>From the Yahoo! Group TMNews today: 2. Celestial Unity, First Maharishi Pandits Arrive at MUM, USA Posted by: [XXXX] Date: Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:46 pm (PST)
From: Einar Olsen Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:45 AM Subject: Celestial Unity, First Maharishi Pandits Arrive Dear Friends, Maharishi's daily call to the Invincible America Course began as usual with Dr. Bevan asking for experiences, and Maharishi said yes, yes. He is quietly keen on hearing the experiences called number one experiences. Number one experiences were originally defined as infinite wholeness transforming into emptiness, or emptiness transforming into infinite wholeness, or one within the other. Number one also means that this is the predominant experience in programs. Almost all experiences of Unity expressed also have a quality of light, celestial, divine, integrated with or shining forth from or leading to the unified value. This morning, Maharishi didn't comment on the experiences. Every day it is more powerful to hear them and hearing them is part of the technology of invincibility. Maharishi is cosmic creativity, one wonders, what is he going to say today? Today, he and we just simply listened to experience after experience of higher states of consciousness within the practice of the TM-Sidhi program. After Dr. Bevan started with experiences, he paused briefly to summarize that Maharishi Pandits had arrived last night. One Mother Divine gave a very enthralling series of rich experiences that obviously represented many long hours of many years cultivating the inner life in a very mature way. This is what this life develops into. Wow. One young man, about college age, was speaking in almost a different language. It sounded like what could be the English of 50- 250 years from now. Somewhat of a different level of the human life form. I was wondering, what is Maharishi going to say about this? It was the only one of the 7-8 experiences Maharishi commented on this morning, saying something like, more experiences like this. Hearing these experiences is not like coming out of program for a call, it's like staying in program for a call and just doing another part of program, a new technique. These experiences are striking in their depth, in their common unified value, and in the great diversity of details and _expression. They are very personal and authentic experiences. Some are more simple and some more intricate in detail, but all are on the ground of real simplicity and integration. Dr. John's comments seem to keep becoming more and more eloquent and appreciative. As the Invincible America Course Director, he looks more than satisfied. After many of these experiences, Dr. Bevan paused on experiences for the day, in order to tell the story of the Pandits' arrival, enhanced with some still photos. The story was simple, coherent, beautiful and felt momentous. Maharishi's Pandits arrived in Chicago in Raja Michael's domain to garlands, a large banner in Devanagari script, bags of treats and small gifts, bagpiper. When the music began, the custom officials walked out to greet Maharishi's Vedic Pandits and welcome them to America, as though the government was moved. After a dinner in a nearby Indian restaurant named SRI, the Pandits boarded their luxury bus and drove quietly through the evening to Iowa. Maharishi laughed when he heard early yesterday that 114 was so filled with people working, it was not possible to walk around. It was close to true. One would start walking from one location to another to do something, and on the way be subscripted to do something else for a while. After a number of jobs, one would remember the original job and return to it, often someone else had done it. There were so many people there was often a waiting line to go through the doors, and a continual gentle din of talking and machinery. As the day went on, the tasks became increasingly mop up, clean up and fine touches. Raja Wynne came in his white limo to check everything out. He looked grand. By about 10 pm, we heard the Pandits were not going to arrive til after 1 am, and there was a slight relaxation because there was more time. I was wondering, how is this going to all get finished? Then at about 11, someone received a call, the Pandit bus is in Iowa City. We had an hour. So we all just kept doing what we were doing only it felt more intense. One could feel one's awareness and settledness being challenged by the pace and intensity of activity. Outside, the paint was being scraped off the outside of the windows by men on ladders, and people were stringing 4-5 rows of holiday lights all over the new temporary fence outside and laying out red carpet since it had rained before and the ground was soft. Inside, skilled people were finishing final repairs on lights etc. in different areas, and different teams of people were swarming in and out of rooms outfitting each room with Holy Tradition photos, incense, Chandrika soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, razors, linens, storage boxes and locks, flowers, etc. All the beds had been turned if necessary to face east or south. The curtains were all finished and looked great. The beds are beautiful light colored hand-made wooden beds made by Amish and the linens neatly piled on them were nice quality and it all looked quite good. In the main lobby foam had been put down and covered with sheets, and a large Holy Tradition was on the East wall with a cascade of glittering gold fabric behind it and flowers on each side, and a very large photo of Guru Dev was on another wall with flowers. A lot of vacuuming was going on all over, and the sheets were being tucked. Very close to arrival time, we received word that a miniature Vedic Observatory was arriving to be set up in the Center of the program hall. The instruments were not secured down and with little time left 7-8 people were looking at a photo of the observatory in a pamphlet and figuring out which instruments went where in the circle. It got worked out right. In the basement, a large table was lavishly laid out with a number of different Vedic sweets in many bright colors, along with cashews, almonds, and Medjul dates. Next to this were their long dining tables, 6-7" high, made of light colored highly lacquered wood, with the seats running parallel, which are flat boards without legs on the floor, also light in color and shiny, and on top of those were rows of creatively colored square decorative pillows. With just a few minutes left, there was a brief meeting in a wing lobby to explain what would happen when they came. The ladies left, I heard one lady saying (with a smile) she wanted to disguise herself as a man and stick around. The camera crew came and started setting up big lights outside, and a small team of people erected flags of the Global Country of World Peace, India, and the U.S., and a small banner in Devanagari script was put high on the building facing the road. We all were coming out and someone passed out sparklers. Then we received a call, the Pandits had arrived on campus. It was about midnight. Someone said the bus turned the corner onto that street, and someone else walked into the middle of the street with a lit sparkler and started slowly rotating it in circles to be visible from the bus. As the bus pulled up, the twenty-five or so men all waving sparklers formed into two welcoming lines on either side of the path into the building the Pandits were going to take. It was colorful and fun and momentous. The door opened, and the Movement camera men came out who had been in Chicago, then the Pandits started to come out in their dhotis and garlands made by the many volunteers here. Binay Krishna Baral, MUM's resident Master Gandharva Flute player and teacher, was at the head of the bus and had been the translater and key interlocuter in the trip. Many of the Pandits started chanting the `Swasti' chant for Health and walking downstairs into the frat while everyone was saying Jai Guru Dev with palms met. Other than the chanting, the Pandits were very quiet and subdued, very simple. They all walked in and sat down on the pillows facing east and a photo of Maharishi. Some of the Americans picked up elegant long silver serving spoons and started serving the sweets and nuts in paper bowls, and warm milk and cups of water. The Pandits didn't partake, they just waited in silence. Then all of a sudden seemingly without cue they started chanting their customary grace (not softly) before dining and it was really resounding in the atmosphere. They must save their breath and energy for chanting. I felt, this will be good for this country. Then Binay spoke to them in Hindi and asked them to begin eating, then to come to the wing lobby to identify their luggage and receive their room assignments; while they were eating, the men who weren't serving the sweets unloaded their luggage and put it in lines for identification. After eating, Dr. Craig (Pearson), MUMs Executive VP, gave a brief happy and welcoming talk translated by Binay, and then the Pandits came up into the lobby to find their luggage. As each found his luggage, one of us picked it up, went to Ron Barnett, MUMs Dean of Admissions, to find out which room, and carried the luggage to the room with the Pandit. After all the Pandits had found their rooms, we walked away from the frat, most probably thinking `that was an experience.' It was simple, coherent, beautiful, with a definite sense of momentous. To the west of 114 on the Dome street, a house-size refrigerator trailer has been set as a walk-in cooler for their food, and the kitchen is stacked up with large bags of rice and dal, big bags of spices, etc. Their food has been arranged locally for a couple days while their cooks rest, then their kitchen will begin cooking. Altogether 49 Indians came, Pandits plus about a half dozen cooks, assistant cooks and helpers. We were told about the same number will come Monday evening, and continue in the following days. Dr. Bevan described all this as a finale of today's call, and Raja Wynne also offered a slide show and description on today's again daily Global Family Chat on http://mou.org. Dr. Bevan mentioned that as the stock market stopped a steep downward drift on July 23, the day the Invincible America Course began, and began on that day a climb that hasn't stopped, the optimistic national energy has become more discriminating: Socially Responsibly Investment funds and companies (SRI), which participate only in companies which offer life- supporting products and services made in a life-supporting manner, have been increasing in value even more than the market: 2%/week since our Invincible Course began. One is left with the fullness of the incredible inner experiences all of us have been dreaming of for so many years (millennia?) and hundreds are experiencing now, the fullness of the colorful silence of Maharishi's Vedic Pandits and their arrival, and the fullness of continuing waves of Pandits arriving, until 1,000+ are reached before long, and the fullness of the new future we are helping Maharishi create for ourselves, this country, and our world. 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