> TurquoiseB wrote: > > The original story: > > Ah. Your stories are so uplifting that they > made me smile with the memory of the mindset. > Can't fault that, eh? WAY positive. > > So here's one of mine, that captures a little > of the same mindset that used to be so easily > inspired. Back when MIU was still in the apart- > ment complex in Santa Barbara, Maharishi was due > to visit. I drove up from L.A. to see him in my > old, clunky Saab 96. Towards the end of the > ride it was gasping and stalling, barely able > to make it there, but I finally did. I pulled > it into the underground parking lot, and I man- > aged to get it into a parking space right near > the elevator that led up to the complex. Once > it was in the parking space I tried and tried > to restart it, but it was dead. No luck. > > But I was there to see Maharishi, so I didn't > worry about practical stuff like that. I enjoyed > the talk and all, and then, when it was time for > him to leave, his handlers took him down the > elevator to his car, such that he had to walk > right past my Saab. > > After he'd gone and it was time for me to go back > to L.A., I got into the Saab and turned the key > and it started right up. It was clearly a miracle > brought about by Maharishi's close proximity to > the car. For the next week or so, every time the > car would overheat and have the same problem, I'd > leave it for a while and Maharishi's divine pres- > ence would reach out from Switzerland and fix it > again, and lo! it would start again. More miracles. > > Then I got the carburator fixed and he didn't have > to bother any more.
"and now you know ... the REST of the story" (to quote Paul Harvery) that was sweet Barry; thanks amazing, how [we all felt like that] way back when
