On Jul 21, 2006, at 8:40 PM, Vaj wrote:
On Jul 21, 2006, at 7:29 PM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
On Jul 21, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Paul Mason wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "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'.
As has been repeated here before many times
(Which must make it true...)
, and also verified by
Dana Sawyer in his research with SBS's sect the Dandis
Documentation, please. On what basis was it "verified"?
You'd have to ask Dana. He's talked to many of these guys. I have
his article on the Dandis and it may mention it simply in passing,
as what they do with householders.
Keep in mind there are teachers in the Shank. tradition who will
realize a certain student is ripe for non-dual meditation and teach
them a method that isn't as dualistic as meditation with an object.
Very interesting comment on Mahesh's lack of credibility that
validates much of what I've shared:
How do educated middle and upper middle class
Indians view MMY and the TMO? How do other saints in India view MMY?
Pandits who are on the MMY payroll speak highly of him. No one else
does.
That's my experience. In Banaras, where some of the most respected
pandits in India reside, his name is mud. He has a reputation for
catering to big money, movie stars, and that ilk. In the religious
community he is perceived as an uppity, low caste manipulator. Frankly,
outside of his own org I've never heard a positive comment about him
while
in India these past eleven trips.
