30. Ways to search.

30. Ways to search.

In Russia, as everywhere, is the intensive integration of ancient knowledge into the fabric of modern life. This experiment was prepared long ago. The beginning was Swami Vivekananda in the late 19 th century when, following the covenant of his teacher Ramakrishna disseminate the teachings of Advaita Vedanta in the world, he went to Chicago for the World Congress of Religions and told the world of yoga.
Few people know that before you take sanyasu [Sanyasa - otrechnie of worldly life. - Approx. auth.], he came to Ramakrishna and asked the teacher, who will take care of his sister and mother. Ramakrishna told him to go to the temple of the Mother and ask her assistance. The mother really was, but Vivekananda was so shocked by her appearance, which absolutely forgot to ask her to take care of relatives. And his mother and sister died from starvation.
Active experiment began in the late 60-ies of the last century, after the historic meeting of The Beatles with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi [Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - an international adventurer who founded the Transcendental Meditation movement. - Approx. auth.] in Rishikesh. A small town in northern India, Rishikesh, where the traditional sadhu began its journey in the Himalayas, has become a Mecca for western pilgrims, and fashion to the East beginning of the march for peace.
Since then half a century has passed. Grew for several generations of people for whom meditation - not exotic, but part of life. Eastern mysticism has become a multi-industry, to engage in yoga or Buddhism has become a good habit.
With all this, it became apparent that the old oriental tradition of self artificially transferred into a modern society, lose their force. Out-of-the historical, ideological and cultural context, practices are losing effectiveness. In addition, too has changed lives, a way of thinking and awareness of its role as a man in the world. The Times of sadhana in the caves irrevocably a thing of the past. However, the source finds a new way.
After the collapse of the communist regime in Russia is an active process of development of the western model of consumer society. At the same time, there is the cultural, economic and spiritual integration with our eastern neighbors, especially China and India. The peculiarity of our country lies in the fact that Russian traditionally being between East and West, have the opportunity to take the best of both civilizations.
Perception of the eastern wisdom traditions while superficially. It boils down to an improvement of health through exercises, hatha yoga or Qi Gong, or to talk about the chakras, and astral energy. Occasionally there will be and the sad stories.
At my seminars in St. Petersburg came in a very simple and good man, S., ekskavatorschik by profession, likes esoteric. His wife liked to drink and hate the tendency of S. spiritual quest. It is believed that the man should earn well, drink and generally be as all human beings.
Once she has found homes for S. reading spiritual literature. Burst into the room with an ax, she cried: "If you're still going to read this mutoten, I will smite thee!" According to S., it is not shutila, and he had to leave home. After a while S. went to the forest, intent to live there for the covenant anastasiytsev [Followers B. Meghri, author of books about Anastasia taiga recluse. - Approx. auth.], but soon died.
The real and profound esoteric tradition in Russia. The tradition of the Orthodox starchestva does not give answers to the questions of modern seeker. In our country there is no school that would offer people an effective practice of inner work. The process of their creation is at the initial stage. Such schools, where the transfer of knowledge often occurs in family lines - from father to son and from mother to daughter, still preserved in India and China.
Some say that great knowledge once existed on the territory of Russia, and confirmed that the yogi Vankhandi. There are enthusiasts who believe that the Russian mystical tradition, and stored Skomorokhov ofenyami, still alive and trying to revive this knowledge. Nevertheless, people continue to travel to India for a living wisdom, intuitive feeling "that there is something there."
What is the fate of Indian-seekers who were born in the land of the gods? The usual pattern is. Advaita Vedanta, the philosophy and practice, approved by Shankaracharya, and has become something akin to Marxism-Leninism to Indian society, argues the following: or find a teacher and do all that he has to say, or leave everything uydi in the mountains, in jungles, meditating and you know the God who accomplishes all your problems.
Sincerely looking and doing. Prosidev some time in a cave or at the feet of the guru, they feel the accumulation of inner strength, or bliss. That is, if the practice is going well. Achieved results sadhane seekers, of course, want to share with others.
If Shakti gained slightly, the switch is usually returned to the world, married and shares the fruits of sadhana with his family. In the case where a large force, some of his cave or house, people begin to gather to get help in solving their immediate problems.
Over time, the terms of devotees continues to grow and it gets few western seekers of truth. Last happy, because they were able to discover the unknown guru, whom they invite to the West. They formed the first group of Western students, and published the first book appeared first money. Back in India, has been recognized guru builds his first ashram. If all goes well, a circle of dedicated ashram grows and expands. Appears administration begins a struggle for money and power.
A guru is not physically have enough time to meet with all his followers, therefore, form a circle of selected students who have the right to dispose of the lives and property of others. The number of miracles of healing and growing, because the energy is used more and more people. The founder of a new movement and its approximation can not cope with raspirayuschim of their pride and their self-worth - because they work for the good of humanity! What happens then, is easy to imagine.
There is an empire, surrounded by barbed wire. Empire, which began with a sincere impulse of one man to the truth. There are other schemes. Sometimes, instead of teaching received by the empire becomes an intellectual chatter, sometimes epatazh, more often - in a frank making money. Of course, not always so sad, there are rare exceptions. But that 1% of cases, both told me the mysterious Dr. Singh.
Those who managed to avoid the common fate, or retire, or live normal lives, as a rule, never opening his knowledge. In doing so, they could be anyone - poor, domohozyaevami, successful businessmen, and even, as in the case of Giridzhananda Saraswati, prior of the ashrams.
If the stars to us kindly, and we met a true man of knowledge, you need to do everything in our power to make this knowledge available. This may prove difficult, and the first test, which we are exposed - is to check the sincerity of our intentions. If we can not pass this test, or similar meeting in our lives did not exist, we have no choice but to how to practice independently.

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