Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Art of Multi-Dimensional Living
Dear Professor Richard JW Das;
Is also an official history that Maharishi edited, posted in FFL message,
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/357659
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/357659
Jai Guru Dev,
-Buck Das
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On 12/27/2013 4:34 PM, dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
>
> Maharishi came to the West in the 1950's and started
> world-traveling-lecturing by the late 1950's.
>
There is detailed account of MMY's activities in "Thirty Years Around
the World" and in "The Story of the Maharishi". According to Mason, MMY
began his first world tour in 1959. The first world tour began in
Rangoon, Burma, and included the countries of Thailand, Malaya,
Singapore, Hong Kong and Hawaii. He arrived in Hawaii in the spring of
1959 and began lecturing and teaching in Honolulu, then San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Boston, New York and London in that same year.
Works cited:
'Maharishi: The Biography'
by Paul Mason
Element, 1994
p. 28 and p. 34
'The Story of The Maharishi'
by William Jefferson
Pocket Books, 1976
pp. 7–21
'Thirty Years Around the World'
Maharishi Vedic University Press, 1986
p. 199
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Art of Multi-Dimensional Living
On 12/27/2013 4:34 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Maharishi came to the West in the 1950's and started > world-traveling-lecturing by the late 1950's. > There is detailed account of MMY's activities in "Thirty Years Around the World" and in "The Story of the Maharishi". According to Mason, MMY began his first world tour in 1959. The first world tour began in Rangoon, Burma, and included the countries of Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong and Hawaii. He arrived in Hawaii in the spring of 1959 and began lecturing and teaching in Honolulu, then San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, New York and London in that same year. Works cited: 'Maharishi: The Biography' by Paul Mason Element, 1994 p. 28 and p. 34 'The Story of The Maharishi' by William Jefferson Pocket Books, 1976 pp. 7–21 'Thirty Years Around the World' Maharishi Vedic University Press, 1986 p. 199
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Art of Multi-Dimensional Living
Is Ed's a tribute or some jealous take-down here?
Second paragraph, it starts out with a huge error
in chronology. Maharishi came to the West in the
1950's and started world-traveling-lecturing by the late 1950's.
So what else does Ed have to say?
I do hope they both are resting in some dimension of peace now
together,
-Buck
A Tribute to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
by Edward Tarabilda
Maharishi is a disciple of the now deceased, former Shankaracharya of
North India, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. This great swami was a Surya
Yogin, and one of the characteristics of a Surya Yogin is that he
teaches in a manner which causes different disciples to draw different
conclusions about the nature of his teaching.
Maharishi came to the west during the sixties and immediately gained
public attention largely because the Beatles started attending his
meditation courses. His immediate challenge was to address the need of
the people living a fast paced existence but with little knowledge of
how to cope with the stress of this life-style -- people that were more
interested in a good night's sleep rather than enlightenment. He also
had to face misunderstandings about the nature of meditation, its
practice and its relationship to daily existence.
He sought to meet these challenges by teaching a simple, natural,
effortless form of meditation suitable for busy householders. He called
it Transcendental Meditation (TM) and its practice quickly spread
throughout the U.S. and the world. He called the theoretical aspect of
his teaching "The Science of Creative Intelligence" and founded two
universities, one in Fairfield, Iowa and one in Lucerne, Switzerland, to
promote this knowledge as well as its applied, meditative aspect.
His first setback occurred when he instituted an advanced meditation
program which included the practice and performance of "siddhis",
techniques which he claimed would bring supernormal abilities including
physical levitation. In fact, for a period of four or five years, the
erroneous impression was left with the public that his students were
actually levitating. This bizarre publicity and the strange ideas which
accompanied it turned off many people. The credibility of Maharishi's
movement, which had been established through its emphasis on scientific
research and educational reform, was largely lost; the popularity of
"TM" began to wane.
There was also the factor of the high costs of learning "TM" and all the
advanced techniques which followed it. Many complained that such a
policy violated the age-old idea that spiritual techniques should be
given out at no or, at least, a low cost. The movement representatives
countered by saying that all the money was being used to subsidize
individuals throughout the world who could not otherwise afford to learn
"TM".
In the late seventies, Maharishi began to speak of a one percent
phenomena: getting one percent of the world's population to practice
"TM" as a means of solving world problems. He then decided that this was
not feasible and instead, asked the growing number of " TM Siddhas"
throughout the world to do their "program" ("TM" plus the "Siddhis")
together in large groups as a means of accomplishing the same effect.
This was carried out in a number of places throughout the world
including Washington, D.C. Scientific research was conducted on these
gatherings to determine their effects on local, national and global
problems. The results seemed to indicate that such group processes did,
in fact, bring positive changes, although some challenged these results
arguing that the researchers were hardly free from bias. However, most
deep thinking individuals had no reason to doubt the creative genius of
the Yogi who had thought of and promoted this strategy in the first place.
In recent years I have been forced to distance myself both from
Maharishi’s unique approach to spiritual development and from many of
his uses of the applied Vedic disciplines. This is despite the fact that
Maharishi was my first teacher in the realm of meditation and eastern
studies. This has been necessary for a number of reasons:
To bring out the richness of my own cognitions and to demonstrate how
they differ from Maharishi’s.
To distinguish my teaching from an exclusively eastern approach to
spiritual development.
To warn people of the potential abuses of Vedic Science as presently
practiced.
To provide people with a more multi-dimensional approach to spirituality
when they are sufficiently mature to benefit from it.
At the same time I have come to realize that Maharishi has provided an
invaluable service to humanity in bringing forms of knowledge that
provide the world with fresh alternatives to solving the severe present
day problems and crises that now face us.
He has done this in virtually every major field of living and in regards
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Art of Multi-Dimensional Living
A Tribute to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
by Edward Tarabilda
Maharishi is a disciple of the now deceased, former Shankaracharya of
North India, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. This great swami was a Surya
Yogin, and one of the characteristics of a Surya Yogin is that he
teaches in a manner which causes different disciples to draw different
conclusions about the nature of his teaching.
Maharishi came to the west during the sixties and immediately gained
public attention largely because the Beatles started attending his
meditation courses. His immediate challenge was to address the need of
the people living a fast paced existence but with little knowledge of
how to cope with the stress of this life-style -- people that were more
interested in a good night's sleep rather than enlightenment. He also
had to face misunderstandings about the nature of meditation, its
practice and its relationship to daily existence.
He sought to meet these challenges by teaching a simple, natural,
effortless form of meditation suitable for busy householders. He called
it Transcendental Meditation (TM) and its practice quickly spread
throughout the U.S. and the world. He called the theoretical aspect of
his teaching "The Science of Creative Intelligence" and founded two
universities, one in Fairfield, Iowa and one in Lucerne, Switzerland, to
promote this knowledge as well as its applied, meditative aspect.
His first setback occurred when he instituted an advanced meditation
program which included the practice and performance of "siddhis",
techniques which he claimed would bring supernormal abilities including
physical levitation. In fact, for a period of four or five years, the
erroneous impression was left with the public that his students were
actually levitating. This bizarre publicity and the strange ideas which
accompanied it turned off many people. The credibility of Maharishi's
movement, which had been established through its emphasis on scientific
research and educational reform, was largely lost; the popularity of
"TM" began to wane.
There was also the factor of the high costs of learning "TM" and all the
advanced techniques which followed it. Many complained that such a
policy violated the age-old idea that spiritual techniques should be
given out at no or, at least, a low cost. The movement representatives
countered by saying that all the money was being used to subsidize
individuals throughout the world who could not otherwise afford to learn
"TM".
In the late seventies, Maharishi began to speak of a one percent
phenomena: getting one percent of the world's population to practice
"TM" as a means of solving world problems. He then decided that this was
not feasible and instead, asked the growing number of " TM Siddhas"
throughout the world to do their "program" ("TM" plus the "Siddhis")
together in large groups as a means of accomplishing the same effect.
This was carried out in a number of places throughout the world
including Washington, D.C. Scientific research was conducted on these
gatherings to determine their effects on local, national and global
problems. The results seemed to indicate that such group processes did,
in fact, bring positive changes, although some challenged these results
arguing that the researchers were hardly free from bias. However, most
deep thinking individuals had no reason to doubt the creative genius of
the Yogi who had thought of and promoted this strategy in the first place.
In recent years I have been forced to distance myself both from
Maharishi’s unique approach to spiritual development and from many of
his uses of the applied Vedic disciplines. This is despite the fact that
Maharishi was my first teacher in the realm of meditation and eastern
studies. This has been necessary for a number of reasons:
To bring out the richness of my own cognitions and to demonstrate how
they differ from Maharishi’s.
To distinguish my teaching from an exclusively eastern approach to
spiritual development.
To warn people of the potential abuses of Vedic Science as presently
practiced.
To provide people with a more multi-dimensional approach to spirituality
when they are sufficiently mature to benefit from it.
At the same time I have come to realize that Maharishi has provided an
invaluable service to humanity in bringing forms of knowledge that
provide the world with fresh alternatives to solving the severe present
day problems and crises that now face us.
He has done this in virtually every major field of living and in regards
to every system of knowledge. He has helped promote alternative
approaches to healthcare and stress-management that allow for greater
self-sufficiency. He has reminded us of the need to pay attention to how
we locate and build our homes. He has sought to restore the
meaningfulness of ritual and celebration in our daily lives. He has
restored ancient forms of Vedic music for relieving stress and promoting
wholeness. H
