--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I beleive that Maharishi has "total knowledge," so do I, so do you. > It is conceivable, at least to me,that MMY's access to "total > knowledge" is "better" than mine, but that's not the same thing as > saying he's perfect. > > I think the B&W thinking represents a misunderstanding of what MMY > means by the term.
I suspect it ties into something Jim Flanegin said earlier: "IMO Maharishi is demonstrating regularly and spectacularly to anyone that pays attention to him that enlightenment or awakening or Brahman or whatever you want to call it, is NOT achieved by following the Master. "The Master shows you all possibilities, and if he is any good, brings you to the cliff's edge, and shoves you off, into eternal freedom. Become your own Master." "Total knowledge" in this sense would not mean believing everything MMY says, but rather that everything he says is what we need to hear. If we're on the cliff's edge, in other words, hearing MMY say we have to reconstruct the world is what we need to hear to push us over the edge into becoming our own Master: I'm not going along with *that* nutty idea! Well, I guess now I'm on my own... Does that mean that everyone who is still going along with his nutty ideas hasn't yet gone over the edge? Not necessarily. With regard to those in eternal freedom, all bets are off. We can't evaluate whether a person does or does not have "total knowledge" by what they do. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
