Swami Dhyan Vimal on the Modern World

This swamiji is becoming very popular in Malaysia and elsewhere, seems like recently established a big center in Canada. I have three friends in Facebook who are devout followers of this swamiji. This swami stayed at the Osho commune during the last year of Osho’s life, and his disciples seem to consider him not only as one of the great disciples of Osho, but perhaps as one who is much superior to Osho. The way one of these Facebook friends was suggesting that I read Dhyan Vimal and learn from him what I may have missed from Osho certainly gave me that impression.

The swami has 4-5 websites, some stupid quotes adorn the sites, but let’s ignore them. Although he wrote several books, all of them have to be purchased. I finally could locate one free e-book: The Four Disciplines – Finding Your Royal Nature. The first thing about this swamiji is that his English is that of a semi-literate villager. If only he added a fifth discipline, that of learning to properly speak the language in which you go on babbling all the time, I think it would have been more appropriate. I endured the first two pages of babble in his book to arrive on this gem:

This world, which is so vast and used to be so distant from one place to
another, has shrunk to a millisecond with the emergence of technology. The
world has become more one than ever. A new culture, a new world order is
emerging, because nobody is isolated so their belief or ideology stands as the
only ideology. Everything is being challenged and everything is being looked at
afresh.

Yes, the vast world has shrunk to a millisecond, alas, and in future it will shrink to microsecond, and then to nanosecond, finally it will shrink to Planck time scale, which I think is on the order of a trillionth trillionth trillionth of a second! And all of us would disappear in a quantum wormhole into the eleventh dimension, having shrunk to sizes smaller than photons; maybe all of us would have become vibrating cosmic strings harping to the tune of our royal nature. 'With the emergence of technology’ – Swamiji, modern technology emerged over two hundred years back with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Fortunately, the world did not shrink into a millisecond as soon as technology emerged, or else we would not be here!

So this is the level of Swamiji’s thinking and writing! If a fifth grader wrote this passage (typical of most of Swami's writing), we would be laughing, but in the case of Swamiji I think it would be more appropriate if we all came together as one world, one culture, one ideology and cried, wept bitterly! Yes indeed, everything is being challenged and everything is being looked at afresh, as the Swamiji keenly observes, yet it is strange that these bunch-loads of these pseudo swamijis and gurus go on pestering the world, not to speak of fundamentalists and evangelists! So anyway, what the swamiji is driving at is this (the next paragraph):

This new state also creates a new demand that is of self-reliance and
self-invention. One cannot just follow anymore, like our fathers and
grandfathers much of what they knew or did, was just to follow the past, and
systems were so well-developed that new was not readily welcome. But now, it is
up to us; thus, the demand is higher too but the skill is not necessarily there.
The know how, how to invent and reinvent oneself is missing. The inner strength
has to be found, and the 4 Disciplines are the key.

Mumble, bumble, jumble, rumble, tumble, fumble, crumble. Got it?