The slap heard 'round the (inner) world.

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, "Lady Joyce" <shaantih@c...>

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> "garyfalk1943" <falkgw@h...>

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> Just a little anecdote from my experience as a disciple of his when

I

> was living in Jamaica, Queens, from 1970 thru 1980.

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> After Sri Chinmoy's first visit to Ramanashram, the Mother gave him

a

> big slap as punishment for what she considered to be young

Chinmoy's

> disloyalty to Sri Aurobindo.

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> Gary

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> Was it a "sound" slap, Garyji ? ;-)

> And how do you know this?

> Did you hear it, or did you hear of it?

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> LOL,

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> Joyce>>

 

Unfortunately, I was not on hand for the actual slap. This story,

which was told to me by a few long-time disciples who claimed that

Chinmoy himself had told them.

 

BTW, the Mother has written about Chinmoy in a highly negative way in

what I believe is called "The Mother's Agenda." I have seen the what

she has written and it's readily available.

 

If anyone has an interest, I can, no doubt, find it for you. It's

been a few years since I read her account of Chinmoy's behavior both

inside and outside the Sri Aurobindo ashram.

 

I can tell you from first hand experience that Chinmoy had a very

negative opinion of the Mother as well, and quoted Sri Aurobindo as

saying, (in reference to the Mother), "She is killing me."

 

Whether or not that was true, would be sheer speculation on my part,

but, like father like son, perhaps, Chinmoy had a very bad time of it

with his own, now discredited, Shakti, who was known as Alo Devi

(Beverly Siegerman).

 

Chinmoy would often say about Beverly, "She is killing me."

 

It seems that Avatars have just as many "marital" problems as the

rest of us, haha. Maybe it's just their expression of Oneness with

the rest of us.

 

 

Gary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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