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swamishanti posted an update in the group Caravanserai 4 years, 7 months ago
Anando in interview 1989
“Melbourne born Sue Appleton, now a senior administrator at the ashram in Poona said, with what ‘The Western Australian Magazine’ described as “disarming candour”:
We stuffed it up. He talked about sex being a basic energy that could be transformed to find super-consciousness, but we jumped on the sex bit and fucked our brains out. He told us to meditate, but a lot of people never did. He had a vision of creating a beautiful experiment in Oregon, but we blew it.” (The Western Australian Magazine, 20-26 May, p. 10. In: Aveling 1996, p. 196)
What do YOU have to say about that Shanti?
Personally I think a lot of the judgments of those times is because people have an expectation of perfection which involves going forward in a straight line.
Was a learning situation and learning situations are steps forward and back and forward etc.
I think that whenever I see a photo of Anando she looks clear , healthy, and has a radiance . And I don’t think that was from just lots of fucking. She was a meditator but she was making a playful comment .
Yes. She has always struck me as having a fair amount of self awareness.
I like her for saying we, rather than they. Thats taking responsibility.
https://www.sannyas.wiki/index.php?title=Ma_Deva_Anando