IIRCC, somewhere in the BG MMY points out that the definition of a
'man' is someone who has achieved CC.
--- In [email protected], "Bob Brigante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "George DeForest"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > .
> >
> > > Vaj writes:
> > > How come MMY doesn't talk "ethics"?
> >
> > my guess at maharishi's thinking:
> > (please dont shoot the messenger!)
> >
> > without regular transcending, all
> > attempts at ethical consideration
> > is only mood-making at best,
> > for it has no basis.
> >
> > however, if you practise transcending
> > regularly, all things including spontaneous
> > right action will follow, automatically
> > and effortlessly.
> >
> > therefore, *talking* about ethics would be
> > a waste of time.
> >
> > unfortunately, this logic has been mis-used
> > as an *excuse* by some TM people, who
> > basically have no moral sense to start with!
> >
> > --
>
> ************
>
> Maharishi says that "Behavior is a spontaneous expression of one's
> level of consciousness," so that only unlimited awareness would be an
> always-right and reliable basis for behavior. Otherwise, one has to
> fall back on laws and customs in part. Since the TM population is
> obviously a disproportionately crackpot group -- people who do not
> play by the usual manners and mores of society -- there is clearly a
> lack of the moral sense necessary to operate successfully at a level
> below Cosmic Consciousness. It would be useful to the TM movement to
> bring a few outsiders whose judgement is respected to review movement
> decisions, in order to engage in more successful action.
>
> Actually, talking about morality in the Kaliyuga is kind of
> irrelevant anyway, since it's a circus of wrongdoing (efficacy is
> said to be the only relevant thing in the Kaliyuga), but the lack of
> moral reasoning found in the TM population also means a lack of
> practicality that hinders the movement at every turn, and that is
> where some outside advisers would do the movement a world of good. TM
> mgmt wants to do X, and somebody from a think-tank gives his input:
> the current debacle in Vedic City over the no-show pundits could not
> have happened if this procedure had been followed.
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