For a guy who might one day be the head honcho of the TMO, he sure isn't trying to spin-tweak his profile with the true believers and, to boot, is insulting the time honored protocols of respect that we were taught to abide by when dealing with Maharishi (the saint at least if not God.) Shoes off, pedestal for the photo, bow, bow, bow.
But this guy is coming off more bow wowish than sycophant bowish. Just looking at his photo shivers me and my parrot's timbers matey. I mean it. This guy gets at me at a bone deep level. Ick. I almost lost my badge because of a painting I once did of Maharishi, and I'm almost losing my lunch looking at this guy voguing at us with a ridiculously smarmy expectation of instant approval of him and his future plans for the TMO. He's going to have to spend a lot of cash on gold ink propaganda to even convert the most hard core truebelievers. I can't see Bevan and John being happy at all with the near term possibilities -- they don't seem to be insiders enough to get, you know, luxury villas etc. out of the deal. Given the efforts so far at brainwashing the true believers, it looks to me like they'll pretty much close up shop, sell off the properties. Maharishi is going to die way too near term for Girish to be successful in getting a place in ANYONE's heart. They should have started working him into the doings long ago, but as of right now, he's a total stranger to just about everyone in Fairfield, right? It's too late for a new leader to be acceptable -- this would take years. Therefore, I'm expecting a closing down and selling off. Or, if Girish and Maharishi are clever, they might find a new guru to "plug into" the TMO. For instance, if Maharishi authorized a "saint who was found in the jungles, one who was cultured by years of silence like Guru Dev" (actually Girish's brother in law in a diaper) and said that this saint was going to be the voice of dogma but at the same time he anoints Girish as the "keeper of the organizational flame," it might be a marketable package to try to sell the true believers. We'd all be kept busy for years having Q & A sessions with our new seer. New wine in an old skin, but diverting in that a "total unknown" can be presented very positively, but any of the movement's present leaders have all kinds of baggage that shouts out "I'm ordinary, and I'm always going to be ordinary no matter how many diamonds I attach to my gold crown." The thing is, the TMO takes millions and refuses to account for the bux, and this guy is posing as a leader, so that means to me he's saying, "Yeah, I'm the honcho, I got the money, and I don't owe you an explanation, and tomorrow it'll be just another day of working the crowd with another scamming angle." Creepy is the perfect word, only I want some word that means so much more creepy than creepy is presently creepy in usage. How about: revolto-creepo-ugh-nant? I'm nauseous to think that maybe this guy could waltz in and romance the true believers enough to continue the jive -- if it happens, it'll be such a shock to me -- it would mean that true believer status is far deeper a personality dynamic than I yet suspect. I know some are absolutely blind faith types, but for very many to fall for a Girish regime change would be even more than I presently expect. Hell, at this point, if Bevan decided to run with it and try to start up "American TM," and sort of take the customer list with him, I bet he'd have more success than Girish is going to have. I feel like the whole thing is evaporating before our eyes. When Maharishi dies, it may be with an audible bang from the bursting bubble of denial that the true believers have kept intact inside their belief systems lo these many decades. Could be very fast. It may just collapse overnight as the campus bills no longer get paid, and the eviction notices are sent to the students and staff, as the Century 21 signs get pounded into the dome's lawn. It's going to be about the money -- not who's saintly enough to carry the standard. I'm really feeling sorry for the true believers these days, cuz their denial skills are going to have to be world class, That, or they'll be hearing an apocalyptic thundering of the four horsemen's hooves. Pestilence, (root word: pester -- as in "give money, give money, give money) War, (we must attack those non-girishes who say they are the inheritors of the TM movement) Famine, (spiritually starve you minions who will not bend to the new order -- no soup for you) and Death (die, die, die you anti-Girishers.) And oh, what a cosmic scrambling there'll be as various egos spout out a tale or promise or novelty to grab a few stunned former believers here and there. Something like, "Girish is Ravana, let us worship Guru Dev, and by the way, let me run this organization cuz I know money, was Maharishi's right hand skin boy, etc." It might be worth it to move to Fairfield now -- maybe it'll be like the old Viet Nam rallies -- only it'll be anti-Girish rallies on the town square on Friday Art night. And there ain't nothing like a front row seat. Edg --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In all fairness to Girish, does anybody know him? He > may look creepy, but he could be a great guy. Who > knows? > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], > > "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > Girish got no game? The rise of trust-fund gurus. > > > > > > Shemp's points about Girish got me thinking...is > > he the Paris > > > Hilton of gurus? How would people relate to him > > if he tries to > > > take over the whole show after MMY? > > > > Has he ever done any actual teaching? > > > > If he hasn't, seems to me if he takes over > > he's not going to be a guru-figure but rather > > the Lord High Administrator carrying out MMY's > > plans for the movement. My guess is that the > > guru-figure will be King Tony; he and Bevan > > will uphold the teaching component. > > > > Remember also that the regional layer of TMO > > leaders have all taken and passed the loyalty > > test. IMHO, this was arranged by MMY specifically > > to ensure minimal upheaval and conflict after he > > dies. Assuming it's clear that whatever shakes > > out was in accordance with MMY's wishes, they'll > > all go along with it; and they'll be, in effect, > > mini-gurus for their local areas. > > > > What I'm getting at is that it isn't going to be > > the old movement with a new leader who takes MMY's > > place; rather, it'll be a new movement whose > > mission is to perpetuate what MMY had already > > established. The leaders will carry on for him > > rather than replacing him.
