Said very well. Thanks. Marek **
--- In [email protected], gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In Message 1935 of 2016 at > [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Premanand Paul Mason" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MMY answers questions about Guru Dev. > > [...] > > ...And I was never interested who was given what mantra. I was > > interested in myself. [laughter and giggling]... > > [...] > > ... Out of that fullness I started to teach. [MMY pauses, slight > > audience laughter] At least by practice people could rise and raise > > themselves up. > ��������� > Thank you, Paul, for posting this. I read it a couple of days ago and > have been turning it over in my mind. At first, I felt some > irritation, a kind of "I knew it", Maharishi is only > interested in > himself! But I continued to reflect and began to consider that there > was something more to this. > > All the interest, dedication, commitment to others is a good thing, > of course. But without interest, dedication, commitment to one's > own > spiritual development (fully humanizing oneself before setting out to > help others), which I hope is what Maharishi is saying, nothing > really useful is going to be achieved. The more I thought about this > and other things Maharishi said over the years, things he said to me > personally and to others around him, the more I have felt a release > from the rather too obvious nuttiness of the TMO and a now paranoid > dependent old man who no longer is or can ever again be my teacher. > > "I was interested in myself" and "Out of that > fullness" seems to me > to be the key teaching, the summation of what Maharishi was doing all > those years: setting an example (never quite a good one with respect > to the cultural milieu I knew, but the best example he could come up > with, nonetheless). *Find what is right for you, penetrate it as > deeply as you possibly can and then, once you have determined it is > going to benefit you and, according to my cultural milieu, allow you > to benefit others, "go for it"*. > > I abandoned Maharishi and his organized loonies a long time ago; but > never quite saw through the mirage I had set up for myself about him > until I pondered this lovely piece of very interesting insight � > or > was it my own insight I was pondering. I don't know. > > Thank you, again, Paul. If you have other talks in which Maharishi > talks about his time with Guru Dev, could you post them, or post a > link to them? � We all, I suppose, have the fantasy: wouldn't > it have > been great to have met Guru Dev, to have been his disciple. But I > think, with respect to the material you have posted, it would be even > greater to be a disciple of that inner guru, one's own citta, the > citta itself from which flows all that can ever flow. > > G 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/
