--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Marek Reavis wrote:
>
> > Comment below:
> >
> > **
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
...and its complete BS. But that is more your problem than it is
mine...enjoy your half empty glass, faux-Buddhist loser.
