Blindfolding Children for God (long)

[Guest guest]

Summary of Risk to American Children posed by Thakar Singh (Indian

Citizen)

 

Thakar Singh has purchased property in the United States (Umpqua,

Oregon) through his organization Know Thyself as Soul Foundation to

set up a radical "Lighthouse School" for children. Thakar Singh

proposes to literally take new born children and apply blindfolds and

coverings to their eyes on a 22 hour a day 7 day a week basis for the

first 5 years of life. His intention is to improve the spiritual

condition of the children by forcing their attention inward by

denying them outward visual stimulus. By turning the children inward

Thakar Singh hopes to accelerate their spiritual development. Thakar

Singh proposes additional educational training for students beyond 5

years of age that consists of long hours of sensory deprivation

(meditation while sitting in darkness) for long spans of time (4 to

8+ hours a day - the more the better).

 

I believe that this radical educational program is likely to cause

serious harm and suffering to American children and should not be

permitted. I believe that the practice of long term blindfolding of

very young children during the critical first formative years of

their young lives may constitute criminal child

endangerment and be prosecutable under law.

 

I do not believe Thakar Singh should be permitted to organize in the

United States and set up a school following such a program. I would

ask that you consider:

 

1) signing an online petition requesting the US Consulate General -

New Delhi deny Thakar Singh's visitor visa at the following web

address

 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/603912562

 

2) writing a short letter to the US Consulate General requesting

the denial of Thakar Singh's visitor visa

 

US Consulate General - New Delhi

U.S. Embassy - New Delhi

Shanti Path

Chanakyapuri 110021

India

 

The following information helps identify Thakar Singh (Indian Citizen)

 

Name: Thakar Singh

Birth date: March 26th, 1929

Father: Manjal Singh

 

Please act to protect innocent American children and deny Thakar

Singh a visitor visa to recruit new practitioner families and

children for his "Lighthouse School" while in the United States (I

understand his travel plans involve entering the United States mid

July 2002 and organizing for several weeks).

 

Evidence to support the claim that Thakar Singh advocates long term

blindfolding of small children as a component of his Lighthouse school

educational program.

 

I. Web Based Evidence

On-line video clips of Thakar Singh advocating infant/child

blindfolding and pictures of blindfolded children at Lighthouse

Schools in India may be found at the following web address.

 

http://vclass.mtsac.edu:930/phil/gurufile.htm

 

The videoclips on the website are in Microsoft Media Player format.

You can download a copy of Microsoft Media Player for free from the

following website.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp

 

II. Published Text Evidence

Additional evidence that I have to support the claim that Thakar

Singh has repeatedly called for the long term blindfolding of new

born and very small children is mostly in the form of published

materials and tapes obtained from his national organization (Know

Thyself as Soul Foundation/Kirpal Light Satsang) of public talks made

by Thakar Singh calling for child blindfolding as part of his

educational program at his Lighthouse schools. I will try to provide

pertinent excerpts of his talks and circular letters bearing on the

subject in this and following communications. I will try to provide

the excerpts in expanded form so the statements can be fairly seen in

their full context. Unfortunately some of the context surrounding the

material directly related to child blindfolding is somewhat difficult

to understand as the words are used by Thakar Singh in a technical

way to describe spiritual objects and concepts.

 

The following are direct verbatim recording of Thakar Singh's words

regarding Guidance for Expectant Mothers taken from the official

publication of his American national organization Kirpal Light

Satsang Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 1, starting page 4. This

publication was distributed to all American initiates by mail and was

considered official guidance by the officers of the organization.

 

"Guidance for Expectant Mothers"

 

"I do not tell you to resign from your jobs, but we are not to raise

our children to serve the negative power.

 

We are to raise our children in God. I have just distributed a

circular letter to expectant mothers explaining when the child is

born only the mother should be available to the child. The child is

to see the sun, moon, stars, sky -- not the things of this world. If

the child is to see anything of the world it should be only nature --

trees, plant, plants, flowers, fruit -- nothing man made. Except for

one or two hours each day, the child's eyes should be covered with a

soft cloth. The mother should put her finger on the forehead of the

child, keep Simran. and keep meditating. If children are brought to

me I will initiate them internally -- not with a mantra or plugging

the ears -- the soul will be brought up here (third eye). The

mother may plug the right ear of the child so it enjoys the inner

Sound. At the same time, when the mother keeps Simran the child's

soul will enjoy over there and will grow inside. After six months or

a year you will see the child will not want to open its eyes, and

will only want to enjoy all the wonderful inner blessings of God.

 

Total Perfection At The Age Of Five Years!

 

This process should be carried on until the child is five years old,

when generally children begin school to learn something of this

world. Until that time children will be fully connected with God. All

knowledge and wisdom required will be automatically available. We

will not need schools but at central places there will be people who

will teach the three R's, the scriptures and other religious

theories. This will be the local school, no higher education will be

needed. What you call higher education is just the opposite -- it

puts you deep into materialism -- this is negative education. The

child will grow as God, will be one with God with no effort, no

struggle -- "Be ye perfect even as your Father who is in heaven is

perfect."

He will be complete at the age of five years, he may meditate or not

meditate further. The child's first five years are controlled by the

mother with the help of the community. The mother does not have to be

the caretaker who has to always be there; any spiritual well-

connected woman or man can also take care of the child. Since they

all will be radiating God without negativity in them, they will be

able to serve and help the child with the inner connection. The inner

connection will be most important to the life of the child. Progress

is not possible after the age of five or six, for children have

accumulated everything from the negative power."

 

Unfortunately the above quotation is not an isolated pronouncement

made offhand without consideration but was offered repeatedly and

publicly at talks by Thakar Singh and published world wide through

Thakar Singh's international organizations as official policy. This

pronouncement was published at considerable expense and sent to every

member of his American organization as an official communication.

 

A humane society must work to protect its weakest and most vulnerable

members. Please consider signing the on-line petition or writting a

letter to advocate the denial of a visitor visa to Thakar Singh to

organize a Lighthouse school in Umpqua, Oregon.

[Guest guest]

Dear Mr.Honest

You had written "Summary of Risk to Innocent American Children posed by Thakar

Singh (Indian Citizen). So you are requesting us to write to US Consulate not to

give visa to him. You also mentioned he is running his school in India."

If your claim is right,Don't you consider that Indian children are innocent.Can

he run the scool in India and causing risk to Indian children?

For that matter you should write to Indian government to put him in jail.So that

he cannot risk American children as well as Indian children too. Why? For that

matter he cannot risk children of any country. Please do positively in the

interest of the children of the whole world for this cause.

With best wishes

Jai Guru Datta