Posted by on April 06, 2010 at 14:57:35
In Reply to: Re: Prof. M.M.Ninan Emergence-of-Hinduism-from-Christianity posted by OT2 on March 22, 2010 at 17:06:43:
Peace:
Here's where I made my BIG mistake--for some reason, my addled brain (ADD/Bipolar) confused Yogananda ('20s to '50s in, as you said, California) with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
I actually know a lot about both. What detoured me, besides my own "brain fart", was the fact that you said, of Yogananda, that "All he taught was a bastardization of Christianity to entice those who had been turned off by the empty message of the churches of the day in California." If you had read his VERY famous book, "Autobiography of a Yogi", you would understand that he did a lot more than that--I know because I got very involved in it.
I really did experience BOTH Transcendental Meditation AND Yogananda's Kriya Yoga--the demonism expeiences in Kriya were a LOT more powerful "demonically controlled hallucinations"; a counterfiet of Paul's "whether in the body or out of t he body I know not" experience. Really.
I do NOT like glorifying either, but will share for edification/teaching purposes--I'm really doing the best I can, here.
Also, take a look at : Swami Vivekanandam predates Yogananda by 27 years, so Yogananda was't realy first--most inluential and nearly the first; yes.
I do understand the '60s and '70s, and the problems of the churches. I just think that Berg's claim about ALL of the churches was crap; since his cult was the demonic bastardization of the REAL Jesus Movement; which began 5 years earlier, and turned into Calvary Chapel, and the Vineyard--both STILL very healthy and viable.
kind of what God told Elijah in the cave, about those of His servants he had reserved unto himself; that Elijah needed to humble himself, and real;ize he wasn't the "one and only prophet".
That's all I meant.
OT2