sparaig wrote: > --- 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? How would anyone know that? There is no census for acharyas? :)
There are none in the TMO. However each master is usually supposed to pass on his tradition by making at least one archarya if not three. In the US there would probably be fewer than 100 if we include both Indians who have relocated here and Americans who have become acharyas. It's not an easy path so for many mass market techniques will suffice. My guru has initiated a number into tantra but few get much farther than learning the guru mantra.
