The assumption implicit in the thinking of some of the participants in this thread seems to be that allowing or disallowing TM to be taught in a country would make a whit of difference in that country's destiny. How many people are being taught in the UK now? What difference could it possibly make if that trickle were staunched?
on 5/9/05 4:13 PM, anonymousff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems to me that the karma line of reasoning isn't very > worthwhile. The Hindu tradition tells us that the course of karma is > unfathomable. That implies to me that nothing definitive can ever be > said about it, even amongst those who subscribe to the theory. To do > moreso is to claim more knowledge than Krishna indicated was > possible for a human. > > On the other hand, suppose that we could find an unmistakable > connection between a country's wrongdoings in the past and > Maharishi's cutting them out of Heaven on Earth and Sat Yuga. Why > then would it make sense for Maharishi to include just about any > country in the world? Think of the recent threads on FFL re the mass > murders that have taken place by the Germans (during WWII), by > Stalinist Russia, in the former Yugoslavia, in parts of Africa, etc. > Why don't these countries get cut out of Heaven as well? > > Maharishi's platform has always been about amending the errors of > the past, not about punishing the errors of the past. This Brit > thing is entirely out of character with his lifetime platform, if > not out of character with his private railings against the CIA etc. > > Maharishi's platform has always been about global enlightenment - we > all rise together faster when we all participate. Cutting a whole > country out of the good news isn't what he taught us. This is an > entirely new aberration. 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/
