{"id":156,"date":"2021-06-22T19:41:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoganandafortheworld.com\/story\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2021-06-22T19:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:41:47","slug":"1962-a-step-back-in-time-swami-kriyanandas-dismissal-by-srf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yoganandafortheworld.com\/story\/1962-a-step-back-in-time-swami-kriyanandas-dismissal-by-srf\/","title":{"rendered":"1962: A Step Back in Time — Swami Kriyananda’s Dismissal by SRF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swamiji (back view, with beard) at SRF Lake Shrine. L-R: Rev. Bernard, Unknown, Dr. M. W. Lewis, Paramhansa Yogananda<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1962, two of Swamiji\u2019s sister-disciples,<\/strong> Daya Mata and Tara Mata, expelled him from Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), the organization Master founded, where Swamiji served for the first fourteen years of his discipleship. When I learned the story, almost a decade had passed since his expulsion, but the breach was far from healed. SRF\u2019s opposition to Swamiji continued unabated.<\/p>\n

He rarely talked about it in public, but many Sunday afternoons, SRF was a topic of conversation. Being expelled by his own gurubhais<\/em> was a defining event in Swamiji\u2019s life. To understand his story, you need to know what happened.<\/p>\n

Swamiji was twenty-two in 1948 when he read Autobiography of a Yogi. <\/em>He had dropped out of college to be a playwright, then gave up writing when he realized he had nothing meaningful to say. Soon after, walking alone on the beach, he had a revelation about the nature of God. This led him first to the Bhagavad Gita, <\/em>then to Autobiography of a Yogi. <\/em>Master was living in Los Angeles; Swamiji was in New York City. As soon as he finished reading the book, Swamiji took the bus to California. The first words he spoke to Master were, \u201cI want to be your disciple.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far back as I can remember,\u201d Swamiji said, \u201cfrom earliest childhood, I felt I was living in a world of my own, which no one else shared. When I read his book, I could see that Master and I were in the same world.\u201d The day he met Master, and was initiated by him as a disciple, Swamiji moved into the monks\u2019 quarters at Mount Washington, SRF\u2019s main center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

When Master went to his desert retreat to finish writing his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, he took Swamiji with him. \u201cFrom the beginning, Master trained me to be a teacher,\u201d Swamiji said. \u201cWhen I was with him in the desert, he asked me to help him with the editing. Given my complete inexperience, he knew I wouldn\u2019t be able to do much. But in making the effort, I had to read the whole manuscript of the Gita<\/em> commentary very carefully.<\/p>\n

\u201cSRF had a four-year series of lessons, which all the members studied. Everybody else got one lesson a week; Master gave me the whole course at once. Then he made me the examiner for students taking the lessons. I had to review their quizzes and answer their questions. I was immersed in his teachings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Master ordained Swamiji as a minister, had him speak regularly in the SRF churches, authorized him to initiate others into Kriya Yoga, and, in 1950, put him in charge of the monks.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have a great work to do,\u201d Master told Swamiji, a statement he repeated often, but only when they were alone. It was not a compliment\u2014it was a sacred commission. \u201cYour life will be one of intense activity and meditation,\u201d Master said: writing, lecturing, editing.<\/p>\n

For three years in a row, Master made plans to go to India and take Swamiji with him. Swamiji would travel around the country, giving lectures and stirring up interest in Master and his teachings. Each year, the trip was cancelled\u2014the last time by Master\u2019s Mahasamadhi<\/em> (a great yogi\u2019s final, conscious exit from the body) on March 7, 1952.<\/p>\n

Master bestowed his spiritual mantle on his most advanced male disciple, James J. Lynn, whom he had christened Rajarshi Janakananda, <\/em>after a well-known sage and king of ancient India. Rajarshi was a self-made millionaire. He appreciated Swamiji\u2019s expansive, creative energy and supported his ideas for improving SRF\u2019s service to the public.<\/p>\n

Alas, within a year, Rajarshi was ill with a brain tumor. In 1955, he died. Master had given no instructions about who should be president after Rajarshi. It was left to the Board of Directors to decide. Out of respect for their seniority in the work, the position was first offered to Durga Mata, then to Tara Mata. Both declined: Durga for reasons of health, Tara because she had to work on editing Master\u2019s writings. Also, she was unsuited for the role, being a hermit by nature. She didn\u2019t even live at Mount Washington, but in a house nearby. Most of her interactions with people were over the telephone.<\/p>\n

The Board then chose Daya Mata. She was not a minister or a teacher; she ran the office at Mount Washington. She was very close to Master and the monastics knew her to be a great disciple. But she was not well known to the members. Swamiji said, \u201cShe was the only possible choice,\u201d but many of the church members thought other, better-known candidates were more qualified. When the decision was announced, not everyone was pleased.<\/p>\n

Daya Mata had grown up as a Mormon in Utah. In 1932, when she was seventeen, she became a nun at Mount Washington, where she had lived ever since. Soon her mother, sister, (Ananda Mata), and brother (Richard Wright) also joined. Richard went with Master to India in 1936, and is mentioned in Autobiography of a Yogi.<\/em> Later he left the work.<\/p>\n

Daya Mata was overwhelmed by the sudden responsibility. Those at the center of SRF deemed it essential to rally round and support her. Swamiji often said,\u00a0 \u201cAs things begin, so they continue.\u201d Gradually, \u201csupporting Daya Mata\u201d became so integral to the SRF culture, that no one dared question her decisions.<\/p>\n

The only exception was Tara Mata, who decided Daya Mata couldn\u2019t be trusted to run SRF on her own. Tara abandoned her editing duties, and, even though Daya Mata remained president, Tara behaved as if she were the one in charge. Master had told Daya, \u201cKeep Tara away from people.\u201d But the force of her personality was more than Daya could control. Swamiji said, \u201cFor those of you who never met Tara, you simply cannot imagine the power of her will!\u201d<\/p>\n

Swamiji had great respect for Tara Mata\u2019s intelligence, dedication, and will power. \u201cIn many ways,\u201d he said, \u201cshe was a genius. But I knew a clash was inevitable. We had diametrically opposed ideas about Master\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The purpose of SRF, as Swamiji saw it, was to serve and inspire. The guiding principle should be, \u201cHow can we help people?\u201d He wanted SRF to share Master\u2019s teachings with everyone who would listen.<\/p>\n

Tara Mata saw people as a threat to Master\u2019s work, diluting the teachings with their shallow understanding. The purpose of SRF was to protect the teachings from the polluting influence of the world. Her guiding principle was, \u201cIn every situation, think first, \u2018What is best for the organization?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Swamiji\u2019s relationship with Daya Mata was of the heart. She was his spiritual sister. He felt closer to her than anyone else in the world. He soon became her right-hand man, hoping with his expansive energy to balance Tara Mata\u2019s contractive influence. It was an uphill battle. All the main SRF leaders were women. Many had become nuns at a young age; most had never traveled or gone to college. Several, like Daya and her sister, had been raised Mormon.<\/p>\n

Swamiji was American, but because of his father\u2019s work as an oil geologist for Esso, he was born in Rumania and raised in Europe. By the age of ten, he spoke four languages and had crossed the Atlantic six times. He was gifted in writing and music, and attended school in three countries, including two, top-tier, American colleges.<\/p>\n

Swamiji described himself as sitting on a volcano of creative ideas\u2014almost none of which were accepted by the women. \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t he just wait until we tell him<\/em> what to do<\/em>?\u201d It was equally frustrating for Swamiji to have his ideas rejected and his work undermined. But he was a fully professed monk, dedicated to serving Master. SRF was the vehicle through which it had to be done, so \u201cI resigned myself to living with ulcers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One of Master\u2019s original Aims and Ideals of Self-Realization Fellowship<\/em> was to start spiritual communities, not only for monks and nuns, but also for couples and families who wanted to dedicate their lives to God. Swamiji, too, was interested in communities and was thrilled to learn that his Guru had the same idea.<\/p>\n

When World War II began, Swamiji was a teenager, living in Europe. He had traveled in Germany, was fluent in the language, and knew many Germans who were good people. He was heartsick at the hatred and violence he saw growing around him. Perhaps, he thought, like-minded people from all countries could band together in small, cooperative communities, creating an ideal life for themselves and setting an example for others. At the age of fifteen, he actually tried to start such a community\u2014but when his friends realized he was serious, they lost interest.<\/p>\n

A few years after his Guru’s passing, Swamiji asked Daya Mata, \u201cWhen are we going to start the communities Master wanted?\u201d She replied, \u201cFrankly, I\u2019m not interested.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of the Gurus in our line, and several of Master\u2019s most advanced disciples, were, or had been, married. Many of the SRF center leaders, and the majority of church members were married. But Daya Mata was the president of SRF, and her preference for the monastic life gradually came to define SRF itself. Eventually the Aims and Ideals <\/em>were amended accordingly; all references to spiritual communities were removed.<\/p>\n

In the first edition of Autobiography of a Yogi, <\/em>Master gives householders superior status. \u201cTo fulfill one\u2019s earthly responsibilities is indeed the higher path,\u201d he wrote, \u201cprovided the yogi, maintaining a mental uninvolvement with egotistical desires, plays his part as a willing instrument of God.\u201d When the monastics tried to assert their authority over the householder members, this passage was a problem. So Tara Mata rewrote it to say, \u201cFulfilling one\u2019s earthly responsibilities need not separate man from God. . .\u201d In subsequent editions, her words are presented as Master\u2019s own.<\/p>\n

Daya Mata was also president of Yogoda Satsanga Society (YSS), the Indian branch of SRF. In 1958, when she went to India for the first time, she took with her Ananda Mata, one other nun, and Swamiji\u2014because Master had planned to take him there. The nuns would return after one year; Swamiji would stay on as SRF\u2019s representative.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a relief to get away from Mount Washington,\u201d he later admitted. \u201cIt no longer felt like home. Master had said, \u2018Don\u2019t make too many rules, it destroys the spirit.\u2019 Now rules had become a way of life. Every week, new ones appeared on the bulletin board.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Daya Mata arrived in India, she was dismayed to see how little YSS had accomplished. In Kolkata, where YSS had its headquarters, twelve people came to the Sunday service\u2014which was mostly Hindu rituals and commentary on the scriptures. Even those in charge showed little understanding of Master\u2019s teachings.<\/p>\n

When it was time for Daya Mata to go back to the United States, Swamiji obtained her permission to go to New Delhi to see what he could accomplish there. Astonishing success came almost immediately. Kishan, an Indian friend from that time said, \u201cThousands of people came to Swamiji\u2019s weekly discourses. He was still a young man but already it was obvious that he was a great soul. Very few are so devoted to their Guru and so in love with the Almighty. We spent as much time with Swamiji as we could. He was a Christ-like figure.\u201d<\/p>\n

In India, Swamiji learned more about Sanaatan Dharma<\/em>, the ancient tradition behind what Master taught. Usually translated as the Eternal Religion<\/em>, Sanaatan Dharma <\/em>also means That Which Is. <\/em>When Swamiji asked Master, \u201cAre your teachings a new religion?\u201d he replied, \u201cIt is a new expression<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

All true masters teach Sanaatan Dharma. <\/em>Apparent differences are only because each teaches in the way appropriate for the time and place of his incarnation. Or later generations of disciples reduce the Guru\u2019s teachings to what they are capable of understanding. This is how Christianity, Master said, gradually became Churchianity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Swamiji realized that SRF was following Daya Mata\u2019s interpretation of Master\u2019s teachings, not the new expression<\/em> he intended. \u201cIndia ruined you,\u201d she said to Swamiji. In a sense she was right, for India gave credence to intuitions and doubts that he had suppressed during his years at Mount Washington, out of loyalty and monastic obedience.<\/p>\n

In 1960, Dr. Lewis died. He was Master\u2019s first disciple in the United States, vice-president of SRF, and on the Board of Directors. Swamiji was called back to Los Angeles and given both of the positions Dr. Lewis had held. \u201cThey were kicking me upstairs,\u201d Swamiji said later, thinking they could control his behavior better if they kept him \u201cinside the tent.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he was at Mount Washington, Swamiji talked with Daya Mata about his hope to build a temple in New Delhi, dedicated to Master. \u201cThe whole country looks to their capital,\u201d he said. \u201cIf Master becomes well known there, it will influence all of India, cutting years off our efforts to build the work everywhere.\u201d She agreed, and gave him permission to proceed.<\/p>\n

Land use in New Delhi was strictly controlled by the government; Prime Minister Nehru himself had the final say. Ashrams had the lowest priority. Seventeen hundred societies had tried to get land in New Delhi, and all had failed. Swamiji alone succeeded. It was a miracle.<\/p>\n

He hadn\u2019t kept SRF abreast of his progress, because there was no progress to report. The situation seemed hopeless\u2014until the moment when Nehru said, \u201cYes.\u201d In jubilation, Swamiji now wrote a full report. The response was a phone call from Tara Mata. Shouting over the static of the long distance connection, she had to repeat herself several times before Swamiji understood her words: \u201cWE DO NOT WANT THAT PROPERTY!\u201d<\/p>\n

Swamiji replied simply, \u201cIf you don\u2019t want it, we won\u2019t take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tara Mata had used Swamiji\u2019s absence to strengthen her own position. In her mind, it was no longer just different points of view about the direction of Master\u2019s work. She now distrusted Swamiji\u2019s motives. <\/em>He was trying take the work in India away from SRF, she declared, and set himself up as the new Guru.<\/em> He posed a serious threat to the future of Master\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Tara Mata practiced astrology, even though Master had told her to give it up. On the basis of Swamiji\u2019s horoscope, she insisted, \u201cWe have to get rid of him now. <\/em>In fifteen years he will be strong enough to divide the work.\u201d Swamiji had acted with Daya Mata\u2019s permission, but instead of defending him, Daya remained silent\u2014allowing the Board of Directors to conclude that he had acted secretly, all on his own.<\/p>\n

In July 1962, Swamiji was summoned to New York City. \u201cWhy New York,\u201d he thought, \u201cthree thousand miles from Los Angeles?\u201d Tara Mata and Daya Mata came to meet him. The next morning, Tara pushed a thirty-page letter under the door of his hotel room: Swamiji was expelled from SRF and forbidden to set foot on any SRF property or to contact any SRF member. Accusations of having the basest of motives were followed by a long list of his vile qualities.<\/p>\n

\u201cTara Mata never did anything by halfway measures,\u201d Swamiji said in a tone evenly divided between admiration and exasperation.<\/p>\n

For two hours, Swamiji met alone with the two women, kneeling before them, arms crossed over his heart, virtually in silence. There was nothing to say against the tirade launched against him.<\/p>\n

When Swamiji told us this story, it was obvious how painful the memory was for him. Still, he was able to say, \u201cI needed to be free to do the work Master intended for me. I never would have left on my own; I\u2019m too loyal. Nothing less drastic would have worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day, the two women returned to Los Angeles, leaving Swamiji alone in New York with $1500 to start a new life. By divine coincidence, his parents had just arrived in the city, after a holiday in Europe. In a few days, they were driving back to their home in Atherton, California, just south of San Francisco. Swamiji rode with them then moved into their spare bedroom. \u201cI lay on my bed and prayed to die,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Swamiji resolved to spend the rest of his life in seclusion. Outside of Christian monasteries, though, there is no tradition in the United States to support a hermit\u2019s life. It might have been possible in India, but SRF had told the Indian government that Swamiji was a CIA agent and a Christian missionary in disguise. As a result, they refused to issue him a visa, so India was not an option.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout SRF\u2019s name and money,\u201d Swamiji said, \u201cThey assumed I would never accomplish anything.\u201d Gradually, though, he was drawn back into serving Master in a public way\u2014in Northern California, just a few hundred miles from Mount Washington. \u201cPractically at our back door,\u201d Daya Mata said in dismay.<\/p>\n

Only the two women knew the circumstances of his dismissal. It was unconscionable that a fully professed monk would be dismissed without a hearing or a chance to do penance. They couldn\u2019t reveal the facts, so they defended themselves with innuendo. \u201cIf you only knew!\u201d implying that their reticence was to protect Swamiji\u2019s<\/em> reputation rather than their own. In the absence of facts, people imagined the worst. A whisper campaign began that soon gained a life of its own. If anyone inquired, SRF made it clear that Swamiji was not a true disciple, but an interloper, using the name of Master for his own ends.<\/p>\n

SRF had declared itself the sole, authorized channel for the dissemination of Master\u2019s teachings. Daya Mata, as president, was his sole, authorized representative. All of this, they said, was according to \u201cthe blueprint Master left in the ether\u201d to guide his work.<\/p>\n

Tara Mata said, \u201cNo one in the organization has a right even to think<\/em> except for the Board of Directors.\u201d When Swamiji, who at the time was a member of the Board, disagreed with one of their decisions, Daya Mata said, \u201cThe Board feels differently. Don\u2019t you think you ought to go along with the Board?\u201d further narrowing the definition of who had a right to think.<\/p>\n

Swamiji followed the Indian tradition in which every disciple has not only a right<\/em>, but a duty<\/em> to serve his Guru according to his own inner guidance. No single disciple could ever encompass the whole of a guru\u2019s teachings, especially that of a world-changing avatar <\/em>like Master.<\/p>\n

No matter how SRF felt about him, Swamiji was committed to reconciliation. \u201cThe one thing I was not willing to do, though, was nothing<\/em>. My life was dedicated to serving Master.\u201d He carefully chose ways to serve that would complement, rather than compete, with SRF. He made it a requirement that every Ananda member also be a member of SRF. He went so far as to describe Ananda as, \u201cthe secular branch of Master\u2019s work; SRF is our church.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daya Mata rarely appeared in public, and when she did, it was carefully staged. Even within SRF, access to her was controlled. She never spoke about the separation, and wanted Swamiji to do the same.<\/p>\n

But his life was completely different. He taught many public classes, and within the Ananda community, mixed freely with residents and guests.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t bring up the separation, but if he was asked a direct question, it would have been rude to refuse to answer; it wasn\u2019t in his nature to treat people that way. And if someone wanted to move to Ananda, but hesitated because of SRF\u2019s condemnation, Swamiji felt they had a right to know why SRF felt that way. He was always scrupulously fair. Avoiding unnecessary details, he described the simple facts in a calm, impartial way. If others became indignant on his behalf, he tried to calm their feelings. \u201cYou don\u2019t know the SRF leaders the way I do. They are great<\/em> souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know why Swamiji even cared about SRF. \u201cWe get along fine without them,\u201d I told him. \u201cSRF is irrelevant<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not thinking of the present<\/em>,\u201d Swamiji said. \u201cI\u2019m thinking of the ages<\/em>. Christianity didn\u2019t divide until three hundred years after Jesus died, and look at the horrors that resulted from that. Master\u2019s work is in danger of splitting in the first generation. As his disciple, I must do everything in my power to keep that from happening<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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