--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > With all due respect, something about your statement is confusing to > me. If in fact Guru Dev's intent is to bring about the Sat Yuga, Age > of Enlightenment, etc. (which I believe that it is, because nuclear > annihilation remains the only other option), I don't understand why He > would choose someone as apparently inept and devious as Maharishi to > do so? >
************* It is not uncommon for the Vedic sages and incarnations of Vishnu to pose as inept, as Rama does (read the Yoga Vasistha, in which Rama pretends to be miserable in order to draw out from Vasistha the Vedic wisdom that suffering humanity needs to hear). MMY has indicated that he is slow-playing the unfolding of enlightenment because a quick unfolding would cause chaos in material life: http://geocities.com/bbrigante/retards.html#gradual Maharishi said at Seelisberg Maharishi said (1979):"Only a ridiculous movement can survive. Otherwise our adversaries would destroy us to the last extent. The time will come, where I will show my real face. Go ahead and do your work !" So exercise patience and good humor and have some confidence in the mission of Guru Dev and his envoy, MMY. > I keep in mind that Brahmananda Saraswati is the living Divinity, the > director of God's plan on Earth, and yet you seem to be saying that He > by giving the power to enact His will to 'Mahesh' is somehow also > inept and devious? > > Given the enormous stakes of our current fragile existence on Earth, > why would Guru Dev play such a cruel joke on us? Hand the future of > the world to someone so apparently self-serving as Maharishi? I have > never seen that Guru Dev is anything but a Master, and that includes > being a compassionate Master of our future. > > I don't believe we any longer have the relative 'luxury' to dabble in > the mud of ignorance on Earth as we have for at least hundreds, > perhaps thousands of years; one step forward, one step back. The > choice for our planet appears to be either destruction with its > consequent immense suffering, or the establishment of planetary > enlightenment, with no middle ground. > > That being the case, it appears to me that His Divinity Guru Dev has > chosen planetary enlightenment. By extension His representative to > bring such an exalted state about is Maharishi, with the complete > blessings in every thought, word and deed of Guru Dev. > > I am open to being wrong about this conclusion I have reached, but if > I am I honestly don't see it. > > Thanks, > Jim > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for posting this Paul. This is the quiet truth of the matter, > > and what I always felt. The real guru of TM is not the > > businessman-cum-yogi named Mahesh, but Swami Brahmananda Maharaj. 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/
