he appeared to be. Vaj was actually a Gaudiya Vaishnava disciple of one of the Hare Krsna ritvik-gurus who was still active here in America. Vaj was performing a task requested by his initiating guru, Srila Vijayadarshana dasa Goswami. The request was for Vaj to follow in the lead of prior Vaishnava followers to disrupt and refute the demonic "Mayavadins", of whom they considered Maharishi to be the biggest. (Mayavadin is a Vaishnava term denoting someone believing everything is illusion.) The basic technique of this practice is for the opponent (Vaj) to admix with the forum as a person with similar experiences. After people become comfortable with his flickering tongue, he then gradually introduces doubts and rebuttals from a tradition that is somewhat similar (Buddhist) but which criticizes the one in which he is temporarily positioned (Advaita Vedanta). The sole purpose is to unlatch people from their familiarity with their own experiences (i.e. introducing doubt about everything) and then offering them a variant framework for understanding. The key here is not to be too precise but rather give generic notions of "superior" states and stations of spiritual development that are unavailable, except from another tradition.
The ironic premise of it all is hilarious. Serpentine Vaj is actually using an anti-cult deprogramming technique to free us from ourselves. First by trying to displace our belief in our direct with inveterate doubt (doubt for its own sake) and then secondly by offering us a way out through another path (any other path). Isn't it amazing what techniques the Hare Krsna devotees have learned from their anti-cult opponents? So this is how Vaj developed and grew here on the forum. Vaj was just a little flickering coil at first but over time has become an Anti-Maharishi first responder, gigantic and ponderous - a hulk of vituperative antagonism. However, please don't think badly about Vaj and his task here on FFL. He really loves us. He just wants to separate us from our delusion about illusion - meaning about Maharishi and TM. He vowed it to his guru - you know like words of honor between a knight and his liege lord. Samaya Jah Jah Jah ----------Vaj a Vaishnava? That's a new one. Just so you all know, so as to refute, since he must have some position, you should all accept him as a Natha of the original Navanath tradition. As such I was friends with a friend of his guru in a past life that I remember all too well. Navanaths are Hindu - sometimes Buddhist or bordering both and believe in no supreme lord or personality beyond that of the founding fishy one of Navanaths and sometimes Guru Datta or Bhaskaraya. Vaj may refute me if he likes. If I am mistaken then I stand to be corrected. Some Nathas dislike Buddhism and extremely dislike the Nyingma tradition. They mistakenly think that Dzogpachenpos are trying to dissolve the essential drops and tigles when this is simply not the case. Some Naths may exist in any other dimension of tradition or not, as it's all a matter of will to them - Take your Jah Jah Jah and add a 93
