Did you have the tradition painting at your puja? I just had the GD portrait.
Come to think of it, we had a massive holy tradition painting without Maharishi in it at both academies I lived in. And I remember thinking the one with him in it was a bit rubbish when I first saw it. Like they'd added him in that pose to associate him with the others but in a fake devotional way rather than the "I'm just as good as them" way that they - and undoubtably he - liked to be thought of. Or is my memory bad and he's always been there? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : Well, we all know what the original painting that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi commissioned to show his position within the Shankaran tradition looks like: http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg View on www.meru.ch http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg Preview by Yahoo Here's the version used by students of Thom Knoles when they teach "Vedic Meditation": There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns My second meeting with Matt was another one-on-one. Matt warned me that there would be a ceremony to start, during which I would be given a mantra... View on www.popsuga... http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns Preview by Yahoo And here's the version used by devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-... http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg View on bawandinesh... http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg Preview by Yahoo No violation of copyright obviously, even though the original painting was commissioned BY Maharishi and was his own design, from what I understand.
