An anonymous contributor to the TM-Free blog has submitted what appears to be the actual legal agreement signed by the 300+ TM Teachers as part of the first "recertification" course.
This is IMO relevant to the latest DLF efforts because it can be assumed that 1) only official "recertified" TM Teachers will be allowed to teach TM to students as a part of the DLF prog- ram, and 2) what they *agreed to* to *become* "recertified" teachers might just be relevant to what it is that they will actually teach or promote *in addition to* TM. Please bear in mind when reading the following agreement that the marketing plan of the TMO when it was signed was to sell TM in shopping malls. Each of the "recertified" teachers sign- ing this agreement then, and presumably signing similar agreements in the time since, were agree- ing to work full-time for the TM movement, in exchange for $4000 a month for life. (This was seemingly revised after the fact to become not a fixed salary but a percentage of the income generated by their efforts.) Thus *some* of the particulars in the agreement below are no longer in effect, the ones dealing with setting up "enlightenment franchises" in shopping malls. HOWEVER, what I would like to see the TM supporters on this forum "explain" is the agreement to "offer the 55 Peace Palace services and types of products." Having signed a legal agreement to do so, WHY in your opinion should we expect these "recertified" TM Teachers to limit themselves to teaching ONLY TM to the students involved in the DLF program? Having signed this agreement or one similar to it, are they not legally and morally bound to sell *other* TM products and programs as well? Will they attempt to segregate the "Quiet Time" classes by gender, as they have agreed to do below, to "maintain the two channels of activitiesfor men and ladies?" Will they pressure the students (as they agreed to do) to invest in "World Peace Bonds, donations, and membership fees?" Which do you think will "win out" for these teachers -- the charter of the David Lynch Foun- dation to teach TM and only TM, or their previous agreement with the TM organization to "offer the 55 Peace Palace services and types of products" and do the *other* things they agreed to do? I wait with 'bated breath to hear the TM supporters give their opinion on these questions. ************************************************** RESOLUTION OF THE GOVERNORS OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT ON THE AUSPICIOUS DAY OF RĀM NAVAMI OF THE VEDIC CALENDAR I resolve today on the auspicious day of Rām Navami of the Vedic Calendar, April 18, 2005, to be an exponent of Total Knowledge of Natural Law for my city and for the 4-5 surrounding towns of which I will take careto bring all the programs of Vedic Education, Vedic Health, Vedic Architecture, Vedic Organic Agriculture, Vedic Music, Vedic Economy, and Vedic Administration, as brought to light by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, by establishing Peace Palaces that will bring enlightenment to the population under my care and create a powerful influence of harmony and coherence and permanent world peace with Invincibility for every nation. In order to achieve this, I will dedicate myself full time to the activity of Director of the Peace Palace, and undertake to start my activity by: Maintaining my long program morning and evening Never engaging in anything that I know to be wrong Renting space for a Peace Palace office in a mall or similar facility Arranging for secretarial services for each location Advertising in local and regional newspapers, amongst others Offering the 55 Peace Palace services and types of products in each Peace Palace Opening a local bank account Maintaining the two channels of activitiesfor men and ladies Finding 4-5 assistants initially, and soon after, 4-5 assistants for each location under my care Engaging 4 massage therapists straight away for the first location, and soon after, for each location under my care Locating the land for Peace Palace construction and for Peace Colonies to offer Vastu homes to the population of the city Using the computerized system of administration The 55 items of activity and services of the Peace Palaces include the World Peace Bonds, donations, and membership fees, which it will be my joy to utilize in raising at least one half the cost of one Peace Palace in order to have a groundbreaking ceremony for that city. I will go on to join the Raja Traininghaving organized the construction of the Peace Palace to start and be completed by the time I finish my Raja Training Course. Having undergone this recertification program I will take all these steps so that, on this Guru Purnima, the full moon of July 2005, my city will welcome the descent of Heaven on Earththe descent of Satya Yuga saying bye-bye to Kali Yuga. I pay homage to Guru Dev and the Holy tradition of Vedic Masters through all the levels of Rajas and Maharaja of the Global Country of World Peacethe State Rajas, the National Rajas and the Global Maharajareaching the holy tradition of Vedic Masters whose guiding light, His Divinity Bramhananda Saraswati, has blessed the world with this whole knowledge of Enlightenment to the individual and Invincibility to the nation. Jai Guru Dev...
