On Feb 3, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Marek Reavis wrote:
Comment below:
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--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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.
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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.
That's where we vary--having known of the damage done to at least
thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of beings, it would be
impossible for me to see that than for anything other than what it
is. I feel it's important to understand that a lot of this, from a
yogic perspective, is only more recently being observed as genuine
yogic masters from the Saraswati (and other) traditions see what has
happened to these people (at a yogic level). I therefore cannot help
but see the TMSP for what it is: the most intense form of suffering
available for human evolution on this planet (that I am aware of).
It's no surprise nature does not support it.
And believe me, I wish I didn't have to say that, because it's not a
popular thing to say.
