--In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
MMY was a Hindu monk and never claimed to be enlightened, I personally don't think he was. However TM works, that should be a relevant factor in the overall merits of the TM program IMHO. C: Whenever I see this statement I find it curious. The guy set up an organization based entirely on the assumption of his enlightenment. He never had to say "I am enlightened" he created the context in which we all related to him in this way. There was no context that I was ever in around him where this assumption was not the guiding principle under which we related to every word that came out of his mouth. It was the assumption that lay behind his commentaries on scriptures or lines from the Vedas, and everything else he wrote or spoke about. He looked at every subject from this assumptive perspective explicitly. He had the most through indoctrination program to instill this belief in us all that I can conceive of. What else could he have done to convey this assumption? I can't think of anything undone to this end. A verbal affirmation would be a step back from the institution he build on the foundation of this assumption. I'm thinking that he did claim to be enlightened, could you tell?
