Thanks - I like this broader context of the transcendental wave running through time and consciousness, with some of us picking it up (again and again) as it comes by. Perhaps the efficiency of the TM technique (diving deeply, precisely, and quickly, 2 x 20) speaks to this age, where we don't have a lot of time to learn about transcending. Nature's balance for fast-paced modern life, and with any luck, some progress in the meantime. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
Well, in a line Maharishi's transcendentalism message a hundred years before was carried forward as American Transcendentalism by Emerson and the American transcendentalist satsanga at the time. Same message of populist transcendentalism was carried then as seems always has been carried in somewhat of a line through time. Transcendentalism evidently has long lineage. Evidently Transcending as experience and then transcendentalism as satsanga are a story-line to read that runs through out time. For instance, Quaker Meeting here in Fairfield starts in a little while. George Fox, founder of the historic Society of Friends satsanga, he like Maharishi was another mystic in the line of transcendentalism. And, you and we are in that line too, transcendentalists in time. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <olliesedwuz@...> wrote : I wonder if little Mahesh ever got the inkling as he was sitting in school, for example, that he would one day grow up to become a famous spiritual teacher? The times have definitely favored his message, and so many of us have been influenced by this one man. It could have been anybody (though probably Indian) that popularized TM, and yet it just happened to be Maharishi. Even a hundred years ago, his mission would have been impossible. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : From the MVS Thesaurus: Spirituality Description In 1957, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi said that: 'Spiritual development is the birthright of everyone, for it is the unfoldment of the essential nature of the soul, or inner consciousness…. Soul is the individual property of everybody. It is the natural and inseparable possession, nay, the very existence, of every man. Everybody has the right to enjoy his own possession. Everybody has the right to enjoy the sat [truth] chit [Being] ananda [bliss] nature of his own soul. In the most natural manner, everybody has every right to enjoy permanent peace, bliss eternal, which is the nature of his own soul.' -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Thirty Years Around the World—Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment, Volume One 1957-1964 (Netherlands: MVU Press, 1986), p. 195. Some people feel that the outer or material joys of life are opposed to, or diminish, the spiritual value, and that one has to give up, or become detached, from material values in order to achieve inner fulfillment. Below is a short video of Maharishi reflecting on the topic of spirituality. Here Maharishi points out that inner spirituality does not conflict with the outer material value of life: See video onhttp://www.enlightenmentforeveryone.com/spirituality/. http://www.enlightenmentforeveryone.com/spirituality/ Maharishi always said we should enjoy 200% of life—100% of the inner spiritual value along with 100% of the outer material value. He offered Transcendental Meditation as a simple way to integrate abstract absolute being with the concrete details of the relative.
