> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote:
<snip> > > I'm stickin' to my guns on this one, but I am > > curious as to whether anyone else here (many of > > you, after all, have far more experience being > > close to Maharishi than I have) has heard quotes > > that indicate that Maharishi *does* self-reflect, > > in a manner that can be interpreted as viewing his > > own actions critically, admitting mistakes, and > > attempting to learn from them and not make similar > > mistakes in the future. I've racked my tiny brain, > > and I can't remember even a single instance of > > this. Perhaps someone here can help out and prove > > me wrong. --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am not trying to prove you wrong, but if you reflect for a minute > or less on Brahmananda Saraswati, Guru Dev, and recall what > Maharishi said when asked what Guru Dev did, and he replied, "He > made me", that says all anyone should need to know about Maharishi's > capacity for and capability of self-reflection. > > As I've mentioned, without living that silent subtle level of life > where Maharishi's darshan is always apparent it is easy to get > snared in the multifold traps he has laid for those who treasure and > hoard the surface values of life.:-) This reminds me of that Science & Veda course in New Delhi in '80-'81 when MMY said, "I never make mistakes". This really poked me in my small-mindedness and I must have radiated some pretty strong incredulity, as MMY then looked over in my direction and added more softly, "at least I don't think so." At the time I felt great outrage at such rampant self-deception; now looking back I see how incredibly *funny* he was Being. God, it must have been lonely to be the only one in on the constant joke! (Or maybe he wasn't; I don't know. I only know I wasn't consciously in on it.) It's become so abundantly clear since then that the only *I* he has ever been speaking from or of is my own Self; I just was never quite Self-aware enough to see it then. And again, all gratitude to MMY and the TMO for providing the latest course to really hammer it home to those of us who have like me been a little slow to really get it! :-) *L*L*L*
