Swami Balendu - Opportunist

As per the online dictionary Opportunist means, “a person who dexterously and expediently changes or adopts opinions”. Swami Balendu conveniently changes and adopts to the theories as per the need of the situation. When he is talking in context to Yoga, he agrees and uses scriptual explanation but when it comes to claiming himself to be a non hindu then he turns around completely and the very next moment he contradicts himself yet again. In next few posts I will bring dozens of such examples from his own writings on various topics.

There is no problem with people changing there opinions with life experiences but changing repeatedly or going back n forth as per vested interest is a whole another story. What Swami Balendu and crew is forgetting is that all this is recorded and is public knowledge on the internet. What other people has said to me is that they just laugh it off and do not take him seriously but I think it is time to talk about it and get it out in the open.

All the quotations below in Italics are from Swami Balendu’s public diary that he writes on daily basis. They are intended to be used under “fair use” law. 

The Copyright Act says that “fair use…for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.”

Now if you look below there are excerpts from July 2010, March 2011 and December 2011 and I hope you laugh as loud as I did. I will analyze it at the end.

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On March 17th 2011 Swami Balendu wrote, “You are the cup of water. In you, there is some water, which actually is part of that big ocean. The water is your soul and the ocean is that big soul with which we wish to get united. And when we get united, that is yoga. We actually are the water from the ocean.We belong to that, what we wish to get united with. If you call this ocean god, you are God, too. If you call that ocean the universe, you are the universe, too. Who are you?”

29 July 2010 Swami Balendu wrote. “ I  wrote about spirits and ghosts yesterday and said that I absolutely do not believe that ghosts exist. After this answer to the question if I believe in ghosts, there is often another one that follows: ‘And what about souls? Do you believe that we have a soul? Soul is energy, the life in someone, our basic element, which moves us and keeps us alive. When there is no love in a relationship, we say it is dead. When there is no business in a company we say it is dead. Whenever the basic element of something is gone, we call it dead. When our basic element is gone, we are dead. And our soul is that which is missing then.”

Just six wks ago on 2nd Dec. 2011 Swami Balendu enlightens us once again with his superior knowledge as he wrote, “ I think the most prominent and widely spread idea is that your soul lives in your body and leaves it at the moment of death. I am not convinced even with this basic statement. You see, the main thing is that your soul is nothing material, nothing that you can measure. Due to this nature of the soul, I just don’t believe that it actually ‘lives in the body’. Your body and your soul are not separate parts and the soul, in my opinion, does not decide to leave the body once it doesn’t work anymore. I wrote about my definition of a soul before and I said: Soul, energy, love, essence, prana and god are synonyms for me. I don’t think that there are billions of souls on this earth and every second some of them leave their current bodies. I believe we all are one soul, not little pieces of that soul. You can call this soul anything but it is not countable.

In the same way that we ‘are’ our soul, I believe that food is soul, a flower is soul and water is soul. I don’t believe that man-made machines and devices are souls but everything in nature, stones, rivers, forests and more, everything that lives, that all is soul and it is the same as we are. So I would rather say that our body lives in the soul than the other way around. 

I don’t believe in all of this. When I die, my soul will not leave this body and travel out of the open door to go to find a new body. The air which fills the room around us is made out of the same essence, the same love, the same god.”

I would like to end with this quote from his writing on March 27th 09. I wonder how he got the idea for this post, Introspection may be?

“We were talking today and I said that I am always honest in what I am saying. I have an opinion and if I am asked for it, I will express it. I have written in the diary before, that I do not give my advice without being asked for it. But if someone wants to know my opinion, I am honest. I will say what I feel. I see many people whose opinion changes with the person what they are speaking to. They always keep in mind that the other person likes or doesn’t like and talk according to that. This doesn’t usually come from a bad intention, on the contrary, they want to make the other person happy. Their aim is to make others happy.

My aim is to be honest and truthful. Maybe sometimes it could be that the other person doesn’t like my opinion but I have to say what I feel. I would not change my philosophy or thinking to entertain someone or to make someone happy. And what do you think is better for the other person? I have seen that one person, who talks with two different people about the same situation, gives two different opinions about it, just to make the other one happy. They do this to givehappiness to others but they can get in very difficult situations if these two people meet and sharethe advice which they received from the same person. They will find out that it was not what this person really thought because he just said what was nice for them. But I don’t want to do that. Stay honest. Others will be happy about your honest opinion”

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All I do is shake my head and smile. In the last post he is describing himself, guilty conscious maybe?

I do not think I need to analyze or add anything here as you can see his confusion and opportunistic ways. What you may not know is that all three excerpts are from three different topics. In the first one he is talking about Yoga and explaining what yoga means per scriptures. It is right on per yogic philosophy. In the second one he is talking in Germany about energy and healing work and suddenly he needs to believe in energy of the soul because that would be right thing to do for this audience.

In the third excerpt he is talking about what happens to soul when one dies or about re-incarnation and here he is supposed to be against the hindu traditions, beliefs and religion so he wants to cut the basic belief system by proving his point.

Now if someone was only interested in one of these topics and read any of these entries by itself then they would be somewhat impressed but if they realized and said, wait a minute this is not what he said in another topic, that is when you realize his phoniness and fakeness. I am not making it up and you can see it for yourself and be amused.

I will be back with more of his mumbo jumbo. Stay tuned.