--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edg wrote: > > When Richard the War Monger says, "Which just goes to > > prove that, contrary to what Edg implied, Maharishi > > didn't talk much about religion, gods, angels or > > demons when he composed SBAL," he reveals exactly > > that he's a troll and not a person involved in a > > dialog. > > > So, where, exactly, in SBAL does Maharishi talk about > "demons"?
What kind of line are you trying to draw here Richard? You are talking with people who know his complete teaching. If you are trying to argue that this one book doesn't discuss all of his teaching, fine. But if you are trying to run the PR party line on a bunch of trained teachers of TM...WTF? > > It has already been established that Maharishi only > mentioned "the gods" once in SBAL and "angels" only a > few times. I can't find a single instance in SBAL where > Maharishi talks about "demons". > > When I first read SBAL, I was susrpries at how little > Maharishi talked about religion. In fact, he seemed to > be saying that TM was a purely mechanical process, not > dependent on religious metaphysics. But, like others, > Edg seems to have wanted TM to be a new religion. > > There's no gods or angels involved in TM practice. If > there were, Maharishi in SBAl would have talked about > the gods and the angels, the yakshis in the kadampa > tree, and the asparsas, who fight each other all the > time, giving them names and attributes and explaining > why they should be consulted in order to transcend. >
