I might cut him some slack in that it took some time for him to find how
lame westerners can be and they do need a nanny. :-D
There's so much about MMY that if you have spent any time around Indians
and particularly hear other Indians speak of western society as well as
the silliness of many Indians then you start to see MMY as being
"typically Indian" about things. It has nothing to do with
"enlightenment" but just Indian culture.
On 12/16/2014 09:09 AM, TurquoiseBee [email protected]
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
*/My first encounter with Maharishi was at the Greek Theater in Los
Angeles in 1967, and I came away *not* so much impressed with him as I
was by something he said, which in retrospect is kinda poignant.
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/*
*/What I remember most about the day is that someone in the audience
got up and asked a question that basically boiled down to "I've got
this problem in my life, Maharishi...what should I do?"/*
*/
/*
*/His answer impressed me. He said something to the effect of, "If I
tell you what to do it will make you *weaker*, not stronger. My advice
might get you through this current situation, but when the next one
comes up, you'd be looking for me to tell you what to do again. Better
that you should meditate and learn to make your own decisions."/*
*/
/*
*/Compare that 1967 advice to how he started running his students'
lives shortly thereafter. And, as he accurately intuited back then,
him doing that made them all weaker, not stronger. /*
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My first meetings with Maharishi were unplanned and pleasant. I was
on TTC Arosa in '75
Being a country-boy from WI and in Arosa in June it was like a second
spring and I took opportunities to go gallivanting in the Alps. One
time I returned from a walk to find Maharishi had flown in on
helicopter and was in lobby 'doing a line', I was lil sweaty and not
dressed right and without flowers but jumped in at end of line anyways
. . . I did the Namaste thing and he gave me some flowers and said
something very cheerful.
The second time and on another day I was in a bit of a hurry and came
around a corner and saw the elevator doors closing so ran and squeezed
in sideways and thinking what a coup to make it in but to my horror I
banged into Jerry Jarvis who then almost banged into Maharishi. Jerry
did one of his lil laughs and Maharishi was quite impressed by my
move. Maharishi was in his announcing of Dawn of Age of
Enlightenment phase, and he had sites where others were experimenting
with Sidhis and he was helicoptering all over Switzerland so I suspect
he was in a good mood. Anyways, that was my best elevator ride evah!
