>> >> Ginsberg sniffed it out early on. It took most of us >> longer. >> Maharishi was not cool. Simple as that. > > Maharishi was transcendentally cool, very cool indeed that way.
------As a world figure, if the world hadn't coughed up its sleve at that moment, Maharishi came out with his political emphasis at the end of his days. I would call it somewhat misguided. Especially regarding democracy which simply must go on. But he dichotomized industrialization and satan with the West and placid nature and goodness with the East. He cared to preserve Eastern tradition so as to preserve nature and peace of mind. I cannot blame him for that. I think he didn't care for beurocracy except for it to trap itself. He allowed himself to not one moment of his life succumb to worldly courts or judgement. Or the judgements of anyone including all the advice of his movement inner circle. he kept them humble and without the full picture. I am sure really somewhere, maybe in the heart of a Varma the entire scenario glows like a Bollywood billboard, something like "Maharishi and Varms clan restablish all Bharat as home of Eternal Dharma" and they charge really big Western bucks for their services which the more they take over small villages may grow until they get some world respect. You see he saw the market for pundit services world wide, and how they couldn't do much harm really. He made Veda a word known to many which itself is dharmic to his mind because it got Indians also to respect themselves. Because he left it in Krishna's hands. As he finally said, 'nature will always balance adharma with dharma.' He knew he left much incomplete, and that the real future of TMO was in the East for easterner, who could in fact follow the ashtangayogapatanjali.
