this reads like a 21st century rig veda - imagine the commentaries on this piece written 5000 years in the future.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maharishi, after all, did the same thing. We have > > NO IDEA what the "real" story of Guru Dev was. > > All we have is Maharishi's view of who and what > > he was. And that view is often at odds with the > > view of other people who were students of Guru > > Dev's at the same time Mahesh was. The only > > reason that most of us have any kind of "official" > > view of who and what Guru Dev was is because MMY's > > was in many cases the *only* view we ever heard. > > > ----Safe to say that if it wasn't for Maharishi then we would not have heard > of Guru Dev as he would have just been another saint in the long Hindu list. > > I personally do not believe that Maharishi has outdone the Shankaracharyas. > It's negotiable which is the more important victory for him, that is, to get > the Shanks to think Westerners should be allowed to be Hindus, or that > Hindus should be allowed to become Westerners. Because we aren't normally > allowed within range of many yajnas at all. > > The effect Maharishi had was to unite the world at least a few more ways. I > believe that the course participants now are experiencing some of the Vedic > ability as based in the real traditional yajnas being held now. Especially > in Varanasi. > > I had the benefit of working with Ben Collins puja group and a couple others > last year and I can speak to the power of the attention of real Hindu (and > Buddhist) priests. They have powerful concentration which alone with one as > the focus, or whomever recipient can feel. > > As for whether I believe in the gods or the power alone of human attention > it is great. Rituals may well be psychocognitive coherence makers due to > synchronized attentions and intentions. I actually almost went totally crazy > during that time. I think I had something like literally 15 yajnas lined up > for last Akshaya Tritiya. Fucking intense. I was literally insomniac for > five months. I mean totally. I burned the pujas out. I can't even do one now > or it's too much for me. I had yajnas done to erase slavery, to create peace > in the east, to make my gurus, many Buddhist, live longer, to enrich New > Orleans and the Gulf South, and to attract merit to said same. > > Finally I did some Bhudevi yajnas for all beings. I met a lama and he told > me to do all pujas for all beings. So I started doing that. man was it > fucking intense. One Sunday morning I felt this peace so great. But then the > swing to feeling like I was in hell. It was all really really intense. > > My point. I forget. Oh yeah. Oh Yeah, I also under the auspices of the > Kanchi Shank and other Sri Vidya devotees was the only white guy out of a > hundred Hindus to be in the first Saundaraya Lahiri Japa Yajna under Sri > Harshanand, rising young guruji. > > But oh yeah. Shakti is in control, not Maharishi or his followers. I had a > dream the other night where a middle aged black woman of average looks was > bowed to by everybody including myself, and when she walked towards me I got > a hardon. > > The next day I saw this picture of Mahakali riding Shiva. So I thought some > funny things about Bevans proclaimation that Maharishi has turned Kali to > Sat quite interesting. I had quite a few dreams during this last week, all > with black people in them, all seeming to say that Shakti is the source of > all power, not Maharishi. > > I had one dream where a small black boy was trying to get a woman to dance > but she wasn't buying. She was staying out of frame and unseen. Not dancing. > So I have to praise Mahakali as Buddha first and Mahakali as Herself second > before Mahakali as Maharishi third or fourth or whatever. > > Guru dev was Mahakali, as Shodashi, as are all the great gurus of the > Shanks. Yoni Goddess, circular source of endless perfection and power. > Without Shakti Shiva is Shava. Jai Ma. > > Ma unformed, Ma with no basis, Ma - basis of freedom. Ma - yah! And freedom > from Yah! to- Ma. > > This is what one calls transcending in speech. ;) >
