Has anyone ever told Maharishi ever that of the thousands who moved and left FF, many many many people become more impoverished than ever and, it seems, for many, the longer they stayed on this *wonderful program to smash poverty* the more poverty stricken they became?
It's still both unfathomable to me (and others) and unconscionable (is that a word?!) of him that he/TM org. could still be making this claim. --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All from December 1, 2005: > > > > Maharishi: "How do you smash poverty? You take poverty to the extreme > level, where there is absolutely nothing. And you have smashed poverty. And > when there is absolutely nothing, you find absolutely everything. And that > is real richness. > > > > "Real richness is real richness. Underline this thing a thousand times. > Real richness is not in the countable wealth -- million, billion, trillion, > and whatever -- it's not in terms of wealth. In terms of the source of all > wealth. Source of infinite wealth. > > > > "That you desire and the thing is there. You wish -- the thing is there. > That is real wealthy. And to this class we want to raise the poor. > > > > ..."It's not concerned with countable coins and wealth, but it is in terms > of that affluence which is a field of all possibilities. All wealth is an > aspect of it. > > > > "But wealth is not -- alone -- total life. There is power. There is power. > And there is knowledge. And there is bliss. > > > > ..."Our poverty removal is -- removal of anything that may not be totality. > Removal of anything that is not totality. And that is one's own > self-sufficiency. One's own consciousness. One's own consciousness. And > that is predominantly a matter of attention. Attention. > > > > ..."We have the program of poverty removal, and this is in terms of the > worldly understanding of it. But when we know from where we are functioning > for these, and where we want to take our people, we want to take our people > -- not to a wealth which can be minimized, or which can be stolen away, or > which can be a cause of pains and tears. But a level where bliss is moving, > where the waves are the waves of bliss." > > ..... > > > > "Dreaming state of consciousness is -- something is seen in terms of > something else. There is a tree, and you see it like a lion jumping on you. > This is dream. sp; Something is seen as something else. > > > > "God Consciousness is also: something seen in terms of something else. You > see a mango tree, and you see Krishna is there, and you see this Vishnu is > there. Something seen in terms of something else. That is God > Consciousness. > > > > "God Consciousness. Something seen as something else. You see something, > but you see God in it. You see something -- God in it." > > ..... > > > > "Poverty means a man is poor. That means he has less money. Now when we > want him to have more money, our program is to completely deprive him of > anything that even he has now. And that we say -- that is our program to > eliminate poverty. > > > > "He has some money -- he is poor. Now we want him to have more money. The > program is: To deprive him for whatever he has -- take him to a vacuum > state. Take him to the hollowness. To nothingness. To abstraction. To > unmanifest. And show -- prove to him that he has everything. > > > > "He got everything. In one sense we take him to nothingness. And in the > same sense, miraculously, we put him to deprivation of nothingness." > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
