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--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > **snip** > > Certainly not on the commercial side of things, but on the spiritual > side of this, he constantly defers to GD. I always thought a comment > I heard years ago, when they had just unveiled the lineage painting > portrayed the truth of the matter. Someone on Purusha asked 'why are > you not in the picture' and M. responded 'oh I could never be part of > the lineage picture, the most I could be would be a doorkeeper'. In > other words he could never be more than just an emissary for the > tradition, leading people towards its. I found those remarks very > honest. In fact often on listening to M. I got the impression I was > listening to SBS, not M. A friend and I used to call it "channeling > Guru Dev" because that's exactly what it sounded like. He would even > look like SBS. > **end** This is my take on Maharishi, also, and why, regardless of any failings he may have, I retain such reverence and gratitude to him. He really did, I feel, reflect Guru Dev's glory in his own person. That transmission of Guru Dev and the fundamental teachings he conveyed impelled most, if not all of us on the path we still walk today, whether or not we still follow or revere Maharishi.
