I learned Deep Meditation (TM) in 1962. Before that I had read whatever I came over about Veda and Yoga and Indian Philosophy. I started to meditate because the message was so simple and fullfilling and confirmed what I had experienced when I transcended as a child. The image of MMY that I build up in my mind, was pretty much like the image I have of Guru Dev. I think MMY in the 60ths still was influenced of the silence and the purity from all those years with Guru Dev. And so - slowly the whole thing disappeared - . If I had met with MMY and his TMO for the first time today - I would never have started with TM. Malls and Peace Palaces and all that stuff has never been attractive to me - only the simple, blissful knowledge. Ingegerd --- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think this can, actually, be figured out. There is no > accounting for taste (in music, religion, clothing, food ...) and you > simply cannot argue with belief. > > So, what one person believes (we must remember, for starters, that > Sir Isaac Newton, fantastic thinker, held some incredibly strange > beliefs) simply makes no sense to another. Maybe Newton's strange > beliefs are not so strange, depending upon whom you ask. > > At one time, many, many really well-educated persons thought very, > very highly of Maharishi ... but as he and his organization began to > become increasingly peculiar (just to understand the point), they > began to think otherwise. > > Some really like "peculiar" and others do not. > > My own thought, worth something to me, but that may be it, is that > people have to find what works for them. If it is in conflict with > those around them, well, there lies the rub! > > G > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, you may not trust the Indian courts, but the uncle of me old > > friend, Anoop Chandola, is a highly placed priest in Northern > India, > > and arranged for his nephew to visit with the Shankaracharya of the > > North. When he arrived, he was asked WHICH Shankaracharya he wanted > > to speak to and decided to go with the court-annointed one --the > one > > who lived in Gurudev's official quarters, rather than down the road. > > > > While he was there, he asked that particular Shankaracharya (who > had > > just initiated him into meditation) if that Maharishi who was with > > the Beatles was legitimate. That particular Shankaracharya laughed > > and said, "He was my first choice for my sucessor, but they > wouldn't > > allow it due to the caste laws." > > > > Go figure. > > > > --- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > His passport identified him as Bal Brahmachari Mahesh. > > > > > > Bal indicates that this is a "life" situation, as in for-life. > > > > > > It would be interesting to know just how one goes from a life- > > > brahmachari (bal-brahmachari) to identifying onself as a "maha" > > Rishi (...)
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