--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@ wrote: > > > > there [sic] are nothing when compared to Maharishi and > > what he has done. > > Maharishi's mission is unique because he had the power, > love and dedication and was sent in a moment of human > history when mankind was on the verge of the big leap > forward. He made mankind take the jump, but not > singlehandedly, without the work of other Masters > preceding him mankind would not be ready.
Stop, stop, for God's sake (hey, these guys probably believe in one, even if I don't) STOP! My optometrist has warned me that all the "eyerolling" I do while reading FFL is having adverse effects on my vision. :-) This really takes the cake. HOW could anyone possibly believe this stuff, about someone so relatively insig- nificant and Almost Forgotten Already as Maharishi? I think that there must be a one-for-one relationship between the amount of fear that a person has about being insignificant and cosmically unimportant *themselves*, and the amount of significance and importance those poor people project onto spiritual teachers or others whom they identify with. In their minds, the higher the imaginary pedestal they put Maharishi (or whatever guru or teacher or public figure they're groupies for) on, the higher *they* become. Weird stuff, if you ask me. But whatever floats their boats. Me, I'll continue to think that he was just a garden-variety narcissist who would never have been remembered for much of anything by much of anyone if it hadn't been for the Beatles. People who made them- selves feel more significant and important by identifying with *them* just transferred that fallacious reasoning to Maharishi, and now make themselves feel more signif- icant and important by identifying with him. And *what* exactly, are they identifying with? A guy who made up a beginner's technique of meditation, had some initial success with it, and then pissed it all away with flights of fantasy, delusion, grandiosity, and madness, leaving today's TM organization unable to get anyone to learn TM *unless someone else pays for it for them*, like some guvmint or the DLF. They couldn't market TM successfully on a standalone basis in the meditation "marketplace" if they tried. Some "accomplishment," for someone they consider more important than Rama, Krishna, and Buddha (two of whom never even existed). The ludicrousness of believing that Maharishi is in any way important to planet Earth makes my eyes roll so much that I fear my optometrist is going to be very worried indeed. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, srijau@ wrote: > > > > there are nothing when compared to Maharishi and what he has done. > > Maharishi's mission is unique because he had the power, love and dedication > and was sent in a moment of human history when mankind was on the verge of > the big leap forward. He made mankind take the jump, but not singlehandedly, > without the work of other Masters preceding him mankind would not be ready. >
