I have always felt that in that sense he was a true Bodhisattva. Maharishi understood that atomics brought forth a new aera of world responsibility for its future. Thus we meditated for the world, not for ourselves. Maharishi learned that from Guru Dev from the huge yajnas GD had. And Maharishi was a real genius. But I feel we all have incarnated at once to make this spiritual time happen, according to our best wishes.
I remember a dream where alot of people were standing behind me out of sight, and one says, "He's looking alot more like Varaha," about a man sitting on a podium with a really long face that looked like a boar. Who I understood to be Maharishi because the long face looked with the tusks like a beard. I think Maharishi established at least a structure of responsibility of the world for some future Vedic yajnas. I always wonder though whether yajnas are really acceptable anymore under the circumstances of global warming - adding more carbonic matter to the air, etc.... Not sure about pundit living conditions, to keep them like cattle. Be better now I think to burn money by spreading benefits to the people one has forgotten about. All that yajna money would have finished starvation in India had it been used for living beings and not for immaterial. Bollywood and India should start a huge lottery where all the yajna money goes to remaking the impoverished with better standard of living. They could remake their ghettos according to Feng Shui. And Green. That would be a worthy ambition. One can be sure the Protestant TMers will come out of England. That will be the first official TMO rift. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:47 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A short list of my grievances with the movement > Maharishi's model of enlightenment has always puzzled me as well - > right from the Intro lecture - really, why should a true Indian sage > have any concern about World Peace when he should be talking about how > the world is illusion . . . how the world is as it should be . . . > shouldn't we be walking around pondering the "I AM" . . . > > Perhaps this is what made Maharishi so unique - perhaps why he was > invited into heaven (should that be the case) - because he cared about > the world - because he placed raising world consciousness even above > the self-realization of his followers. > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "abutilon108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" >> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks for your comments about what I wrote, very insightful. I >> > especially dug when you talked about people projecting special power >> > on to you. And you knew it! Good for you. >> >> >> > I'm still working it all out. I don't have a model of "enlightenment" >> >> I do currently have a model of enlightenment and what's interesting is >> that it's a far cry from what Maharishi presented to us. It has more >> to do with the dropping away of the illusion of separation/doership. >> Of course one can find concepts in Maharishi's talks/books that would >> seem to be about that, but his focus on relative perfection makes me >> feel he wasn't really getting at what interests me. It's fascinating >> to find myself having lost my interest in his descriptions of the >> states of consciousness when once I was so enamored with that. It >> feels as if my path has taken me into a whole different universe. >> >> >> > these days really so I am back to the physiological stuff when >> > thinking about Maharishi. I believe he was functioning in a different >> > way than I am but so is Donald Trump. I don't have to ascribe a >> > pathology to recognize that he and I are cut from radically different >> > cloth psychologically. >> >> Actually, I don't like ascribing pathology to anyone, so not sure how >> that came up except that idea -- of being able to act exactly as >> someone would want you to be -- had been mentioned in regard to Scott >> Peterson. >> >> And, much as I don't like to admit it, I'm not so sure I'm cut from a >> radically different cloth psychologically from Maharishi... >> >> I don't buy the simple con theory. I think he >> > believed most of his rap. >> >> Yes >> >> The gap is where the weirdness of all of us >> > got reflected back to him due to his role with us all. Just as you >> > described in your teaching experience. >> > >> > > >But he also didn't end up a billionaire with an >> > > > uncompleted Gita commentary by accident... >> > > >> > > Didn't follow this -- please explain! >> > > >> > >> > I just mean that he was money motivated at a Trumplike level. You >> > don't get that rich by accident, it takes tremendous focus. Likewise, >> > despite his claim to loving knowledge more than anything, he never >> > finished most of his long term mental projects. If you spend day >> > after day with him it is like chasing an ADD child, but leaving actual >> > human lives in his wake. >> >> Interesting... >> >> > >> > Nice rap man, I'll keep an eye out for your posts. >> >> This is the first group I've participated in. Still getting the hang >> of it and am overwhelmed by the volume of posts (was even before MMY's >> death increased the activity). Wanted to reply here, though, because >> this line of conversation really interests me, and it's been helpful >> to think/feel some things out here. Thanks! >> >> And by the way, I'm not a man... >> > > > > > 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 > > >
