enlightened wrote:I am a current member of the SFSK, have been for the past ten years. I spend a total of 3 & 1/2 hours at the school, I dont have to live there and no-one is forcing me to do anything against my will, so it is not a cult.The school has reduced in size and Mrs Mavro has mellowed and made some positive changes, it is definetely not as strict and severe as it once was. There has been references to a tutor that left the school at the beginning of 2012, and as a consequence influenced quite a few students to do the same.The tutor in question was my tutor for 7 years, and as I had always suspected, his arrogance, pride and huge ego eventually led to his downfall, and testimony to this was the despicable way in which he attempted to discredit the school.
Hello 'enlightened' ..
Yes of course no-one is forcing you to do anything against your will,
I think though that you do not see the subtle aspects of Mrs Mavros manipulations, and how they work.
Maybe in another 10 years you will.
I suggest that you do not really know Mrs Mavro but are content with what you want to see.
Of course she is not so strict and has mellowed because she wants to keep her school.
The 'references' to the senior tutor that left in early 2012 ..
were hardly just references .. Nina Mavro outrightly lied about his departure.
This I know personally from my conversation with her.
It suits Mrs M to deflect the attention away from the real issue and blame others.
She is the one who should answer for her actions.
If she cared about students welfare she would have called senior students herself and explained
why things were correct.
The fact is that she cannot ..
These lies they have carried for years .. I personally spoke to Mr Mavro about this mantra issue
in around 1996, after receiving severe abuse from Mrs M after 'daring to question her' on what I had heard.
I will never forget the look of guilt on his face as he said these words or very similar
"I don't think there is anything wrong with the mantra'.
And even more crazy was my blind acceptance at the time ..
I wanted to believe them.
But finally one hears it directly from the source ..HH, and you realise that the first
lot of students that left over this issue in around 1994 were telling the truth.
And you say it is not a cult ..
I was told by Nina Mavro that if I ever spoke to these students again ..
I would be out of school .. the she added 'what would become of you then?'
How I felt after that ..
it makes me now see how much subtle fear they put
you under.. and it is Himsa ..violence, the opposite of what we were taught! (in the Yamas & Niyamas)
The unspoken school rule of never speaking to those that have left is very cult like.
HH called the school 'cultish' in one of his talks to us.
Why do they strongly discourage anyone from visiting the Jagadguru?
Do they own him? I don't think so. Something to hide?
This same tutor has done NOTHING to discredit the school ..
he does not write on these forums.
His only 'crime' was to tell senior students the truth about the mantra that was told directly
from HH.
This was decided by all of the senior tutors/students that had left as only right and proper,
that everyone should know the truth that we had been deceived, as we would want to know.
I suggest that the students that left as a consequence of hearing these truths that came from HH,
did so using their own discrimination ..
This aspect is the crux of what the school represented ..
direct connection with HH through an authentic mantra.
It is not mean't to be a social club ..