Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 11:22:18 +0800 To: vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca From: khursh Subject: Sahaja Yoga I read your comments on Sahaja Yoga with interest as I just joined a very small group of 5 people here in Singapore to try out SY. I find it very disturbing that a person practicing SY for regularly for several years should succumb to suicide. The pratice is supposed to help you to evolve into a being guided by the Holy Spirit - yes, the same spirit mentioned in the Bible. And from what I have read so far, it is supposed to protect you from evil influences while making appeals to gods and prophets and seers from many cultures such as Mohammed,Guru Nanak (Sikh), Jesus, Confucius, Krishna,Buddha etc to build your relationship with the spirit. Sri Mataji is supposed to be like an crutch to facilitate and accelerate the process. I am concerned that SY may miss lead me. I have read the SY posts you made in 1995. I am definately interested in finding out if you came up with any negative discoveries from your research. Have you contacted any of the SY centers to find out how a person such as your brother could have been led to commit suicide - an act unthinkable from a spiritual point of view as it has a tremendous degenerative impact on the soul. Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:13:50 +0800 To: Vladimir Alexiev From: khursh Subject: Re: Sahaja Yoga Thank you very much for your set of email clippings. It must have taken you quite a lot of time for you to put it together and I appreciate the time you spent on it. You are right to say that you did not find anything incriminating SY. The curious thing is that Sri Mataji tells you to become your own guru rather than accept anyone else as a guru. But you are right: I get the impression that Sahaja yogis do treat her god like. Well at least SY does not pressure you for donations. In any case, the fact remains that the claims of SY to fill you up with the holy spirit which will guide your actions were not realised in the case of your brother. So I will carry on with my research as to why this happened - the fundamental claim of SY is greatly weakened.