--- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, MMY really didn't spend time in the woods. The ashram is in > a busy part of Allahabad. But I hear what you say, and largely I > agree. My problem lies not with your happiness at having learned > meditation, but with the power-hungriness and out-of-touchness of MMY.
*********** You are right in saying that the happiness one experiences at having learned TM is the important thing. Maharishi has always said that "even a sick man can open a health food store" (in answer to complaints about the character and intelligence of TM teachers), so even if it were true that MMY was "power-hungry" (he's already got all the power, no hunger possible), it would be irrelevant. What is relevant is that MMY is out-of-touch, something he acknowledged when he left India seeking expertise in the West: http://geocities.com/bbrigante/comp.html#30 The fact that MMY has still not found competent managers is just a function of the stupidity and brutality that characterizes the Kaliyuga. It's not realistic to expect a Hindu monk to have the social engineering skills necessary to popularize a meditation technique -- that takes competent people conversant with culture of a particular country, and those people will someday step forward and make the TM movement the mass movement it deserves to be, and who cares how MMY is remembered? He certainly does not: MMY's commentary on the Gita Ch.6,v.30: "[the enlightened man]...lives in the realm of universal existence. He moves on earth and he lives in the land of God, in the divine ground of Being far above human vision and far beyond human thought." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
