--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have never had any personal contact with MMY I > can easily understand why a person would say MMY is > not Realized. Especially the last decade or so he has > made many an outrageous comment. So, from a conceptual > level of evaluating MMY based on his speech and > behavior he does not meet many people's expectations > of how a Realized person speaks and behaves. However, > personal contact with MMY, in my experience, pretty > much crushes any conceptual edifice regarding > Realization. His darshan is incredibly powerful and > triggers deep spiritual experiences. As has been said > here many times, MMY is an incredible paradox. To > dismiss MMY as unenlightened is, IMHO, ridiculous > based on my own personal experience with him.
And, just to show that things are different based on who you are and how and what you choose to perceive, I had (by some standards) a great deal of personal contact with Maharishi. And I never considered him enlightened. Never. Still don't. In my book, his 'darshan' was so puny (compared to other teachers I've met) that I would be tempted to describe it as non- existent. Go figure, eh? My experience does not invalidate yours, and yours does not invalidate mine. But you really can't write off people who don't think he's enlightened as just "not having had personal contact with him." That's not it at all.
