on 6/4/05 6:11 PM, claudiouk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rick - what was it about MMY that was so SPECIAL for YOU? And how did > you handle the cognitive dissonance regarding his non-celibacy?
The short answer is that I was very ready to have a relationship with a Master and based on my TM experiences, I was devoted to MMY even before I met him. I was also very impressed by some TM teachers, especially Jerry Jarvis, and my Satyanand, who taught my first residence course with Jerry (Cape May, NJ, 1979). When I finally met Maharishi at Poland Spring, 1970 I was totally blown away by his darshan. I had already listened to many tapes and was familiar with his wisdom and sense of humor. But his darshan was palpable. My consciousness was profoundly elevated in his presence. Had he started using the title "His Holiness" back then, I would have had no problem with it. I spend a fair amount of time with him over a 16 year period, often sitting or meditating right at his feet, being in small meetings with him, etc., and I almost always had this experience. The last time I saw him was in Noida, fall of 1986. There were lots of late night meetings in the garden with Purusha and Mother Divine in attendance. Many of them were business meetings in which Maharishi deliberated over the price of Amrit and stuff like that. I remember one evening around 2 am a German Purusha sitting next to me said, "Here we are, in the land of the Veda, at the hour of ghosts, talking about money." Somehow the irony of that comment struck a chord. I could go on, but to get to your second question, the cognitive dissonance was not so great as it would have been had I become aware of the situation years earlier (and as it is for some on this list who are probably being exposed to such information prematurely). I don't feel a close attachment to MMY anymore, so I'm OK. But as you can tell, it still doesn't make sense to me, and so I still try to hash it out. I guess the crux of the issue for me is, why would someone in as high a state of consciousness as I assumed M had attained do something like this? I guess the question begins to answer itself if you broaden it to include a lot of other screwy stuff he's done over the years. Or maybe it doesn't. As Peter says, he's an enigma. The mind will never sort it out. 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/
