--- In [email protected], nablusoss1008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > I gotta say he doesn't even look creepy to me. Just looks like > > some > > > > dude looking at the camera. If someone had posted his picture > > sans > > > the > > > > picture of Maharishi in it, claiming to be a picture of a > poster > > here > > > > on FFL, no one would've thought twice about it. Its just > > projection. > > > > > >> > > > If I was in the room with them and could assess the situation and > > talk with Girish, maybe I'd agree. I just don't know what it felt > > like to be there. Pictures can be so decieving. Maybe I'd talk to > > Girish and he'd say, 'oh that (referring to the two pictures), > yeah, > > someone put those up. I don't really notice them', and we'd move > on, > > or maybe he'd say, 'yes, I am the new Maharishi', and then tell me > > to empty his wastebasket, and I'd think 'what an asshole...'. So > > really hard to say what is going on there from just a picture. I > > sometimes get energy from pictures, but in this case, nada. > > I've seen this fellow in India. He's got this great gift from > Maharishi; the enormous opportunity to become a businessman. And why > shouldn't he ? To be born into the family of a Saint certainly is a > boon from the Gods. > Those who object to the money and all that are the same people who > would sacrifice their lives for capitalism, highly devoted to the > dollars. > I find this american moralism and doublestandard nauseating.
Yep, "worldly money good, holy money bad". What's up with that? There's a great excerpt that bob brigante posted recently from Guru Dev where he talks about the uselessness of the unmanifest aspect of God. So to say that spiritual pursuits or the workings of Saints should be constrained because any attempts by the holy to amass money is "bad" is a strange perspective to say the least.
