The Patanjali Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge at Fairfield, Iowa, USA, home of the TM-Sidhi program, is a hollow tope void. In other words, the Golden Dome at Fairfield, (not to be confused with the Maharishi Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge at Radience, Texas, home of the Superadiance program), is a half-spherical dodecahedron, surmounted by a kalasa, supported by the amalaka in which the akasha, symbolizing dimensionless space, is supported by the linga, surmounting the eight-angled cintamani vajra, an 8-sided prototypic harmika with a rail surrounding the hypaethral pavilion constituting a veritible chaitya-garbha pradakshina with a nice fence around it!
"In the nearness of that, turbulence ceases." - Maharishi Patanjali That is to say, the Golden Dome at Fairfield, on the campus of the Maharishi International University (MUM), is sort of like a oriental dagoba that I once visited in Nepal, the like of which is suggested by a morthological similarity to the great Svyanbhunatha Stupa at Patan in the Katmandu Valley. And why? The ancient stupa at Sanchi shows a parasol emerging from the center of the space enclosed by the harmika fence. This and the domed architecture of the mound is repeated with variation in countless thousands of stupas and topes throughout the ages in all countries from the Swat valley all the way to Java and to Sri Lanka. The parasol, atop the stupa at Sanhci, at Sarnath and at Taxila, (circa 200 B.C.) the earliest evidence of edifice architecture in India, is the canopy of heaven, its pole being the cosmic axis mundi and the dome's surface is the earth. As a cosmic egg image it is preeminent among the aniconic images of the Buddha. In Buddhist mythology the bodhi tree, symbol of MUM, is the original parasol duplicated in the dome and the kalasa on top - the point where the pole of the parasol pierces the canopy corresponds precisely to the point defined by the harmika, where the pole emerges from the summit of the stupa garbha. This is pure Buddhist vastu, except that inside the Golden Dome, at both Fairfied and at Radience, is found hollowness, so that the yogic flyers can have room to enjoy flying, unobstructed. This, you have got to admit, is ingenious - a hollow stupa! Apparently the south door to the Golden Dome at Fairfield is closed and the practicing siddhas are routed around the building to the north entrance. This, in itself, constitutes a half-pradakshina, except that, unwittingly, the half-pint circumambulation is counter-clockwise, constituting a shamanistic Tibetan Bon practice, and the abject negation of Chos, as taught in the land of Po by Guru Shenrab. This disjunctive and unbalanced approach, needless to say, is one of the major problems with the MUM Administration. The obvious solution, short of using mirrors and deflectors, and possibly the only solution, is to move the entire university, lock stock and barrel down to Austin, and leave the buildings all behind, for some other fanatical cult group. Then, we can build an entire campus from scratch using pure Buddhist vastu principles! It's just obvious. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
