The Goddess Chiti taught by Baba Muktananda is not a demon (as incorrectly cited above). She is, rather, Chitishakti Kundalini, which is a name for nothing less than the Holy Spirit itself, which in the East is recognized as the Feminine Power of God. And thoughout history, this Holy Spirit is the Purifier that has been described by saints of all times and places. For example, three seconds on Google gives this excellent example of the (non-demonic) purification process:
Teresa of Ávila (from Wikipedia):
Around 1556, various friends suggested that her newfound knowledge was diabolical, not divine. She began to inflict various tortures and mortifications of the flesh upon herself. But her confessor, the Jesuit Saint Francis Borgia, reassured her of the divine inspiration of her thoughts. On St. Peter's Day in 1559, Teresa became firmly convinced that Jesus Christ presented himself to her in bodily form, though invisible. These visions of Jesus Christ lasted almost uninterrupted for more than two years. In another vision, a seraph drove the fiery point of a golden lance repeatedly through her heart, causing an ineffable spiritual-bodily pain.
“I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it...”
This vision was the inspiration for one of Bernini's most famous works, the Ecstasy of St Teresa at Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. The memory of this episode served as an inspiration throughout the rest of her life, and motivated her life-long imitation of the life and suffering of Jesus, epitomized in the motto usually associated with her: "Lord, either let me suffer or let me die."
Note that I am not saying that demons are unreal. But discrimination and humility is required for deep understanding of spiritual purification, and God is certainly not limited by the inabilities of the human mind to fathom divine process.
Wow. Thanks for proving my central thesis about discernment of spirits.
So, you would honestly have us believe that this Goddess Chiti taught by Kundalini Swami Muktananda is the same as the Christian Holy Spirit???From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muktananda Born 16 May 1908(1908-05-16) Died 2 October 1982 (aged 74) Swami Muktananda (May 16, 1908-October 2, 1982) is the monastic name of an Indian Hindu guru and disciple of Bhagavan Nityananda. Swami Muktananda was the founder of Siddha Yoga. He wrote a number of books on the subjects of Kundalini Shakti, Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism, including an autobiography entitled The Play of Consciousness.
Quix, please help me out here! Please tell me you do not agree with this?!?
Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, I know, Wikipedia) says Baba's teaching can be condensed as follows:
Swami Muktananda's teaching can be summarized in two quotations:
* Honor your Self, Worship your Self, Meditate on your Self, God dwells within you as you.
* See God in Each Other.
Called third strike. This is NOT what the Holy Spirit calls Christians to.
As G.K. Chesterton says, "Students of popular science, like Mr. Blatchford, are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism."
Seems like you're applying for the franchise rights for Hinduism.
Incidentally, Quix, Brian -- if you're interested, the Wikipedia article also mentions that
"Muktananda described his initiation by Nityananda and his subsequent remarkable experiences with kundalini energy and its manifestation in various chakras or psychic centers of the body, accompanied by strange visions and enhanced consciousness in his book Guru (1971)."
Two points: there's that damned kundalini again.
And also, ...chakras?
Sounds like Al Gore and his crazed sex poodle routine.
Makes me suspicious that all this green environmental stuff...which is tied to Gaia...is underneath tied to Hinduism and seducing spirits. A spiritual pincer movement, between the twin subversion of the Charismatic movement by megachurches/Oprah-ization and secret Hinduism on the one hand, and in the secular realm, the "Goddess Earth"/Environmental movement.
Cheers! Cheers!