--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This was from the friend (whom you call "The Purusha Guy" but who is > actually married) with whom I've been having that discussion. Evidently he > shared our discussion with a mutual friend, whose identity I'm not told, as > I shared it with all of you, and then forwarded that friend's comments to > me, as I've forwarded some of yours to him: > > But, I don't know anybody who got there by bashing their previous master and > trying to get others to join them. > The problem with talking with these people is that they define "bashing" as saying anything that contradicts their view of MMY as beyond all human aspects and the greatest sage ever to walk the earth. It's not bashing to investigate into the truth about someone, anyone. And it's not spiritual to sit passively, naively, stupidly, and quietly ignoring all the questionable behaviors within the tmo - true spiritual people are passionately devoted to investigating into the truth of reality, adn true spiritual masters encourage that and don't exempt themselves as above questioning.
There's another aspect of this which is really a more complex topic, but it's the issue of what makes these people think MMY is their master. MMY doesn't know most of them exist. Maybe they've been in a crowded room with him once or twice within the past 30 yrs, but they haven't gotten any personal advice or initiation from him. They practice his techniques but anyone who pays the costs gets the same standardized, non individualized practice. Even people who pay a million dollars get brief communications via teleconferences and the same old program, only longer maybe. MMY himself used to always say he wasnt and never wanted to be a personal master. I'm not necessarily against mass marketed standardized techniques, but doing those, even as a purusha, doesn't make MMY your master, that requires some sort of personal connection and teaching.
