[FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
Did you have the tradition painting at your puja? I just had the GD portrait. Come to think of it, we had a massive holy tradition painting without Maharishi in it at both academies I lived in. And I remember thinking the one with him in it was a bit rubbish when I first saw it. Like they'd added him in that pose to associate him with the others but in a fake devotional way rather than the I'm just as good as them way that they - and undoubtably he - liked to be thought of. Or is my memory bad and he's always been there? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Well, we all know what the original painting that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi commissioned to show his position within the Shankaran tradition looks like: http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg View on www.meru.ch http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg Preview by Yahoo Here's the version used by students of Thom Knoles when they teach Vedic Meditation: There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns My second meeting with Matt was another one-on-one. Matt warned me that there would be a ceremony to start, during which I would be given a mantra... View on www.popsuga... http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns Preview by Yahoo And here's the version used by devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-... http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg View on bawandinesh... http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg Preview by Yahoo No violation of copyright obviously, even though the original painting was commissioned BY Maharishi and was his own design, from what I understand.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
I'm not sure when this painting first appeared, except that I do not remember
every seeing it -- either in its version with Maharishi or without -- up to the
point when I bailed from the TMO. That is, 1977 or so. I'm pretty sure the
first place I ever saw it or heard anything about it was here on FFL.
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:37 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
Did you have the tradition painting at your puja? I just had the GD portrait.
Come to think of it, we had a massive holy tradition painting without Maharishi
in it at both academies I lived in. And I remember thinking the one with him in
it was a bit rubbish when I first saw it. Like they'd added him in that pose to
associate him with the others but in a fake devotional way rather than the I'm
just as good as them way that they - and undoubtably he - liked to be thought
of.
Or is my memory bad and he's always been there?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote :
Well, we all know what the original painting that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
commissioned to show his position within the Shankaran tradition looks like:
http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg
| |
| | | | http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg | |
| View on www.meru.ch| Preview by Yahoo |
| |
Here's the version used by students of Thom Knoles when they teach Vedic
Meditation:
There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns.
| |
| | | | There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. My second
meeting with Matt was another one-on-one. Matt warned me that there would be a
ceremony to start, during which I would be given a mantra... | |
|View on www.popsuga... | Preview by Yahoo |
| |
And here's the version used by devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg
| |
| | | | http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-...
| |
|View on bawandinesh... | Preview by Yahoo |
| |
No violation of copyright obviously, even though the original painting was
commissioned BY Maharishi and was his own design, from what I understand.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : I'm not sure when this painting first appeared, except that I do not remember every seeing it -- either in its version with Maharishi or without -- up to the point when I bailed from the TMO. That is, 1977 or so. I'm pretty sure the first place I ever saw it or heard anything about it was here on FFL. They had a huge one in Mentmore Towers and they brought that place in 1980 so maybe it appeared as a centrepiece for the Vedic room in the academies. I always disliked it, it looks like a birthday card you'd get in a new age shop. And is there really a link between all the people on it? Are they all reviving the original teaching of Krisha, and how would you know? From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™ Did you have the tradition painting at your puja? I just had the GD portrait. Come to think of it, we had a massive holy tradition painting without Maharishi in it at both academies I lived in. And I remember thinking the one with him in it was a bit rubbish when I first saw it. Like they'd added him in that pose to associate him with the others but in a fake devotional way rather than the I'm just as good as them way that they - and undoubtably he - liked to be thought of. Or is my memory bad and he's always been there? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Well, we all know what the original painting that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi commissioned to show his position within the Shankaran tradition looks like: http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg View on www.meru.ch http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg Preview by Yahoo Here's the version used by students of Thom Knoles when they teach Vedic Meditation: There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns My second meeting with Matt was another one-on-one. Matt warned me that there would be a ceremony to start, during which I would be given a mantra... View on www.popsuga... http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns Preview by Yahoo And here's the version used by devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-... http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg View on bawandinesh... http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg Preview by Yahoo No violation of copyright obviously, even though the original painting was commissioned BY Maharishi and was his own design, from what I understand.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
TM'ers are sheltered and don't know even the basics of Indian tradition especially how one becomes a swami or an acharya. From what I know of MMY he was never an acharya so it would be considered inappropriate for him to be in the holy tradition or a guru dev himself. I've never even read if he was ever given a swami title which can be granted at an earlier stage. It also depends on how the Shankara tradition hands out titles. On 12/03/2014 10:37 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Did you have the tradition painting at your puja? I just had the GD portrait. Come to think of it, we had a massive holy tradition painting /without/ Maharishi in it at both academies I lived in. And I remember thinking the one with him in it was a bit rubbish when I first saw it. Like they'd added him in that pose to associate him with the others but in a fake devotional way rather than the I'm just as good as them way that they - and undoubtably he - liked to be thought of. Or is my memory bad and he's always been there? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : Well, we all know what the original painting that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi commissioned to show his position within the Shankaran tradition looks like: http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg image http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg View on www.meru.ch http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg Preview by Yahoo Here's the version used by students of Thom Knoles when they teach Vedic Meditation: There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns image http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns My second meeting with Matt was another one-on-one. Matt warned me that there would be a ceremony to start, during which I would be given a mantra... View on www.popsuga... http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns Preview by Yahoo And here's the version used by devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg image http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-... http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg View on bawandinesh... http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg Preview by Yahoo No violation of copyright obviously, even though the original painting was commissioned BY Maharishi and was his own design, from what I understand.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
Marshy's appearance in the pic was a late addition. It definitely was not in
the original. There were any number of 'em without the M man in it at MIU when
I was there in the mid 1980's.
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote :
I'm not sure when this painting first appeared, except that I do not remember
every seeing it -- either in its version with Maharishi or without -- up to the
point when I bailed from the TMO. That is, 1977 or so. I'm pretty sure the
first place I ever saw it or heard anything about it was here on FFL.
They had a huge one in Mentmore Towers and they brought that place in 1980 so
maybe it appeared as a centrepiece for the Vedic room in the academies.
I always disliked it, it looks like a birthday card you'd get in a new age
shop.
And is there really a link between all the people on it? Are they all reviving
the original teaching of Krisha, and how would you know?
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:37 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
Did you have the tradition painting at your puja? I just had the GD portrait.
Come to think of it, we had a massive holy tradition painting without Maharishi
in it at both academies I lived in. And I remember thinking the one with him in
it was a bit rubbish when I first saw it. Like they'd added him in that pose to
associate him with the others but in a fake devotional way rather than the I'm
just as good as them way that they - and undoubtably he - liked to be thought
of.
Or is my memory bad and he's always been there?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote :
Well, we all know what the original painting that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
commissioned to show his position within the Shankaran tradition looks like:
http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg
| |
| | | | http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg | |
| View on www.meru.ch| Preview by Yahoo |
| |
Here's the version used by students of Thom Knoles when they teach Vedic
Meditation:
There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns.
| |
| | | | There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. My second
meeting with Matt was another one-on-one. Matt warned me that there would be a
ceremony to start, during which I would be given a mantra... | |
|View on www.popsuga... | Preview by Yahoo |
| |
And here's the version used by devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg
| |
| | | | http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-...
| |
|View on bawandinesh... | Preview by Yahoo |
| |
No violation of copyright obviously, even though the original painting was
commissioned BY Maharishi and was his own design, from what I understand.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
I heard that Francis Knight was asked to add M's image to the existing painting
(while he was still alive) which I think she also painted, but if someone knows
more, let me know.
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
I'm not sure when this painting first appeared, except that I do not
remember every seeing it -- either in its version with Maharishi or without --
up to the point when I bailed from the TMO. That is, 1977 or so. I'm pretty
sure the first place I ever saw it or heard anything about it was here on FFL.
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:37 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
Did you have the tradition painting at your puja? I just had the GD portrait.
Come to think of it, we had a massive holy tradition painting without Maharishi
in it at both academies I lived in. And I remember thinking the one with him in
it was a bit rubbish when I first saw it. Like they'd added him in that pose to
associate him with the others but in a fake devotional way rather than the I'm
just as good as them way that they - and undoubtably he - liked to be thought
of.
Or is my memory bad and he's always been there?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote :
Well, we all know what the original painting that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
commissioned to show his position within the Shankaran tradition looks like:
http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg
| |
| | | | http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg | |
| View on www.meru.ch| Preview by Yahoo |
| |
Here's the version used by students of Thom Knoles when they teach Vedic
Meditation:
There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns.
| |
| | | | There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. My second
meeting with Matt was another one-on-one. Matt warned me that there would be a
ceremony to start, during which I would be given a mantra... | |
|View on www.popsuga... | Preview by Yahoo |
| |
And here's the version used by devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg
| |
| | | | http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-...
| |
|View on bawandinesh... | Preview by Yahoo |
| |
No violation of copyright obviously, even though the original painting was
commissioned BY Maharishi and was his own design, from what I understand.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
On 12/3/2014 1:14 PM, Bhairitu wrote: TM'ers are sheltered and don't know even the basics of Indian tradition especially how one becomes a swami or an acharya. From what I know of MMY he was never an acharya so it would be considered inappropriate for him to be in the holy tradition or a guru dev himself. I've never even read if he was ever given a swami title which can be granted at an earlier stage. In the Indian religious tradition the term /acharya/ means a highly learned man or teacher or founder of a sect. A /swami/ is an ascetic who has been initiated into the religious monastic order founded by a religious teacher such as the Adi Shankara. A /yogi/ is a practitioner of yoga, specifically used to refer to /Siddhas/ and to refer to practitioners of meditation. It also depends on how the Shankara tradition hands out titles. In the Advaita Vedanta tradition a Swami initiates the student with a puja ceremony and imparts a /bija mantra/ or seed syllable for the sadhak to meditate on. In the Saraswati tradition of SBS, it is incumbent on every chela to mediate on the bija mantra of Saraswati twice daily. It's not complicated. According to MMY, /Swamis suffer; yogis enjoy./
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 12:52 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™ I'm not sure when this painting first appeared, except that I do not remember every seeing it -- either in its version with Maharishi or without -- up to the point when I bailed from the TMO. That is, 1977 or so. I'm pretty sure the first place I ever saw it or heard anything about it was here on FFL. Francis Knight painted it. British woman. _ From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:37 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™ Did you have the tradition painting at your puja? I just had the GD portrait. Come to think of it, we had a massive holy tradition painting without Maharishi in it at both academies I lived in. And I remember thinking the one with him in it was a bit rubbish when I first saw it. Like they'd added him in that pose to associate him with the others but in a fake devotional way rather than the I'm just as good as them way that they - and undoubtably he - liked to be thought of. Or is my memory bad and he's always been there? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... wrote : Well, we all know what the original painting that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi commissioned to show his position within the Shankaran tradition looks like: http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg http://www.meru.ch/uploads/images/Vedic+Tradition.jpg View on www.meru.ch Preview by Yahoo Here's the version used by students of Thom Knoles when they teach Vedic Meditation: There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns There will be no levitating. Expect no unicorns. My second meeting with Matt was another one-on-one. Matt warned me that there would be a ceremony to start, during which I would be given a mantra... http://www.popsugar.com.au/fitness/photo-gallery/36184832/image/36202196/levitating-Expect-unicorns View on www.popsuga... Preview by Yahoo And here's the version used by devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-... http://bawandinesh.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guru-parampara1.jpg View on bawandinesh... Preview by Yahoo No violation of copyright obviously, even though the original painting was commissioned BY Maharishi and was his own design, from what I understand.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puja Pictures™
On 12/3/2014 12:51 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote: */I'm not sure when this painting first appeared, except that I do not remember every seeing it -- either in its version with Maharishi or without -- up to the point when I bailed from the TMO. That is, 1977 or so. I'm pretty sure the first place I ever saw it or heard anything about it was here on FFL. /* /* */Correction: ...up to the point when I got kicked out of the TMO. Let's try to be a little more accurate, Barry.
