The thing is that the maharishi never got enlightened through the use of techniques... He said that he got enlightened from being around an enlightened person...Swami Brahmananda Saraswati... Do I think he was clever? Oh yeah!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wgm4u <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Notice how MMY used to say that TM was all you needed to improve your life > and reach enlightenment? CC,GC and UC. So in his lectures he suggested that > all eight limbs of Patanjali weren't actually necessary, right? They (Yama > and NIyama) were, as the tmorg still says, the 'ends' and not the 'means', > right? > > But when you read MMY's Bhagavad Gita he says (in the appendix under Yoga) > that Patanjali meant for ALL eight limbs to be practiced *simultaneously* > (quote, MMY). Go figure? was MMY confused or just being clever? (I think the > later). > > So the question arises, "is this something a 'saint' would do"? and "do the > ends justify the means" as MMY so often made it appear? >
