On Jan 7, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
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.
Actually I do believe I've seen at least one ex-TM teacher who
claimed to be (because he was a TM teacher) a yoga-charya.
Pretty funny, huh?
