I understand, but by screaming at them if they are as ignorant as
you are proclaiming, they will just heap scorn upon you, think you
are crazy and go blithely about their ways. It honestly accomplishes
nothing, except allowing you to vent.
 
 
----Venting is ok. Nothing lost, but maybe someone with some sense might get a clue.


I've thought long and hard about the perennial subtext of many
messages here; if Maharishi is so enlightened, then why is the
Movement [that he started] so awful?
 
----Because he's actually ignorant. No?  being diabetic and eating ice cream for a week is ignorant. Then touting ayurveda above medicine and still using medicine is the wrong message. He's very backwards. I bet you anything on earth that in The Mid East you will find some of the most charismatic and peaceful, beautiful shaktifull people you've ever gotten darshan from --- who are throwbacks to the dark ages.

Perhaps it is because he and Guru Dev have set the goal of
enlightening the world in one lifetime; obviating ~250 generations
of ignorance times about 8 billion souls on the planet.
 
----Fanatical thinking at best, completely blind and dullwitted at worst. How can you enlighten 8 billion people when not a single Movement person is enlightened as per maharishi's own definition? Hahahahah.  You lose!

That can't be easy! And who does he attract? Probably a lot of
desperate people, who indulge in the same ignorant games within the
Movement as they would've outside it.
 
----He failed!

And at the same time, he must continue to move the ball forward so
to speak; continue to enlarge the spread and breadth of his
Knowledge, while maintaining its purity.
 
----Yada yada.  His knowledge. BS. His borrowed knowledge and his phoney holy tradition.

I was fortunate in that I worked for the Movement for two and a half
years when I really had nothing else to do, worked hard, earned my
benefits, made my conclusions, and moved on. No money lost, learned
the TM-Sidhis program and did lots of rounding. Salary was $5 to
$25/month, room and board fit for a serf, but who cares, I wasn't in
it for the money or power.
 
----So you don't feel used then.

I was aware there were people there, pretty clueless actually who
were in it for their own aggrandizement (big fish in a little pond
syndrome I call it). Whatever, that is their business and their
problem and I'll have nothing to do with it.
----I never had anything to do with it, and I still don't.

My advice (since you asked, ha ha)would be to just let it go.
 
---Well what else can I do Jim. I let go with a yell. If Jesus, and Buddha, and Shankara, and Nanak all couldn't enlighten the world, and they left legacies which still resonate, inspire us to build worlds of greatness in our hearts and not in the streets, and which still guide, based on aspiration to be moral, compasionate and wise, then what makes someone think that some medieval throwback to some nonexistant dreamed of reality called Vedic civilization, ostensably merely some fantasy, how can such a master of dimness take the world to some higher ground. It's Bullshit. Maharishi is bullshit, and I could also give someone a technique that I merely shitted out on a shingle, with some great high falutin philosophy and it would move someone and they would follow, then give me their bodies and souls and money and children's money, and guess what. If I was a megalomaniac I would take it, and ask for more. Bye for now.

Jim
 
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "rudra_joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I hate bogus authority which acts for it's own sake. I have
issues. Yes. And you say so because I make them known. I could just
be a milksop sitting in the corner never standing for anything I
believe in as well. Just taking the abuse like a beaten wife with
stoicism. But that's not my way. I've been burned at the stake
before by the Catholics who also were on a bogus power trip and
nothing at all close to what Jesus was like or wanted to be like.
More like what Constantine wanted. Did that shut my mouth? Nah.






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