On Dec 23, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
One of his personal secretaries once told me that MMY ate and
worked on stuff during those silences, but that he did so alone. I
was in the room several times when he came out of silence, and at
the time, his darshan seemed much more profound to me. It took him
a couple of days to resume speaking at a normal volume.
Yeah, I'm sure many of us heard many different stories.
My favorite, and one that helped sustain my own illusion of Maharishi-
as-yogi was the story that he went into a darkened, temperature-
controlled room and was ritually wrapped in some cloth, and that he
entered a "continuum of silence" for days and days. Of course this
was back when I really fell for the "silence" polarity thing. Imagine
my disappointment when I found out it wasn't true! (well maybe he did
this at one time, but not from what I've heard!). It's interesting
the myths that are woven to preserve the fantasy.
