--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- 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. :-)
Don't worry, if you have any difficulties I can suggest a specialist. > > > > --- 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. > > >
