Swami Nityananda complains that he was not given a “benefit of doubt”. He may or may not be right about the manipulation of the video tapes and that the tape is part of a “larger conspiracy” against him.(Source: Indian Express Mar13)
What struck me was his plea to the general public to “neglect such allegations, considering the “services” he has rendered. Whether he was a successful fraud or a failed sanyasi is for the future to reveal. In the mean time I was pleasantly surprised when I found the February issue of The Madras Theosophical Bulletin carrying an old article on Ascetism by H.S.Olcott titled “A word of Friendly Wisdom.” The extracts from this will keep us pondering on the deeper issues connected with the path to renunciation and the thorns and pitfalls that an aspirant for sanyas encounters en route.
“And yet how bitterly uncharitable is the world—the world of concealed sinners and respectable, undetected hypocrites, usually – over the failure of a poor soul to scale the spiritual mountains in consequence of lack of reserved power of will at a critical moment. How these undetected ones patronizingly condemn the vanquished, who at least have done what many of them have not, made a brave fight for the divine prize. How they strut about in fancied impregnability, like the street-praying Pharisee of Jerusalem, thanking fortune that their private sins are still hidden…
Let him that thinketh that he standeth take heed lest he fall,” (1 Corinthians 10:12) was the warning of the Nazarene (Jesus Christ)
He also said another thing that the reader would do well to keep always in mind, as a sort of vigilant mastiff at the threshold of his consciousness; Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged.” (Matthew 7:1 ; Luke 6:37)
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