--- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > >> I've never heard anything other than that. I never > > heard that Guru Dev himself gave MMY the technique. > > On 8th July 1971 in Amherst, U.S.A., Maharishi Mahesh Yogi made the > following statement which contradicts the assumption that he never > claimed the TM technique came from Guru Dev Shankaracharya Swami > Brahmanand Saraswati. > > 'But the great impact of Guru Dev, in his lifetime, in bringing out so > clearly and in such simple words, this technique of TM. And his, his > blessing for, for this movement which came out much after he left his > body. Because there was no, no occasion during his lifetime for, for > any of his intimate blessed disciples to go out of his presence and > that's why this any such movement to bless the world couldn't have > started during his time'.
And what do you say to this quote from Larry Domash's introductory essay to the first volume of the Collected Papers? "By the process of comparing his own direct experience of the actual goal of meditation with the common understanding then available, it became clear to Maharishi that the common idea of what meditation was supposed to be was in fact a complete distortion of the original meaning of the ancient procedure. Procedures of concentration or of forcing the mind to be free of content, with or without the use of a sensory medium such as an auditory or visual focus, seemed to him to lead away from, rather than toward, the desired result. "At every stage of experimentation, Maharishi held to the guideline given him by his master that maximum naturalness and simplicity alone would identify the correct direction; his profound faith in the beneficent simplicity of nature has been echoed in the thinking of other great researchers, such as Einstein. "In practice, then, an effective form of meditation should come out to be an easy, automatic process and not a constant struggle involving concentration or control of mind. "On this basis, Maharishi recognized quite simply what the mechanics of the original systematic procedure had been, not by means of textual scholarship alone, but by working with constant reference to fresh personal experience of the state of pure consciousness, the aim and end-point of meditation." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/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/
