--- In [email protected], Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, wayback71 <wayback71@...> wrote:
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> > Me,too. Bevan and John did not invent the dome badge rules or the whole
> > set of TMO rules. The rajas and higher ups are simply following
> > Maharishi's very clear and long standing policies. I am sure that they
> > believe that adjusting these rules would be the beginning of a slippery
> > slide into all sorts of impurity of the teaching challenges. They are
> > devotees doing their very best to honor their Master. These are MMY"s
> > wishes and rules, and things will not change as long as this generation of
> > devotees - who actually spent time with MMY - are in charge. It is
> > possible that if MMY were alive now, he would loosen things up, but no one
> > in charge now will make that decision in Maharishi's place. It is the way
> > it is and will stay the same and Bevan and John can not be blamed for this.
> > Maharishi did this.
>
> Hey, everybody, notice how I snipped 4 levels of posts on top of
> posts? Notice how I changed the subject to something more germane to
> where the thread has gone? We have world class gurus (in their own
> mind) and scholars of every sort (in their own mind) yet few have
> grasped onto the reality that this is not a bridge where you just
> spray paint your sentiments.
>
> Indeed, Maharishi's rules are being followed. To keep the domes
> pure? Doubtful. Maharishi believed he had the one and only true
> technique. At least that's the way he peddled it. That's the way he
> taught his teachers to peddle it. Indeed, why would someone in his
> right mind want to learn something else from another saint or vary
> their practice? He cognized or pulled out of his ass the true way of
> doing everything: Ayurveda, Vastu, Jyotish, Yagyas, making honey,
> music? His version was the right version, which is why he (TM)ed or
> (SM)ed it. Would Maharishi be loosening the rules now? Maybe, maybe
> not. If you had some bad marks against you in the past, you could
> get your slate wiped clean by signing up for one of Maharishi's
> endless SAVE THE WORLD WPAs. Once you got your slate wiped clean by
> attending that WPA, you we home free. In the good graces of the TMO
> again. Would he be freeing things up now? I doubt it? He was
> delusional for at least a decade before he died. Paranoid before
> that. Note the heavy security which protected Maharishi when his
> former minion Deepak and his wife went to visit him in Vloodrup.
>
> Right now there's yet another true believer check going on with DEVCO.
> People on IA are being called in for review of their loyalty and
> right thinking. Is this just DEVCO being extra cautious? IMO, no.
> This is DEVCO responding to instructions they've received from the
> Bardo.
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