Another scenario:
Suppose a person is being courted by a group.
Suppose that group owns a high upkeep building, constructed at a cost of
millions of dollars, that will cost thousands of dollars to maintain.
Vast gardents to be trimmed and maintained, large ponds that require
regular cleaning, stone walls that go grimy from freeway traffic and
need expensive washing.
This building is an eyesore, the neighbors hate it, and just a few
initiated members are allowed access to it.
Suppose this same group has just this couple hundred members, increasingly elderly, and the guru and senior members are housed in palatial surroundings and need increasingly high levels of menial service.
Younger, stronger members are needed to provide all that help, take care of the palace.
A prospective recruit needs to know all of this so that he or she
can assess whether the group loves her for her true self, or just wants
a menial to wait upon its increasingly decrepit and senior elite and its nasty
tempered guru.
A menial who will bear all this bad temper in the name of surrendering ego to the Master.
Suppose a person is being courted by a group.
Suppose that group owns a high upkeep building, constructed at a cost of
millions of dollars, that will cost thousands of dollars to maintain.
Vast gardents to be trimmed and maintained, large ponds that require
regular cleaning, stone walls that go grimy from freeway traffic and
need expensive washing.
This building is an eyesore, the neighbors hate it, and just a few
initiated members are allowed access to it.
Suppose this same group has just this couple hundred members, increasingly elderly, and the guru and senior members are housed in palatial surroundings and need increasingly high levels of menial service.
Younger, stronger members are needed to provide all that help, take care of the palace.
A prospective recruit needs to know all of this so that he or she
can assess whether the group loves her for her true self, or just wants
a menial to wait upon its increasingly decrepit and senior elite and its nasty
tempered guru.
A menial who will bear all this bad temper in the name of surrendering ego to the Master.