--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote:
>
> There's a big sign up in the dome saying that anybody caught helping any
> saint will have their dome badge taken away. Way to go MUM. Another bullet
> in the foot.
>There's a big sign up in the dome saying that anybody caught helping any saint
>will have their dome badge taken away. Way to go MUM. Another bullet in the
>foot.
Dear Rick,
I sympathize completely with the powers that be here. Why? It's pretty simple:
if you, when you were devoted to M and TM as a teacher (on Purusha), how would
you receive this particular sentiment as expressed by you here? Now of course
you believe you are much wiser and more mature than you were then; but think
about it: what would be the quality of innocence and conviction that would rise
up inside of you in opposition to what you say above, and how secure and
confident would you be in standing behind the ruling made that no one "helping
any saint" will be able to keep their badge?
The sincere and adamant belief that Maharishi and TM was unique and superior
and inviolable went down as deep into us as transcendence itselfmaybe deeper.
To countenance any form of eclecticism with regard to spirituality after once
having become a teacher of TM and knowing Maharishi, this would seem dangerous,
reckless, and treasonous in the extreme.
It is only what has emerged from those twilight years of Maharishi when he
himself seemed to lose "the support of Nature", and so many of his teachers
became disillusionedno one achieved enlightenment; no one could fly; there was
no peace in the world; the TMO lost any sense of grace etc etc etc.that it
then became reasonable to consider experimenting with other traditions,
teachers, saints, practices.
No, for the authorities at MUM to tolerate this mixing of traditions and gurus
and practices would be tantamount to admitting there is nothing special about
TM and Maharishi, and that, as it were, 'anything goes'.
I bring your mind and heart back to the halcyon and euphoric days in the
Movementearly seventies; can you conceive of discovering within your
consciousness and heart the impulse to go against this proscription that you
now rail against, and consider to be inimical even to the well-being of the TMO?
I submit that you cannot. Because your present adherence to Amma arises not so
much out of the expansion and deepening of your spiritual understanding of
reality and the universe, but rather out of the experience of the enfeeblement
of the beauty, power, and majesty of Maharishi and TM. Therefore, your
disapproval of this strict sanctioning of those who would flirt with other
saints, is implicitly the assertion that TM and Maharishi have lost altogether
their claim of singular efficacy and authority when it comes to spiritual truth.
No, unless the TMO wants to just capitulate and formally discredit the
reputation of Maharishi himself as the greatest saint of the last centurymaybe
of all timethey must (and I believe they do this out of real moral and
metaphysical integritythey are, ironically, more sincere in upholding this
ruling than you are in denouncing it) enforce this "big sign in the dome saying
that anybody caught helping any saint will have their dome badge taken away."
And the idealistic and conscientious governor and Purusha that was Rick Archer,
he would unequivocally agree with the signand even rejoice in the opportunity
to take the heat from guys like you (in your present spiritual iteration).
Imagine being on a Six Month Course and learning there was dozens of persons
who were employing some other spiritual practice while we were obediently
rounding our brains off. The sense of the vibrational interference and
contamination, why it would be construed as nothing less than a diabolical
attempt to destroy "the purity of The Teaching"and to impede our own personal
evolution.
This is no different, in my opinion.
