> > > There is no evidence that GD choose MMY to be his successor - tmers > believe that based on what MMY has said not anything objective. > There's a huge decades long controversy over who GD's official jyotir > math successor was, where there is some record, and there's no record > at all regarding MMY. GD did not give MMY tm mantras - as has been > documented MMY started teaching TM in india with the mantra raam given > to everyone, later changed to bij mantras, and changed the criteria > for selecting bij mantras at least a couple times. The deathbed story > is believed by tmers and makes a great dramatic story. You can > believe whatever you want, as long as you understand you're using your > own spiritual movement's beliefs/stories/myths to support your > argument, which doesn't have much weight on those who aren't a part of > it. Every guru with a marketing orientation has a story about how he > is the official successor/reincarnation of/avatar of/ etc. of some > prior esteemed guru. Anti-tm people from GD's ashram have their own > stories about how GD warned the ashram about MMY's ambition and to > keep him on the business side and out of the teaching side of the > ashram, and how MMY fooled with the will, etc. That's their stories - > they have the same objective weight as TM TB stories. > > MMY certainly has been successful in drawing in people to meditation > and in raising money. Still a pretty large group in ffld doing his > thing. I don't know if that says anything about GD or what he would > think about it. > > I don't know much about GD from non TM sources. He appears to have > practiced a tradition called shri vidya. My personal opinion is that > GD's true lineage is being upheld by someone trained and selected > while GD was in the forest, not while in his public formal role as a > religious ashram leader. > It doesn't appear that MMY knows what the kundalini path is yet he speaks about it, he was caged in because of not being in a proper vastu, etc. Yet, Kundalini is the most important thing as his comments reveal and yet I have just heard about it after 30 years.
Many in TM are in confusion, and there is a potential for the kundalini to awaken with what is given, yet there definately is not adequit guidance available if this happens, and it appears it has in some cases. It does appear MMY is self proclaimed as a Guru, and as enlightened but being caged in be cause of an inproper vastu is not the sign of enlightenment. This is possibly why there is so much consideration for the body in TM, and to give a perspective in my path, the comment is "the body has nothing to do with enlightenment" However, more significant than weather MMY is enlightened or not, and weather there was some loop hole so that he is a sanyasi, as he claimed on Larry King, even though no evidence of a formal initiation into sanyas, the more significant thing is what is taking place with the disciples- and the answer is a lot of confusion and mis guidance, with reference to the chance for enlightenment. These are my opinions, and it also is always an offer for a way out when I have this message as I am in a path where the confusion evaporates. Tanmay
