--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:37 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > on 6/29/06 8:19 PM, off_world_beings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > >> You got nothing. You are just looking for attention, but will find > >> something to make up that is totally unsubstantiated and > >> uncorroborated by the majority of the people who were there. > >> > > That's true, because the majority who were there weren't in the > > inner circle. But those in the inner circle soon learned that MMY's > > private and public personae were quite different. This discovery > > caused the majority of MMY's personal secretaries to leave the > > movement. __ > > > Thanks for mentioning this, I think this important point is not > mentioned enough. As word leaked out about his duplicity it helped > many make the decision to split. Once you knew the public side was > essentially a front, a facade and M. a poseur, you realize it's just > a business. That's one of the reasons many believe the words > attributed to Guru Dev when he said 'go to the mountains to meditate, > you'll never be good at anything other than making money.' (huge > paraphrase). > > "Mahesh has been interested in power, in the accumulation of money, > and in women. Why does he live in a big house, own helicopters, > airplanes, etc? Why does he spend most of his time involved in > business planning about making money? It is because he is a > businessman who has the desires that other wealthy businessmen have. > His spiritual front is his scam and the way he gets people to give > him their time and money." --Earl Kaplan >
Accurate insight, in my opinion, Vaj. Ture believers will always find reason to believe. Like the Jehovah's witnesses, the more you point out the flaws, the stronger they grow. When they come to the door I just tell them I'm a reformed Druid (we're allowed to worship bushes). It's an old M*A*S*H* joke. If you read Joyce Collin-Smith's "Call No Man Master" or Paul Mason's Mahesh bio, it's perfectly clear that Mahesh is all about getting himself worshiped. I clearly remember the newspaper stories: he declared his mission failure and said he was retiring to the Himilayas. It was AFTER this that the Beatles made him famous and he bounced back with a vengence. First he created huge numbers of TM teachers (Mallorca, Fiuggi, La Antilla). He coo'd like a dove cooing to another dove from whom it hoped to borrow money (favourite Wodehouse quote) at the peak of rounding: no one can love you like I can, you are going to save the whole world, get the money from an auntie, from your gran .... Mahesh could be a real slime ball. And, what did he teach on his 6- month courses? Stuff borrowed and re-worked from Yogananda. I did all of the Yogananda lessons after TM, out of curiosity more than anything else. There were the A of E techniques and contacts provided more information about the 6-month courses. Just more of Yogananda with his lovely spin on it. And the 'sidhi' stuff? He had no idea, literally. He sent people to India to find yogis; he got obscure translations, he fiddled and fumed and tinkered ... but what worked best was the cooing, get 'em all spacey and suggest hopping. How simple; he'd always known that people would pay him for what they expected to get in return and that he never had any trouble convincing them it was their fault it wasn't working. He still bitches about too much negativity, too little work being done by others, yadda, yadda. The "real" Mahesh is someone completely imaginary for most people. But, yes, there was an inner circle, people who liked what they were doing and since he was providing room and board and the company of each other, they didn't particularly object doing it for him. But behind closed doors, the discussion shifted to how completely bonkers Mahesh was. Stripped of his public facade, he was a nutter with charm, intelligence, charisma by the sackful. But his ideas and his wast wedic wevelations were total kaka. It was all provided by people who not only told him what the Sanskrit said, but what the Sanskrit meant. It was all spindoctoring based on the work of others. Do nothing, accomplish everything took on a whole new meaning. YOU bust your balls and I take all the credit. Well, that was fun. Nothing new, but fun. Those who see, see. Those who don't see, still see. A finger points at the moon. Some will always and only consider the finger. Happy trails. There are better things to do than worry about some Jim Jones type dressed in sheets and wearing makeup. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/
