I'll be candid, not that anyone would know otherwise.  About five years back I started buying very intense strands of rudraksha. At the time I was chef at a small joint, and I was always totally wasted. Drunk, railing, weeded, on pain killers galore like methadones and morphines that my boss gave me. Man I was so wasted. It was fun, needless to say.  But I knew that I had to get it straight and so I started with a strand of rudraksha with 9 9 mukhi 10 10 mukhi, one 1 mukhi and another mala of small 3 mukhi .  I started wearing them around the clock.  Needless to say I started reawakening then. And then I bought so many more malas that to tell which would take me another hour.  Now most people know that rudraksha according to their own scriptures are the very form of the devas themselves upon earth in a natural bead.  Well knowing that the devas were upon my flesh I started getting their vibe, but I couldn't stop doing what I was doing.  Uuntil I got fired the day before 9/11.  That shook me up and it took me two months after 9/11 to find another job. During that time I did a hundred thousand or so japs to Mahalakshmi and She opened my eyes and my mind.  I got alot accomplished that year.
 
That was at the time that Maharishi raised the prices. It was really bizarre because right then I wanted to volunteer to help the movement, and I was going to go try to get poor people to learn it.  The TM center told me straight up I was wasting my time here in New Olreans trying to get anyone to learn.  They bummed me out. During marathon chanting sessions to Mahalakshmi I would get these upswellings of rage at Maharishi that I never had before, and you all got to read them.  The same thing still happens when I chant to Her, so this is why I knew the pricing move was not a "deep decision on the part of the laws of nature" (from Bevan's ass) but rather complete and total bullshit egoic overstepping money lust.
 
But the rudraksha cut through all the ignorance, to wit, God was with me through everything no matter what I did.  It was my own obscurations that were the problem, not anything God did or didn't do.  It was what I did or didn't do.  I could get the darshan not that I deserved, because I certainly didn't deserve jack shit, but that I worked to get.  I owe my rudrakshas my sense of tantra, and they were cheap compared to some million dollar courses of speciousness.  And so I realized that God is caring and there for everyone. For me the darshan came through my beads, for you maybe through something else, for them maybe a million dollars worth of light and shadows. Not for me to judge. My point is this - there are many ways to the goal.  For many differnt types of people. And one needn't be all that great, merely open.  That's it. 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:11 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: question for jane

Speaking as someone who supported a TM Center out of my pocket for
more years than I care to remember. There are many TM teachers who
would have no problem transmitting the knowlege correctly.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, there are still people who are
devoted enough to want to believe even the latest scheme. The basics
of the knowlege is so charming that many where willing to teach for
what amounted to no compensation after expenses and the cut to an
organiztion that provided no tangible support.

JohnY



--- In [email protected], Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter's response gets a bit closer to the point of my question. I
understand why
> people believe there must be a fee (as Bob stated) but I'm a bit
curious about TM
> teachers who go off on their own and put all the money in their
pocket.... many
> after bitching about the TMO money issues. How long will it be
before no one
> learning really knows if they are receiving Maharishi's TM? Probably
within my
> lifetime (and I'm already a pretty old f^^k!!).
>
> Don





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