--- In [email protected], 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
Could be, and I don't post to support or reject your position. The
one major element that seems inconsistent in all of this talk about
Maharishi being a sham and a scam and a poseur, is, if this is all
true, why does Bramananda Saraswati [Guru Dev] continue to make
himself available, through Maharishi's teaching?
Since He does, both through the puja, and also direct experience, it
would seem that He is tacitly supporting Maharishi. Or at the very
least blessing the knowledge Maharishi is spreading.
