--- In [email protected], "lupidus108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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 ?
Oh, yes, I think I do. Whether or not what I think has anything to do with reality doesn't much interest me. It's just how he looks to me; who in the devil does any of us know what the reality is, anyway? Unless, of course, we actually get to know what we are. > > > > 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/
