Guest guest Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 If a guru charges money and you don't want to pay, how can someone force you? On the other hand, if someone wishes to pay for a seminar or a class or whatever, what should we do? How can we restrain people? Ultimately, it is not our problem. Ultimately, it is not a problem at all. I used to teach yoga to make a living in the late 1970s in NYC and could barely make ends meet. Fortunately, I had a place to live with modest rent and enough to eat so I could meditate most of the time I was not teaching. I could tell you some really funny stories about money and gurus and disciples, etc. There were times when people took my yoga classes and did not pay me and I was too shy to ask when I saw them. Because I felt asking for money was not spiritual. After all Sri Ramana never asked anyone for money. One time, this middle aged gentleman came and before the class started asked me to demonstrate Nirvikalpa Samadhi. He wanted to see if my breath fully stopped in Samadhi like Ramakrishna's or Yogananda's or something like that. When I refused a public performance, he walked out of the class making a scene. He had paid in full 25 dollars for 5 week sessions (I charged very little).. He never came back. I felt bad that he had paid in full in advance and often looked for him to pay it back. I never saw him again. I hope he found a good teacher that stopped the breath at his request, etc. That's how these things go sometimes. :-). Love to all Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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