--- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Went to that site and checked it out. I also have read what you
posted
> from your Guru about Maharishi.
>
> While I'm not a great fan of Maharishi it is my understanding that
TM
> was not taught by Guru Dev but that it was given to Maharishi by
him.
>
> I can't deny my own experience.
>
> I am a TM teacher who has directly experienced Guru Dev during TM
> initiations and otherwise. I know of at least 7 other people, three
of
> them TM initiators who have said they also have experienced Guru Dev
> directly. By experiencing Guru Dev directly, I mean in visual form,
> auditory communication [telepathic] form, or even in changes in Guru
> Dev's facial expression in a revered photo of Guru Dev.
>
> It has also been taught to TM teachers [as it was at my TTC] that A
> TMer's spiritual teacher and link to the Absolute is indeed Guru Dev
> and not Maharishi or the TM initiator.
>
> Whether or not Dr. Varma's account is accurate, my own repeated
> undeniable experience clearly indicates that Guru Dev is directly
> involved in not only the TM initiation as the direct object of
> attention in the Puja and the sponsorship for the initiate to
> transcend, but that he is also involved as one's spiritual Guru as a
> TMer - whether one is actively aware of it or not. I'm curious to
see
> what might happen with sincere TMers who are not aware of this if
they
> were to seek out Guru Dev in that context.
>
> If you wish to think that Guru Dev upon his physical death merely
> disappeared into the Absolute, you may wish to see the following
> statement from Brahmachari Satyanand, a long time disciple of Guru
Dev
> and later an assistant to Maharishi, who directly experienced Guru
Dev
> after his death: http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/Satyanand.htm
>
> According to one of his biographers, Guru Dev also expressed to
> disciples that he would respond to them via his picture.
Specifically
> he referred to his picture in the Puja room in a disciple's home. I
> discovered the truth of that long before I ever heard about it from
> anywhere else.
>
> My meditater wife has also seen Guru Dev's expression change in a
> photo we have of him, AND spoken [telepathically] with him - and
she's
> only been meditating for about 6 months. We've been married for over
> six years and she's been too skeptical about TM to do it until
about 6
> months ago when she finally agreed to try it. She loves it.
>
>
>
> > Ron
> >
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing this, much of which is also my
experience.
