It is rather sad. But I guess whatever it takes to raise money is deemed acceptable.
On Oct 30, 2006, at 9:33 AM, llundrub wrote: > No mood makers here!!! > > > ----- 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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