<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > Note his response about the future of the TM org. It doesn't
endorse the
> > rigid structure that currently pervades the TM org.. I think that
> this quote
> > will be referred to quite alot after MMY passes on in refuting
the
> control
> > that the TM org will try to exert at that time.
> >
>
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>
> > Question: The Future of the TM Movement
> >
> > Mr Jones: 'I do not know precisely what age you are, but clearly
you
> will
> > not live forever, like any of us.
> > What will happen to the TM Movement when you pass on? Do you have
> successors
> > in mind? Do you need a
> > successor to be a figurehead of the Movement or how will it
work?'
> >
> > Maharishi: 'It does not work on the individual level; it works
on a
> cosmic
> > level, which is expressed in the
> > individual. A body is to pass on, but Transcendental Meditation
is
> not my
> > creation. Transcendental
> > Meditation has been throughout the ages since time immemorial.
The
> > unmanifest, self-referral, Unified
> > Field is Transcendental Meditation. People forget about it;
someone
> comes to
> > say it is there with you.
> > He passes away. This passing away is not of any importance. We do
> not give
> > importance to the
> > individual. We give importance to the transcendental reality,
which
> > transcends the individual and
> > establishes the universal, eternal oneness of Being.
> >
> > 'A man speaks on it in these years, and another man speaks on
this
> in that
> > year. So it is not the
> > individual; it is the same reality that is eternal. It is being
> spoken by
> > those who like to enjoy speaking
> > about it. I am not thinking of my life or death or this. I am
> thinking that
> > Transcendental Meditation has
> > now very properly come to bless nations as a whole, to bless the
unified
> > value of all nations at a time when
> > all the people of the world‹all your intelligent people I
mean‹are
> hankering
> > to find a solution. This
> > gives a solution to them.'
>
> I'm not sure this statement foreshadows less rigidity in TMO after
MMY
> dies. I remember MMY talking like this in the 70s - but that
didn't
> stopped the tmo's trend towards rigidity. People will remember the
> structure and attitudes MMY leaves behind, not isolated quotes.
>
> I think people with the more liberal attitude reflected in the
above
> quote have pretty much left the tmo, leaving the more
fundamentalist
> in charge. I don't see them getting more liberal after he dies.
If
> anything people get more rigid after a religious founder dies,
don't
> they? - they fearfully cling even stronger to specific rules,
dogmas
> and rituals, trying to maintain the distinctive definition of their
> group against outside contamination.
>
> I just can't see Bevan and the nephews loosen up their thinking
after
> MMY goes. Bevan will definitely get more rigid in enforcing
adherence
> to the "purity of the teaching" and the nephews will be busy
tracking
> their net worth.
>
> Has any religion grown more universal and cosmic after the founder
> saint died?
>
I'm fascinated by this discussion.
Today, with MMY alive and kickin', the TMO is on its last legs...and
the only reason it has ANY life left is, IMHO, largely due to the
charisma -- or at least the residual charisma -- of this dying man.
Once this last element disappears from the picture -- that is, MMY
dies -- what in heaven's name is going to keep the TMO together at
all? It ain't the attractive lower-than-minimum-wage plan or the
medical plan or the retirement plan the TMO has graciously bestowed
on its two-decades-plus devoted workers...
Personally, I think that the teaching of the TM Program is enough
but, hey, the TMO is made up of worshippers of the cult of
personality...indeed, I don't even think most of the people in the
TMO, as I've written here before, even practise the TM Program (they
may do the TM Technique but NOT the TM Program).
Boy, without a charismatic leader, how are we going to be anything
more than become the Rosicruceans of the day or the remnants of
Yogananda's organisation (i.e. a bunch of little old ladies with
blue hair who meet for tea every other Tuesday)?
And, hey, even with MMY alive today, there is a continual drain of
TMers from the TMO into other teachings, such as SSRS and diksha and
Mother This and Father That...I think the floodgates will open once
MMY dies.
That's why I've always emphasized JUST the TM Program. Keep it
simple, straightforward, and standardized and leave the making of
chocolate bars, urine baths, and astrology to others. Now, the TMO
has its sticky little fingers of anything that reeks
of "spirituality" and attaches the name "Maharishi Vedic" before
it. It has just spread itself too thin even TODAY, never mind what
will happen once MMY goes...
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