--- In [email protected], "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "boo_lives" <boo_lives@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > > > > Maharishis plans are not for 60 years this way or that way > > > > but for at least 1000 years ahead. Those who are > > > > sentimentally, or for other > > > > reasons, stuck in older instructions are, well, stuck. > > > > "The Movement belongs to those that move." > > > > > > It appears to me that Maharishi has established a government > > > foundation, based on the vedic divisions of labor, for > > > generations to come. He has established a government based on > > > the following order of labor: brahmin, kshatriya, vaisya, > > > and sudras. The brahmins are the teachers. The kshatriyas > > > are the administrators. The vaisyas are the business people. > > > The sudras are the workers. > > > > > > Maharishi has already established the kshatriyas by appointing > > > the various Rajahs in various regions of the world. > > > > > > In short, he has revived the vedic system of governance. It > > > would interesting to speculate as to how long this system of > > > government will last. > > > > what system of government? what is being governed? people > > who pay a million dollars get a title and a crown and the > > right to work part time to raise more money for the mov't. > > they're not governing anything outside of the movement. rajas > > have a little power but most power in the tmo resides with > > MMY relatives and the usual insiders. giving titles for money > > began with the 108s in the early 70s and has continue in > > various incarnations since then. the rajas will continue > > until the next big thing and then the tmo will gradually > > wither away after MMY dies. > > Perhaps, this is the reason why MMY is taking his time to > set up the Global Country so that the government will survive > after he dies. According to vedic literature, the vedic system > of government is the best one among all the systems of government. > Specifically, the vedic system should be able to select the best > leaders who are supposed to be the most enlightened, as opposed > to the system of government which elects those who are less > developed in their level of consciousness.
In other words, it's an appeal to elitism. "I'm more fit to lead because I'm more ______." (fill in the blank with the claimed criterion here). Excuse me, but isn't this the same "claim of authority" on which governmental systems based on royalty or heredity is based? And on which, essentially, Bush and the pseudo- Christian neocons base their "authority?" And on which the Islamic fundamentalists wish to establish *their* "heaven on Earth?" The caste system, no matter how you cut it, is a system of discrimination based upon elitism and heredity. If you are "born into" a certain caste, that and that alone determines what you can aspire to in life, and the level of "authority" you can possibly attain. Vedas, schmedas...it's the same old appeal to elitism. "We are fit to lead because we are more ______. See? It says so in our scriptures." Gag me with a spoon. At least Maharishi's "Global Country" is just a fiction, a fantasy indulged in by those to whom elitism appeals as long as they can buy their way into the "elite." I shudder to think what would happen to the world if it ever became a *real* system of government. On the whole, given the excesses and the mindless, authoritarian acts we've seen in the TMO, Bush and his neocons might be a better option.
