Pentru varianta in romana apasati aici.

Motto:

“Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand, and tramples upon temptations”

“Before you pick on the straw in the eye of your neighbor, take care of the big stick in your own eye”.
Dear Shri Ajita,

I have answered your first message. Please understand I also have other things to do then to answer messages on the internet. Besides, I had to structure my answer so that I make myself well understood, because I noticed that some of the ides you presented in your message were unclear and they needed a proper explanation. Now, after you read my answer, I hope that the aspects related to left or right hand Tantra, as they are understood in our school, are more clear and that you are no longer so scared by the Tantric path perspective.

Nevertheless, I want to assure you with full heart from the beginning of this message that I am open to listen to any common sense advises that you have for me. Actually, I also read very carefully your first message and I hope that the answer I gave you is at least a proof for this. So far, you have only made affirmations and I answered in detail in the previous message to the points you have outlined. I am still waiting for the advice you promised. Yet, there are certain aspects which I would like to underline regarding what you had written to me. These aspects show that although you want to help me see something, you are actually not consistent. Last year, when you were our guest, you said: “This weekend was unforgettable. The Eurocongress in Copenhagen lead by the warm energy of Adina Stoian in the service of mankind, remains in my heart.”

But this year you say you have a problem with our school, which does not follow the right path. I took care of the morality of this second affirmation in my previous message, but now I would like to ask you if this 180* shift is characteristic to a wise man? When you were enchanted by the hosts of Euroyoga Congress, we were on the same spiritual path and under the same guidance of Grieg as we are now. How come you did not say anything to me and Adina? How come you become anxious just now, when on the International Yoga Federation forum those calumnious messages appeared?

I see that you insist on the Tantric system also in this message (message which you have send in a strange rush, without waiting for the clarifications you asked from me), but considering that I have already answered you, I hope everything is more clear now. The danger that you insist upon almost obsessively – regarding the Tantric path – seems to be only in your mind, because in reality, having a well structured methodology, the practitioner progresses safely on this path. Tens of thousands of practitioners, who have obtained remarkable results on the spiritual path in this school, using this precise methodology, stand as a proof for this. Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to come and learn this system, having the openness for this. Later on, after you know it well, you can offer us the advices you keep mentioning. But I must underline that your affirmation, that the Romanian government is worried about the spiritual practice of people and this is why they attack the yoga school shows either an amazing naivety – for a man with your experience – or a hidden bad intention. Is this your conclusion, after all you could see even from the documents published on the internet by our school, regarding the abuses of Romanian authorities? This affirmation makes me smile. You say:

 ”Your government certainly feels that danger, but can not prove it, because they are not expert in the field. You can correct your practice and your problems will vanish as snow under the sun.”

I would like to specify one last thing regarding your affirmations about the relationship between our school and the International Federation.

From the moment we entered the International Yoga Federation we acted correctly in the favor of the Federation. The proof is the two congresses we organized in this period of time. These events (At least the congress in Bucharest) were by far the biggest events I have seen so far within the International Yoga Federation. I believe you are aware of this reality, honestly. But when it was the attempt to impose on us to organize this year a contest of so called Sport Yoga, we said that this branch is not traditional and that we do not wish to compromise yoga. In fact, we showed at that time (perhaps you remember the message Grieg sent to Swami Maitreyananda) that sportsmen often use yoga to improve their sportive accomplishments, but that yogis do not use sport in order to improve their spiritual accomplishments and not even their yoga practice. At our suggestions, the International Yoga Federation agreed to also organize in Copenhagen (when we will meet I can give you the entire file with messages from the federation), besides the Sport Yoga Contest (as this had already been announced), a contest of traditional yoga, which we then named “esoteric yoga”. In Copenhagen, you or anyone of the guests did not have a problem with this (as it can be seen from your own words, which I hope were honest). After the end of the Congress in Copenhagen, the leadership of the International Sport Yoga Federation (which is different then the International Yoga Federation) said that they disagreed with the fact that we changed the rules of the contest and added that section.

In the meanwhile, the International Yoga Federation decided that MISA should organize in Bucharest the World Congress together with the World Congress of Sport Yoga. Due to the fact that the International Sport Yoga Federation did not accept anything from what we had suggested and in order not to compromise the idea of yoga through this pseudo world championship of sport yoga, we had to renounce organizing this world championship. BUT THIS WAS OUR DECISION AND NOT THE DECISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPORT YOGA FEDERATION.

After this decision was taken, the decision of the International Sport Yoga Federation to no longer communicate with our Yoga School appeared. At the same time, though, in the talks I had with Swami Dayananda, president of International Yoga Federation, Swami Maitreyananda, the former president of the International Yoga Federation, Carlos Miguel, president of the European Yoga Alliance, we agreed that the International Yoga Federation will sustain an international congress in Bucharest. This congress should be put on the agenda of the international activities of the federation, but it is different from the world congress, which includes the sport yoga championship. NOTHING was mentioned in any of these discussions about what you say in these messages. This makes me wonder: IN WHOSE NAME DO YOU MAKE THE AFFIRMATION: “you must also be aware of the fact that the International Yoga Federation is not happy with MISA”? WHO GAVE YOU THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE SUCH AFFIRMATIONS WHEN THOSE RESPONSIBLE WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL YOGA FEDERATION DID NOT SAY ANYTHING ALIKE? The final affirmation, that the IYF sustains or not our practices – which you wrongly call “left hand Tantra”, is absolutely hilarious. It was never discussed within the International Yoga Federation which practices are sustained and which are not. Moreover, the intense focus was on “unity in diversity“. Therefore, this affirmation belongs to you and it is an authority abuse.

I hope that by pointing out these things regarding your letter, I did nothing but to respect the open and honest dialogue between us. At the same time, I expect a real concern regarding the abuses in Romania, because those are real problems and the international spiritual community should look into it.

I wish you love and peace

Mihai Stoian.

Motto:

“patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand, and tramples upon temptations”

“vezi mai intai paiul din ochiul tau inainte de a cauta barna din ochiul vecinului”

Draga Shri Ajita,

Iata ca am raspuns primului tau mesaj. Trebuie sa intelegi ca eu mai am si alte lucruri de facut decat sa raspund la mesaje pe internet. In plus a trebuit sa structurez raspunsul in asa fel incat sa ma fac bine inteles pentru ca am observat ca unele idei expuse de tine in mesaj erau neclare si necesitau o explicatie corespunzatoare. Acum dupa lecturarea raspunsului meu sper ca aspectele legate de tantra, de mana stanga sau de mana drepta asa cum sunt intelese in scoala noastra s-au mai lamurit si nu mai esti atat de speriat de perspectiva caii tantrice.  

Totusi vreau sa te asigur cu toata convingerea inca de la inceputul acestui mesaj ca sunt deschis sa ascult orice sfaturi de bun simt pe care mi le vei da. Dealtfel ti-am citit cu mare atentie si primul mesaj si raspunsul pe care l-am dat cred ca macar aceasta o dovedeste. Pana acum insa ai facut aproape numai afirmatii si la singurele argumente ti-am raspuns in detaliu in mesajul anterior. Astept in continuare acele sfaturi promise.

Sunt totusi iata anumite aspecte pe care as vrea sa ti le arat despre ceea ce mi-ai scris, aspecte care arata ca desi vrei sa ma ajuti sa sa vad ceva totusi tu insuti nu esti consecvent. Anul trecut cand ai fost oaspetele noastru afirmai: “This weekend was unforgettable. The Eurocongress in Copenhagen lead by the warm energy of Adina Stoian in the service of mankind, remains in my heart.”

Anul acesta insa iata ca tu spui ca ai o problema cu scoala noastra care nu merge pe calea cea dreapta. De moralitatea acestei a doua afirmatii m-am ocupat in mesajul trecut insa acum as vrea sa te intreb daca aceasta schimbare la 180 de grade este caracteristica unui om intelept? Atunci cand tu ai fost incantat de gazdele Euro Congress noi tot pe aceeasi cale spirituala ne aflam si sub aceeasi indrumare a lui Grieg. Cum de atunci nu mi-ai spus nimic nici mie nici Adinei? Cum de aceasta ingrijorare apare exact acum cand pe forumul federatiei internationale de yoga au aparut acele mesaje calomnioase?  

Desi vad ca si in acest mesaj (pe care l-ai trimis cu o graba stranie fara sa astepti lamuririle pe care mi le-ai cerut)  insisti asupra sistemului tantric, avand in vedere ca am raspuns deja sper ca totul este mai clar acum. Primejdia asupra careia insisti aproape obsesiv in ceea ce priveste calea tantrica se pare ca este numai in mintea ta pentru ca in realitate avand o metodologie bine structurata practicantul avanseaza sigur pe aceasta cale. Marturie stau si zecile de mii de practicanti care au obtinut rezultate remarcabile pe calea spirituala in aceasta scoala folosind aceasta metodologie precisa. Poate nu ar strica sa vii si sa inveti acest sistem cu deschidere si apoi dupa ce il vei fi cunoscut temeinic sa ne oferi si sfaturile de care tot amintesti.

Trebuie insa sa punctez ca afirmatia ta cum ca guvernul roman este ingrijorat de practica spirituala a oamenilor si din aceasta cauza ataca scoala de yoga dovedeste ori o naivitate uimitoare pentru un om cu experienta ta ori o disimulata  rea vointa. Oare asta sa fie concluzia ta dupa tot ceea ce ai putut sa vezi chiar si din documentele publicate pe net de catre scoala noastra in ceea ce priveste abuzirile autoritatilor romane? Ma faci sa zambesc cu aceasta afirmatie:  

Tu spui:

“Your government certainly feels that danger, but can not prove it, because they are not expert in the field. You can correct your practice and your problems will vanish as snow under the sun.”

O ultima precizare as vrea sa fac in legatura cu afirmatiile tale referitoare la relatia scolii noastre cu federatia internationala.

Inca de la momentul in care noi am intrat in federatia internationala de yoga noi am activat cu corectitudine in favoarea federatiei. Dovada sunt cele doua congrese pe care le-am organizat in acest interval si care evenimente (cel putin congresul din Bucuresti) a fost de departe cel mai mare din ceea ce am vazut pana acum in Federatia Internationala de Yoga. Cred ca in mod onest iti dai seama de aceasta realitate. Atunci insa cand s-a cautat sa ni se impuna sa organizam anul acesta un concurs de asa zisa YOGA SPORTIVA noi am afirmat ca aceasta ramura nu este una traditionala si ca nu dorim sa compromitem yoga. Dealtfel am aratat atunci (poate ca iti amintesti mesajul care a fost trimis de Grieg lui Swami Maitreyananda) ca sportivii adeseori se folosesc de yoga ca sa isi imbunatateasca perfomantele sportive insa yoghinii nu se folosesc de sport pentru a isi imbunatati realizarile spirituale si nici macar practica yoga. La sugestiile noastre a fost acceptat de catre Federatia Internationala de Yoga (iti pot pune la dispozitie cand ne vedem tot dosarul cu mesaje de la federatie) ca sa facem la Copenhaga, pe langa concursul de yoga sportiva (pentru ca acesta era deja anuntat) si yoga traditionala pe care atunci l-am numit “yoga esoterica”. La Copenhaga nici tu si nici unul dintre invitati nu au avut o problema cu aceasta (asa cum se vede si din propriile tale cuvinte care sper ca au fost sincere). Dupa incheierea congresului de la Copenhaga cei din conducerea Ferederatiei Internationale de Yoga Sportiva (care este diferita de federatia internationala de yoga) au spus ca nu sunt de accord ca noi am modificat regulamentul concursului si ca am adaugat acea sectiune.

Intre timp Federatia Internationala de Yoga a decis ca MISA sa organizeze la bucuresti congresul mondial impreuna cu campionatul mondial de yoga sportiva. Datorita faptului ca Federatia Internationala de Yoga Sportiva nu a acceptat nimic din ceea ce noi am sugerat si pentru ca sa nu compromitem ideea de yoga prin acest pseudo campionat mondial de yoga sportiva, am fost nevoiti sa renuntam la a mai organiza acest campionat mondial. INSA ACEASTA A FOST DECIZIA NOASTRA SI IN NICI UN CAZ A FEDERATIEI DE YOGA SPORTIVA. Ulterior acestei decizii a aparut hotararea Federatiei de Yoga Sportiva de a nu mai comunica cu scoala noastra. In acelasi timp insa in discutiile pe care le-am avut direct cu Swami Dayananda, presedintele Federatiei internationale de yoga, cu Swami Maitreyananda, fostul presedinte al Federatiei internationale, Calros Miguel, presedintele Aliantei Europene de Yoga, am convenit ca totusi Federatia Internatinala de Yoga sa sustina la Bucuresti un congres international inscris in agenda activitatilor internationale ale federatiei insa diferit de congresul mondial care contine si campionatul de yoga sportiva. In nici una dintre aceste discutii nu a fost menitonat NIMIC din ceea ce spui tu in aceste mesaje, fapt care ma face sa ma intreb: IN NUMELE CUI FACI TU AFIRMATIA: “you must also be aware of the fact that the International Yoga Federation is not happy with MISA”? CINE TE-A AUTORIZAT SA FACI ASEMENEA AFIRMATII CAND FACTORII RESPONSABILI AI FEDERATIEI INTERNATIONALE DE YOGA NU AU SPUS NIMIC ASEMANATOR?

Ultima afirmatie ca IYF sustine sau nu practicile noastre, pe care tu in mod gresit le numesti “de mana stanga”, este de-a dreptul hilara. Niciodata in federatia internationala de yoga nu s-a pus problema ce practici sunt sustinute si ce practici nu sunt sustinute. Mai mult chiar s-a lucrat sub ideea forta “unitate in diversitate”. De aceea afirmatia aceasta iti apartine si este un abuz de autoritate.

Sper ca punctand aceste lucruri despre scrisoarea ta nu am facut altceva decat sa sprijin dialogul deschis si sincer dintre noi. De asemenea astept o reala preocupare despre situatia abuzurilor din Romania pentru ca acelea sunt problemele reale asupra carora comunitatea spirituala internationala trebuie sa isi indrepte atentia.

Iti doresc iubire si pace

Mihai Stoian

MOTTO:

ABSOLUT TOTUL ESTE PUR PENTRU ACELA CARE ESTE PUR

A INTELEGE CU ADEVARAT TOTUL INSEAMNA A IERTA TOTUL

Draga Shri Ajita,

Va multumim pentru scrisoare si pentru grija aratata pentru scoala noastra de yoga cat si pentru ajutorul pe care intentionati sa ni-l oferiti si care este oricand binevenit. Punandu-ma in locul Dumneavoastra va inteleg ingrijorarea si de aceea as dori sa lamuresc pe cat posibil anumite aspecte astfel incat sa se reduca acest sentiment chinuitor de discomfort cu privire la persoana mea si la scoala noastra. Trebuie insa sa realizati ca aceasta stare pe care o incercati nu este armonioasa pentru Dvs si arata ca aveti nevoie de ajutorul nostru, pentru ca in ceea ce ne priveste noi nu avem asemenea stari de perturbare si cand vedem ca ceva nu este in regula manifestam starea de compasiune si detasare si in nici un caz nu ramanem tulburati.

Voi lua acum pe rand aspectele prezetate pentru ca sa putem sa le lamurim cat mai bine pe fiecare in parte.  Iata una din afirmatiile Dumneavoastra:

“You explain how bad people attack you and your organization and you speak of calumnies against you. But that is disturbing me. Because you cannot deny you are involved in sex business, as proved for me by the presence of a sex shop on your congress of Kopenhagen, where everybody could see and buy pornographic material, books or sex toys.”

Incep cu vesti bune si anume ca puteti fi linistit in ceea ce priveste vanzarea de material pornographic la un presupus sexshop in cadrul congresului European de yoga de la Copenhaga: nici unul dintre buticurile care au fost autorizate sa desfasoare activitati comerciale la intrarea in salile congresului nu a fost un sexshop. Am verificat personal atat listele cu materiale puse in vanzare in acele zile cat si prin discutii directe cu directorii acelor firme si m-am asigurat ca nu a fost asa. A trebuit sa fac aceasta pentru ca asa cum stiti eu a trebuit sa plec imediat dupa dechiderea congresului si dupa conferinta pe care am tinut-o chiar la inceput si am vrut sa ma asigur ca ceea ce ati semnalat nu s-a petrecut dupa ce am plect eu. Singurele materiale cu nuanta erotica care au existat in acea incinta pe toata durata celor trei zile de congres au fost cele aduse de Kubera Tantric Butik si au fost numai unele jucarii sexuale ca acelea mentionate in Kama Sutra. Nici urma de reviste, carti sau filme cu character pornografic asa cum ati spus. Chiar si asa, acele jucarii nu se aflau la vedere ci intr-o cutie care putea sa fie ceruta de catre persoanele interesate. Initiativa acelui butik apartine unui profesor din scoala noastra care preda tantra si care a considerat ca din moment ce noi vorbim in anumite cursuri de tantra despre armonia sexuala in cuplu si asemenea jucarii sexuale sunt mentionate in lucrari celebre cum ar fi Kama Sutra, cei interesati pot sa le aiba la dispozitie pentru ca sa nu trebuiasca sa mearga sa caute in sex shop-uri unde se gasesc si alte materiale. Echipa de organizare a congresului le-au cerut insa celor de la Kubera sa tina acele jucarii numai pentru cei care solicitau in mod explicit aceasta si nu pe taraba. Totusi daca inca mai aveti anumite intrebari puteti sa intrati in dialog direct cu Andronicus Torp, directorul firmei respective, la adresa andronicus@natha.dk.
“The essence of your problem, Mihai, is that you are busy with an own form of Tantra Yoga, which has been transmitted to you by Grieg Bivolaru. And you still believe the man.”

Aceasta parte a scrisorii ma surprinde si sper sa fie numai adresarea stangace intr-o limba diferita de cea materna cauza acestei afirmatii. Ma intreb totusi cum poate sa fie esenta problemei mele faptul de a imi urma ghidul spiritual? In ce carti ati citit ca un discipol care isi urmeaza ghidul spiritual are din aceasta cauza o problema esentiala. Din cate se afirma in toate tratetele fundamentale ale intelepciunii, problemele esentiale apar atunci cand discipolul nu isi urmeaza maestrul intr-un mod corespunzator. Si evident pentru ca sa iti urmezi maestrul la modul practic, trebuie sa crezi in el si in veridicitatea afirmatiilor sale. Forma de tantra yoga pe care mi-a predat-o ghidul meu spiritual Grieg este o forma TRADITIONALA si eu personal am verificat aceasta comparand ceea ce am invatat de la el cu lucrari traditionale de yoga si tantra. Pentru mine (ca si pentru foarte multi altii) deja nu mai este o problema de a il crede sau nu pe Grieg pentru ca acum pentru mine autenticitatea acestor invataturi este o chestiune deja demonstrata atat de aceste studii pe care le-am realizat dar mai ales de experientele pe care eu le am pe aceasta cale asa ca afirmatia ca “tu inca il crezi” nu isi are rostul.  Experienta spirituala pe care am acumulat-o ma edificat din plin ca acest om are dreptate. Mai mult m-am convins ca insusi marele Model Divin care a fost Iisus propovaduieste aceeasi cale atunci cand EL da parabola talantilor. Ma uimeste faptul ca doriti sa ingropati talantul “energiei sexuale” pe care chiar Dumnezeu ni l-a dat si nu vreti sa il inmultiti pentru mai binele spiritual. Chiar daca nu va intereseaza calea tantrica merita sa va raportati la invatatura lui Iisus pentru ca din ceea ce eu am verificat si practic aceste doua cai sunt identice. In plus si in scoala noastra se preda continenta sexuala care este mentionata in toate tratatele yoghine sub numele de Brahmacharya.

Si in plus daca aceasta este problema esentiala atunci de ce nu ii adresati lui Grieg aceste intrebari in mod direct pentru ca sunt convins ca el ar fi incantat sa va raspunda? Eu sunt convins ca aceasta abordare ar fi scutit multe intrebari in mintea unora si ar aduce multe revelatii.

Voi continua insa cu raspunsul pe care l-ati solicitat. Dumneavoastra afirmati:

“Maybe you could start wondering about this, knowing that sexual desire is a very dangerous thing to handle, especially when dealing with beginners. Therefore, in ancient times, the Rishi’s (reference “Science of Soul” by Swami Yogeshverananda Sarasvati) have described the difference between Bahirmukhi Vritti (energy vibrations leading to external life) and Antarmukhi Vritti (energy vibrations leading yo internal life), which are called commonly the left path and the right path.”

Aici sunt total de accord si mai mult chiar as avea de adaugat ca in lucrarile tantrice se insista asupra necesitatii de a avea un ghid spiritual ca o conditie esentiala pentru ca sa poti sa realizezi cu succes aceasta diferentiere dintre cele doua tendinte intr-un mod practic si eficient. Totodata este stiut ca metodologia tantrica ne pune la dispozitie “ustensilele” practice prin care persoanele care oricum se afla proiectate catre exterior sa poata sa intoarca aceasta tendinta catre interior prin procesul complex al transmutarii si sublimarii potentialelor inferioare in forme superioare de aspiratie.

In continuare spuneti ca:

“Using sexual desire to attain internal life is an extremely demanding art, where the practitioner has to be fully detached, with his mind under total control.”

In deplica cunostinta de cauza imi permit sa spun ca aceasta afirmatie a ta contine greseala cea mai frecventa pe care o fac cei care vor sa inteleaga tantra yoga fara a o experimenta practic si fara a avea un ghid spiritual care sa ii initieze in aceste mistere. Pentru a sublinia cu usurinta unde se afla eroarea iata cateva intrebari ajutatoare:

Daca cineva este complet detasat si mintea sa este total sub control atunci ce l-ar mai tine captiv in “lumea exterioara”? De ce nu s-ar retrage el catre lumea infinit mai nuantata si bogata in semnificatii care este in interiorul sau? Si in acest caz, ce nevoie ar mai avea acela ca sa foloseasca orice metoda (nu neaparat tantra) pentru a obtine “lumea interioara” din moment ce inca de la inceput indeplineste conditiile fundamentale pentru aceasta?In relitate cel care este in aceasta situatie nu ar mai avea nevoie sa apeleze la metode speciale pentru ca sa se orieteze catre interior. Ori aceste metode folosite in tantra sunt menite tocmai pentru aceia care inca nu au ajus la acest nivel si ele vizeaza tocmai trezirea acestor capacitati: de perfecta detasare si control mental.Si in continuare cele afirmate mai sus se confirma:

“Failing to achieve that, the practitioner will fall in external life, which is the cycle of reincarnation.”

Cine este plin de atasamente si are mintea nefocalizata cade oricum mereu si mereu catre lumea exterioara si aceasta fara nici un fel de tehnici tantrice! Daca nu ar fi asa atunci am fi gasit deja solutia pentru ca oamenii sa ramana mereu la viata interioara: interzicerea oricaror procedee tantrice si eliminarea sexualitatii ar garanta ramanerea noastra la interior din moment ce tentatiile sexualitatii sunt cauza caderii catre exterior!

Ori se stie foarte bine ce au patit sistemele spirituale care au facut aceasta grava eroare de a elimina fortat si fara nici un fel de discernamant aspecte fundamentale ale vietii umane cum este sexualitatea. Faptul ca cel atasat si nefocalizat cade catre exterior este cauza inlantuirii in Samsara si ea nu apartine unei cai spirituale anume ci apartine oricui se afla in aceasta situatie. A pune problema in acest fel este ca si cum am spune ca pentru ca un om sa poata evolua spiritual cu adevarat el trebuie sa fie eliberat spiritual! Sau un exemplu simplu: e ca si cum ai spune ca pentru a invata sa inoti trebuie sa inoti foarte bine! Sper ca acest exemplu este suficient. Dealtfel cum ar putea cineva sa cada in Samsara daca nu ar avea inca niste atasamente fata de aceasta. Si daca aceste atasamente sunt inca acolo cel mai indicat este ca persoana respectiva sa practice intens. Ocolind aceste incercari doar pentru a ne mentine intr-o iluzorie perspectiva de interior nu reprezinta nimic altceva decat o amanare neinceata si iresponsabile a acestui deznodamant tragic fara a ne lua nici o masura pentru a il preveni.

Noi nu putem sa creem dorinta acolo unde ea este transcensa iar acolo unde dorinta inca exista in interiorul fiintei ea va iesi mai devreme sau mai tarziu la iveala cu efecte deseori devastatoare pentru viata spirituala a fiintei in cauza. Punand insa problema in mod deschis oamenii au ocazia se cunoasca mai profund si daca vor constata ca inca mai au atasamente fata de placerile inferioare atunci au la dispozitie metodologia tantrica pentru ca sa poata sa se transforme intr-un mod real si profund prin sublimarea finala a dorintelor in altceva net superior si spiritual. Tantra indica intotdeauna aceasta atitudine ca fiind cea mai justa atitudine pentru a reusi sa depasim problemele si atasamentele fata de viata exterioara. Evident ca aceasta poate sa functioneze numai impreuna cu metodologia tantrica si tocmai de aceea noi nu incurajam de exemplu erotismul fara metoda adecvata care sa permita transmutarea si sublimarea impulsului sexual in forme superioare si non sexuale de energie.
In plus sa nu uitam ca in traditia estica avem exemplul lui Krishna care a facut dragoste cu cele 16000 de fecioare si chiar si sistemul hatha yoga este de factura tantrica, el reprezentand de fapt yoga uniunii polaritatilor HA si THA.
Where is your practice Mihai, when you stimulate sexual desire in everybody walking by, without distinction, and even more, asks money for your sex tools? Is that not dangerous and a clear sign of attachment?
Faptul ca oamenii au dorinte sexuale nu ni se datoreaza noua sau dumnevoastra. Acesta este un aspect care exista in mod natural. Asa cum stiti deja fiecare om pervers si limitat judeca lumea dupa propriile sale perversitati. Insa PENTRU CEL PUR TOTUL ESTE PUR.

In acest context te intreb: ce este mai periculos: sa eviti sa te confrunti cu ceea ce deja ai in tine? Sau sa inveti cum sa procedezi si apoi sa te confrunti cu acele tendinte care oricum mai devreme sau mai tarziu vor trebui sa fie rezolvate in ciuda amanarilor noastre pudibonde?

Este un semn de atasament sa iei in considerare o problema sau sa o eviti?A lua in considerare problema nu neaparat implica atasamentul insa a evita cu incapatanare cu siguranta implica repulsia. Asa cum ne spune si Patanjali  repulsia are aceeasi natura cu atasamentul. Este ilustrativa pentru aceasta povestea celor doi calugari: Doi calugari, unul mai tanar si altul mai batran se intorceau la manastire dintr-un pelerinaj. Pe malul unui rau pe care trebuiau sa il treaca in calea lor au gasit o femeie care i-a rugat sa o ajute sa treaca apa. Calugarul cel tanar a strigat la femeie certand-o ca li se adreseaza lor, unor calugari. Fara nici o vorba cel mai batran dintre calugari a luat femeia in brate si a trecut apa cu ea. Pe celalalt mal, fara sa spuna un cuvant a lasat femeia jos si a plecat mai departe. Dupa cateva ore de mers intr-o tacere apasatoare calugarul cel tanar a izbucnit cerandu-i socoteala celui in varsta pentru ca a luat femeia in brate si astfel a incalcat conduita calugarilor. Batranul a zambit si a spus: “eu am luat femeia de pe un mal si am lasat-o pe celalalt mal insa tu o porti inca in mintea ta datorita obsesiilor tale”. Totodata in aceasta afirmatie pe care o faceti imi permit sa semnalez si o incalcare a principiilor morelei yoghine. Conform cu ce criterii puteti sa judecati practica mea sau a scolii noastre prin intrebari retorice atata timp cat nu ati urmat cursurile acestei scoli? Cate ore ati petrecut studiind cursurile noastre? Cate persoane care au practicat ASA CUM TREBUIE  SI IN MOD PERSEVERENT ati cunoscut si le-ati analizat cu atentie rezultatele?Facand abstractie de codul moral eu as intelege aceste afirmatii in contextul in care in scoala noastra s-ar vorbi despre sexualitate tot timpul sau intr-un mod predominant. Insa pentru informarea ta in curriculumul cursurilor din primii 10 ani de curs de yoga (aproximativ 480 de cursuri tiparite) se vorbeste despre sexualitate in maxim 10 dintre ele. A spune ca aceasta este o problema denota o atitudine exagerat pudica. Va rog sa studiati intregul program de activitati al scolii Natha (al carei oaspete ati fost) care este afisat pe website-ul scolii si sa imi spuneti care este ponderea activitatilor spirituale referitoare la sexualitate in contextul general al activitatilor scolii? Veti avea o mare revelatie constatand ca de fapt nu este prea mult accent pe acest subiect. Este bine sa va bazati pe fapte atunci cand emiteti judecati de valoare.
Totusi faptul ca in aceasta scoala noi vorbim foarte deschis despre viata sexuala si cum poate sa fie aceasta integrata din punct de vedere spiritual nu reprezinta un secret. In acest context unii dintre cei care predau yoga si tantra in aceasta scoala au initiat anumite proiecte (printre foarte multele proiecte pe care le desfasuram in scoala pe langa cursurile de yoga si tantra) care sunt menite sa descrie o alternativa la sexualitatea inconstienta si degradanta pe care de obicei oamenii o practica, practica ce are implicatii nebanuite dar foarte grave asupra vietii lor spirituale.
Scopul acestor proiecte este prezentarea modului in care oamenii pot integra in mod constient si spiritual continenta sexuala ca metoda de inceput pentru reintegrarea experientelor sexuale in viata spirituala. Sunt constient ca unele dintre aceste initiative sunt revolutionare insa daca nu am fi avut in spate multi ani de practica si de rezultate spirituale nu ne-am fi permis sa pasim pe acest drum. Si suntem constienti de riscul de a fi gresit intelesi de catre cei care se afla inca in mrejele dorintelor lumesti si vad lumea prin prisma propriilor lor obsesii. Dar intotdeauna exista riscuri cu privire la ideile profund transformatoare ale vietii.

Asa cum stiti drama in care se afla multi oameni la ora actuala nu este cauzata de faptul ca nu stiu ceea ce le face rau ci este cauzata de faptul ca ei nu pot sa faca aproape nimic pentru a se smulge din atasamentele placerilor lumii exterioare. Sa nu uitam ca oamenii inca mai cumpara tigari nu pentru ca sunt orbi ci pentru ca sunt incapabili sa reziste atractiei gigantice catre tentatiile exterioare. Oricat ar fi de frumoase cuvintele pe care le vom spune, marea majoritate vor avea mari probleme sa urmeze o cale ascetica – de refuz categoric a lumii simturilor. Si aceasta pentru simplul motiv ca nu au pregatirea si forta necesara pentru aceasta ascensiune in forta. Pentru toti acesti oameni – care reprezinta o majoritate la ora actuala, in aceasta epoca a decadentei spirituale – Tantra Yoga reprezinta o cale catre Dumnezeu care este in mod practic accesibila. Acesti oameni prinsi in mrejele propriilor dorinte nu trebuie sa se mai pacaleasca refulandu-si in subconstient tendintele inferioare pentru ca pe aceasta cale au metodele practice pentru a constientiza acele tendinte si a le sublima in aspiratii superioare spirituale fara a fi nevoie sa mai treaca prin experientele traumatizante ale ratacirii de la calea catre Dumnezeu. Tocmai de aceea pe calea tantrica majoritatea oamenilor nu sunt deloc infricosati de a aborda subiecte care in mod normal sunt un tabu pentru asceti. Cei care merg pe calea spirituala tantrica abordeaza viata deschis si fara prejudecati. Aceasta nu inseamna absolut deloc ca fac numai ceea ce vor ei indifferent de consecinte. Tocmai de aceea Tantra spune ca “totul este cu putinta insa nu orice este permis”.

Simplul fapt ca vorbim deschis despre aspecte care pentru unii raman tabu ii face pe cei care vor sa profite de pe urma scolii noastre sa vrea sa exploateze teama si neintelegerea corecta a acestor subiecte de catre marea masa. In acest scop ei arunca informatii trunchiate si chiar aberante pe piata bazandu-se pe confuzia deja existenta.Scrisoare continua cu afirmatia: 
“My problem now is that I doubt you can recognize the danger of your lack of knowledge about Tantra Yoga. I hope that you can recognize this and act in consequence. For that I am ready to help you. Coming to Bucharest on your special invitation will then be a pleasure for me, giving me the opportunity to explain you more.”Cu tot respectul vreau sa va atrag atentia ca afirmatia ca nu avem cunostintele necesare in domeniul Tantra Yoga este o alta incalcare a principiilor moralitatii spirituale atata timp cat nu ati avut inca ocazia sa ne cunoasteti in mod direct si sa puteti studia cat de mult sau cat de putin se cunoaste despre tantra yoga in aceasta scoala. Daca este sa judecam o scoala dupa repetenti si cei care pica examenele nu facem altceva decat sa ne expunem ridicolului. Stiu ca intelegeti ce vreau sa spun pentru ca am remarcat intr-o replica pe care ati acordat-o prof dr. Holger Lutich pe acelasi forum al Federatiei Internationale cum ii puneati chiar dvs la indoiala competenta de a judeca MISA atata timp cat nu o cunostea foarte bine. Ati afirmat acolo: “Anyway I do not understand that you admit not knowing MISA very well, but still are in favour of defending that organisation.”

Va rog sa fiti consecvent cu propriile principii.

Trecand peste aceasta greseala (pe care am punctat-o in virtutea unui dialog deschis pe care l-am angrenat aici) trebuie sa va spun ca sunteti oricand binevenit (asa cum ati fost si pana acum) la congresul pe care il vom organiza la Bucuresti sub patronajul Federatiei Internationale de Yoga. Noi suntem convinsi ca din dezbateri constructive se poate naste adevarul.

Pentru noi este totusi curios faptul ca desi am aratat atatea aspecte flagrante de incalcare a drepturilor omului in Romania, desi stiti foarte bine ca Roamania este tara cu cele mai multe condamnari la Curtea Europeana a Drepturilor Omului de la Strasbourg, totusi motivul de ingrijorare il reprezinta aceste aspecte care iata, odata explicate apar nesemnificative. Oare nu arata aceasta un atasament de lumea exterioara a iluziilor create de propriile noastre proiectii?

Ce tratat al intepepciunii milenare spune ca oamenii nu au voie sa isi urmeze calea lor proprie catre Dumnezeu? In procesele de la Bucuresti, instructori yoga sunt acuzati intr-un mod aberant de trafic de persoane, frizand absurdul kafkian. Cat va trebui sa continue aceste procese in Bucuresti pentru ca persoanele din mediul spiritual sa ia atitudine ferma dincolo de calea particulara pe care ei se afla?

Va rog in aceasta directie sa cititi acuzatiile pe care statul Chinez le aduce membrilor miscarii Fallung Gong. Veti observa o izbitoare asemanare. Cu toate acestea, acolo, pentru ca exista interesul politic de a forta regimul comunist, se ia atitudine in sprijinul miscari respective. Cred ca sunteti de accord cu mine ca nu trebuie sa avem victime printre practicantii yoga din Romania pentru ca sa cerem cu fermitate la cele mai inalte forumuri mondiale ca aceste abuzuri si atacuri la adresa scolii de yoga MISA SA INCETEZE.Asteptam si in aceasta directie cel putin aceeasi ingrijorare si sprijin pentru ca este mare nevoie de el acum cand peste 50 de instructori de yoga romani sunt tarati in fata instantelor de judecata. Ei sunt judecati cu anumite dosare penale pentru care Romania este criticata la scena deschisa la nivelul administratiei europene. Ca o ultima dovada in sprijinul afirmatiilor pe care le-am facut despre abuzurile impotriva miscarii yoga din Romania iata cum a interpretat presa din romania scrisoarea Dvs: s-a afirmat ca Federatia isi retrage sustinerea Congresului de la Bucuresti si chiar ca ati anuntat ca personal nu doriti sa participati la Congres. Aceasta interpretare tendentioasa a spuselor dvs de catre unele ziare din Romania (care sunt sustinute din umbra de fortele aservite regimului de control statal) trebuie sa va faca sa va ganditi daca nu cumva se incearca folosirea dvs pentru a se ataca din nou scoala de yoga prin compromiterea imaginii sale.Pentru ca toate aceste situatii sa fie evitate cel mai bine ar fi sa cunoastem adevarul asa cum este PRIN EXPERIENTA DIRECTA SI NU LUANDU-NE DUPA BARFE.

Pentru a crea oportunitatea de a ne intalni in atmosfera spiritualitatii pure, lansam invitatia catre toti cei care doresc sa participe la acest Congres International de Yoga  sa vina cu inima deschisa si sa cunoasca scoala gazda, MISA. Astfel sa nu mai apara aceste neclaritati generate de anonimii si barfitorii rauvoitori.

Va asteptam pe toti cu drag la Bucuresti

Va doresc Iubire in Inima si Pace in Minte

Mihai Stoian

Secretar Onorific al Federatiei Internationale de Yoga pentru Tarile Scandinave
Reprezentant al Federatiei Internationale de Yoga si Meditatie ATMAN

   Apasati aici pentru varianta in romana a articolului.

 Motto:
For the one that is pure absolutely everything is pure

Truly understanding everything means to forgive everything

Dear Shri Ajita,

Thank you for your letter and for your concern for our yoga school, as well as for the help you intend to offer us and which is always welcome. If I put myself in your place, I understand your concern. This is why I would like to clarify as much as possible certain aspects, so that this tormenting feeling of discomfort regarding me and our school will decrease. Please become aware that the state you experience is not harmonious for you and it shows that you also need to reconsider our suggestions because I do not have such states of distress and when I notice that something is not right I manifest rather a state of compassion and detachment and definitely I do not remain uneasy about it.

Now I will take in turns the aspects presented so that we can clarify each of them as well as possible.

Here is one first statement from your letter:

“You explain how bad people attack you and your organization and you speak of calumnies against you. But that is disturbing me. Because you cannot deny you are involved in sex business, as proved for me by the presence of a sex shop on your congress of Kopenhagen, where everybody could see and buy pornographic material, books or sex toys.”

I will start with the good news. You can relax with regard to selling porn material at a presumed sex-shop within the European Yoga Congress in Copenhagen: none of the shops authorized to sell their products at the entrance to the halls of the congress was a sex shop. I checked myself the lists with the materials they were going to sell in those days and I also spoke directly with the managers of those companies and I made sure it was not like that. I had to do that because, as you know, I had to leave the works of the congress immediately after the opening festivity – after the conference I kept in the beginning. I wanted to make sure that what you have indicated would not happen after I had left. The only materials of erotic nature that existed in that building during the three days of the congress were the ones brought by Kubera Tantric Butik and they were just some sex toys like the ones mentioned in the Kama Sutra. There were no porn magazines, books or movies, as you have said. Even so, those toys were not visible, but they were in a box available only to those interested. The initiative of that shop belongs to a yoga teacher in our school who teaches also Tantra. He considered that since at certain tantric courses we speak about sexual harmony within a couple, and since such toys are anyway mentioned in famous works such as the Kama Sutra, those who were interested could have them at their disposal, so that they would not have to go and look for them in the sex shops, where there are also other materials. And more, the team that organized the congress asked from the Kubera shop to keep those toys only for those who asked for them, and not exposed. Still, if you have more questions, you can contact directly Andronicus Torp, the manager of that company, at email adress andronicus@natha.dk.

“The essence of your problem, Mihai, is that you are busy with an own form of Tantra Yoga, which has been transmitted to you by Grieg Bivolaru. And you still believe the man.”

This part of your letter surprises me and I hope the cause of this strange affirmation is only the ungainly use of a language different then your mother tongue. Still, I wonder how the essence of my problem can be the fact that I follow my spiritual guide. In which books have you read that a disciple who follows his spiritual guide has an essential problem because of this? From what it is clearly stated in all basic treaties of wisdom, essential problems appear when the disciple does not follow his spiritual master properly. And, of course, in order to practically follow your spiritual master, you must believe in him and in the truthfulness of his affirmations. The form of Tantra Yoga that my spiritual guide Grieg had taught me is a TRADITIONAL one. I checked this myself, comparing what I have learned from him with traditional yoga and Tantra works. For me (as well as for many others) it is no longer a problem to believe Grieg or not, because now for me the authenticity of these teachings is a matter already proven, both by these studies I have already made, and also by the experience I have on this path. Therefore the affirmation “You still believe him” is pointless. The spiritual experience I have accumulate so far has made it clear for me that this man is right. Moreover, I became convinced that these traditional teachings are fitting with the ones taught by the great Divine Model which was Jesus when He gives the parable with the coins. I am surprised that you wish the burry the “coin” of sexual energy, which God had given to us, and that you do not want to multiply it for the spiritual good – as in the parable given by Jesus. Even if you have no interest for the Tantric path, it is worthwhile at least to relate to Jesus’ teachings, because from what I have checked and from what I practice, these paths are identical from this perspective. Besides, we also teach sexual continence in our school, which is mentioned in all yogi treaties as Brahmacharya.

Moreover, if this is the essential problem, then why don’t you ask these questions directly to Grieg? I am sure he will be happy to answer you. I am convinced that this approach would have saved many questions in the mind of some people and it would bring many revelations.

I will carry on and answer your message. You say:

“Maybe you could start wondering about this, knowing that sexual desire is a very dangerous thing to handle, especially when dealing with beginners. Therefore, in ancient times, the Rishi’s (reference “Science of Soul” by Swami Yogeshverananda Sarasvati) have described the difference between Bahirmukhi Vritti (energy vibrations leading to external life) and Antarmukhi Vritti (energy vibrations leading yo internal life), which are called commonly the left path and the right path.”   

I totally agree with this. Moreover, I would like to add that Tantric works insist on the necessity to have a spiritual guide as an essential condition, in order to be able to realize successfully this differentiation between the two tendencies, in a practical and efficient manner. At the same time, it is well known that Tantric methodology gives us the practical “tools” through which the people who are anyway projected in the outside will be able to turn this tendency towards the inside through the complex process of transmutation and sublimation of the inferior potential into superior forms of aspiration.

You continue:

“Using sexual desire to attain internal life is an extremely demanding art, where the practitioner has to be fully detached, with his mind under total control. “

Knowing what it is all about, I can be allowed to say that in this affirmation you make the most common mistake made by people who want to understand Tantra yoga without practical experience and without the spiritual guide who can initiate them in these mysteries. To easily underline the error, here are some helping questions:

If somebody is completely detached and his mind is under total control, then what would still keep him trapped in the “outer world”? Why wouldn’t he withdraw into the infinitely more nuanced world, rich in significances, which is inside him? And in this case, why would he still need to use any methods (not necessarily Tantric) in order to obtain “the inner world”, since from the very beginning he fulfills the fundamental conditions for this?

In reality, the one who is in that situation would not need to use special methods in order to go inside. Therefore the methods used in Tantra are meant for those who did not reach this level yet. They (the methods) aim exactly to awaken these abilities: of complete detachment and total mental control.

In the following, what has been said above is confirmed:

“Failing to achieve that, the practitioner will fall in external life, which is the cycle of reincarnation.”

Whoever is full of attachments and has the mind unfocused will anyway fall over and over again towards the “outer world”, and he does this without any Tantric techniques! If this was not so, then we would have already found the solution for people to remain always in the inner life: forbidding any Tantric procedures and removing sexuality would guarantee that we remain inside, since the temptations of sexuality are the cause for falling in the outside!

But it is well known what happened to spiritual systems that made this serious mistake: to forcefully and without any discernment try remove fundamental aspects of human life, such as sexuality from the spiritual path. The fact that the one who is attached and unfocused falls in the outside world is the cause of being chained into Samsara and it does not belong to a certain spiritual path but to anybody who is in this situation. To put the problem like you put it is like saying that in order for a person to truly evolve spiritually he should be spiritually liberated! Or a simpler example: it is like you say that in order to learn to swim you need to swim very well! I hope this example is enough! Actually, how can somebody fall into Samsara if he did not have some attachments to it? And if these attachments are still there, the best things the respective person can do is to practice intensely and face those attachments. Avoiding these trials just to keep ourselves in an illusory inside oriented illusion is nothing else but to constantly and irresponsibly postpone this tragic end, without taking any measures for preventing it. We cannot create desire where it is already transcended, and where desire still exists within the being it will come out to the surface sooner or later, sometimes having devastating effects for the spiritual life of the respective person. But dealing with this problem openly, people have the chance to know themselves more profoundly. If they will notice they still have attachments to inferior problems, then they have the Tantric methodology at their disposal, so that they can really and profoundly transform themselves through the final sublimation of desires into something completely superior and spiritual. Tantra always indicates this attitude as being the most rightful one in order to succeed to overcome problems and attachments to exterior life. It is obvious that this can work only together with proper Tantric methodology. Therefore, we do not encourage, for example, eroticism without the adequate method which allows transmutation and sublimation of the sexual impulse into superior and non-sexual forms of energy.

Besides, let’s not forget that in the eastern tradition we have the example of Krishna who made love to the 16 000 virgins. And even the Hatha Yoga system is of Tantric nature, representing in fact the union of polarities Ha and Tha.

“Where is your practice Mihai, when you stimulate sexual desire in everybody walking by, without distinction, and even more, asks money for your sex tools? Is that not dangerous and a clear sign of attachment?”
The fact that people have sexual desires is not due to us or to you. This is an aspect that exists naturally. As you already know, each pervert and limited person judges the world by his own perversities. But, FOR THE ONE THAT IS PURE EVERYTHING IS PURE.

In this context I ask you: what is it more dangerous, to avoid facing what you already have inside of you? Or to learn how to deal with and then to face those tendencies which anyway, sooner or later, will have to be solved despite our coyly postponing? Is it a sign of attachment to take a problem into consideration, or to avoid it?

Taken a certain problem into consideration does not necessarily imply attachment. But, stubbornly avoiding it certainly implies repulsion. As Patanjali tells us, repulsion has the same nature as attachment. The story of the two monks is significant for this: Two monks, one young and the other one old were coming back to the monastery from a pilgrimage. On the bank of a river they were about to cross they met a woman that asked them to help her cross over the water. The young monk shouted at the woman, telling her off for approaching them, as they were monks. Without saying a word, the oldest monk took the woman in his arms and crossed her over the water. On the other bank of the river, the old monk put the woman down without saying a word and continued to walk. After a few hours of walking in heavily silence, the young monk burst out, asking the old monk why he had taken the woman into his arms, thus breaking the monks’ code of conduct. The old monk smiled and said: “I took the woman from one bank of the river and left her on the other bank, but you still carry her in your mind, due to your obsessions”.

At the same time in the affirmation you make I noticed also a breach of the yogic moral code. According to which criteria can you judge my practice or that of our school by asking rhetorical questions as long as you have not followed the courses of this school? How many hours have you spent studying our courses? How many people have you met that have practiced yoga PROPERLY AND PERSEVERINGLY in this yoga school? Have you analyzed the results they had carefully?

But skipping the moral code aspect I would even understand some of your above affirmations if in our school sexuality would be a constant or predominant topic. But, for your information, in the curriculum of the courses from the first 10 years of yoga (approximately 480 printed courses), in maximum 10 of them only it is spoken of sexuality. To say that this is a problem shows an exaggeratedly chaste attitude. Please study the entire program of activities of Natha Yoga School (the guest of which you were), which is published on the website of the school and tell me what is the percentage of spiritual activities regarding sexuality, considering the general context of the school? You will then have a great revelation, seeing that we do not stress so much on this subject. It is better to rely on facts when you emit valuable judgements.

Nevertheless, the fact that in this school we speak very openly about sexual life and how it can be integrated from the spiritual point of view is not a secret. In this context some of those who teach Yoga and Tantra within this school have initiated certain projects (among many of the projects we have going on in the school, besides the Yoga and Tantra classes) meant to describe an alternative to the unconscious and degrading sexuality which people usually practice. And as we know this kind of unconscious sexuality has unsuspected but very serious implications upon their spiritual life. The aim within these projects is to present the way in which people can integrate consciously and spiritually the concept of sexual continence as a starting method for reintegrating sexual experiences in the spiritual life. I am aware that some of these initiatives are revolutionary but if we did not have as a base the many years of spiritual practice and spiritual results we would not have afforded to walk this path. And we are aware of the risk to be misunderstood by those who are still under the spell of worldly desires and who see the world through the lenses of their own obsessions. But this is always the risk with the ideas that transform profoundly the life.

As you know, the drama of many people nowadays is not due to the fact that they do not know what harms them, but it is due to the fact that they cannot do almost anything to snatch themselves from the attachments to pleasures of the exterior world. Let’s not forget that people nowadays are still buying cigarettes on which there are printed pictures of people dying from smoking! They are still buying the cigarettes not because they are blind but because they are unable to resist the gigantic attraction toward the exterior temptations. Whatever beautiful words we will say, most people will have big problems to follow an ascetic path – that of total refusal of the world of senses. And this is for the simple reason that they do not have the necessary training and force for this powerful ascension. For all these people – who represent a majority in the present moment, in this age of spiritual decay – Tantra Yoga is a path towards God, which is practically accessible. These people caught under the spell of their own desires should not fool themselves anymore by repressing into their subconscious the inferior tendencies because on this path they have the practical methods to become aware of those tendencies and to sublimate them into superior spiritual aspirations, without the need to go through the traumatizing experiences of going astray from the path towards God. This is why, on the Tantric path, most people are not afraid at all to approach subjects which are normally taboo for the ascetics. Those who walk the spiritual Tantric path approach life openly and without prejudices. This does not mean at all that they do only what they want, no matter the consequences. That is why Tantra says that “everything is possible but not everything is allowed”.

The simple fact that we speak openly about aspects which for some remain taboo makes the ones who want to benefit from our school, to wish to exploit peoples’ fear and misunderstandings regarding these subjects. For this, they throw on the market half-information and even absurd information, counting on the confusion that already exists on those subjects.

You continue you letter with this affirmation:

“My problem now is that I doubt you can recognize the danger of your lack of knowledge about Tantra Yoga. I hope that you can recognize this and act in consequence. For that I am ready to help you. Coming to Bucharest on your special invitation will then be a pleasure for me, giving me the opportunity to explain you more.”

With all due respect, I want to draw your attention and to tell you that your affirmation that we do not have the necessary knowledge regarding Tantra Yoga is once again breaking the spiritual moral principles, since you did not have the chance to know us directly and to be able to study how much or how little it is known about Tantra Yoga in this school. If we judge a school by those who repeat the class and who failed their exams, we do nothing but to become ridiculous. I know you understand what I mean, because I noticed in a reply you gave to Prof. Dr. Holger Lutich, on the same forum of the international yoga federation how you doubted his ability to judge MISA as long as he did not know it very well. You said there:

“Anyway I do not understand that you admit not knowing MISA very well, but still are in favour of defending that organisation.”

Please be consistent with your own principles.

Moving over this mistake (which I have underlined due to an open dialogue we have engaged into here), I must tell you that you are always welcome (as you have always been) to the congress we will organize in Bucharest, under the International Yoga Federation’s patronage. We are sure that truth can come out of constructive debates.

Nevertheless, for us it is strange the fact that although we have shown so many flagrant aspects of breaking human right in Romania, although you know very well that Romania is the country with most convictions at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, yet the reason of your concern is represented by these aspects, which once explained, appear insignificant, as you can see. Doesn’t this show an attachemnt to the exterior world of illusions created by our own projections?

Which treaty of ancient wisdom says that people are not allowed to follow their own path towards God? In the law trials in Bucharest, yoga teachers are absurdly accused of human traffic, in a way similar to Kafka’s absurd style. How long must those trials in Bucharest must still continue until people from the spiritual environment will stand up firmly, beyond the particular path they are on?

For this, please read the accusations the Chineese government has against the members of Fallung Gong movements. You will notice striking similarities. Nevertheless, there, because there is political interest to force the China’s communist regime, something is being done to support the respective movement. I believe you agree with me that we do not need to have victims among yoga practitioners in Romania in order to ask firmly and urgently from the highest worldwide authorities for these abuses and attacks against MISA yoga school to STOP!

In this direction we expect at least the same concern and support, because it is much needed now, when more then 50 romanian yoga teachers are  taken to court. They are judged with certain law files for which Romania is criticised openly by the European Administration. As a last proof for the affirmations I made about the abuses against the Yoga movement in Romania, here is how the press has interpreted your letter: It was said that the Federation withdraws her support for the congress in Bhucarest and even that you have personally announced that you do not wish to participate in the congress. This tendentious interpretation of what you said by some romanian newspapers (which are supported from behind the scenes by forces within the state control regime) must make you wonder whether they are trying to use you in order to make new attacks against the yoga school by compromising its image.

In order for all these situations to be avoided it is best to know the truth as it is BY DIRECT EXPERIENCE AND NOT BY FOLLOWING SOME GOSSIPS.

In order to create this opportunity to link all of us on the field of genuine spirituality we invite everyone who wants to participate in this International Yoga Congress to come with an open heart and to know also the host school, MISA. Thus, these unclarities generated by anonimous and bad intended gossipers will no longer exist.

We look forward to seeing all of you in Bucharest

Wish you Love in the Heart and Peace in the Mind

Mihai Stoian

Honoray secretary of International Yoga Federation for Scandinavian countries

Reprezentative of ATMAN International Federation foor Yoga and Meditation

This reply was send to the forum of International Federation of Yoga as a reaction to the calumnies that recently appeared there. The reply was requested by the board of the federation in order to clarify the situation. Here it is:

Dear yogi friends, 

In the last period, on the International Yoga Federation forum, there has been a series of messages sent from Romania which contain notorious calumnious affirmations regarding the MISA Yoga School and its activity. It is significant the fact that all these messages are actually some common anonymous letters. We wonder why the respective persons did not have the courage to give their real names? Is it because they feel guilty? Is it because they know they can be held responsible for the calumnies they spread out with such insolence? We know that anonymous messages can never be taken in consideration, because they are already suspicious. Nevertheless, we will put aside this significant aspect and we will answer the letter, in order to thus make the truth triumph over lies.

Out of respect for those who know us by our real names and with whom we collaborate, we must make certain edifying specifications that are meant to reveal what is actually hiding behind this furious and fierce denigration campaign against our yoga school, which is the biggest in Europe.

A completely sensational, but profoundly significant aspect we start our reply with refers to a so called recent message (which is actually an anonymous letter) that appeared on the forum of the international yoga federation. From the very beginning, in this message the intention is to create the false impression that an expert and great personality, famous in the field of yoga system has something to say against MISA Yoga School in Romania. In this way, a skilful diversion is structured presenting this message not as an anonymous letter, but as an official statement coming from a serious person, qualified to formulate valuable judgements and justified opinions. The aspect that nobody knows by now is that this person, presented as emitting in the year 2008 some conclusions regarding the MISA Yoga School had actually died on January 7th 2006. This personality who is fakely attributed a so called message which was formulated against MISA was an eminent Austrian professor and mountain traveller. He was also an inspiration for the famous movie “7 years in Tibet”, which had the well known American actor Brad Pitt playing the role of dr. Heinrich i. Harrer. For those interested about the accuracy of this, here is a link regarding the website of this famous professor:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article786458.ece

We hope that it is obvious for everybody that this man did not come from the other world, taking a material form, a year after his death, in order to write calumnious messages addressed to the MISA yoga school. The hidden denigrators did not consider the fact that there will also be some curious people, who will check who is the presumed judge of the Romanian MISA yoga school. Revealing this to you, we also ask you the following: who is it that had the insolence to write this message, which is obviously a fake one? How is possible that the respective person had the impudence to sign it in the name of dr. Harrer? Even if many of you will be surprised by this rude manoeuvre (unfortunately, it is not the only one), we, the ones from MISA, are not surprised by this gross trial to mystify the reality, as until now it can be noticed that the same methods have been used many times in the desperate and fierce attempt to slander MISA Yoga School at any price. Considering the facts, it becomes obvious to us that this message is nothing else then a poisonous anonymous letter, skilfully “disguised” as a letter that wants to be serious. This is the rude manner in which some people who claim to be objective and to know yoga. Besides, these people are saying out loud that they want to show the truth, but in fact they promote calumny and lies!

Since we are here, we must underline that this furious and systematic campaign of anonymous messages is not at all new and spontaneous, as it is intended to look like. Significantly, these anonymous messages started to appear shortly after Romanian authorities started a series of flagrant abuses against the MISA yoga school. For those who do not know what it is about, here we make reference to the dramatic events from Romania which started with the brutal intervention of impressive so called police forces (over 300 police officers, prosecutors, agents, anti terro special troupes, army), against some innocent and peaceful people who practiced yoga. It is significant the fact that in some cases, victims of these abuses were even people that had nothing to do with MISA yoga school. These abuses, which started in March 2004 (and still continue in the present – undercover, it is true), are the continuation of a series of harassments and attacks originating from the communist period in Romania. The first such political files against some yoga practitioners from MISA appeared in 1984 (at that time the organization did not exist as such, as yoga was forbidden by the law during the Romanian communist regime). The recent series of abuses that started in March 2004 is well known both in Romania as well as by the international authorities. It is not a coincidence that due to the notifications sent to these international authorities, Romanian authorities received official admonitions regarding this case since 2005. Also, we want to remind you about the fact that the spiritual mentor of MISA, Mr. Gregorian Bivolaru, could no longer face the threats and abuses he was subjected to, therefore he had to find his refuge in another country, member of the European union. In 2006 yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru was accepted as political refugee in Sweden. This fact was almost singular at the time. To clarify in the light of truth some aspects, which, with a bad will (intention?), were put in a strange light in a pervert way by some of the so-called “offended citizens”, which are actually the anonymous authors of these absurd and calumnious accusations against MISA, we want to remind you that Mr. Bivolaru had chosen the political asylum in Sweden at his own will and he followed the legal procedure for receiving the political asylum. As a response to the repetitive and insistent requests sent by the Romanian authorities and due to the international treaty of cooperation between Romania and Sweden, valid at that time, Swedish authorities submitted Mr. Bivolaru to a treatment which, in the present moment, worldwide and in Europe, it is considered torture. It is significant the fact that nowadays this procedure: complete and prolonged isolation in a prison cell is not legal. Mr. Bivolaru was kept like this in complete isolation for more then 7 months, at the explicit and special request of Romanian authorities. They presented him to the Swedish authorities as being extremely dangerous. This revolting situation took place considering the fact that in Europe detention in isolation for longer then 12 days is unanimously considered a severe form of torture that can affect the psycho mental integrity of the respective human being. At the same time we also remind you that during the communist regime of the dictator Ceausescu, yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru was forcefully put into a psychiatric hospital for almost 8 months, by the political secret police, which considered him dangerous because he was practicing and teaching yoga. In 1984, at the order of dictator Ceausescu, yoga was prohibited in Romania. We hope that these facts are eloquent, together with the ceaseless denigration campaign and the furious mass media attacks in Romania (attacks which led even to endangering the life of Mr. Bivolaru in Romania, as well as to seriously affecting the life of thousands of yoga practitioners within our school, who had files made by the political secret police meant to bring their persecution in all kind of ways, including at their jobs). All these and many other facts led the authorities in Stockholm to take the decision, without a precedent, to accept witnesses in the trial that took place at the high court in Stockholm. Eventually, Sweden’s answer to the extradition request of yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru, sent by the Romanian authorities was decided. The trial in Stockholm was a public trial. In this trial, among the witnesses that were heard was also the presumed victim of Mr. Bivolaru. At the same time, other witnesses heard were people living in the ashrams of MISA Yoga School in Bucharest, as well as an international expert regarding sects, Prof. Rev. Carl Erik Nylund. The transport of the presumed victim of Mr. Bivolaru to Stockholm was arranged by the Swedish authorities and it is in itself a premiere. This took place due to the serious situation Mr. Bivolaru was in. After hearing these witnesses, the conclusion was that MISA was not a sect and that Mr. Bivolaru was definitely not the leader of a religious sect. At the same time, it was notified that the accusations were false (since his file was made following a political order). The conclusion was that in this situation his life would be endangered if he was extradited to Romania. Shortly after this ascertainment, mr. Bivolaru was freed from isolation and then he received political asylum in Sweden.

We want to underline here the fact that to receive political asylum is completely different then to receive asylum out of humanitarian reasons. If a person broke a so called law in his own country, but the punishment he received breaks in a flagrant way the fundamental human rights, the Swedish government offers asylum to the respective person on humanitarian grounds. In the case of Mr. Bivolaru, the political asylum he received shows that the investigations made by the Swedish government have led to the conclusion that there is an unfair campaign against Mr. Bivolaru, based on political persecution. All these shade a clear light upon the lies, absurd accusations and set ups against him.

In the light of all these undeniable truths, we wonder how is it possible that these so called revelations, made by anonymous people, appeared only in this period of time and not when the presumed facts took place. As we can easily notice, all these anonymous, dirty and calumnious messages attacking, full of hatred, our yoga school are structured only around some speculations obviously false arguments, with no objective consistency.

Besides, we should not forget that all these affirmations are insidiously posted only on suspicious forums by anonymous persons. The fact that none of these accusations is made by people who have a real name and address speaks by itself. Besides, as anyone can notice by visiting these discussion forums, some of these anonymous people spend almost daily more then 20 hours posting continuously many calumnious messages and slandering articles on such sites. It is normal to wonder how these people make a living. How is it possible that daily 7-8 people spend about 20 hours daily, manifesting a visceral hatred against this yoga school and the yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru? We have received information from people who are in contact with the secret service. We found out that in fact these forums are open and administrated but Romanian secret service, together with the prosecution and with the former politician Adrian Nastase. Initially, when he was prime minister, he gave the political order to destroy this yoga school and to imprison immediately yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru. In the light of this information, you can easily realize who is financing these people. Some of them are ex or still active agents of the secret service, infiltrated in time within this yoga school and later on used as false witnesses for some absurd accusations, unique in this world – such as the fact that the ancient karma yoga practice is in fact unpaid work. Such people, paid from the secret funds of the Romanian special secret service with over 1000 euros per month activate as anonymous on these websites, having the dirty job of misinforming, calumniating and denigrating this yoga school (MISA). Behind their anonymity, they benefit of a completely inherent protection and impunity. As we know, anonymous persons cannot be held responsible in a calumny trial. Due to the huge wages they receive monthly, when in fact in Romania the average wage is 150 euros, such corrupted people – tools of prosecutors and secret services – who have nothing better to do then to spread calumnious and anonymous news on the internet. And if they are only some “offended citizens” who make so many fierce efforts, full of hatred, in order to show a so called truth about MISA Yoga School, then naturally we wonder why is it that none of them takes responsibility, honestly and openly, for these ideas? For an intelligent person it is very easy to understand what makes them act in this way: nobody can make responsible an anonymous person for all the dirty calumnies they invent and spread around. If these people were of good faith, considering the surprisingly great efforts they make for writing daily hundreds of anonymous letters, they would come out into the open and, openly and full of courage, take responsibility for the affirmations they make. It is obvious that if at least 5% of those so called facts pointed out by those anonymous who claim to be knower of the MISA phenomenon were true, then those who write continuously about it would drop their anonymity and would take full responsibility, even in front of the Romanian authorities, for the affirmations they made. For example, it is hilarious that many of the absurd accusations of these anonymous persons are not even in the file against MISA, made due to political orders. Therefore, it is significant that none of these calumnious accusations is found in the files made by the Romanian prosecutors, at political order, against the yoga school. Besides, here we must remind you that MISA yoga school, together with yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru and over 7000 yogis were under continuous surveillance by the Romanian secret service for more then 15 years (according to the declarations made by the authorities). Actually, another serious and yet sensational aspect that will unmask these low actions of these anonymous people is that, despite their serious accusations based on the 7-8 false witnesses, it has been years since the Romanian authorities did not bring any convincing proves, meant to prove any of these accusations. Here is how this furious campaign made and supported by some anonymous persons now has the tendency to spread its poison and visceral hatred against MISA Yoga School and on the forum of the International Yoga Federation. In the light of these undeniable facts presented here, we can see that the only thing these anonymous persons aim for in secret it to make a continuous scandal and to shade a bad light on the reputation of MISA yoga school, which is the greatest yoga school in Europe. Moreover, it is necessary to remind you that the abusive actions of Romanian authorities as well as the mass media full of hatred campaign against MISA Yoga School determined the authorities of the European union to take notice and to send to Bucharest repetitive warning messages regarding the persecutions both against MISA Yoga School and 20 of the best yoga teachers in this school, which are absurdly accused. They are unfairly harassed and brought to court. These serious aspects are not mentioned (we wonder why?) By these anonymous people, in the same way they do not mention the fact that Romania has been severely warned by the European commission for the serious irregularities in the justice department. Unfortunately, among them the MISA case is also mentioned. Doesn’t the fact that in the present the case of abuses against MISA Yoga School is at the top tell us something? All these internal and international perspectives are completely ignored (we wonder why?) By these anonymous people who, in this way, try to create a false and perverted image of the Romanian MISA yoga school.

Besides, another aspect that must be mentioned here is that the only arguments these anonymous people come up with refer to the fact that Mihai Stoian, one of the yoga teachers within this yoga school, acted in porn movies. The cunning tendency to manipulate the information is obvious also in this case. He has never hidden the fact that he practices tantra yoga and, as it is well known in this ancient science, the conscious and controlled involvement of sexual energies is part of a precise methodology for spiritual evolution. Among the elements for promoting these teachings and especially in order to promote the idea, extremely useful nowadays, of sexual continence, a series of artistic movies with erotic theme was made. But they were and are meant to be, first of all, educational. Here we will not judge the quality of this action, because this is the job of the public; nevertheless, it is strange that in these messages it is evoked, as crushing arguments, the participation in such movie productions. How else do these “chaste” sanctimonious persons expect us to start creating in people a different attitude regarding their own sexuality, without showing them a completely revolutionary and superior alternative, based on promoting the ancient science of sexual continence? Instead of the mechanical sexuality, lacking love, we aimed to promote a different vision – sacred, pure, sensitive, beautiful and elevated upon couple lovemaking. But, in this context, to accuse MISA Yoga School for spreading and distributing porn movies is a serious manipulation. In fact, even the accusation that these movies are to be kept secret is ridiculous and shows the idiotic tendency of manipulating the public opinion and of bringing calumnies, because all of those movies were sold in shops, therefore they were made public. On the other hand, we must underline that, in fact, the initiative for making such erotic movies belongs to private persons who were just attending the courses of this yoga school, and not to the MISA yoga school. Therefore, all these absurd and calumnious accusations unfairly brought against the school are only another side of these desperate tentative to denigrate and destroy, at any price, the image of MISA yoga school.

One very severe fact we were amazed to discover was the unauthorised publishing of certain images taken from a private archive. This was done through an erotic movies distributor in Scandinavia. At the same time, we found out that this illegal and vile action seems to belong to certain messengers of the Romanian secret services. It was meant to create separation and hatred among yoga practitioners which were revolted seeing those images. Those images have never been authorized for distribution by MISA Yoga School leadership. Yet, those images were illegally distributed, even on the internet. Another vile purpose of this manoeuvre, in our opinion, was to unfairly shade a bad light on the yoga school. But the proofs we have gathered are meant to invalidate this absurd accusation: that MISA Yoga School secretly sold these private images, which have never been destined to public distribution.

In the following, we offer you here, in premiere, the transcription of a discussion recorded in the presence of the owner of the Danish distribution company for Scandinavian countries. From the very beginning we want to specify that this discussion took place when we investigated the strange way in which such images, taken from the private archive of the initiating theatre Sophrozin, were published without copyright and without a written authorization from the management of Sophrozin theatre and, in a strange way, appeared publicly on dvds. Later on, they were also published on the internet by certain anonymous malicious persons. We underline once more that all those images which later on appeared (without copyright) in the movies distributed by the respective Danish company have never been and will never be authorized to be distributed publicly. Initially, those private images were and continue to be destined only to those people which are part of the initiates within the tantra yoga system. In this way, the image rights of those who appear in these shoots (images) were totally protected. It is strange the fact that those images (which were not authorised to be distributed) appeared both through this Scandinavian distributor as well as on the internet, without having approval from the management of erotic art productions. This is not only flagrantly breaking the copyright law, but it is also an obvious proof that certain people (maybe even the prosecutors), who had access to those tapes that had been confiscated during the house raids in march 2004 were aiming, to destroy MISA Yoga School through these vile actions. Without a doubt, those people who were not yet identified were involved directly in this dirty operation. As we have shown above, the respective footage, which later on had been distributed without any authorization, had been confiscated abusively, together with all the footage from the archive of Sophrozin theatre, by the police forces, during the house raids in March 2004. Later on, some of those private footages were made public, without having any authorization. The clarifications we offer you here are necessary, in order to be able to understand the real nature of these vile calumnies against MISA yoga school. The fact that those images (the respective footage) were made public (with no right to do so), in order to contribute to the denigration of the yoga school, was most certainly done, in complicity with the police or the Romanian secret service, who were in the possession of these materials which were confiscated from the archive of Sophrozin theatre in March 2004.

In the following we transcribed some significant recordings of this discussion:

Reporter: “how did you enter in possession of the originals of the last three movies you published?”

Barny: “I had a meeting in Fredericksburg’s garden. For sure Mikael was there. I know him well since the beginning of our collaboration… but with the last three movies it was there, in that garden. Mikael was there and he handed me the matrix tapes…and who could have been the other one?…for sure that one is the one who gave me the invoice. But I  cannot remember that one. We were three people there.

We wrote the check, and then ate something… i am trying to remember here, because i am neither senile nor amnesiac. I remember clearly we were three people sitting there, but i do not remember who the third one was.

Mihai: “it is interesting that there was a third person there… can you tell us more?”

Barny: “it was Mikael, me and a third person at that meeting. It is a totally strange story. It was about some guys who use our movies and put them on the internet websites, in order to harm what they called: the “tantric sex sect”.

Barny’s wife: “but how can you modify the master tape?”

Barny: “you can easily capture the original and then edit it again. In fact, when i bought the first movies a very detailed contract was made, but when we took the images from the last three movies (the ones with the girls), the contract was very simple, only the title and the brute material (images). It was very strange, indeed.”

(end of the transcription of this dialogue)

Moreover, as a consequence of revealing to him the fact that these images were sneaked into the movies of the Danish company distribution network in the name of the yoga school, with the purpose of causing as much harm as possible to the image of the school, the owner of the respective company (Barny) decided to immediately withdraw those movies from the Danish market, which were the subject of manipulation to which he had unconsciously taken part. It is obvious to any intelligent person that his decision is significant, considering that this decision will cost that company some money.

At the same time, this decision shows that the owner of the respective company had definitely realised that what he had done was illegal – to accept from an unknown person the respective movies (which did not have copyright from the erotic art company).

Considering all the facts we presented above, it is no wonder that the actual report about MISA Yoga School is in fact a mixture of lies and calumnies, made by some anonymous people who used the anti MISA forums as a source of inspiration, where also these anonymous people had written the respective calumnies over time! It is not a coincidence that even the name (obviously, fictitious) of the one who signed the so-called report is the same name that appears to have signed most of the calumnies on that respective forum of anonymous discussions. This so-called report continued to be sent to other people who over time took a stand against the unfounded abuses and accusations against the MISA yoga school. Nevertheless, due to their experience in this field these people were able to recognize immediately the classic techniques of manipulation, misinformation and calumny. This once again convinced them that the aggressions against the MISA Yoga School are directed by groups in which people belonging to the authorities are involved. These manoeuvres convinced them once more that the aggressions against the MISA Yoga School are directed from the backstage by certain groups in which, without a doubt, people belonging to the authorities are also involved (prosecution and Romanian secret services).

We faithfully hope that everything we have shown you here is enough to give to all those of good faith an image based on compelling facts and proofs showing what these anonymous persons are actually aiming to. If you wish to have more details, we wait for you to send your questions directly to this address:

Mihstoian@gmail.com

With respect and friendship into yoga

Yoga teacher Mihai Stoian

MISA representative for the international yoga federation

Honorific secretary of the International Yoga Federation for Scandinavian countries.

Dear Members of the International Yoga Federation,
I have attended the yoga courses of the MISA school for 13 years, and I have also been a teacher of this school between 2003 and 2007, which is why I am a member of this group.
I have left this school last year in summer after finding out some very strange things that are happening in this organisation, and I would like to confirm that, to my knowledge, most of the accusations against the MISA school and its leaders are true.
I will keep my message as short as possible, and I will limit my affirmations to the things that I know that are true and which I have been able to verify.
Regarding the “tantric educational movies”, I would like to specify that I have purchased the Giant Tantra Sex Box in November last year, and this is still available on the market, as you can verify for yourselves by clicking for example the following link, which is only one of the sellers:
http://www.topporno .dk/product_ info.php?
 
This box includes four movies, and I have recognised colleagues of mine and yoga teachers from the MISA school in all of them, one of them being Mr. Mihai Stoian, who did not use his real name, but the name of Paul Diamond. However, he can be very easily recognised. Two of these movies: Erotic Secrets and Secrets of Seduction, include video-clips that where filmed either during the yoga camps or at some special shakti groups, and they were shown in the school on different occasions to a large number of people. The movie Exaltation of pee was filmed in the yoga camp in Costinesti, and the girls were participants in the Miss Shakti Contest. They were told it was a secret test of this competition and that the only person to watch them was Mr. Gregorian Bivolaru, the leader of the school. How they got and are still on the porno market is perhaps at this moment less relevant. I would only like you to ponder, why a so-called “spiritual teacher” would like his female followers to be filmed performing sexual perversions, as you can see in this movie, be it for private use or not. For me this is impossible to understand.
However, this is not the most serious thing that is happening at the moment. Mr. Bivolaru keeps inviting young and attractive women who are students of the school to have sex with him in order to initiate them as shaktis. As he never uses protection, there are more and more women who report having been infected by him with sexually transmitted diseases. Although he has repeatedly been informed about this situation, he continues to deny and keeps spreading the diseases.
I leave it up to you to decide whether this is a spiritual attitude, and whether you would like to continue to support this organisation.
I am at your disposal for any further questions you might have.
Sincerely,
Mihaela Frincu

NEW! In the chapter THE SILENT WAR I have published  Grieg’s letter of reply  to the recent public letter of Mrs Mihaela Francu. This letter of Mihaela Francu it is another example about the way irresponsible attitudes of the media and people in power can mislead some naive ones. However in the end of this Reply you have also the letter from Mihaela Francu so that you can follow all the ideas. I hope it will be a wake up call for people like Mihaela Francu and others like her to come back with their feet on the ground and to realize that imagination is not the same thing with reality.

Dear brothers into yoga and members of the International Yoga Federation,

MOTO: “NOBODY THROW STONES IN THE TREE WITHOUT GOOD FRUITS “

Attention: considering the fact that the letter of Mrs. Mihaela Francu contains many despicable lies and calumnies, which could “convince” only the minds of those naïve and ignorant, we challenge her by this reply to accept, with the courage implied by the actual truth, a few substantial bets that we are already sure she will lose, if she will dare to accept them. Nevertheless, we believe it is necessary to provoke her in this manner because we have a lot of crushing evidence meant to easily destroy the despicable lies she sustains. Her insolence is surprising us.
I regret the fact that the website of the Federation started to be used by some people in order to spread around without any shame despicable calumnies and dirty insinuations regarding the MISA yoga school and me personally. The visceral hatred and the resentments that animate some of the calumniators, which are full of bad intentions, make us feel compassion for them. I was surprised to notice that Mrs. Mihaela Francu plays the role of an implacable MISA accuser and she even dares to say:

“most of the accusations against the MISA School and its leaders are true”.

It is deeply significant the fact that some mean and ill intended persons, animated by visceral hatred and hostility against the MISA yoga school, accuse the school of phantasmagoric and hallucinate penal acts. It is even crazier since even the full of grudge and corrupted prosecutors, which fabricated the files against MISA School at a political order based on false accusations, they didn’t make such accusations!

This aspect is very significant for those that are intelligent and full of common sense.

The great yogi Swami Sivananda said: “Before accusing your neighbor, first look for your own flaws”.

We will see if Mrs. Mihaela Francu forgot to do that. A wise man said that we should not trust the accusations which are not based on striking proofs.

This human being rushes to make accusations based on calumnies, gossip and despicable lies.
We are surprised by the nonchalance this person shows when she says she will make reference “to the things that I know that are true and which I have been able to verify”.

In this reply we will invoke arguments based on facts which prove that what Mrs. Mihaela Francu says are mostly lies and ordinary gossip of the lowest degree. It is obvious that she did not read the reply of Mr. Mihai Stoian, in order to discover that certain aspects she refers to so passionately have been already clarified. Isn’t it significant that Mr. Barney – the distributor of these tapes – already decided to withdraw from public use those erotic movies, which reached to him, by some suspicious means, through certain so-called intermediaries from Romania? (about which we tend to believe that in reality they were working for the Romanian Secret Service and they provided him with the tapes confiscated from the Sophrozin foundation when they did the house searches in 2004). That messenger, called “Mikael”, advised him to distribute them on the ground of a suspicious contract. Mr Barney already knows about that and in the recent talk he had with Mr. Mihai Stoian he showed his deep concern. In the end of that conversation, he said that he will withdraw immediately from public use all those movies which, in reality, were not given to him by authorized persons from the “Sophrozin” Foundation in Romania.

The desire of Mrs. Francu to make scandal and to promote gossip and calumny is obvious, considering the fact that she says: “I would like to specify that I have purchased the Giant Tantra Sex Box in November last year (2007)”.

If Mrs. Francu is not interested in these aspects – we wonder why did she actually buy these tapes herself? It is also odd that when she speaks about the illegal way in which these tapes could have appeared on the porn market, Mrs. Francu makes an affirmation which is shocking for any human being that is intelligent and has common sense. Here is what she says regarding these movies which were distributed without the right to do so, in order to thus make a scandal and to amplify the misinformation regarding this yoga school:”How they got and are still on the porno market is perhaps at this moment less relevant“.
In other words, even if we have already proven that these erotic tapes, which had been confiscated by the prosecutors and then distributed illegally by bad intended persons which were active within the Secret Service, this very serious and un-acceptable aspect is “less relevant” for Mrs. Francu.

Attention! If Mrs. Mihaela Francu did not understand or if she pretends that she did not understand that some of these tapes were distributed illegally by Mr. Barney, we now challenge her to make a bet of 100.000 euros. We are wondering: will Mrs. Francu have the courage to make this bet we propose to her, if she has no proof to support her hazardous affirmations, which are in fact lies? Unlike, Mrs. Francu, we have three unshakeable proofs which confirm without a doubt the truth of our affirmations (namely: several erotic tapes which were confiscated at the house searches in 2004 contained film shots that were not destined for public distribution, and they were distributed without the right to do so by some suspicious messengers, which we suspect that in reality were employers of the Romanian Secret Service.)  We underline once more that, unlike her, who lies with nonchalance, we have undeniable proofs which will prove the truth of our affirmations.

With this occasion, we remind Mrs. Francu of what the wise men say: “The striking truth of facts, as soon as facts exist, is and remains one and the same. Facts never cease to exist, not even when they are ignored by ignorant, perverted and bad intended people.”

If Mrs. Francu makes this bet, we assure her in advance that she will lose it. Why? Because, unlike us, she does not have anything to sustain her despicable lies that she spreads around. This difference is essential. If Mrs. Francu dares to make this bet with us, we announce her that we will donate the entire amount she will have to pay when she will lose this bet (100.000 euros) to MISA yoga school.

We are filled with compassion seeing how keen Mrs. Francu is to accuse us when she rushes to label, in an obviously tendentious manner, some scenes in which some feminine persons having urinary orgasm were filmed. She stigmatized all those things with the absurd label of “sexual perversions”. Only a sick mind like that of Mrs. Francu can label the act of urinating, which every human being does everyday, as “sexual perversions”. Did Mrs. Mihaela Francu think that when she goes to toilet herself in order to pee, according to her accusing vision, she also does “sexual perversions”? This shows the meanness and visceral hatred both against MISA yoga school and against yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru that animates Mrs. Francu in the present moment. We ask all those who want to be convinced about this to watch those sequences with urinary orgasm in order to become clear for them whether they are or are not “sexual perversions”, as Mrs. Francu claims.

Now we will refer to some absurd affirmation regarding me and which, at the same time, are some despicable lies that Mrs. Francu, in her insolence, dares to spread about me. I want to underline that I feel great compassion seeing the hatred and the stubborn desire to denigrate me, which Mrs. Francu manifests regarding me. And we have to consider that I, personally, have never done any harm to her, her keenness full of passion brings into the light also the stupidity that animates her. Mrs. Francu dares to say, without any shame, that Gregorian Bivolaru is having sexual relations. Through this affirmation she intends to put us in the light of infamy. We are aware that the bad and pervert ones judge easily and passionately the others, according to their own perversity. Therefore, we remind Mrs. Francu the wise words of Jesus: “Before you pick the straw in the eye of your neighbour, take care of the big stick in your own eye”. We want to let Mrs. Francu know that in reality we have never had, we never have and we will never have sexual relations. If she likes to sexual relations, it is her choice. But we have never had and will never have sexual relations. Her affirmation, saying that Yoga Teacher Gregorian Bivolaru has only sexual relations is a great lie. Those who know me know that I often condemned and will always condemn sexual relations without love which from our perspective, when it does not imply love, is degrading for the human being. Considering that Mrs. Francu is used to having only sex makes her believe that we also have only sexual relations. Well, we tell her now that she is extremely wrong when she imagines that Gregorian Bivolaru makes sex only without love.

Now, we move on to the most serious and most despicable affirmation that Mrs. Francu dares to make about us. Without a doubt, her mean accusation is shocking for us and we find it revolting. At the same time, we are surprised by the stupidity that Mrs. Francu shows. She actually says: “there are more and more women who report having been infected by him with sexually transmitted diseases.”

Those naïve or ignorant who will read these lines will be thrilled with horror (as this is Mrs. Francu’s intention) and they will rush to say: “This yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru is so vile, this man is such a criminal. Look, not only that he keeps infecting more and more innocent women, but at the same time, with a criminal unconsciousness, he remains constantly infected himself, having many sexually transmitted diseases. And he does this only to transmit them to some innocent women he has sexual relations with.”

Such information, obviously stupid, aims to show at the same time that Gregorian Bivolaru is a sadistic, unconscious, insane, irresponsible and also a masochistic man, because he stays for year like this, being destroyed by such awful sexually transmitted diseases which he constantly refuses to treat himself of. Regarding those “more and more women”, Mrs. Francu does not give any names. Regarding the many diseases of Gregorian Bivolaru, she does not mention anything specific. In this way, she insinuates skillfully that Gregorian Bivolaru is already infected with all possible sexually transmitted diseases, having even syphilis or AIDS. Regarding the affirmation that Gregorian Bivolaru has unprotected sex, Mrs. Francu does not say who the person that confessed these to her is. She does not care about the facts, but about the accusations, which should be as many and as serious as possible.

If we were to believe totally these few frightening words written by Mrs. Francu especially for those naïve and ignorant, a person with no intelligence whatsoever could easily be decried, stigmatized, made dirty and put in the light of infamy through such despicable calumnies. If we put our mind to it and we summon her to court for calumny, we are already sure that Mrs. Francu would rush to defend herself, saying that she heard all these stories from different people and could not give at least one specific name and address to sustain the serious affirmations which now she dares to make. If she was asked how does she know that Mr.  Gregorian Bivolaru has sexually transmitted diseases, she would back off, saying that she heard about this from different people but she would add that she does not know exactly if this man really has those many sexually transmitted diseases or not.

Eventually, we are sure that if she was sued for calumny, Mrs. Mihaela Francu would back off saying that she only said what she heard other people saying (without considering that maybe those persons lie or are keen on bringing calumnies with bad intention against a man, in order to denigrate him).

An ancient common sense principle says: “Do not do unto others what you would not want done to yourself” We are completely sure that if somebody would have done the same affirmations about her, which Mihaela Francu made about Gregorian Bivolaru, Mrs. Francu would have been shocked, revolted and she would have righteously asked her self: “How did this person dare to harm me so much?”. But Mihaela Francu did not ask herself this question at all when she made such serious affirmations and said these lies regarding a man whom until 2007 she hypocritically considered to be her yoga teacher. It is worthwhile to ask ourselves: does this person have common sense? The peak hypocrisy is that this person claims to have done yoga within MISA yoga school for 13 years. Here what Mihaela Francu says in the beginning of her message: “I have attended the yoga courses of the MISA School for 13 years”

But we found out that the range of calumnies of Mrs. Francu was not limited to only these very serious accusations. To make her dirty inventions even more credible, Mrs. Francu has made up without any shame not only certain so-called persons which have been sexually “infected” by Gregorian Bivolaru. She even dares to say: “he has repeatedly been informed about this situation”. Reading all the despicable lies she was not ashamed to put on paper, we remind Mrs. Francu that “lie has short legs” and we ask her, in the name of truth, to answer the following questions – we already know she will not be able to answer them, because in reality such situations never existed and do not exist:

• 1. When exactly (date, place, year, day, hour) was Gregorian Bivolaru even once informed that he has sexually transmitted diseases?
• 2. Who exactly (name and address) informed him about this?
• 3. What is the name and address of the other persons who informed Gregorian Bivolaru that he is the carrier or transmitter of certain presumed sexually transmitted diseases?
• 4. What were the sexually transmitted diseases it was said that Gregorian Bivolaru had, on that occasion?

Is Mrs. Francu willing to make a bet with Gregorian Bivolaru against 100.000 euros if there was ever at least one real person (not one that was made up!!!) or at least one time (real, not made up) when Gregorian Bivolaru was informed that he was infected with sexually transmitted diseases?

If Mihaela Francu is so sure about the lies she sustains in this letter, she could immediately engage herself in this bet. We announce her that anyway she will lose it, and this is because everything she makes up and spreads around are only despicable lies and dirty calumnies, which have no chance to be proven because all of them, without exception, refer to so-called “facts” which in reality do not exists. Considering that Mrs. Francu says with insolence that yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru was informed many times about the sexually transmitted diseases he had, we ask her to say exactly the names, addresses,  dates, hours and places when he was informed about this. At the same time, we ask her ask her to tell us if there were other persons present there as witnesses.

Beyond all these despicable lies and phantasmagorical and criminal insinuations, Yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru says clearly and firmly that he did not have and he does not have any sexually transmitted disease. Facing these insinuations and revolting accusations, he proposes both to Mrs. Mihaela Francu as well as to other people who spread such dirty lies to dare immediately to accept the following bet, which Mr. Bivolaru is ready anytime to make:

Attention!!! Yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru makes a bet against 100.000 euro that he did not have and he does not have any sexually transmitted disease. For this, the person willing to take this bet should first prepare this amount of money and give it to a third trustful person. Once this is done, yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru will go together with the person who will make the bet to have the tests regarding the sexually transmitted disease which the respective person accuses him to have. If in the end it will be proven that yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru is healthy, the person who made the bet will lose the money and that amount of money will be donated to MISA yoga school. In this way we make it clear that yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru is healthy and that he has no sexually transmitted diseases.

We are willing to make this real bet starting with the date when this reply is published. At the same time, we ask Mihaela Francu to answer immediately to all the above asked questions. Considering that in the letter of Mihaela Francu it is specified a certain so-called “repetitive warning” regarding the fact that I am infected and a transmitter of sexually transmitted diseases, it would be easy to prove at least two of these warnings. In reality, we know very well already that it never existed not even one such warning from anybody simply because I have never been and I am not infected with any sexually transmitted diseases and I do not have any other diseases either.

In Mrs. Francu’s letter there is another despicable calumny regarding my so called sexually transmitted diseases which she says I spread around. This is what she says: “he continues to deny and keeps spreading the diseases”

About this supplementary despicable calumny we supplementary ask Mrs. Francu to answer the following questions:

• 1. When did I deny that I have those so-called sexually transmitted diseases which Mihaela Francu says that I have?
• 2. Who was the person present when I denied these things?
• 3. What did I deny regarding my so-called sexually transmitted diseases which in reality Mihaela Francu claims that I have?
• 4. When and where was that meeting in which it is said that I denied those things?
• 5. Who are the specific people (names, addresses) about whom it is claimed that I had infected with sexually transmitted diseases?

Considering the seriousness of these calumnious accusations, we ask Mrs. Mihaela Francu to answer immediately and to tell us all these information that we ask from her.

At the same time, as the “test of fire”, we ask Mrs. Mihaela Francu to accept immediately the bet we have suggested. This is the only way to see if she really has the courage to sustain these despicable lies, at the price of losing the bet we suggest. Anyway, we are sure that Mrs. Mihaela Francu will not dare to make this bet, because deep in her soul she already knows that any lie is destroyed by the striking evidence of truth.

Through this reply we give a deadly strike to all those who, for years, have been spreading many despicable calumnies about us, some of them being extremely stupid. It is sad to notice that some human beings waste their time and energy in order to cause as much harm as possible, plotting all kind of miserable situations. Gossip and calumny are sins which will stay with those who make them. Those who
do such evil things will receive all the evil they cause. Remember what Jesus says: “Who shall sow wind, shall reap storm”. We are surprised that at the end of this letter the so called “yoghini” Mihaela Francu hopes, in a silly way, that the poison of her skillfully made up lies will be effective. After spreading all this awful gossip, Mihaela Francu will then ask with hypocrisy “you would like to continue to support this organization?”.

Considering that Mrs. Francu says: “I am at your disposal for any further questions “, we will see if she will have the courage to make at least one of the bets we suggested in this reply.
It is amazing for us that such a human being who lies without any shame, gossips and spreads the poison of doubt regarding a yoga school and a human being (Gregorian Bivolaru), which have been and are still treated unjustly, discriminated and unfairly put in the light of infamy, she hypocritically ends her poisonos letter with: “Sincerely”.

Beyond all these, for Mrs. Mihaela Francu we feel great compassion and we pray to God the Father to forgive her for the hatred and meanness that animates her, because we are aware that in the state of ignorance she is, she does not know what she does.

We hope that reading carefully and lucidly this reply, which speaks about facts and is asking for facts, and not for lies, will help those who are careful, intuitive and intelligent to realize what is the truth that often hides behind appearances?

I wrote this reply because, as the wise men say: “calumny should never be disregarded or minimized, even if it is just a lie.”
Gregorian Bivolaru

Yoga Teacher

Mentor of MISA Yoga School

Dear Mihai Stoian,
Thank you for your mails.
The warmth of your welcome in Kopenhagen last year is still in my memory.With growing concern I have taken notice of your situation. Especially because I would like to attend the congress you organize in Bucharest in June and wish to help you. But now I have an uncomfortable feeling about you, making me hesitant to come.You explain how bad people attack you and your organization and you speak of calumnies against you. But that is disturbing me. Because you cannot deny you are involved in sex business, as proved for me by the presence of a sex shop on your congress of Kopenhagen, where everybody could see and buy pornographic material, books or sex toys.The essence of your problem, Mihai, is that you are busy with an own form of Tantra Yoga, which has been transmitted to you by Grieg Bilovaru. And you still believe the man. Maybe you could start wondering about this, knowing that sexual desire is a very dangerous thing to handle, especially when dealing with beginners. Therefore, in ancient times, the Rishi’s (reference “Science of Soul” by Swami Yogeshverananda Sarasvati) have described the difference between Bahirmukhi Vritti (energy vibrations leading to external life) and Antarmukhi Vritti (energy vibrations leading your internal life), which are called commonly the left path and the right path. Using sexual desire to attain internal life is an extremely demanding art, where the practitioner has to be fully detached, with his mind under total control.
Failing to achieve that, the practitioner will fall in external life, which is the cycle of reincarnation.
Where is your practice Mihai, when you stimulate sexual desire in everybody walking by, without distinction, and even more, ask money for your sex tools? Is that not dangerous and a clear sign of attachment?My problem now is that I doubt you can recognize the danger of your lack of knowledge about Tantra Yoga. I hope that you can recognize this and act in consequence. For that I am ready to help you. Coming to Bucharest on your special invitation will then be a pleasure for me, giving me the opportunity to explain you more.
Greetings to Adina.
Namaste.Yours friendly,
Shri Yogacharya Ajita
(Philippe Barbier)
Honorary Secretary of the International Yoga Federation for the European Union
President of the European Yoga Council of European Yoga Alliance
Honorary Life Member of the World Yoga Council
Member of the World Yoga Parliament
Member of the International Yoga Therapy Council
Member of the Coregroup of the Samenwerkende Yogadocenten Nederland
Director of the Raja Yoga Institute
Ilpendam, Holland
www.raja-yoga. org