As far as we can tell, for the last years of his life he was as much a "shut-in" as Howard Hughes. And as obsessed with money, but that's another story. Hughes liked movies as well. He was annoyed that the local TV station did not broadcast in the wee hours of the morning, so he bought the station and insisted they play movies late. "Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love." - Amma
--- On Wed, 5/27/09, TurquoiseB <[email protected]> wrote: From: TurquoiseB <[email protected]> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: FW: Mr. Hubbard and the maharishi To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 2:09 AM --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > More: (from joerg, I assume) > > But the lady of Mr. Hubbard told me, that the maharishi > and the H. didnt meet. > They had some problems overcoming etiquette. > They couldnt settle on, who was visiting whome.... This sounds right. If you think about it, did Maharishi ever "go to visit" *anyone*? My take on him is that he based his act on Guru Dev's, and the protocols of spirituality surrounding him. Guru Dev, as the Shankara- charya, was a celebrity of sorts and a recluse by nature. So people visited *him*, not vice- versa. Maharishi always took the same approach. On one level he was probably just doing things the only way he'd seen them done. On another level, he was probably doing it as a kind of power thang, and a way to be able to say (or imply), "I'm so important that these other teachers and celebrities come to see *me* I don't have to go out of my way to see them." And on yet another level, Maharishi was far more of a recluse than most people in the public understand. After the early years, and after he was prevented from ever going to the US or India again out of fear of being served legal papers, he pretty much stuck to his room. After the heart attack, he probably almost never *left* his room, doing all of his "visits" via television. As far as we can tell, for the last years of his life he was as much a "shut-in" as Howard Hughes. And as obsessed with money, but that's another story. Hubbard was exactly the same way. IMO there is not a chance that he would have left the Sea Org to meet with some other spiritual teacher, because *in his own terms in his writings* that would have meant that he was "playing their game" or "giving up his power to them." And Maharishi's history does not suggest that he would ever have gone out of *his* way to see a "competing" spir- itual teacher, eithers. So my contention is still that they never met, and that anything he ever said about Hubbard is on the basis of what people who actually *had* met Hubbard told him. Just as a funny aside to the mentions of L. Ron Hubbard, there is a SciFi group that every year gives out awards for the *Worst* science fiction of the year. They call their statuette -- the counterpart of the Oscar -- the "Elron." :-) ------------------------------------ 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
