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This is Seva at its
finest:
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:29
AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re:
Christianity
on 5/10/05 10:12 AM, Peter Sutphen at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> The idea of seva or service has always been sorely
>
lacking in the TMO and with MMY.
There's plenty of seva to MMY, MUM,
etc. Staff are explicitly requested to
work tirelessly, and are are often
told not to question or get "creative"
with policies and directives - just
to work. There's a macho pride in how
hard one works, pulling all-nighters,
etc. After a big project such as the
preparation for the Taste of Utopia
course, people are publicly praised for
their sleepless dedication. But
I've never seen any sort of seva directly
applied to the needy. In
Mallorca, Maharishi said "People are poor because
they are lazy."
Maharishi's expressed philosophy has always been that we
help the
disadvantaged most effectively by approaching and winning the
support of
the wealthy and influential, who in turn will help the
disadvantaged. The
metaphysical equivalent of this approach is that we don't
deal with
problems directly, because that would be watering the leaves and
there will
be no end of problems. Rather, we enliven collective
consciousness and the
nourishment at that root level will enrich more
manifest levels and thus
eradicate problems.
I almost sound like Bob Brigante here, but my
implication is that I don't
totally agree with this approach. If you're
going to take it, you should
simultaneously work directly to help the
needy, both for their sake and for
yours. It cultures compassion and
selflessness.
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