--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "The Secret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > I think we can all safely just toss the Collected Papers now, > don't > ya > > > think? No more need to pretend... > > > > > > The religion of Guru Devism is born. > > > > > > > > > > It's only 11 days since Maharishi gave up control of and management > > of the TMO and the clowns -- I mean the Rajas -- that have taken over > > have, as Curtis has indicated, already gone the extra mile to > > solidify the "religious" nature of the Movement. > > > > This supports the theory that I have presented on this forum from > > time to time: that Maharishi abandoned the "TM is not a religion or > > philosophy" tenet of the TM Program because he was badgered to do so > > by the sycophants that have surrounded him for the past 35 years. And > > now those very sychophants have become the gate-keepers. > > > > They wore the poor man down by continually demanding that he give > > them the "real" knowledge despite his continual admonitions that the > > TM technique was the full and complete program. Well, Maharishi may > > be enlightened but he is only human. And at some point he threw his > > hands up and said: "Okay, if you want 'the real knowledge' I guess > > that's what I have to GIVE you." So now we've got THIS catastrophy on > > our hands: Rajas, tinfoil hats, Vedic peanut butter, etc. > > > > Well, the inmates have got the reigns of the ship now and, presto!, > > we're prostrating once a day for the next month. > > > > Abraham? Can you please bring Isaac over to the alter? Yeah, and > > bring some of those briquettes, too, while you're at it... > > > > Man, I'm in a mood to laugh, laugh, laugh. Thank you. I haven't had > such belly laughs in years. > > But let me try to understand your arguments. You're saying that > Maharishi did not have a hidden agenda of using the West to awaken the > East, of spreading Maharishi brand Hinduism throughout the world?
Yes, he had an agenda but, no, it wasn't hidden. He told us quite explicitly what he was doing by packaging TM as a non-denominational, non-belief, non-religious program. And, no, I truly believe it wasn't a case of him thinking: TM is part of the Hindu religion and, therefore, I have to disguise it in order for the suckers of the West to buy into it. To him, TM was very much a universal thing that was separate and apart from his own personal Hinduism and could, on its own, stand apart from the trappings of religion. And it was with that very worldview that he packaged TM and, successfully, brought it into the world. And that's how things were progressing until about 1977-9 when things started falling apart, largely from his own doing. And I refer to an abandonment of the above described universal non-religious approach. > This of course runs counter to the way it was explained to us wide > eyed children: that Maharishi was giving us what we needed at the > time and or that our raising the world's consciousness allowed the > Maha Rishi to cognize more and more of the Vedic truth, or as I always > believed, to pull all of this shit out of his ass. I don't know who was explaining all this to you or whether it was done in some official capacity. But I can tell you what I was taught as both a meditator who learned TM from the 7-step program and as a teacher in Teacher Training and that was that the TM Program was (1) not a religion; (2) not a philosophy or belief; and (3) the organisation taking on the responsibility of disseminating this knowledge would itself embody those very principles (because to do otherwise would be to stop being universal and therefore alienate some potential practitioners of TM). > Dr. BM doesn't > just have those funny initials for nothing. Of course we've read > which group of great seers and Shankaracharias granted him the title > he scribbled on that stationary in London. Let me speak a bit more > sweetly and say that he pulled that one out of the air as well. > > I don't quite get your problem with this becoming a religion. As religions go, I would probably be the first in line to sign up. But once it is a religion, you lose the potential to get 99% of the people on the planet to sign up. That's not being universal. Hey, I'd love to have a guru and sit cross-legged on the Ganges at the feet of a master and get darshan and all that. Must be a wonderful path! But that's not the path I chose for myself; I actually bought into the whole TM 20 minutes twice a day and then go into activity and, according to one's own religion and values and traditions and common sense, perform action. I truly, honestly believe that to be THE highest and fastest and most effective path to enlightenment. And for the vast, vast majority of Westerners (i.e., 99.9% of Westerners in the TMO) performing action that entails a guru-disciple relationship, following the dictates of Ayur-Veda and all the other trappings of the current TMO is NOT the instructions of the TM Program and,therefore, those 99.9% of the people in the Movement are OFF THE PROGRAM AND DO NOT -- I REPEAT DO NOT -- PRACTISE THE TM PROGRAM. As I am fond of repeating on this forum, those individuals in the Movement has sold their souls for a few shekels of darshan. These very people -- in particular, the Rajas -- who claim to follow Maharishi by their very actions are spitting on the very guru they purport to be devotees of. They are rakshasas. They are sycophants who sucked the very blood out of the Movement and consciously traded in the World Plan for the very selfish desire to be around an enlightened being. And in doing so they wore the poor bastard down. They thought: oh, I am going to be around Maharishi and get into this whole guru-disciple stuff and REALLY excelerate my evolution. But, in reality, by adopting such practises and beliefs they are OFF THE PROGRAM and are hindering their evolution. They may do the TM Technique but NOT the TM Program, two very different things. Indeed, much if not most of the activities of the TMO these days are 180 degrees in diametric opposition to the TM Program. And I will suggest one other thing to you while we are on the subject: these activities of the TMO that I refer to as being off the program that everyone from Bevan to the guy that does the janitorial services for MUM are heavily engaged in were set up by Maharishi as a test. It's all a test by him to see who actually listened to his instructions. You know how everyone always says that the crazy way that Maharishi instructs people to do this and that is designed to "weatherstrip" them and acclimatize them and make them "flexible"? Well, that's precisely what this whole sordid set- up of the Movement is. He's been waiting for 30 years for someone to say: STOP THE INSANITY. But no one has come forth 'cause no one paid attention in TTC. I did and it's very lonely here. > Look at > the structure. To paraphrase the words of a founding father of the > United States of America, we're giving you a theocracy, Madam, if you > can keep it. That's right. He erected a freakin theocracy. What > do you expect a theocracy to do, declare that God is dead? For crying > out loud. >
