--- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your suggestion that Guru Dev did not envision a movement is > > laughable; why do you think he left the forest, where he was > > perfectly happy? Guru Dev came out to bless the householder world > > with the bliss he found as a monk, and the name "Maharishi" was > > bestowed by the people grateful that MMY came out to bring Guru > Dev's > > blessings to the world. > > It is recorded that Guru Dev visited the cities at the request of his > own guru. It is also said that he resisted being made Shankaracharya > for many many years. I have never heard MMY claim that Guru Dev ever > spoke about there being a movement such as the TM movement. Quite the > contrary in fact. I clearly remember listening to a tape recording of > MMY saying something like "He didn't say but he knew. He didn't waste > time in planning." > > But if you doubt me, I can source a verbatim quote, maybe even get > you a mp3 of him saying it!
*********** MMY has said many times that he started the movement at the direct inspiration of Guru Dev -- the quote above from MMY only underscores the fact that Guru Dev did not need to talk in detail about starting a movement: "He didn't say but he knew. He didn't waste time in planning." The mere fact that Guru Dev left the forest and agreed to become Shankaracharya is a clear expression of his desire to enlighten the world. Guru Dev waited to become Shankaracharya until Maharishi was available to become his student -- thereby allowing Guru Dev to expose himself to the mud of the world only as long as necessary to develop a suitably receptive disciple, and when MMY was developed in awareness, Guru Dev left. "By the grace of my master, I have found a simple technique, a simple formula, to transform the inner man to the great height of the spiritual level, and to bring it to every man everywhere, I have come out." -Maharishi 1960 http://www.alltm.org/Maharishi/Maharishi_intro.html 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/
