--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > >> Maharishi doesn't like labor governments. > > > >> His comment on Britain's Labor > > > >> Party: "They are laborers. They shouldn't > > > >> be running the government. Give > > > >> them a shovel and tell them where to dig." > > > > > > > > This shows that he may well have lost the plot. History > > > > will rate this particular Labour governemnt to be > > > > the best Conservative government that we have ever > > > > had. But it is still a Labour government. MMY's > > > > advisors are more concerned about rubbing oil > > > > into his feet and keeping their jobs than retailing > > > > the truth, and taking the consequences. Can't he see it? > > > > > > I don't think he understands what a Labour government is. > > > He's just ragging on the term "Labour" because he's mad at > > > Blair and the UK in general. > > > > I don't think Maharishi understands what a government > > is, period. > > > > He's lived in never-never land all of his life, inside > > ashrams and then at the center of one (his movement). > > The only "governmental" structure within those organ- > > izations is Big Boss Man telling everybody what to do. > > No one gets a vote, no one else's opinion is solicited > > or valued; it's Big Boss Man's way or the highway. > > > > When he speaks of governments run in accord with "Natural > > Law," I think it is good to remember that what he has in > > mind is *himself* or someone like him as The Law. To him, > > that sounds "Natural." To me, it sounds as horrific as > > it does coming from any other wanabee dictator. > >
> Interesting how the descriptions I've read over the years of people > living in a Sat Yuga, ideal society, prehistoric tribal culture, as > one with nature, etc. government is nearly non-existent, and > generally ascribed to a single benevolent chief, leader, high > priest, or guru. > > Yet, during a Kali Yuga, such an arrangement is seen as the > antithesis of fair and benevolent leadership, or good government, > rather it is always associated with a repressive dictatorship. > ****************** People finally got fed up with abusive kings in the Kaliyuga and opted for democracy, but democracy can only be a temporary attempt to limit the damage done by low consciousness in the country's population. The only really satisfactory government, because of its efficiency and fairness to all parties, is a benevolent king (this does not mean a dictator who operates without regard for the people - - if you read the Ramayana, you find that Rama was totally sensitive to the thinking and needs of the people), and a benevolent king is only possible when that is what the people's consciousness deserves. People laugh at Bevan, an obese and lethargic windbag, but he is completely representative of the group consciousness in the TM movement, and that kind of leadership will not improve, either for the TMO or any country in the world, until group consciousness improves. In the press conference at mou.org 21Apr2004, Maharishi says damn democracy again, but also condemns monarchy and dictatorship as failures because, like the decision makers in a democratic system, the kings did not operate from a value of supreme awareness that would allow parental giving to the people. When on-campus murder is not part of the group consciousness at MUM, then you will know that awareness is more comprehensive and blissful: http://www.mum.edu/safety/bulletin.html Bob Brigante http://geocities.com/bbrigante ------------------------ 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/
