--- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> Your words, Jim, in response to almost everything on the abbreviated > list I provided: > > "No problem with this. He began the Movement, and as its "CEO" he can > do what he likes." > > You've set Maharishi at a level of a corporate CEO instead of a > spiritual icon. I would tend to agree with that assessment of him > however, and further suggest that that indicates that he isn't much > beyond your average CEO in standards or ethics. > > I find it interesting that the only thing that seemed to get your > attention in the short list I provided was the disposition of the > missing million$ - even though in the thread I extensively elaborated > on the other items on that list. > > That certainly reveals your position on Maharishi as a teacher and as > a spiritual icon. It reveals that you are indifferent to whether he > has any particular standards or not. > > Guru Dev himself, as a young boy, had very rigid standards for > whomever was to become his teacher. And Guru Dev himself exemplified > the highest standards of spiritual ethics. > > What's a bummer to me is that TMers like you seem to think that 'all > is well' WITHOUT any of those standards. And people like Jerry ask > questions like, "Do you know any billionaires?" as if cash is the > 'great answer' in lieu of Paramatman. > > Something's rotten in Denmark in my view and the population refuses to > notice it, even when it's clearly pointed out. I've experienced that > many of those people like it that way however, and will and have > overtly, even viciously, attempted to eliminate any effort to make it > any different. > You are pretty accurate in reflecting my assessment of Maharishi-- that he can pretty much do as he has done. I did provide a reasoning for why I thought this was so; dogma vs attainment of Brahman.
So I'll take it a step further and say that ordinarily I'd be on your side 100%; that here is a spiritual icon, Maharishi, who is not behaving as I would expect a spiritual icon to behave, and something should be done about it. Except for one thing: I have met too many others who are experiencing the goal of this particular teacher's teaching, too many others who are living Brahman as their daily experience, too many others bathing every day and every night in the full sunshine and moonlight of the age of enlightenment. That is, as they say, the proof in the pudding. I agree that on the face of it, Maharishi appears to act in confounding, confusing, even counter-productive ways. And yet, whatever he is doing works. And that is the key. Whatever it is, it works. Kind of like the whole paradigm of enlightenment; I don't know how it works, but it just does.:-)
