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Interesting points. However, everyone of us was introduced to the
Holy Tradition by Maharishi. Trying to ignore that step, and fool him/herself to think that they are now dealing directly with for example Guru Dev, which I know several people claim to do and is exactly what Maharishi predicted i 1983, then they are just performing some very human, though disapointing activity; making mistakes. ----Well, actually, I credit my kundalini activating TM mantra to my TM teacher who was powerful and spiritually mature. Though he was never known by anyone as anything special, and I refuse to give his name to protect his privacy, nonetheless, he used to speak to me at length about his experiences, since I was so into the occult at the time, when I was fourteen. And it was clear that the shakti was directly from him. The fact that many learn TM and do
not experience anything of benefit from it proves that the teacher is directly
important. All this Holy Tradition stuff during puja is another way of the
teacher to transcend boundaries and create causes and conditions for their
student to also transcend. Sure TM came from Maharishi. But that was it. The
rest was just the lunatic ravings of a spiritual Hitler, ostensibly a
personality no different from President Bush, except for his spiritual emphasis.
I never felt a connection to
Maharishi, and when I saw him during Taste of Utopia, it left no impression
upon me. So sorry. I mean, I appreciate TM and still practice it, but it's not
the only positive spiritual practice on Earth, and the lack of alternate
spiritual experiences of people sitting at his feet for 40 years emphatically
does not make them experts on who is a Satguru or not.
Ssatgurus will decrease mental
disturbances and conceptuality, not increase them. Satgurus will enhance
personal peacefulness, not thrust one into life/death situations. And again, the
concept of recertifying people who were devoted is not known and has never been
known on this Earth.
One does not demand repentance from
those who ae ones constituents, of already profoundly good people, and chastise
them as if they are mere cattle. This is not the action of someone of
realization.
I know, how can I know these things?
Me, merely a common person of no sidhis and less realization? I know them
because I don't cocme here to say these things. They just keep coming up from me
over and over spontaneously, and I learn about them as I write. I have no
personal stake in the Movement any longer, and feel no real need to even discuss
it, and yet, here I am discussing it, feeling the need to say these things. And
over and over I say them.
My opinions about Maharishi's
acomplishments change, up and down, up and down. That's how I know that
Maharishi acts merely within samsara. He is not taking people beyond it.
One can transcend a million times, but if the path to liberation is not made
clear then nobody will ever reach it.
Maharishi has not liberated one
person. Nobody in TM has even a sense of jnana. Round and round they go, where
are they headed? Nobody knows! Strip malls, tallest buildings, pundit
nations, tv repair shops, sales, sales, sales.... This is not the path to
liberation.
When Maharishi gives direct pointing
out of ones nature so that there is no longer the slightest doubt, then I'll
credit him with beneficience and not harmfulness. Until then. Hail Raam, oh
Brother, can you spare a Mudra?
Actually, I am always sort of
baffled by Maharishi. He's really 'out there' and my perpetual uncertainty about
him and confusion about his motives is why I return again and again to distrust
of him, in spite of TM.
So I simply cannot credit him
wholeheartedly with all the mystical stuff that others do. I must look at him as
a merely ordinary person who like an ordinary person, is confused, and caught in
the round and round of samsara, as ascribe his shakti to another source, either
the purported Holy Tradition, or else to Sri Devi Herself.
Because the world has not changed
for the better. To think it has is to be blinkered like a mule. I don't think
TMers have not helped however, but the correspondences of the TM research are
specious, and merely pseudoscience. The premise that SCI is some science is
preposterous. And all this says to me that the element of conceptuality of rank
dualism is the reality of the TM mindset, not advaita. And therefore the
lineage holder - Maharishi - is a rank dualist.
Just because of all the confusion of
those who serve him. If the master is unclear then he is not a master at all.
Nevermind what sorts of illusions of grandeur have developed around him. That's
all just a more spacious or glorious cage. All these TM followers and not one
with nondual jnana. each one moving from hut to castle yes maybe, but
still in just a bugger cage. No freedom from craving and no liberation from ones
basic tendencies - vrittis. Blissful technique yes, knowledge of freedom
from samsara, no.
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