"authfriend" wrote: "I dunno whether invincibility as he used the term applies to him or not, but he did live to a ripe old age. Can't really argue with results."
Edg: Maharishi's aging process seems to have been absolutely normal -- not a hint of "moving towards immortality." The bible says Methuselah live almost 900 years. The Hindu scriptures talk about the previous yuga folks living 1,000 years. But since the dawn of the age of enlightenment DECADES AGO, I don't see any sign from any meditators that the aging process has been impacted. In 2003, I was a wreck physically -- the TM dogma never really encouraged me to try any other methods for fitness than "walk and talk" or asanas, and I used that as my excuse, but it was all "my bad" really. There I was believing that even if I was 60 pounds overweight and couldn't do a flight of stairs without getting out of breath and had a host of minor indications of impending death (age spots on the backs of my hands, arthritic-esque pains in many joints, etc.) I was, you know, okay. Sigh. Then came Trikke, and of all the things I ever started for fitness' sake, this one grabs me because it is just so much fun, and a day without trikking is a bad day. In less than a year's time, I was a different man -- except for the age spots -- and I felt DECADES younger. I'm convinced that fitness has improved just about everything me-ish -- immune system, digestion, sleep patterns, stamina, strength, clarity, love of "the big sky," etc. MSAE requires all the kids to do physical fitness each day, but after graduation the dogma doesn't support it except with lip-service for the most part. "No sweating allowed," as a TMO notion, probably keeps a lot of TBers on the couch. Given Maharishi's incredibly intense mental work each day, I wonder how many more years of him we'd have had if he had exercised daily. These two things are LARGE in my views today: be involved mentally with life's offerings and be involved physically with the forces of nature. Think, bend, breathe deeper, live longer/healthier. Edg
