Guest guest Posted September 24, 2002 Report Share Posted September 24, 2002 I was born as the first unwanted child of my mother. The seventh of 11. I spent my childhood in a crib in my own urine. I cried all the time. When I was very young, seeing that my parents were miserable, and hearing that Kennedy was shot dead, seeing the pain and grief of the world, then MLK shot too, then the priests at Church preaching something that sounded pure and good, whole and complete, so I wanted to help, by being one of them, a priest. My first painting was of a Celt in India, running from Arrows. I still have this painting. I remember while painting it, that the Celt was bad, and deserved to be shot, but I could empathize, because I was one. I was confused by this, at 5. It was a past life. I was in India, but a foreignor. I was both. I was Hindu, but white. I knew the sciences, but my body caused problems. My first day in school was marred by a molestation of my being by another child. I will never forget it unfortunately. Then my siblings tried to take me apart, as I was the imbalance. There was already the wanted 3 boys and 3 girls. I was very loving. They took me apart for it. I had no defense, as I was passive to the core. I bore total abuse from family and friends as a child. I felt alone, and slept in urine. I excelled at school, but was always rejected. Maybe because inside myself I always asked "why is everyone as they are, it isn't going to work for them and the planet". I knew this from day one and I see it is true. Before I could understand speaking, I watched TV. I can still remember it clearly. I remember thinking "that won't work" (meaning the way people are) This was 1962 As I grew, I realized I had the best brain around. It was obvious. So they skipped me through 4th grade, from 3rd to 5th straight. The numeric significance of this is immense, but I won¹t go into it, except to say, 4 is the foundation of materialistic culture, and 3 and 5 are of femininity and grace. Now my siblings and friends despised me more. I got insults always for my large head. Everyone joked about the size of my head in youth, for it was larger than normal. I retreated into my own head, and prayed for LSD. Having heard it allowed one to see fantastic things, I longed for it. The years passed in pain. I tried to make friends, but it didn¹t work. This was my Rahu dasha. My childhood was simply painful inside me. My mother and father were in pain always, and not in love. It was awful for an aware being to witness. I longed to stop my mothers pain. I couldn¹t feel my father at all. I felt sorry for him though, seeing that he was going down. I saw pictures of his friends from the way holding cut off Japanese heads. This had a tremendous impact on my calling. Four sisters came after me, and I changed their diapers and played with them. They gave me some friendship. Then my father was sent away, and things got worse in the house. At 13 many things happened. I entered high school (always one year younger than everyone else, which harms you, really). I grew my hair. The girls loved me, but I couldn¹t relate to people, for they didn¹t love Christ and God enough. I played guitar all the time and prayed to become famous, I thought ³like Paul McCartney², so that I could preach love of God, and Peace, from the microphone that everyone was seeming to pay most attention to, as it was clear they ignored priests. My sweet lord, was the song of my heart. I got very good. I slid into music college after a high school of good grades, love from authorities, and constant drugs to keep away the pain of the normal world. I had no interest in the normal world. Riding home each day on the bus, watching the world spin in hallucinations, yet still being able to function fully in all spheres of life, I knew: ³This polluted city (Oakland California) of buses, cars, sad people, angry blacks, partying Chicanos, rich whites, etc., it¹s going to fail. It¹s not based on working principles. My society ³sucks². The east is calling. It is better, being based on spirituality. But I was 13, 14, 15, etc. Nobody cared what I thought, but I knew the truth, and I knew that I knew the truth, but had to hold my tounge. I thought one day I¹d be famous, and be able to teach, and someone would love me too. I had girlfriends, but it didn¹t work out for real at all. I saw it was just a game. They didn¹t understand as I did. They were ³normal². I slid into music college easily with a full scholarship including all expenses. It was wonderful. I did well, and was loved by many. I loved life, myself, everyone, I was in bliss. It was Jupiter Venus I think without looking at my dashas to confirm. 1977 through 1979 After a couple years of tons of drugs, sex, music, rock and roll, and so forth, I lay in a field one night near Porter college at UC Santa Cruz, to which I recently returned for a Tirtha of my own meaning, and I re-realized that I was called to serve, and not party, age 19, 1979. The partying wasn¹t doing anything for me. I was like a witness to it all, simply seeing that it was there, real to others moreso than to me, and I felt alone and separate, for I didn¹t have a brotherhood of servants of God around me, and I wasn¹t doing anything for the solution of the Earth¹s serious problems (based in the human race). I was ³enjoying² with everyone else. I wasn¹t ³fixing² it at all. And by the way, I have always hated alchohol. Especially beer. It tastes TERRIBLE to me still. Everyone was loving it. I could not understand, and still do not. One day I met the Hare Krishnas, and eventually soon thereafter renounced meat eating and joined. I haven¹t eaten any meat, fish or eggs thereafter for the last now 23 years. When I joined, I instantly loved it. I became a fanatic. After 3 days one of the 11 worldwide Gurus made me his personal servant and travelling companion. I went around the world with him a few times preaching. I was very happy. I thought I was spreading the answer with God¹s direct representative. This seemed very normal to me. I felt I was finally in my right place, at 19 years old. We became VERY close. But the movements strict rules ate him, and his peers, eventually, as one by one they fell from their vows. Havoc set into the movement, and it has been decreasing and dieing since. I got married at 21 in a blind way, no nothing before marriage, no kissing, hand holding, nothing. I didn¹t know my wife really, but got married as per the Hare Krishna way at that time. It was 1981. Because the rules said so, and I was a fanatic, I had children the strict way, two in a row, so that they would not be alone, and entered a long phase of being a father and bread winner. I did well enough. Gradually we worked our way up until years later we were quite wealthy. My wife was a good mother, and I a good father. We raised our children in love and plenty. I always stayed close to the movement, but eventually also ended up in the corporate software world. Through those family years I always wished for the day when I would fulfill my dream, of being famous, SO THAT I could preach love of God and help the world. I knew I could teach it. I knew it inside me. I felt it clearly. I knew how things truly are in spirit and nature, how we must be to have peace and not destroy earth. I could do those things. I could live simply, I had done it. I loved everyone, and this was proven to me as I lived with simple brown people all over the world, and rich white people too. I went everywhere, and felt no hatred for anyone. I knew NOTHING of histories of strife and DID NOT CARE for I knew that such memories would ruin our opportunity for peace now on Earth. I wondered why Jews held onto that identity, at the cost of peace, and others alike, that¹s just one example. Each time I saw national or racial identity being talked about in a mournful way, I knew it was a waste of energy that would lead to war only, and I was right, still. I went on working for my family, and dreaming only about how to preach. This was my only thought always, ³how to preach². How to make it happen on Earth. What to do FANTASTIC to cause a stir. I thought of self sacrifice, like Jesus, and thought ³such a price paid is significant, so no wonder it caused so much good in others, caused so many missionaries trying to go out and help others². I thought Jesus was good, very good. I loved the Jesus story and path, but knew that the knowledge was with my India, my Vaisnava Gurus, and Hinduism, it¹s culture, was something that we could learn from, and should follow. I didn¹t see anything Western to compare at all. Even Jesus wasn¹t Western really. I did not understand hating blacks or mexicans, though I was supposed to kindof. I didn¹t. I liked everybody. In college I had an Iranian Jewish girlfriend. This was not bad in any way to me, but my mother wouldn¹t even look at her. She was dirt to my mother. She didn¹t even acknowledge this beauties existence. The girls entire family was killed by the Khomeini in Iran. How could my mother reject her for her skin color, religion, the religion of Jesus, and after all, she was so bereft of family now. All of this, puzzled and burdened me. I loved my mother, but I didn¹t like her. I loved Soheyla, and my mother did not. I was sad. The movement called me, and I gave up Soheyla, for she wouldn¹t join. We cried alot, and parted. After a few years of travelling with that Guru, my sexuality returned too strongly, so I desired to marry. At 21 I married, and he rejected me, even cutting all my pictures of he and I together apart himself. He was very hurt. He wanted me to stay celibate with him. I understand now, how lonely he must have felt. I was, in a sense, his wife. I was his companion. He lost me to my wife, and was feeling hurt and rejected. I didn¹t understand this at the time. I wondered how God¹s perfect representative could act that way. In anger, he assigned me to be the president of the Portland Oregon temple, so off I went with my new wife, and we did well. We renovated and re-enlivened that temple tremendously. During those 14 months we got pregnant, and he went way down. He descended to strange actions, was arrested a few times, and suffered alot internally. I gave up the spiritual initiation and moved out of ISKCON to the Sridhar Maharaj temple in San Jose. I felt again under great spiritual shelter, and was again happy. However, feeling devoted to Prabhupada, I felt guilty for leaving HIS movement to that of HIS Godbrother¹s, and so I felt I must return, to be true to Prabhupada. So I picked the ³strongest² of the remaining Gurus, and moved myself, wife, and 11 day old daughter to England to serve in Bhagavan¹s ³zone². I lasted 4 months, before realizing, I could not handle ISKCON any more. It was ³behind² in Vaisnava reasoning, and I couldn¹t buy it any longer. It was 1983. So we moved into the London chapter of Sridhar Maharaja¹s temples, so we went back to Sridhar Maharaja. This temple was destitute and dismal. So I set out to change that. I personally rebuilt it¹s insides, that is, with wood, tiles, paint, Tulasi house, etc. I did wonderful work. After a few months we had an impressive Indian style temple room, very colorful, with arches and such. It helped ALOT. The temple continued to grow and bet better. Sannyasis ran it. They stopped while travelling and lived there briefly too. They were going through their own stuff I suppose. They were anti sex to the extreme. I was having sex. But I was their main man. It was a living oximoron problem. They were on my case, and relying on my energy. This became the pattern of my life since. After some months, I couldn¹t take it, and moved into a friends apartment with my daughter and wife. We had always lived together in one room in temples, and did so here again. One night while cooking, my daughter was burned there, and my life changed alot. After 45 days of recovering in Guys hospital next to the London bridge in London England, we moved back to America, loaned the money by a Catholic priest known to my mother. We moved into my mothers house, as we had nothing. We were rejected by all the family, of course, because we didn¹t fit in. After a few months I had a good enough job, and moved us out, back to San Jose, to be close to the Sridhar people, of whom I was one. I finally got initiation in 1986, after years of flip flopping. I have not mentioned additional trips to India, which taught me much, both good and bad, about Vaisnavism, about devotees, about Gurus, about truth, God and religion. It was a very long, hard, sad time. In 1986 in San Jose I began my corporate sojourn which ended in 1994 with bankruptcy, depression, and Jyotish. During these corporate years, I was very successful. I wrote two programs still in use in big corporate america, in newspapers and phone book industries. I was a database maven, and wrote many database programs for many companies. I travelled alot all over America training users, and installing networks to run my databases. I learned computers well. I only however always thought ³How to get on with my lifes work. When will I preach. When will I spread love of God in this sick society that needs it so bad.² This was my only meditation, the rest was just to pay the bills for the wife and kids and my life at home. During all this time, ever since 19, I believed only in Krishna, and Vaisnavism. I thought all else didn¹t work fully, was not nearly as good, including all ³new age babble². This is a standard Hare Krishna thought at the time, in that age, and I was there fully. The years wore on, my kids grew, and my wife and I grew apart. I was in the world, she was at home. She remained in a kind of happy with friends Hare Krishna consciousness, but I festered, not being happy with the preaching movement at all, and not being happy that I was away from it, and not being happy with her thoughts about marital love, and not being happy that I spent all my time supporting a family that didn¹t make me happy. I loved the 3 of them dearly, but I wasn¹t ³receiving what I needed or wanted². In 1993 and 94, inside me, the ability to ³go on² started to wane. I was tired. I had done alot. We were wealthy and well situated, but I was fat, and unhappy. I sought love outside, but this never worked really, but it did work to ruin my marriage further, even ³fully². In 94 I collapsed in depression, and had a vision of Vaikuntha, given a tour by a Hanuman like character. I entered a type of bliss. I started programming Jyotish, and dropped everything else. My wife worked away, and got a taste of separation, and liked it, obviously. I died all the more. She really went away from me, never to return. The kids and I moved to Badger California, a Hare Krishna community. I began selling the Jyotish software from there. I met a whole new world of people, you all, at that time. It was challenging, because I was taught to not like you, your Gurus, like Maharishi and ALL others, and I was taught your meditation was bogus, didn¹t work, and was ³Mayavad². I believed all of this fully, and so, as I became ³friends² at first, it was tense for me. It was beyond tense. It was confusing. I was your enemy, pretending to be your friend. I was very confused. I entered more depression, and the devotees began to reject me. They would not associate with me. Eventually, I decided to leave my family, and I moved away. I paid their bills fully, but my kids and wife stayed there, while I lived in Novato alone. I tried to date, but woman didn¹t like me. I was too much of a spiritualist, not normal, too needy, etc. I crushed and died in pain, crying all the time, sitting underneath this rich house in the Novato hills in their ³studio for rent². I was in a case, and crying. After 4 months I returned to my wife and kids, in great resolve to just accept her the way she is, with her new Guru, and lack of respect and love for me. I just wanted to be with my kids. On the DAY I returned, I met a woman who I eventually switched to. She and I were going to marry. We were in love, but both of us were currently married. I divorced my wife for her as planned, but she never did the same. I continued on hoping she would commit, but she never did. This is when I moved to Crest drive in Eugene. I had to move from Badger because the devotees were very threatening to me by now. They physically threatened me regularly, because I was ³so sinful². (Having a married lover, who had a sad husband who was a ³Prabhupada Disciple², a type of ³higher² status at that time. So I moved to Eugene. She moved with me eventually, but still never committed. She held onto the other, and always spoke of leaving me. I tried hard to please her. I was in total infatuation with her. I was in great pain. Eventually she moved back with her husband, and is still there to this day, still saying I should accept her in that state, though I never see her, since she moved back (Œnever¹ in MY book) During these years, which started in 95 and ran up until a year ago, I kept trying to get her to change, and commit, and be happy with being my wife, but it never worked. Side by side, that is all the years that I met all of you through this list, through GJ, and so on. Knowing that I still wasn¹t happily married, I kept seeking, and also hoping maybe that woman would change. This hope, longing, and trying, never succeded on any front. I have, in truth, been hoping for a simple, happy, committed relationship, where there is not some Guru tearing my wife and I apart always, in the mix. This is why I sometimes attack Gurus. I have seen how they meddle and ruin marriages, over and OVER again in many lives examples, including my own. My succes in Jyotish, much to my surprise, was MUCH MORE than I ever dreamed of. Not only was I good at it, but everyone seemed to love my program, my writings, and so on. I became somewhat ³famous², though I was living in constant pain. I became somewhat of a teacher, mentor, savior, prophet, to MANY who wrote to me in great love and thanks. My real world of love and relating became you all, the Jyotishis out there. Well, like I said, you are all, unless Hare Krishna, supposed to be thoroughly ³bogus², and worthy of conversion to our faith. So it was a dichotomy par excellence, and I suffered. So I was sitting there, month after month, from 95 til now, constantly being loved by people I wasn¹t supposed to be talking to, and this girlfriend, she kep that up.. always putting all of you down. Whenever I would tell her that I got a nice letter from one of you stating your appreciation for me, she would say you simply wanted to either have me as a lover, or were a stupid guy with no brains. In this way, none of the love was valid. I felt I wrote real things about real spiritual life and values and knowledge, so when say an Indian professor wrote in appreciation, it was very real to me. Not to her. I had two worlds, and the one at home didn¹t love the one you are all a part of. Also, I had to change. I had to review my philosophy. If these people were good, you people, non Hare Krishnas, God forbid, even MEAT EATERS sometimes, then how could I hold onto ³Hare Krishna² alone as I had for so long. I was very confused in this part of me, but I went on, kept on going, trying to understand. My spouse was ZERO help. I would go to her husbands house where she lived for love, and was always or often rejected. I felt terrible. Eventually I just started smoking cigarettes and pacing back and forth on the driveway. This went on for years. I lost all my Hare Krishna friends, had lost my wife, rejecting her for this terror woman, and now I lost her. It was just me and my kids. It was about 1998. I started to take anti depressentes, saw counselors and got high. I was in constant pain. I began to become unable to work. But, I pushed on, and in that state, wrote an amazing program called GJ3. It really is awesome. I wish I had the will and energy to just make a beta CD so that you all could see it, but still, I cannot. I am still just pacing and smoking, though finally off ALL drugs. Anyway, back to the story in a proper line of time: As I deteriorated while writing GJ3, I changed alot. I came to accept everyone, and since HK land seemed now so cold and foreign, I stopped all associating there. I stopped being an HK really, though I never gave up the core beliefs, and still have not. As the years of 98,99,00,01 and now 02 passed, it was the same pattern: Smoke and toke all day, work on GJ3 if possible, and cry. I saw nobody. I reached out to you all many times. I saw counsellors and shrinks, many. I gradually deteriorated. The things I wanted, love and preaching, were dieing and not happening. I had no love, and couldn¹t preach, because, I was simply by now becoming a loser letch. In January of 00, I attended Sedona. I had GJ3 with me, nearly done. Nobody even stopped at the booth to see it. Nobody. Not one. There was s stench from an overflowed sewage system at the hotel. I sat there for days smelling shit, listening to my overdressed non loving girlfriend bitch about everything, and I died. I came back and wrote a blistering letter to the world about how much I hated you all, your Gurus, everything, and then I really collapsed. Since then, I have really worked at all, being unable to. Since then, the name of the game was just don¹t kill myself. Thats all. I have lived on for my kids alone. GJ226 was done, and good enough to where sales have supported us, but all¹s I¹ve been able to do is the bare minimum to keep this business shipping this old version. I have lived in constant pain due to sorrow over the failure of my original life purpose, and the failure also of my love life. These two things are all that matter to me- to have a companion, and to serve the mission of knowledge of God on Earth. I turned 40, the line at which lifelong I had drawn for myself as the ³do or die² point. I always thought that by 40 I would be happily married and preaching well, having success at chaning this dieing materilistic society. Now I¹m 42, and nothing has changed since I was 35. I have gradually risen about anti depressents as a solution. I don¹t need them anymore. I suffer, but why take pills that do nothing but harm your brain? (my truth at this time, not necessarily your truth) I have gotten back to a more active life, but still cannot program on GJ3. I am frozen. I have been saying ³2 months² for two years, but nothing moves forward. I¹ve done counseling, pills, trips, excercise, tried on new headspaces, tried dating, prostitutes, charity, everything. I¹ve tried EVERYTHING. I even put up posters around town. Nothing has gotten me meaningful friendships (local), or love, or success, or gotten me back on track. I have met many lauded ³great healers² and ³great teachers², and after all, none of them could switch me back on. I want so badly to be back on, to have a meaningful happy life again, but I can¹t seem to set the switch right. I have had many send me Reiki, flowers, gifts; I¹ve gotten free sex, massage, postcards, good words, lots of counseling. Nothing works. The doctors say the next step is Lithium. Part of me says the next step is to walk away from my life and either die, or just go to a cave and live in mindlessness. I¹ve also thought of becoming a street person, and simply bothering society by being weird and strange, with a religious undertone, until they either shoot me or I die. Kindof like Jesus, I feel like destroying the money changers or anybody else involved in obvious taking from this corrupt system which destroys people. The other day I went into a Catholic Church for the first time in 23 years, and bowed to Jesus, and meant it. I saw a mass, and saw that everyone is sick, not well physically or emotionally, for I know what they eat generally, so there¹s no way they could be healthy. They are being victimized by corporations who make ³food² like Wonder bread and Pastries, pop tarts, kellogs cereals, and other dead cardboard foods. (what to speak of meat and alchohol) I see that Hare Krishnas are often no better. There is no culture of healing built into these religions which I¹ve been a part of. They arenot healthy- they are one side, pure ³above². Pure Patriarch. Not much concern with our feminine sides. Here in Eugene there are many who are lesbian and bi sexual. It¹s rampant. They tatoo greatly, body pierce, and reject priests, reject religion, reject men, and definitely Jesus. They are right in some ways, but it¹s a reactionary imbalance, again. This is NOT a solution, just a vindictive reaction. Religion, God, Morality, Ethics, are no longer vouge, at all, here. I am, a fossil. Woman do NOT like to listen to me here, at all, in general. The only woman it seems who like me, are always older than myself. From older woman, I get total support and love. I have a number of very supportive older woman friends. My hopes for Jyotish have not fructified. Those with money just want to exploit it for more money and power and control. Those without money seek to find their money through it, or some sort of relief. I was hoping to prove to the world, the world at large, not the world of already believers like you all, that this is real, and thereby, use this as a tool for world change. If the world knew, most people, like through CNN reporting, through Oprah, through PROOF from UNIVERSITIES, that this is real, what we all know to be real, at least I can see it¹s real, then I figured, the world would change, as it¹s a very different paradigm. But this hasn¹t happened at all. Instead, I am sunk in talking to and supporting thousands of users and others, who simply talk about mundane drivel, the kind I was trying to always get away from. Everyday I get letters, but they are ALL selfish, help me here, help me there, my love, my money, my lost investments, my body.... I have GREAT sympathy for the suffering, for that IS WHY I LIVE MY LIFE THE WAY I HAVE. I was BORN into total suffering, and am a priest for this reason. But, I am a healthy, handsome, intelligent WARRIOR FOR GOD, and I am wondering where the hell are my godbrothers and helpers, and where is my wife??????? I feel very alone, not for the usual reasons, but the unusal reasons of wanting to really make a change. I am a General, a Leader, of the Change needed on Earth, and I have done alot, tried hard, announced it, cried out, and still, what do I hear: Deepak Choprah wants me to set up his website, and it¹s not what I¹m into, it¹s again, not the thing. It¹s again, just catering to people¹s ignorance, encouraging selfishness (your potential dot com) is going to ultimately be about self, not service and change. Other Hare Krishnas call with the same thing. People want to vulturize me, but nobody wants to do what needs to be done. I feel like the last crusader, and I should have just died instead. I know so many things, see so many things, can explaing anyting, understand anything, but nobody cares to be with me, just take and leave. Always. I feel so leached and drained, so stolen from and left alone to die. Raped. I can¹t program anymore because nothing good in my mind has come of it. People write and say ³oh but good has come², but I cannot see it. I am driving old cars, driving around crying. I literally cry all over town, and nobody knows me. They laugh at me. I look like an aging hippy who¹s lost his mind. When I talk to a woman holding a baby, the baby cries when they see me, out of fear, for I look like a tree who has taken human form, or something. The pain on my face is turning into permanent tear lines or trenches. I think about sacrificing myself on a mountain, arranging for my own beheading. I would probably do it if it weren¹t for my children, who would die under any such legacy. I have no remorse in posting this. I have no care for what I¹m saying. I¹m not ashamed or shy about it. I am sick of how this world works, how people are, and what they are not. I KNOW FOR SURE that all my life I have tried to do good. I have done NOTHING but sacrifice for others. Whether others know this or not, I have ALWAYS acted out of knowledgeable concern and love for them all my life. >From 5 years old I have always thought ³let me be a channel of your peace, my lord². Now I think, that perhaps He does not exist at all. Perhaps the Celts and Zen folks are right, there is no God Supreme, only constant energy exchange within a void. I have served and served and believed and preached, but nothing has changed for me, nor the world, and I just rot. When I read the ways that I¹m supposed to be healed, I see solutions for the lives of the normal. Nobody writes solutions for the life of Jesus say, the one who is pure in intent, bent on service, bent on effecting change where it is needed. Are any of you desperately daily suffeing just knowing there is an ozone hole? Do you see everyone¹s illusions and love them, and wish to protect them, educate them, CONSTANTLY. People tell me to take more, but I cannot. I cannot play that game. I only want one truly saintly person who is not frigid to be with me to love me. That illusion even can keep me going,but the reality would be better. ³Oh Das, sorry to hear you¹re suffering, get better soon Buddy, and say, could you do this for me....² No, not any more. r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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