--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > There are *thousands* of things that Maharishi could > have done or said to prevent the situation he finds > himself in now. But those things would have involved > true humility on his part and a desire to actually > help the people of the world (as opposed to a desire > to make money by "announcing" his intention to help > the people of the world and then sitting back and > collecting checks from the "faithful").
And we know that MMY doesn't believe (rightly or wrongly) that what he's been doing will help the people of the world exactly how? Does the fact that one believes differently about what will and won't help the people of the world somehow automatically mean MMY must not believe in what he's doing? > But he didn't do these things, and now he finds him- > self in the position of having to "outsource" butt- > bouncers from India, because only a few hundred > students in the entire world still believe him when > he asks them to put their lives on hold and do what > he tells them to do. There's a bit of a damned if they do, damned if they don't element here. In some contexts, TMers are mocked for putting their lives on hold and doing what MMY tells them to do. But when they don't, MMY is mocked for not being able to convince them to behave like sheep. > Meanwhile, the people who can cut the *biggest* checks > are NOT butt-bouncing in Fairfield. They *still* don't > even have to mingle with the "great unwashed" of the > *TM faithful* any more. They can prance around in robes > and crowns in Vlodrop and get daily strokes from the > guru while these other peons do the grunt work for them. > And it's all covered under codicil 371.3 of Natural Law, > which says, "He who cuts the biggest check gets the most > strokes, and achieves enlightenment first. Plus, he > gets to wear robes and a Burger King crown." > > What could Maharishi have done to avoid this sad, sad, > sad situation? He could have valued people more than > money. I find this a little puzzling, because from everything I've read, many if not most of the rajas are not holed up at Vlodrop at all but are very busy in their own countries carrying out all kinds of projects that would involve lots of interaction with the great unwashed--not just of the "TM faithful" but with non-TMers as well. If we want to determine what MMY could have done to avoid the current situation, we need to have an accurate picture of what the situation *is*. Otherwise we're jousting with a straw man.
