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No need to respond. It's fairly common in many guru trips. I
assume most are familiar with the guru-slave thing.
You mean the traditional approach to enlightenment
I mentioned?
That's the approach that caused you to wonder if it
was "the similar style of testing used by dictators
and the like," the one Krishna describes in the Gita,
for example?
No, it's not unusual to hear reports of paranoid people in high
places "testing" those close to them, not out of some desire to do
them better, but because they're frickin' paranoid megalomaniacs...
The context was MMY's apparent approach of teaching
followers not to be attached to the goal, not "testing."
*You* brought up testing--Steve Briggs' idea that MMY
had been testing him--as if it were the same thing,
then compared testing to dictators, then claimed MMY
was an admirer of Hitler.
I pointed out that "surrender to the guru" was a
traditional approach to enlightenment, not something
MMY had invented. You then called that traditional
approach a "guru trip" and a "guru-slave thing."
The strange connections here, and the subsequent
reluctance to acknowledge them, are all yours.
I'm not reluctant at all. I'm merely pointing out all the possibilities by pointing out the extreme possibilities in a humorous way. In the full context of his behavior it's impossible to know which represents the real Mahesh.
