Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Bhogi

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:14:53 -0700


On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:34 PM, sparaig wrote:

--- In [email protected], "Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I sympathise with Vaj on this issue. 


There is something kinda creepy & oppressive about having to call 

someone a 'Maharishi' if one doesn't think he is one, or 'His 

Holiness', or even 'Yogi' (remember that MMY had to get someone else 

to put together the simple yogasana exercises that were introduced 

back in the mid-sixties). So one is left either to use the generally 

accepted 'The Maharishi' (regardless of why this term came to be used 

by the press back in the sixties). It is a bit unwieldy to use the 

name Balbrahmachari Shri Maheshji by which he is credited on an 

edition of 'Amrit Kana' (his compilation of Guru Dev's quotations).


Personally, I think MMY created the problem himself when he 

appropriated such a grand sounding name. It was suggested that the 

probably reason he did this was;'the name Maharishi is something to 

replace "Swami," because in India things are such that if the 

name "Swami" is missing, then people would suspect something is 

wrong.' - Osho World Online Magazine, June 2004 (towards the end of 

section #48 of:-

http://www.oshoworld.com/onlinemag/june2004/htm/glimpses.asp




You're quoting Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh about the appropriateness of NAMES?


What a maroon.


I thought he was into white.
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