal gifts for Yogananda to give along with the money.

(to be continued)

Peace and Best Wishes,

Katie

The six Gurus of SRF

The Yogi-Christs of SRF


SRF line of Gurus


I.

Guru one:

The first guru in the SRF lineage is Babaji .
He is hundreds of years old but looks forever young. He lives in a cave in India with his sister.

That there is no historical reference to Babaji need not surprise us. The great guru has never openly appeared in any century; the misinterpreting glare of publicity has no place in his millennial plans. Like the Creator, the sole but silent Power, Babaji works in a humble obscurity.
Babaji, the yogi christ of India 


So he operates a little bit like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
No one knows anything about him (where or when he was born, who his family was, where he went to school, his cell phone number etc) except that he was sent to bring the ancient teaching of Kriya Yoga to the World. He is in constant communication with Jesus. He was Krishna in a former lifetime.

II.

Guru two:

The second Guru in SRF lineage is Lahiri Mahasaya

The miraculous picture shown above is the only picture ever taken of his mortal form... except maybe this one.

Shyama Charan Lahiri 

KASIMONI LAHIRI

This lovely lady is his wife

He was chosen by Babaji to spread Kriya to the world. They met while Lahiri was out walking.

'I remember!' My voice was half-choked with joyous sobs. 'You are my guru Babaji, who has belonged to me always! Scenes of the past arise vividly in my mind; here in this cave I spent many years of my last incarnation!' As ineffable recollections overwhelmed me, I tearfully embraced my master's feet.

"'For more than three decades I have waited for you here-waited for you to return to me!' Babaji's voice rang with celestial love. 'You slipped away and vanished into the tumultuous waves of the life beyond death. The magic wand of your karma touched you, and you were gone! 

"'My guru, what can I say?' I murmured brokenly. 'Where has one ever heard of such deathless love?' I gazed long and ecstatically on my eternal treasure, my guru in life and death.

http://www.crystalclarity.com/yogananda/chap34.html 

 Babaji made him a magic golden castle that disappeared and then he went forth to spread Kriya.


A vast palace of dazzling gold stood before us. Studded with countless jewels, and set amidst landscaped gardens, it presented a spectacle of unparalleled grandeur. Saints of angelic countenance were stationed by resplendent gates, half-reddened by the glitter of rubies. Diamonds, pearls, sapphires, and emeralds of great size and luster were imbedded in the decorative arches.
...'The magnificent palace will be the scene of your initiation tonight into Kriya Yoga. 
-From Autobiography of a yogi 1946-



 Lahiri Mahasaya devised the Kriya technique which so changes the brain-cells, spine and body that they can express Cosmic Consciousness in three, six or twelve years (in determined, advanced students) and in twenty-four to forty-eight years (in ordinary students).

From 
Inner Culture
March 1937 Volume 9-5

 inner culture

So did he "Devise Kriya" or did Babaji teach it to him as commanded by God? We may never know.... however...

He freely gave Kriya initiation to those of every faith, including Hindus, Moslems, and Christians...
Article 


This sounds very important and magnanimous except the population of Benares is over 80% Hindu, less than 3% Christian and the rest Muslim and misc. I would be surprised to find that this tiny population of Muslims and Christians were beating a path to his door to pledge loyalty to him and learn Kriya. I would be willing to bet that his disciples were Hindus...with perhaps one or two folks from other persuasions thrown in. To his credit he at least OFFERED it to others who wanted to worship at his holy lotus feet and you have to admire that. He was opposed to Kriya yoga being associated with any organization and never started one himself which is also to his credit.

Some of his notable disciples included Sri Panchanon Bhattacharya, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Swami Pranabananda, Swami Keshabananda, Sri Bhupendranath Sanyal, and the parents of Paramahansa Yogananda. Others who received initiation into Kriya Yoga from Lahiri included Swami Vhaskarananda Saraswati of Benares, Balananda Brahmachari of Deogarh, Maharaja Iswari Narayan Sinha Bahadur of Benares and his son. One biographer even speculates that Lahiri initiated Sai Baba of Shirdi into Kriya Yoga, based on a passage in Lahiri's secret diary.

(all Hindus?)

Many of his grandchildren have their own Kriya yoga initiation groups. There are other linage of people who studied Kriya from one of his other disciples. Some want your undying loyalty while others will give you the Kriya initiation on more of a hit and run basis. There are some versions posted for free on-line. With a google search you can find lots of people teaching various types of Kriya and they all claim to have the best one, so if you are interested, it can be an adventure. Google away.

III.

Guru three:

This very handsome, dignified, fully clothed (G-rated) man is the third guru, Swami Yukteswar.

Some reports say he was a Swami before meeting Lahiri and being initiated into Kriya yoga. His name was Priyanath Karar until he was initiated into the Giri Swami order. After that he met Lahiri who became his guru and initiated him into Kriya yoga. I do not know who his guru was before that if he had one. He had several disciples who learned from him. 

Another Disciple 

He studied at a Christian Bible school in India. During this time he became interested in combining the Bible with the Gita and yoga. He then met Babaji at the Kumbha mela. Speaking on behalf of God, Jesus and himself, Babaji asked him to write a book comparing the Bible and Hindu scriptures which Yukteswar did.  He was also a Hindu astrologer who worked out yuga patterns and determined that the Earth is in a different Yuga than other Hindu astrologers believe.

After his death he resurrected to Yogananda and told him about the astral world. He is currently the savior of the planet Hiranyaloka.

"My son, you may now comprehend more fully that I am resurrected by divine decree," Sri Yukteswar continued, "as a savior of astrally reincarnating souls coming back from the causal sphere, in particular, rather than of those astral beings who are coming up from the earth. Those from the earth, if they still retain vestiges of material karma, do not rise to the very high astral planets like Hiranyaloka....

"The ordinary astral universe-not the subtler astral heaven of Hiranyaloka-is peopled with millions of astral beings who have come, more or less recently, from the earth, and also with myriads of fairies, mermaids, fishes, animals, goblins, gnomes, demigods and spirits, all residing on different astral planets in accordance with karmic qualifications. 

The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar 

IV.

Guru four:

SRF catalog 

 This is the new improved Krishna picture

(I couldn't find a picture of the old Krishna)

This is not the Krishna that we had when I started SRF. The old Krishna looked like a girl with over the top eye makeup. That Krishna seems to have disappeared replaced by this new hunkier guy. In fact all of the Gurus seemed to have changed over the years.(*see bottom of page) They all have on clothes and Krishna has lost the heavy eye makeup. According to Kriyananda he was not on the original altar but he was on the one I got back it the 1980's so I do not know when he was added by SRF.

But I digress,

Krishna is the Christ of India. He later incarnated as Babaji though he is still worshipped separately. He is an avatar and the main character of The Gita. He is widely worshipped in India and is celebrated by followers throughout the world.

Bhagavad Gita 

V.

Guru five:

Born Mukunda Lal Ghosh to devout Hindu parents who were devotees of Lahiri. His family worshipped the Goddess Kali. Yogananda followed the teachings of his parents and their Guru, embracing the religion of his childhood. He was a disciple of Yukteswar who initiated him into the Swami order. He came as a missionary of Kriya yoga to America. Paramahansa Yogananda was the founder of SRF. He is the reincarnation of Arjuna from the Gita. Yogananda placed his picture on the altar with the other Gurus for his followers to admire. He considered himself an Avatar (perfect incarnation of God). He was very humble. Most of this blog is about him already so there is no need to say more. If you want more information his autobiography is Here 

VI.

Guru six:

Jesus 

Born in Bethlehem Judea approximately 2000 years ago to devout Jewish parents. He was a keen religious student and elders were amazed at his understanding and wisdom. Jesus was considered a Rabbi amongst his people. He began a ministry to his local people. He could have spent his early years as Jewish men of his time did. Studying Jewish scripture and law. praying, apprenticing in a trade such as, oh, I don't know...maybe a carpenter.

But the God of his people wasn't good enough for him.

Instead he forsakes all his upbringing and culture and traipsed off to India (through Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan) to learn Kriya Yoga from Babaji.  Babaji, Lahiri and Yukteswar were the wise men who came to visit him when he was a baby, so Jesus was destined to learn the guru business from Babaji. Then Babaji sent him back to Nazareth to gather 12 disciples to teach Kriya Yoga to. Other people took note of him when he went about healing the blind, raising the dead, walking on water and preaching a doctrine of peace, justice and love. Eventually the tide of public opinion turned against him and he was executed. Jesus was actually the reincarnation of Elisha. John the Baptist was Jesus' Guru when he was Elijah John 1:21 .

²¹They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?"
      He said, "I am not." 

Why Jews do not believe Jesus was Messiah 

After his death many of the 12 disciples wrote about his ministry but they didn't mention the yoga postures, kriya, reincarnation or any other yoga stuff. This prevented this soul evolving information to reach America. This was disappointing to Babaji who then called a meeting with Jesus in his cave in the Himalayas to create a plan for Yogananda to bring Kriya to America.

Most of Jesus 12 disciples stayed  around the hood to preach and write but two. One was Thomas (of doubting fame). He went to India to build a temple and convert Hindus to Christianity. This is confusing because Thomas apparently knew Kriya but didn't teach it to the Hindus who one would think would be ripe for it. Instead he made them into Christians.

Christianity originates in Israel. One of the Apostles (the 12 chief disciples of Jesus), St. Judas Thomas, was a carpenter. He was brought to India by a merchant to build a temple. St. Thomas arrived in Kerala, in south India in 52 AD. He succeeded in converting local Indians to Christianity. His converts were called Syrian Christians. 

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Saint Thomas Christians of India 

From  TIME Magazine archives 1953:

According to tradition, St. Thomas made his first conversions by a miracle. At the village of Palur, he found some Brahman priests throwing handfuls of water into the air as they performed their purification prayers. Thomas threw some water into the air himself, and it hung suspended in the form of sparkling flowers. Tradition continues that most of the Brahmans embraced Christianity on the spot, and that the rest fled. To this day, no orthodox Brahman will take a bath in Palur.....

By the sixth century there were Indian churches in contact with the Christian bishops of Syria. In 883, King Alfred the Great sent an English bishop to make an offering for him at St. Thomas' shrine in Mylapore. But contact with the West was precarious, and by the end of the Middle Ages the Indian church was practically forgotten....In their isolation, the Indians developed surprisingly few originalities of dogma.

The other Disciple that went to India was Barthalomew . 

This is written about in Ecclesiastical History of   Eusebius . Again he went to convert Hindus to Christianity not teach them Kriya yoga. 

"Christianity has been long established in South Kanara and its adherents are more numerous here, than any other district of India. It is certain that, foreign Christian merchants were visiting the coastal town of Kanara and during that period of commerce some priests also might have accompanied them for evangelical work. According to tradition Kanara had its first missionary the Apostle St. Barthelomew, who landed on the shores of river Swarna at Colombianor Colombo village an ancient maritime port adjacent to Kallianpur, stayed there to preach. He was popularly called Bethel and so the origin of the place Barkur..."

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