Someone sent me this. I think he meant to post it to the group. --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was sent to me on the side: > > Unc said, when discussing how movements degenerate > into money meaning status or some such: The first is > that how much money one has or is able to > make is somehow tied to their level of evolution or to > the "support of nature" for their endeavors. > > Around 1990 one of the big donors once sat in a room with me > chatting and very seriously told me that Maharishi had > told him something like the more money you have, the > more evolved you are. > > So Maharishi feeds these people this kind of thing all > the time. > > I just sat there dazed....I mean how do you answer > something like that. He sure was in his own puffed up world...
It's very common in traditions that believe in reincarnation: you find yourself in the state of life you are because of your overall evolution. You wouldn't have been able to obtain such a state WITHOUT said evolution. What you chose to do with your current state is another matter entirely, and one aspect of this belief is that the more evolved you are (the more money and stature you have using Maharishi's criteria), the more responsibility, resources and influences you have and the more dire your consequences (in this life or the next, or both) should you make bad choices. In other words, not only is the attitude of Maharishi's that you report *mainstream*, but its also quite logical. And it is perfectly in-keeping with what Jesus said about the rich having a hard time entering heaven --unlike the poor, who have an incentive to strive as much as possible to better themselves, given the opportunity, rich people, who often rest on their laurels from past lives, have no momentum to carry them forward into something better. It's a spiritual example of "regression to the mean": the more evolved you are, the easier it is to not bother trying to grow, and the more likely you are to slip a good ways, if you stop growing because you have further to fall. Maharishi said something on this from a different direction when he made his comment about angels finding it hard to become enlightened because where they live is so beautiful that it is difficult to get them to close their eyes... 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/
