--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Someone sent me these:
>
> Stories about Maharishi
>
>
> The Shankaracharya's Welcome to Maharishi
> Jyotir Math, India, 1975
> From the tradition of Shri Shankaracharya
> He is the disciple just like the Master:
> Destroyer of tamas of the inner Self, King of Rishis,
> And from the darkness of the people He is the bestower of light.
>
> Greatest of the great, greater than greatness,
> He is indeed the reason for the welfare of the tradition.
> Bestower of the calmness in the three layers of existence,
> Incarnation of Yoga, indeed of Shankara,
> Whose speech is true speech, Whose demeanor is precise,
> Whose actions are compassionate, Whose fame is compelling,
> In the world of all men He is the inner Self.
> The course of His speech is the incarnate form of Indra. the
Creator.
>
> O Mahesh Yogi, let Your benevolence be extended unto me,
> Great Rishi, King of Rishis, Rishi of Gods.
>
> From the light of the Himalayas to the level of the plains
> He resides in the midst of Shankaracharya Nagar.
>
>
> Sri Ananda Mayi Ma
>
> In 1981 during the Vedic Science course in Delhi, Maharishi sent a
large
> group to the Taj Mahal for a visit. While in Agra, the group heard
that the
> great saint Sri Ananda Mayee Ma was at her place in Vrindavan,
which was on
> the route back to Delhi from Agra. Maharishi enthusiastically said
the group
> should visit her and to take shawls, saris, fruits, garlands,
sweets
> masses of them as our gift.
>
> The group arrived at twilight and meditated in a group outside her
house
> while waiting for their chance to go up to the roof of the house
where she
> gave darshan. While the group was waiting two giant white birds
flew low
> over her house the celestial quality of the sight made everyone
gasp.
>
> Dr. Bevan Morris asked the receptionist to inform Sri Ananda Mayee
Ma that
> we were from Maharishi. But the group had to go up in sections of
ten as the
> space was limited. Dr. Morris went up in the last group, and found
that Sri
> Ananda Mayee Ma was sitting deeply withdrawn not paying attention
to the
> people coming and going, and the pile of cloth, flowers, fruit
etc. that had
> been placed in front of her. At that stage she was very elderly,
and near
> the end of her Earth days.
>
> It was immediately obvious to Dr. Morris that she had not been
told that
> this was Maharishi's group. He asked the administrator again to
please tell
> Sri Ananda Mayee Ma that these people were sent by Maharishi to
see her. The
> administrator began to speak to her in Bengali and at the point
where he
> said "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi" Sri Ananda Mayee Ma suddenly sat bolt
upright
> and folded her palms together, and then started grabbing fruits
and flowers
> and wrapping them up in packages, and giving them to us to deliver
to
> Maharishi.
>
> Then she gave a sublime message of devoted greeting and love to
convey to
> Maharishi. The group upon reaching Delhi delivered this message to
> Maharishi's great joy.
>
> * * *
>
>
> On another occasion Maharishi was doing Puja with Sri Ananda Mayee
Ma at her
> place in Haridwar, but finally Maharishi had to go. He told Sri
Ananda Mayee
> Ma, Ma you stay here and continue, and I will go. She seemed to
agree and
> let him go, but after a few moments got up and followed Maharishi
out to the
> car, walking a little behind him with the sweetness of a small
child. There
> was a mala wala a garland salesman with a basket full to the
brim with
> marigold garlands on the street there, and Sri Ananda Mayee Ma
pointed to
> him so that her assistant purchased the whole basket. Then Sri
Ananda Mayee
> Ma took the whole basket to where Maharishi was now sitting in the
car, and
> she tipped the whole basket of garlands through the window into
his lap.
>
> Ananda Mayee Ma is considered the greatest lady saint of modern
India,
> enlightened from a young girl, an expression of Mother Divine. She
left the
> world in 1982. It was her custom to send westerners who visited to
Maharishi
> to learn Transcendental Meditation for example, Peter Wallace,
the brother
> of Keith. Her devotion to Maharishi shows again that we have
grasped very
> little of the grandeur of Maharishi's personality and status, and
his role
> in the universe.
>
>
> Tat Wala Baba
>
> During the Teacher Training Course with Maharishi in the Academy of
> Meditation Shankaracharya Nagar in Rishikesh at the end of 1969, a
course
> that included many of the greatest luminaries of the Movement, the
course
> participants asked Maharishi if the famous recluse saint Tat Wala
Baba could
> come to visit the course, as had happened in previous courses. Tat
Wala Baba
> was living in a cave about three miles up in the hills behind our
Academy.
> It was his custom to only come out once a day for one hour to let
visitors
> enjoy his darshan. There was a lean-to just below his cave for
this purpose.
>
> He was a very powerful man, very muscular like a wrestler, with
matted hair
> that fell all the way to the ground. Maharishi said of him that he
seemed to
> be in a good state of Unity Consciousness.
>
> Maharishi agreed to invite Tat Wala Baba to come to speak to the
course, and
> sent Brahmachari Shankerlalji, a very elderly and blissful
Brahmachari, who
> had been Maharishi's Guru Bhai when Maharishi was Guru Dev's
Brahmachari,
> and who lived out all his final years in Maharishi's Academy of
Meditation
> in Rishikesh (except for one time in 1970 when Maharishi sent him
to Japan
> for a trip to see the Movement there). Maharishi also sent Bevan to
> accompany Shankerlalji to go to the cave and invite Tat Wala
Babaji.
>
> They drove as far as the could into the forest down a narrow
track, and then
> climbed the final section up the hill. They found Tat Wala Baba
had just
> come out for his daily Darshan and was sitting listening to a
Pandit who was
> chanting slokas from a big book that was open in front of him.
>
> Shankerlalji and Bevan respectfully greeted Tat Wala Babaji, and
then
> Shankerlalji conveyed Maharishi's invitation to come to speak to
the course.
> Tat Wala Babaji immediately stood up, saying to the Pandit and the
others
> who had come to see him: "Maharishiji is calling I have to go,"
and put on
> his sandals and started walking down the hill.
>
> He came in the car through the forest to the Academy, pulling up
outside the
> lecture hall where the course was meeting with Maharishi. The
lecture hall
> was approached from the back down a ramp, and as Tat Wala Babaji
entered the
> ramp the course participants could see him coming, and indicated to
> Maharishi that he had arrived. Maharishi came immediately from his
seat, and
> as he turned the corner up the ramp, at the moment he first saw
Tat Wala
> Babaji, Maharishi's face lit up like the sun from the joy.
>
> There followed a beautiful session of questions and answers with
the course
> with Maharishi and Tat Wala Babaji sitting hand in hand an
experience that
> no one there will ever forget.
>
> * * *
>
>
> On another occasion a visitor to the Academy went up to see Tat
Wala Babaji.
> When he arrived, he found another visitor there, a businessman
from Delhi,
> who asked where our meditator was coming from. He said he came from
> Maharishi. The businessman scoffed, saying he should study some
Indian
> philosopher from Oxford instead. So our meditator said, "Why not
ask Tat
> Wala Babaji his opinion of Maharishi," to which the businessman
agreed.
>
> Tat Wala Babaji responded to the question, speaking very rapidly
in Hindi,
> going on for about 15-20 minutes. As he continued, the businessman
looked
> increasingly crestfallen. At the end our meditator asked, "What
did Tat Wala
> Babaji say?" The businessman replied, "He said, 'Maharishi knows
> everything.'"
>
>
> Devraha Baba
>
> Devraha Baba was a great saint of India who passed away in 1991.
So elderly
> was he that the President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, more than
fifty
> years ago said that his father had sat at the feet of Devraha Baba
as a
> child that is, in the middle of the nineteenth century and
Devraha Baba
> was already elderly at that time. An Allahabad High Court
Barrister told
> Purusha visiting there that seven generations of his family had
sat at the
> feet of Devraha Baba.
>
> In 1982, a group of Purusha visited Devraha Baba at the Aardh
Kumbha Mela,
> in Hardwar. In front of all the people attending his talk, the
Purusha
> introduced themselves as being from Maharishi. Devraha Baba
replied,
> "Maharishi is very dear to me." After saying some other very nice
things
> about Maharishi, he started throwing fruit to the Purusha. That
was his way
> of giving blessings. He did three rounds of fruit-throws to them,
which they
> were told was very special.
>
>
> * * *
>
> In 1989 another group of Purusha visited Devraha Baba at the
Kumbha Mehla in
> Allahabad, where he was residing on a raised platform above the
sand banks
> near the Sangam. The Purusha were with Devraha Baba when he saw a
long line
> of yellow-clad young Vedic Pandits coming across the sands towards
him
> chanting the Veda, sent by Maharishi to greet India's eldest saint.
>
> When he saw them, Devraha Baba suddenly put his hands across his
heart and
> said passionately, "Maharishi has revived the whole Vedic
tradition!"
>
> * * *
> At the Kumbha Mela in 2001, the devotees of Devraha Baba told our
Purusha
> how Devraha Baba would often say that there is a Gyan Yuga coming
in the
> midst of Kali Yuga, starting from a transition period from 2000 to
2020, and
> that His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is the one creating it!
>
>
>
> Sadguru Sant Keshava Das
>
> Sadguru Sant Keshava Das was a saint from south India who was
considered a
> great exponent of Bakti Yoga. He primarily composed and sang
Bhajans and
> expounded on the Bhagavad Gita and Lord Krishna's teachings.
>
> In 1996, a group of Purusha, local representatives of Maharishi's
Indian
> organizations, and a local real estate agent were out looking for
land for
> building Vedic Pandit schools. The realtor was a devotee of
Keshava Das and
> took the group to his main ashram, close to the land they were
looking at,
> for his Darshan.
>
> Keshava Das was very gracious to the group. And when they
introduced
> themselves as being from Maharishi, Keshava Das said,
>
> "Maharishi is single-handedly reviving the Vedic tradition."
>
> This was a great compliment to Maharishi from a revered saint, as
he himself
> was also trying to revive the Vedic knowledge.
>
>
> Swami Lakshmanju
>
> Swami Lakshmanju (19071991) was the last Acharya of the Kashmir
Shaiva
> Siddhanta tradition. Written accounts of conversations with Swami
Lakshmanju
> include the following comments about Maharishi:
>
> "If you ask me, Maharishi's teaching starts where mine ends and it
goes from
> there to Infinity." Then he added, "Maharishi is the greatest
saint to walk
> the Earth in ten thousand years!"
>
>
> Raj Mata of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
> (as told by Dr. Neil Patterson)
>
> "In 1976, the Raj Mata of Lucknow, U. P., came to visit Maharishi
in
> Switzerland. She had been a great devotee of Guru Dev when he was
> Shankaracharya and Guru Dev used to stay at the Royal Palace
whenever he
> would visit Lucknow. Raj Mata told me that she remembers Maharishi
when he
> was a brahmachari serving Guru Dev, but she really didn't pay much
attention
> to him at the time. However, she was very surprised years later,
after Guru
> Dev had left this earth, when people would come to her
people who
had known
> Guru Dev and who had recently seen Maharishi. They would tell Raj
Mata that
> Maharishi is just like Guru Dev. At first, Raj Mata said she
didn't believe
> this. But throughout the sixties and early seventies, people kept
telling
> her that Maharishi was just like Guru Dev and that she should go
and see
> him. So, finally, she decided that before the end of her life, she
had to
> come and see for herself. She stayed with us for about three
months. On the
> day she was leaving, I escorted her to Maharishi's meeting room
where she
> was to see him for the last time and with my assistance she sat on
the
> floor. I protested that Maharishi would not want her to sit on the
floor but
> she said to me in a very heartful tone,
>
> 'Oh no, you do not understand. When all those people told me that
Maharishi
> was just like Guru Dev, I came to see for myself. But having been
with
> Maharishi these past few months, I can see that they were wrong.
Maharishi
> is not like Guru Dev, He is Guru Dev. There is no difference
between the
> two. Maharishi got completely absorbed in Guru Dev's Being and
became That.
> Maharishi is not only the disciple who is just like the Master. He
is the
> Master. He is Guru Dev and therefore I have to sit at his feet.'"
>
>
> Jai Guru Dev
>
>
Thanks for the nourishment, Rick
