Fig. 4. Bhagawan Nityananda as a young man with South Indian Tantric guru, Swami Sivananda. (Photo courtesy of D. R. Gadekar.)

See "The Heart of the Secret: A Personal and Scholarly Encounter with Shakta Tantrism in Siddha Yoga. Part 1" here . 

Muktananda had suffered a serious heart attack a few years earlier, and often spoke of how his guru, Bhagawan Nityananda, appeared to him as he lay dying in the hospital and ordered him to return to the world to keep serving humanity a little longer. Perhaps Baba had begun his sexual practices as a means of revivifying himself. This is the inter­pretation, at any rate, of at least one devotee who attended another extraordinary ritual during the summer of 1982 in Ganeshpuri: the nighttime shaktipat performed by Baba in the small meditation hall adjoining his house. As Karen Schaefer, who had been initiated by Baba as a swami, recalls:

Osho: The Path of Yoga, Chapter 1

We live in a deep illusion — the illusion of hope, of future, of tomorrow. As man is, man cannot exist without self-deception.

Nietzsche says somewhere that man cannot live with the true: he needs dreams, he needs illusions, he needs lies to exist. And Nietzsche is true. As man is he cannot exist with the truth. This has to be understood very deeply, because without understanding it there can be no entry into the inquiry which is called Yoga.

Sarah Caldwell

ABSTRACT: This article suggests two apparently contradictory theses: namely that Swami Muktananda (1908-1982) was an enlightened teacher and practitioner of an esoteric form of Tantric sexual yoga, and that he also engaged in actions that were not ethical, legal, or liberatory with many disciples. These two theses are brought into creative tension through a developing Tantric hermeneutic. In discussing secrecy and power, the article addresses critical cultural, feminist, and psychological issues about sexual abuse and the importation of Asian religious tradi­tions into contemporary American society, and argues that what has hap­pened in the recent history of Siddha Yoga arises directly out of Tantra’s long history of dissimulation and secrecy. I suggest that a hybrid schol­arly sensibility might emerge out of the secret heart of the Tantric teach­ings, itself offering a way forward in the study of such traditions.

ARM920T (TM) Core-based Microcontroller Provides Bandwidth, Connectivity and Storage for GPS Host Processor Applications

Author:

Peter Bishop, Communications

Manager, Atmel, Rousset

Synopsis:

Atmel’s AT91RM9200 microcontroller combines an embedded ARM920T™ processor core with a rich set of system and application peripherals for connectivity, communications, data storage and control. These can be fully exploited by a state-of-the-art operating system such as INTEGRITY™ from Green Hills Software to provide a platform that is ideal for high-bandwidth, fine-grain multitasking applications such as the host processor for a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation or telematics system. The integrated power management controller enables this performance to be delivered at minimal power consumption, a consideration of prime importance in hand-held or vehicle-mounted systems.