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----- Original Message ----- From: "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:48 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Celestial Unity > 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. > > Jai Guru Dev > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! 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