gerbal88 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. > > > <snip>
I gave up on the Movement in 1985 when I was charged $185 for what turned out to be an intro lecture on Ayurveda I could have given myself. I have spent the last 5 years with a tantric guru who only recently authorized me to teach yogic meditation. This is a technique that can be traced back centuries in our tradition. It is not something he made up. To be fair to MMY however we all probably wanted and still want to teach meditation for a very selfish reason: to try to get rid of the "drag" in society. We want to see more coherent thinking in the folks we deal with day to day whether it be the cashier who screws up your change or the boss who can't see past his own nose. Several years ago I was giving astrology readings for the folks at work. In one case, a young woman, who was the admin for my department was in danger of loosing her job because she was flaking out, disorganized, forgetting to do things etc. I gave her a mantra based on her horoscope and it was amazing to see how quickly she came together and is today a successful person. Jai Ma, - Bhairitu 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/
