Maharishi's family and Girish in particular simply don't understand the dynamics of the appeal of gurus and Eastern spirituality to the West and, as such, they have and will continue to make major irreversible mistakes which will blow up in their faces once MMY dies. And once the dust settles, the revenue for the family business -- cash from the West -- will simply stop.
Girish, sensing MMY's advancing age and impending passing, dresses himself up like MMY and surrounds himself with all the MMY trappings (e.g., the MMY-like dhoti, the Guru Dev picture behind him, the beard, etc.) and thinks that this is what appeals to the West. Unfortunately for him, people in the West see right through it and, if anything, such phony attempts at show turn people right off. It reminds me of the missteps the family of the 13-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji make back in the '70s. The boy, who was billed as the reincarnation of God, was, out of the blue, disowned by his own mother who, it was then announced, appointed another son as the reincarnation of God. Obviously, some sort of power struggle was going on behind the scenes. Well, changing which son is God and which isn't in mid-stream may work in India but in the West the idea was too much for even the most embedded cultist-sucker. And their movement ended faster than you could say "Rolls Royce Silver Shadow". Girish and family just don't get it. His posturings appear to me as obvious and blatant attempts at positioning himself as the guru apparent. They are clueless at what appeals to the West and their missteps will blow up in their faces. Their alleged treatment of the pundits is another example. Of course, once it does blow up, their Golden Parachute is the many millions that they've already bilked from the West that is sitting in the control in India. --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of claudiouk > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy > > > > "Dr Girish Chandra Varma, Director-General of the Maharishi World > Capital of Peace at the Brahmasthan of India, performs Vedic Puja to > inaugurate Raam Nomi, Brahmasthan of India, 27-29 March 2007" > > I thought it was only proper pandits who were supposed to do Vedic > pujas etc.. Is Girish a Brahmin, where MMY is not? > > Maybe he's just doing a plain vanilla TM puja. >
