Yes, I haven't found a theory to reconcile the derogatory remarks. "Foolish consistency" doesn't seem to cover it, since inconsistency didn't seem to bother him in other areas.
--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "ispiritkin" <ispiritkin@> wrote: > > > > Thanks for posting this, Turq. > > > > After reading another thread about MMY's zany behavior, it occurred > > to me that maybe Mahesh himself anticipated that a householder would > > spend only a very small slice of his enlightenment path with the TMO > > (additional time with tm itself, but not with TMO). By pushing > > people constantly, he had to know he would push them out of the TMO > > envelope, and onto something else. > > There is a case to be made for this. My reason > for not believing it completely is how Maharishi > tended to *treat* the people he'd "pushed out of > the nest." If he had continued to refer to them > with respect, that would indicate one thing; to > refer to them in derogatory terms, as he often > did, seems to indicate another. >
