From: Gerry Armstrong <gerry@gerryarmstrong.org>
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Subject: You name it
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 00:06:51 -0700
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As is well known, the Scientology cult publishes a newsletter called
"Going Global." The cult says Going Global is published by the
"Planetary Dissemination Unit at Flag," which, the cult also says,
"was formed as the major funding source for the GOING GLOBAL CAMPAIGN
in order to make LRH tech available to every being."
Going Global Volume III, Issue 5 contains this statement:
[Quote]
India can rightfully be called the home of spirituality and
self-improvement on planet Earth. The vast majority of its more than 1
billion inhabitants have as their basic belief that they are a
spiritual being, that they have lived before, that they will live
again and that full spiritual freedom is the highest goal of the
individual.
Last year, SCIENTOLOGY® pioneers were invited to take part in one of
the largest religious celebrations in the province of Mysore, India.
The invitation was initiated by a very influential religious leader
who after having viewed the ORIENTATION film and purchasing several
Scientology books, wanted to have Scientology disseminated to his
people in India. Referred to as "His Holiness," this religious leader
influences over 10 million people in relation to their religious and
secular lives.
The result of this visit was nothing less than spectacular, with over
200,000 Indians introduced to Scientology and over 30,000 people
toured through the LRH Life Exhibition.
This is thinking in the correct orders of magnitude!
But what does the future hold for India?
Through January and early February 2002, "His Holiness" (the
influential religious leader) is hosting two religious events expected
to draw half a million participants. We have again been invited to
attend and introduce Scientology to his people. In attendance will be
several other influential religious leaders from India, religious
scholars, monks, officials, political representatives and hundreds of
thousands of followers of Hinduism. The potential is HUGE! In addition
to seminars and lectures that Scientologists will be delivering, the
LRH Life Exhibition will begin touring India on a permanent basis.
Our Sea Org delegation, who will be traveling to India to attend these
events, need lots of LRH materials to present to these religious
leaders and hundreds of thousands of attendees. And the Planetary
Dissemination Unit at FLAG will be sending these materials to India.
With your donations to this project, you will be directly helping to
get people into Scientology at a faster rate than ever and expand
Scientology's reach in a country where we encounter no psychs or
psych-drugs and where people are already on a higher spiritual
plateau.
Your help is needed as now is the time to get the tech out to every
being FOR REAL!
[End Quote]
Going Global Volume III, Issue 5
© 2001 CSFSO
[parens. (()) in original]
Right beside this statement in the issue is a photo of an audience of
perhaps hundreds of apparently holy men, with the caption:
[Quote]
Left: Hundreds of Hindu monks attending the religious celebration last
year.
[End Quote]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/monks1.html
When I think of Hindu monks, I think more of monks that look like
these fellows:
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030115/nat3.jpg
although there may be some monkinis among the monks here.
Or like these babas:
http://www.sanatansociety.org/india_travels_and_festivals/images/12a_jpg.jpg
A Google advanced image search for "Hindu monks" yields a mere
forty-five images.
The gentlemen that the cult is identifying as "Hindu monks" in Going
Global Volume III, Issue 5 appear to me to be Buddhist monks.
Scientology published another article about the Mysore "religious
festival" in the cult's magazine International Scientology News, Issue
16, © 2001 CSI. Accompanying the article is another, and clearer photo
of the same set of monks, in the same seating arrangement, but taken
from a slightly different angle.
The article states in part:
[Quote]
LRH AND SCIENTOLOGY PRESENTED TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
at Mysore religious festival
The LRH Exhibition was featured at the annual religious festival in
Mysore, India, at the invitation of His Holiness Sri Swamiji,
spiritual leader of 20 million followers.
Swamiji, who holds authority over more than 200 religious
institutions, hospitals and universities, was first introduced to
Dianetics and Scientology in 1999. Following his study of LRH books,
he invited Scientologists to come and lecture his people, and
subsequently, many of the monks in his ashram (Hindu religious
retreat) were trained on Dianetics auditing and TRs and began auditing
each other.
[End Quote]
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/monks2.html
The article does not specifically identify the monks in the photo as
"Hindu monks," but does imply that they're Hindu monks because of the
statement that monks in "His Holiness Sri Swamiji's" ashram were
trained on Dianetics. The article also helps everyone with a
definition for "ashram" as a "Hindu religious retreat." Scientology,
of course, like to call its Clearwater money pump and fraud a
"religious retreat."
Keeping to the religious growth theme, by the time ISN 16 came out,
Scientology "intelligence" had identified the very influential
religious leader, referred to as "His Holiness," as none other than
one Sri Swamiji, with not now ten million people who are "influenced"
by him but twenty million "followers."
We've put the two photos of Scientology's "Hindu monks" on a single
page to facilitate their comparison.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/monks5.html
Going Global Volume II, Issue 6 contains a number of photos of monks
who have been conned by the Scientologists into posing with cult books
and the cult con artists. The cult identifies these monks as "Buddhist
monks," who look, both in facial features and in their attire, to be
the same kind of monks that the cult identifies a year later in Going
Global Volume III, Issue 5 as "Hindu monks."
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/monks3.html
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/writings/monks4.html
A Google advanced image search for "Buddhist monks" yields 1460
images, including some that again look an awful lot like the subject
"Hindu monks" in Going Global Volume III, Issue 5. See, e.g.,
http://hullabaloo.tulane.org/media/news/1075438694.jpg
Finally, the Dalai Lama has to be a Buddhist, I think the whole world
agrees, and that smile looks suspiciously like the subject monks
getting their photos taken in the subject photos in the subject Going
Global, and his togs have got to be cut from the same cloth.
http://www.buddhismus.at/bilder/dalai_lama_gross4.jpg
It was noted recently that Hinduism is the world's fastest growing
religion, and it could be that the Hindus have been using the
Scientology numbering technology to achieve that status. It could even
be that they are using Scientologist numberers for the census. The
Scientology cult adds millions of members simply by declaring millions
of wogs® to be "Scientologists." Now the cultists appear to be padding
the Hindus' numbers simply by declaring Buddhists to be Hindus, even
Buddhist monks to be Hindus. It doesn't take too many crowd shots and
Hinduism becomes the word's fastest growing religion, just as
Scientology made itself the world's fastest growing criminal cult.
In his infamous "Wake-Up Call" IGN Bulletin "dated" September
11,
2001, cult leader David Miscavige states:
[Quote]
The public knows other religions have failed. Every one of them had an
original goal of peace, love and compassion. And yet, one by one, they
became involved in war themselves -- all because they lacked the
technology to achieve their aims -- Christianity, Islam, Judaism --
you name it. All except us. So we must give them the tech too. We must
have as many Volunteer Ministers as there are police -- getting every
being back to church, but this time for the real help we can provide,
which we must spread far and wide and so unite all religions.
[End Quote]
So it could be that part of the Scientology "plan" to "unite
all
religions" is to call them all Hindus, and Going Global Volume III,
Issue 5 is just a single target in that sky high goal. This certainly
would make Hinduism the world's fastest growing religion. And
Scientology can continue to hold onto the title as the world's fastest
growing criminal cult.
I also came across this statement by Hubbard in his book The Phoenix
Lectures ©1968, which is astonishingly relevant to the possibly
shocking hinduization of the Buddhist monks.
[Quote]
We come then into the main period of the Dhyana. The Dhyana has, as a
background, almost as legendary a distance as the Veda, appearing in
India in its mythological period, legendary in its basics. Dharma was
the name of a legendary Hindu sage whose many progenies were the
personification of virtue and religious rites, and we have the word
Dharma almost interchangeable with the word Dhyana. But whatever you
use there, you're using a word which means Knowingness. Dhyana again
means Knowingness and Lookingness. The Veda, the Tao, the Dharma, all
mean Knowingness. This is what they are, and these are all religious
works, and this is the religion of about two thirds of the population
of earth. It is a tremendous body of people that we're talking about
here. We erroneously know about it as and call it Buddhism in the
western world and it has very little to do with Buddha.
[End Quote]
So it very well may be that the Scientologists are applying this
Hubbard "scripture" in Going Global Volume III, Issue 5 and are
"correcting" the western world's error of calling Buddhism Buddhism
and calling Buddhist monks Buddhist monks, and are calling them what
Hubbard must have thought they were, "Hindu monks."
I am not claiming to be an expert in Hinduism or Buddhism, or in
distinguishing Hindu monks from Buddhist monks. In fact, I'm asking
with this post for anyone with knowledge in these subjects, and
specifically with regard to the Scientology organization's activities
and statements in Mysore, and elsewhere in India, to examine the
subject photos, and provide any facts or opinions which might perhaps
guide toward a resolution of the question. Are the Hindu monks really
Buddhists?
Oh, here's the homepage of His Holiness Parama Pujya Sri Ganapati
Sachchidananda Swamiji, according to the Scientologists, Mysore's
newest franchise holder.
http://www.dattapeetham.com/
© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org