Comment on Trip to India   Hi Dear Ed, Mucho appreciation for your wonderful Beezone, humming with light, insight, critical-honest evaluations, stimulating disagreements & re-connectings to many of our initiations in the late 60's & 70's from the spiritual masters such as Adi Da (Franklin Jones & Bubba Free John when I lived with him & his community), Chogyam Trunpa, Ramana Maharshi, Buddha, Jesus, others, even in my own case, a relationship to a Jesuit priest, Fr. Francis Rouleau. I'm very thankful, Ed, for your re-posting then Franklin's trip to India with Jerry S. It's very interesting to hear Franklin comment on visiting Satya Sai Baba, Muktananda, spiritual masters both genuine & full of it. I was a very happy member of the community at that time of Franklin's 1974 trip to India; We welcomed & hugged & kissed Franklin back from India at LAX. Franklin went to India to purify his connections to the deepest and real sources of his own work & more to the point, who we all are, who we "already are" as Franklin said. Franklin, though he had started teaching, went as a student & a spiritual geiger counter to the most genuine, living spiritual influences in India & also detecting the many "cultic" spiritual teachers-communities. Franklin said the people at Muktananda's had lost themselves in a kind of slavish conformity to "temple schedule" (hoping to get some of Muktananda's shakti) that they tended not to do the tough initial introspection of spiritual life, where you observe, reflect, begin to see one's own tendencies & feel lots of heat, "tapas." Franklin also said that many spiritual sources conspire to bring about a true spiritual community & the spiritual means-influences that are conducive to waking up, to being happy & that he was traveling to India to see his own teacher, Muktananda. And to see Satya Sai Baba & others & to go to the mahasamadhi sites/temples/living quarters of Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi, Buddha. I was very edified & inspired by Franklin's insistence that the individual teacher is the servant of the what's real in spiritual transmission. The individual guru is absolutely submitted to the Divine & it's in this sense Franklin says "I am That" because that's all there, there's no Franklin left. Franklin felt the spiritual influence of Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi in India; Franklin was emerging a a Siddha guru, because he wasn't quite ready to begin his own teaching in earnest. Franklin said we are That too. Don't make me, Franklin, the center of a cult where all attention is on me as an all-consuming attention. Don't always try to remember what I look like. "Live in the city; don't run away from life, live, live communally, whether in the country or city; the community becomes the guru, live with fun & Jesus was right God is love." Thanks again, Ed. Abrazos, tu hermano, Morgan

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