God manages to lift 7000 lbs. and CONvinces followers to agree

[Guest guest]

If you believe he (Chinmoy) is, in fact, God walking on earth, then

everything he does, regardless of how offensive or morally

represensible, is OK, because God is doing it, and, of course, God is

beyond goodness or morality. I saw the lies, the cruelty, the dumb

mistakes, the pettiness, but because it all came from God, it was

mysteriously acceptable.

 

In l968 and 69 I used to drive ckg and Alo often. They would have

all-out scream-at-each-other fights (no physical blows, however). The

causes were always so petty, usually some inadvertant slight by a

disciple, that I could not believe anyone, especially a spiritual

person, would argue about such an issue. Therefore I always believed

that the heated arguments were staged by them for me, to show me that

they were also human (I readily believed their divinity). I thought

it unnecessary for them so often to go through so much trouble and

emotional turmoil for me, but who was I to judge? I took the other

obvious imperfections in ckg in the same vein, as God teaching me in

mysterious ways.

 

In January 1987, I was present, with about 25 others, for the 7,000

pound right arm " lift " . I knew for months that ckg was not really

lifting what he claimed, I had even pointed out to him that a photo

taken from below the curved cradle that supported the bar with the

weights, made the bottom of the cradle, on which the weight rested,

appear to be part ways up the curve, as if the weight had been lifted

there. After that, all photos were taken from that lower angle. I

simply believed that " God " was lying about the weight

lifting " accomplishments " for His own inexplicable reason.

 

During the 7000 lb lift attempt, we were told to look at ckg's

throne in front of his living room, and not at the attempt itself.

Although I was usually obedient, this time I was not. I sat at the

side, near the stairs, and watched the weights and ckg as his back

was to me attempting the lifts. Ckg tried five times, the weight did

not move up, and he went upstairs to change clothes. When he

returned, I expected him to say that this was another unsuccessful

attempt. Instead, he announced he had been successful. The room was

silent, as most disciples had not looked at the attempt and did not

see it. More recently I have discovered that I was not the only

disciple who secretly looked at the attempts and saw no lift.

 

Ckg asked for the automatic video of the lifts to be played. It

showed no movement of the weights. On the third attempt he began

saying: " Look, can you not see the lift? " Still silence. He ordered

the video be shown over and over. He started singling out disciples,

asking if they could not see the lift on video. Finally one woman

said she saw it. He continued working the room. More joined in.

Finally everyone but me was exclaiming ever more loudly they saw the

lift. When he asked me point blank if I saw it, I said no. He then

said we should never show that video again, because even his disciple

(me) could not see the lift. The video was never shown again.

 

I left the ckg house dazed, not because he lied about the lift,

but because I saw how he manipulated the disciples, and more-over,

that it was done in a deliberate and chillingly malevolent way. I

felt I had seen evil, and I was stunned.

 

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