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Date Posted: 11:52:34 11/23/03 Sun
Author: ketch - 23 Oct 2003
Subject: Re: Who are you following?
In reply to: a kriya yogi - 22 Oct 2003 's message, "Re: Who are you following?" on 11:50:24 11/23/03 Sun

This question regarding Deitz, Walters, Davis, Mildred Hamilton, and others that don't come to mind, was answered to my satisfaction long ago.

Again this twisting of the facts to try to equate Walters and Davis with genuine teachers such as Mildred Hamilton. If you care to check the cross and lotus website you will see the statement that Mildred Hamilton was one of only six disciples given the title Yogacharya and authorised to teach independently. A few others were also authorised to give initiation independently but Walters and Davis were not among them. None of the renunciants were. This is the point which you keep evading.

It should be clear that to act as the spiritual guide (or Guru in Davis's case) to a large number of people in a large organisation would require someone with a gread deal more ability than simply to go through the motions of giving initiation. Much as being qualified to teach infants to count does not qualify one to guide postgraduate mathematics students.

Walters and Davis both came to SRF towards the end of P Yogananda's life. They were novices at the time. They were given permission to carry out initiation ceremonies while they had the back up of a large organisation with more capable yogi's, not to set themselves up as experts capable of giving complete spiritual guidance. These are two very different things.

As for insults, I suggest that you read through the things you have written. If you were to do so you would see that it is you who started these exchanges with your personal attacks on nojdw.

Having said that, it was not my intention to insult you, so I apologise if my comments went too far.

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