--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > nablusos108 wrote: > >>> Where did everyone go? Again, what do you think the TM movement > >>> > >> and > >> > >>> Maharishi could do to reconcile, with its meditators, teachers > >>> > > and > > > >>> governors? > >>> > > > > I think they went somewhere to feed their lower selves; money and > > sex. This includes former Purushas who understood that the programme > > for evolution that Maharishi gave them was simply to much for them to > > digest. They wanted a break, a break from Tapas. Interestingly, > > Maharishi once said "once a Purusha, always a Purusha. If you want to > > marry, do it and come back." Always including and liberal. With > > unending love. > > > > Then there are all those who just joined the Movement because it > > seemed a good thing to do, out of curiosity, or because it was cool. > > Probably the majority involved in the Movement where not very serious. > > Why should the Movement "reconcile" with such ? They need to > > reconcile with themselves rather. The Movement never needed us, we > > needed the Movement; the knowledge, the experience of what we > > ultimately are. > > > > That hordes of people have left the Movement is hardly the fault of > > the Movement or Maharishi. It boils down to one simple quality of the > > masses: layziness. It is hardly the fault of Knowledge when it > > hits "The hard rocks of Ignorance." > > > > No reconciliation is necessary. Just the simple shift of attention > > back to the Self. > TM is okay for a teaching for the masses but if you truly want more > knowledge and perhaps to become a master or acharya yourself you will > have to get a personal guru. Maharishi has nothing to offer in this > area or he would have turned the Purusha folks into acharyas. Mass > market gurus usually cannot do such things. >
So how many acharyas are there running around?
