--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- 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" <jflanegi@> > 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.
That is a good one! 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* Hey shouldn't that be *L*L*L*L*, for Light, Love, Laughter and Latin?:-) I don't remember any more when it occurred, probably slowly over time as most things do, though it has been awhile since I saw Maharishi as anything less than an incomprehensibly powerful and all encompassing force of the Divine. Even such a description doesn't do my feelings justice. Not the feelings of someone looking at him or a picture of him, but soul to soul, he just always blows me away. I don't feel any particular reverence for him personally. Admiration, yes, and a large measure of awe, and respect. But I wouldn't follow him around. Not my dharma and not his either. Like the two gunslingers in the western, this town ain't big enough for the both of us. In any case, he truly lives up to his name. With TM and the focus on every word he says, enlightenment, powerful, lasting enlightenment is inevitable. Or if our limited selves try to figure him out and fit him into our box with us, a lifetime of imprisonment and misery and disappointment. :-)
