--- In [email protected], germainidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Llundrub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Sometimes I think that the best thing that could ever > > have happened to the TM movement would have been for some- > > one to let Maharishi loose in, say, the Bronx for a few > > days without a cent to his name and no one to help him > > get around. If you think about it, he hasn't had to > > interface with life as it is actually lived by millions > > of people since he left India the first time. If he > > had, I doubt that the movement would be in the situation > > it finds itself in today. > > > > Unc > > Gotta second that! My father had come to visit once when we were > encamped someplace in Europe. > > He said, Where's Maharishi? I said something to the effect that he > was > in his room working on some project. My father asked: why doesn't he > mingle. > > I was horrified. It was simply unthinkable. I was speechless. > > Social Workers in training are often taken to a far away city and > left > there broke and without cell phones to find out what it's like. I get > the impression, possibly because I find it appealing, that Guru Dev > would have done just fine somewhere in the Bronx. A. C. Baktivedanta > sat under a tree in Central Park (not really sure it was Central > Park) > and his organization took off from there; but I don't know if he was > approachable. It seems that Guru Dev was approachable only at certain > times on certain days until he became Shankaracharya, and then > anybody > could come anytime. > > I don't think Maharishi would have been able to reassure himself > (very, very small s on that elf) that he was as special as he thought > if he had had to mingle with the vulgar masses in any quantity. > > Someone sold the emperor a bill of imaginary goods and everyone but a > small child was too afraid to point out what a dork he emperor was > standing there nakkit. I think Maharishi sold himself a very shallow > bill of goods about his own self-importance.
but I don't see him as he sees him! Excuse me; do you have any idea at all about how MMY sees himself ? > > 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/
