Why did he stop using Raam and switch to the bijas.
--- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > "... discovered that the basic TM practice as we know it is > incomplete and really more of a first level kind of introductory > practice. And that the whole "knowledge package" presented by MMY is > kind of cobbled together from assorted sources and presented as the > whole picture while in reality it is just neo-vedic mumbo jumbo with > the main purpose of just placating psuedo seekers with a promise of > effortless spiritual growth." > > I am not sure who wrote the above. I tend, however, to agree to some > extent. Maharishi made it up as he went along, trying to understand > the West and marketing his wisdom by trying to make it > increasingly `just what the Americans wanted'. > > He started out with a single `way' of using one mantra, ram /raam/. > > That `way' of using the mantra was, actually, all he ever had and is > still the whole thing, the only thing. But, it's brilliant; > especially when you decide you've had enough of what Maharishi is > offering (and the craziness his organization seems to demand). > > Moving on to explore other offerings in the spiritual market, one > finds that Maharishi's `way' of returning to the base or foundation > of whatever new practise you are exploring is ideal for discovering > just what you are working with. > > I give Maharishi a lot of credit. Maybe he started out in England > sitting on a dirty deerskin (someone told me that his deerskin was > Guru Dev's ... probably apocryphal, but a nice thought) and was > overwhelmed by success. In the 10 years I knew him, he could be quite > the na�vet� about things ordinary to Westerners � we, on the other > hand, were just as naive about the things he was full of (no surprise > there!). > > But, as Rick says he learned, absolutely YES: Maharishi equated $ > with success, material as well as spiritual ... because the material > can only come from the spiritual (and this is precisely how his > reasoning on the matter goes). Hence, he tells us how "advanced" he > is by printing his own money! > > Does this make him a bad person, a charlatan, a corrupter of youth, a > fraud, etc.? That can only depend on where you are coming from. That > single gift of his "way" of returning to the base or foundation of > meditation is beyond measure. > > Maharishi often made it clear that he didn't like the hangers-on. > Trouble was, he needed someone to help; hard-working as he was, he > simply couldn't do it all. So the hangers-on eventually morphed into > his rather loony organization which tries to shape things in its own > warped image of how things should be. > > It must be very sad for Maharishi to have such vision and to have to > depend upon such blindness. > > What might have been? Who knows. What is? Well, what is is what is > and what you make of it. Despite having been party to many of > Maharishi's fits of pique and downright meanness on occasion, I am > still quite fond of him. Would I want to be part of his inner circle? > NO, NO, NO, NO. NO. > > My thoughts on the matter: take what he has given, an almost > magical `way' and go about enjoying your life. > > G 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/
