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To: BamaReb who wrote ()	12/3/1997 9:59:00 PM
From: Druss	Read Replies (2) of 12754

SI Rag--Mitch Blevins "The Monastic Period" In view of our success with the article we recently published 'Lee Cooper the Early Years' (Lee is currently suing: The author, SI Rag, the editor of SI Rag, SI, and Jill the WebMistress.) We are continuing to look into the background of some of the people active here on the Flame thread. The following letter is from Ram Dali the head of a Buddist monestary where Mitch spent some time. Dear Sir: In answer to your letter asking about Mitch Blevins I do indeed remember this individual and yes he was in training at our ashram for a while though I cannot tell you for certain how long. Mitch was welcomed here and for a while was in training to be a monk. During the early part of his stay he was very intense about his studies and helpful about many things here as he was quite skilled with electronics. After about a month or so though he became I am afraid to say a major problem. I believe the problem started from a lecture by our spiritual leader Swami Sarji. After the lecture Mitch approached me with numerous questions. He was very agitated about the Great Wheel which one moves up and down according to ones deeds in ones past lives. I explained one is attempting to work through ones Karma and achieve Nirvana. This is Mitch's reaction: "Look I want to live forever, if I do good I get dumped in Nirvana and I am gone. How did that Swami character put it I become a drop in the ocean of Nirvana. Nothing there but a bunch of bliss. If I do bad I keep on living." I explained that life is the great trial and source of suffering and that doing evil would curse him to countless deaths. He however saw it as countless lives. I viewed this as a temporary problem in his course down the path of enlightenment but Mitch immeadiately began to attempt to recuit others to his aberrant theology. He was I am proud to say only sucessful with Sally a newcomer. Mitch began calling her Sister Boom Boom and claimed one could meditate 20 years to reach nirvana or spend 20 minutes with Sister Sally. While many of our acolytes were immune to Mitch's approaches they proved to be more vulnerable to Sally's approach. I was to find out later that Mitch was charging our poor students for Sally's services, this is why to this day we no longer have silver or gold prayer wheels or beads. I should have asked the two of them to leave at this time but instead I allow them to stay because strange as it may sound Mitch began harrassing our spiritual leader Swami Sarji. Swami Sarji was so holy at that time many of us felt he was a powerful soul like the great Lord Budda on his last incarnation. Mitch's harrassment did not phase him at all and I felt the example was good for our two renegades and for the others. Mitch's taunts of 'Baba Fat Boy' and so on were meaningless to Swami Sarji. Unfortunately Mitch had other techniques. Swami Sarji would every morning spend much of the day at a small glade about a mile from the ashram meditating and then return to give lessons. Swami Sarji is old and the walk long so he had taken to emptying his bladder at a small bush near the trail. Mitch was to note this and on a typical day he struck. Swami Sarji even when walking was very focused on his meditative processes and so when he stopped at the bush he did not notice the wires running into the bush nor did he notice the metal plate lightly covered with dust he was standing on or the wire connected to it. He did however notice the powerful electric current which surged through his stream of urine. This would not have done more than bodily harm to Swami Sarji but he lost his composure and focus. He reached the ashram in a frenzy and moving surprisingly well for one of his girth and age attempted to choke Mitch to death. Had not I and others intervened he likely would have succeeded. This terrible act badly damaged his karma for the next life. A fact which Mitch noted and took pride in: "I'll bet the fat boy will be a baboon next life, too bad the shock knocked him off the plate, I'll bet he would have six legs and crawl in a dung heap with another ten seconds on it. At this point I made Mitch and Sally leave. They did so. I have often wondered what became of Mitch and Sally and I often hoped they regained the path to enlightenment though not at our ashram. (Swami Sarji would not have permitted it anyway, he still cannot refer to Mitch without working in the phrase " That Demon spawn from the darkest pit." I fear however that Mitch may have gone in another direction. Before he sought to so damage his own Karma he asked me (I thought innocently) what would be the worst type of life he could lead. I answered one of avarice and unending greed seeking gain and money above all else. I fear this may be his primary activity now. Sincerly Ram Dali

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