The Living
Interaction Between
Pseudo-Gurus and
Fake Disciples
Rohit Mehta
Rohit Mehta
A 2015 Editorial Note:
Mr. Rohit Mehta was born in 1908, in India. He died in
the 1990s after a long and fruitful life dedicated to the theosophical Cause. The
22 pp. pamphlet reproduced here was printed in 1955, in Banaras.
As we publish it, in June 2015, “Spiritual Organization & Exploitation” is rare and difficult to
find in paper. It is, however, an extremely important tool for those who want
to understand the problems to be faced by the theosophical movement in the 21st
century, and which could well have been solved before.
In reading the essay, one must take into consideration
that Mr. Rohit Mehta uses in it a few typically “Krishnamurtian” terms. One of such
words is “conditioning”, and it deserves a commentary.
Jiddu Krishnamurti did not realize that all life is
always conditioned by the Law of Karma.
He ignored for instance that every aspect of the work
of the Masters of the Wisdom for mankind unfolds in strict obedience to Law and is
duly conditioned by it, a fact which has been well documented in the Mahatma
Letters and elsewhere. Krishnamurti students, however, insist in saying or
implying that any and every form of conditioning
is negative. One must consider therefore that as Mr. Rohit Mehta uses the term
“conditioning”, he actually means “unduly limiting”.
After a long introduction, the lucid, sobering pamphlet
discusses from page 14 the neurotic relationship linking pseudo-leaders and
would-be disciples, under the appearance of beautiful humanitarian and theosophical
ideals.
The lesson that entitles us to avoid such a trap involves
common sense and vigilance.
It seems indeed that whenever the pedagogical process involved
in philosophy is not duly observed and discussed, both “gurus” and neophytes
subconsciously try to use and manipulate each other, in pursuit of narcissistic
advantages of a subtle nature. Unmasking such a process is an unavoidable task
and the duty of every earnest student.
(Carlos Cardoso Aveline)
Spiritual Organization & Exploitation
Rohit Mehta
In these days we
often hear a statement to say that all spiritual organizations are dangerous because
they are instruments of subtle exploitation. It is also suggested that
membership of such organizations and the living of a truly spiritual life are
utterly incompatible. Spiritual organizations are supposed to be based on
authority, hierarchy and discipline. Since spiritual life is a condition of naturalness
and spontaneity, and since disciplines, authorities and hierarchies are
conditioning factors of psychological life, there cannot be any common ground
between the two.
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On the role of the esoteric movement in
the ethical awakening of mankind during the 21st century, see the book “The Fire and Light of Theosophical
Literature”, by Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
Published in
2013 by The Aquarian Theosophist,
the volume has 255 pages and can be obtained through Amazon Books.
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