Swami Muktananda - "See God in each other" - Yoga guru and the founder of Siddha Yoga - 1974.

I'm not responsible for the so-called "sins" of other gurus. My teachers are Chris Josh, Swami Prabhupada, Swami Nardanand, Sri Vasudeva and Gabriel Cousens. I also follow the work of Gabriel Gonsalves and Michael Beckwith).

(My first teacher through His books was Sri Aurobindo, in the same period I discovered Rudolf Steiner's work)

 

Muktananda, born Krishna Rai, was a yoga guru and the founder of Siddha Yoga. He was a disciple of Bhagavan Nityananda. He wrote books on the subjects of Kundalini Shakti, Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism, including a spiritual autobiography entitled The Play of Consciousness. Central to his teachings were to "See God in each other", and "Honor your Self. Worship your Self. Meditate on your Self. God dwells within you as you." Muktananda often gave a shorter version of this teaching: "God dwells within you as you." Sarah Caldwell, in an essay in the academic journal Nova Religio (2001), argued that Muktananda was both an enlightened spiritual teacher and a practitioner of Shakta Tantrism, but also "engaged in actions that were not ethical, legal or liberatory with many disciples." According to Lola Williamson, "Muktananda stressed the value of celibacy for making progress on the spiritual path, but he almost certainly violated his own rules." Author Andrea Jain asserts "Muktananda engaged in secret sexual rituals with several of his young female disciples—some of whom were teenagers—that were meant to transmit sakti to the tantric hero." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muktananda ---------------------- Thank you for subscribing to SOUNDINGS MINDFUL MEDIA:    / soundingsmindfulmedia   Listen to Soundings meditation music on all streaming platforms and check out our latest multi-media releases: https://soundings.com/