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Maharishi on Hitler
This is from a Jewish friend who was full-time in the TMO for many
years, including Purusha and International Staff in Vlodrop and
elsewhere. He’s now with a different teacher. We had a private
discussion about this a couple of months ago and I asked if I could
post this. He said I could but asked that I not mention his name.
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Some time after being on Purusha, I discovered, to my great
amazement, that some German Purusha were wearing swastikas under
their ties, celebrating Hitler's birthday, and generally feeling very
bully about the whole thing. I remembered what Frank Pappentine told
me a few years back during our 6-month course in Arosa (we were good
friends during that course): that Maharishi had met with the Germans
in Seelisberg and told them that the Allies presented Hitler as a
great demon to suppress the German morale, that the facts were
different and that Hitler was, in fact, a good strong leader.
I heard that from Maharishi myself, in Washington DC in 1983, when a
reporter asked him what he thought of Hitler. He said, that Hitler
was actually a good strong leader who unified Germany, it's just too
bad that he did so much indiscriminate killing.
All these caused me quite a shock at the time, and finally I decided
to confront a question that had bothered me from childhood: how could
intelligent, sophisticated Germans (and some of the leaders of his
party and the SS were indeed sophisticated and intelligent) follow
him? Some of them were reputed to be lovers of classical music,
devoted husbands, doting fathers, fond of animals and loved to tend
their rose gardens -- but had no problem going to work in the
morning, work being the extermination of yet another transport of
thousands of Jews.
I asked one of my German "friends" to get me some Nazi literature
about Hitler, that I was interested in learning more about how THEY
viewed him. One of them got me a few magazines which were published
on high-quality paper, with no ads (so a lot of money was involved).
The magazines were all in German. I struggled through the articles,
and was particularly struck by two of them: one about Hitler's love
affairs, and another an account by his driver, who was the last
person to see Hitler alive.
The one about the love affairs was interesting: it turned out, that
although he was partially impotent -- some of his aids were
constantly on the lookout for any medical doctor who could provide
him with a preparation to increase his potency -- once he had an
affair with a woman, that woman was so enamored with him, that when
he left her she committed suicide. This has happened a number of
times. It even happened in the case of a British woman, who was in
England when Churchill declared war, so she could not return to
Germany and committed suicide from agony. Such was his charisma and
power over people.
But what was much more revealing to me was the account of his driver.
As he was describing Hitler's last hours, he was speaking about the
terrible loss and bereavement that he experienced -- and there was
something heartbreaking about his devotion to Hitler. I'm serious: I
completely identified with his intense emotions. I was only familiar
with such powerful emotions in relationship to God or to one's Guru
-- but here was a person who was relating to Hitler in this way, and
was still lamenting his death so many years later, knowing all that
he had done!
I later on saw a BBC 6-hr documentary program on the rise of Nazism.
They interviewed a person who worked with him closely at one point.
And that person spoke about Hitler with the same passion that one
speaks of one's Guru. He described his experience of interacting with
Hitler -- there's no other way to describe it, except a spiritual
experience -- and said, in this regard: "I saw this side of Hitler,
Hitler's most beautiful side; and no one can take it away from me.
That is the Hitler I know and cherish".
Why am I saying all this? Because that was the first time I
understood how Hitler could have done what he had done. People who
came in contact with him had a spiritual experience, and you know how
such a profound experience often makes you surrender your
discriminating ability. And you can even do atrocities.
It was also the first time I realized that the power of spiritual
people to give experience is potentially dangerous. It made me
realize, that had I been a non-Jewish German at the time of Hitler, I
could have potentially joined to Nazi party -- if that was the
transmission that came out of Hitler.
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My response to this was:
This is interesting stuff. As you know, the Vedas depict many great
demons, such as Ravana, as being extremely charismatic, learned, and
highly evolved. In some cases the story is told that the demon had
the choice of being born into a series of righteous lives or one
demonic life in which they would be killed by the Lord and thus
liberated. They chose the demonic life. I don’t presume to know the
karmic mechanics behind the holocaust. The perpetrators of it, and
especially Hitler, certainly seemed evil by all normal standards, but
the universe is a strange place. Who can say with certainty where
Hitler’s soul is now? Is he suffering in hell or was he really some
great soul that chose to play a role very distasteful by civilized
standards? I would like to think he’s suffering in hell, but who
really knows? It seems the light and dark forces are always balancing
each other out. There need to be great souls on both sides. In the
ultimate analysis, is one side really “good” and the other “bad,” or
is it all just a big Lila? I’d say yes, in the relative, good and bad
both exist and I’d rather be on the good side. But is that God’s
perspective, or just my limited relative viewpoint? Ultimately, isn’t
it all just God playing all the roles to entertain Himself? Obviously
I have more questions than answers.
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My friend’s response was that that attitude was a cop-out which
allowed people to rationalize all sorts of mischief by gurus and
other leaders.
