How do you Wish Happy Birthday to Someone Who Isn't God? (anymore) |
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This seems to be an early draft with only some pwk's wishes on board. It's funny, I knew most of these people and for 20 years I thought that practising Knowledge does nothing, ethically, spiritually, health-wise, emotionally or had any noticeable effect. Their day-to-day lives seemed very ordinary, though tending to boring to non-pwks. But through the documents they left behind there are parts like this:
Maharaji, 10th December 2000Birthday MessagesMy dearest Master, Thank you so much for showing me how to fulfill myself to my very core. I wish you a have a wonderful birthday. I love you J.
Dearest Maharaji, Just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. A very happy Birthday. Love V.
Dear Maharaji, I hope you have a very happy birthday. Your premie always Love G. M. Gold Coast Australia
Now I have acknowledged the cry from my heart, now I can feed it exactly what it wants. To Enjoy. Thank you and Happy Birthday.
Maharaji. Happy Happy! Joy Joy! You have always been here in my life but it is now that I understand what this life is about. I am so grateful. My heart rises to peek out of my eyes to see you when you speak! I am an eager aspirant. I love you and am so proud of you and grateful that you are helping me fulfill the promise I have made to myself from the beginning. Cl.
Dearest Maharaji My loving thoughts are with you especially on this day - your birthday. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your tireless effort - for you - without whom I am completely lost. Happy birthday my dear Master - I long to see you again soon. Love C.
Maharaji My Lord, Thank you for filling my life, my heart and soul with so much love and joy. Time and time you pick me up and set me free. Please never let me stray from your love. Thank you for this beautiful gift of Knowledge. Thank you for your beauty. My eyes have never seen such Grace. I melt in you. Happy Birthday I love You From A. (Down Under)
Happy Birthday Maharaji Have a beautiful day! Please hurry and come back to Australia. We miss you. Love J. (aspirant)
Happy Birthday Maharaji! Thankyou you have changed my life! Wishing you health and happiness. Love, J. W.
"Happy Happy Joy Joy!" To you my wonderful Master, love always K.C.
Beloved Maharaji. Happy Birthday! Wishing You all the love in the world. You made my day again today. Every day you make my day. I am surely the most fortunate of beings, because of Your Love, Your Knowledge, Your continual blessings. I love you so very much. Thank you for allowing me to be your loving student. M. W.
Dearest Maharaji Make your Holy Name prevail in my life. Give me the wisdom to follow your way. I thank you for this life. I love you White Dove. I'm doing my best to follow my heart. My love for you is true. I love and adore you. Yours truly P. X X
Dearest Maharaji Happy Birthday & Many many happy returns of the day. May you have an abundance of health and happiness in the years ahead. May I also thank you once again for this Knowledge and for your love and guidance. Please make sure that I stay close to you on the boat of life throughout my life. I want to grow and grow in love for you and this Knowledge. Help me to stay connected. With all my love I. B.
Thankyou I love you Hope you have a very happy birthday.
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Thank God that I am FREE from all that BULLSHIT.
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How easy it is to identify with an identity that is not your own.
How saccharine is love for someone that exists only in your imagination.
Everything about 'being' a premie is abject and fake --- and robs precious time from living a real and sincere life.
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It's a while back now but I seem to remember that one of the most important things to me as I was exiting to was trace back what being a premie meant to me, what I had made of it.
I'm a hippy and still proud of it. When push came to shove it was a relief to discover Rawat was a faker. I was misled in my beliefs about Rawat but I had not sold out my hippy heart.
That birthday card to Prem reminded me of the ones that go round any group. Most of the time people are struggling to find anything to say and in this one where it is supposed to be to the love of your life, it is particularly painful to read the awkward messages isn't it.
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Hi Tim,
With clocks set back an hour, I'm up early reflecting on 1) my stress-filled premie days during the mid-2000s (the days epitomized by the Knowledge Session Manual Prembio just posted above); 2) Lesley's wonderful comment that she never sold-out her hippy heart; and 3) my desparate attempt to remind myself that it was supposedly all about love during the Team Trainings.
Then I re-read your post:
"Everything about 'being' a premie is abject and fake --- and robs precious time from living a real and sincere life."
This time it struck me as profoundly true and all-encompassing.
I'll go so far as to say that trying to live and (to take back a word Prem Rawat thoroughly bastardized) appreciate a real, sincere, down-to-earth and genuine life epitomizes life in recovery from that cult. If it's true, and I'm sure it is, that former/ex-premies fall back on whatever core they developed before they were derailed, then everyone here had everything right before they crossed paths with Prem Rawat.
Thank you for saying that.
PS, This morning, I'm playing golf with precisely the same people we were plotting to do propagation outreach programs for back in 1979 when an ashram I lived in was forty-five minutes away. Knowing (and respecting) this crowd the way I do, imagining how THAT would've gone over really makes me laugh!)
Modified by lakeshore at Sun, Nov 05, 2023, 04:39:19
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"Everything about 'being' a premie is abject and fake --- and robs precious time from living a real and sincere life."
Yes, that line got to me too, in every word it's so true, painfully so. I was with you, reading your post on writing LOVE over your notes. I think it was the same for a lot of us. That's the golden thread that drew us together as premies.
Disappointingly there was a worm in the apple.
The thing I wanted my premie friends to understand when I exited was that it wasn't just that Rawat wasn't the 'maharaji' person we had believed him to be, it was considerably worse than that, he is not a nice man.
Being a premie ended up making me feel abject and having this confusing sense of fakeness, but you are believing a lie that puts a fakery into the centre of things - once I woke up to that I got to be myself again. Only to realise he wasn't the only faker in my life.
I live in an area that drew lots of hippies so it is nice to find ones at bridge that didn't get caught up in a cult and hear their stories.
shocking and painful to recognise how much in simple experience of life I got robbed of just by believing a liar or two, it's like you get blinders on. I am grateful to be my old hippy self now - I see a lot of value in that.
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