--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand" <premanandp...@...> wrote: > > Turquoise, your recollections of Bevan's attitude to passing > on negative information to Maharishi actually puts the spotlight > on Maharishi, for if Bevan was only trying to please Maharishi, > how was it that Maharishi didn't want to be told the truth?
Paul, I can't speak for anything that happened after 1977, but I saw quite a few interactions between Maharishi and "underlings" in the years before that. The reason no one wanted to be the one to tell Maharishi any bad news, or even that things weren't going as perfectly as he'd pre- dicted or expected was that Maharishi used to take his disappointment out on the person who told him. It was very much a "kill the messenger" scenario, often ending with the person who had told him the less-than-positive news being banished from his sight for days to weeks. Bottom line was that in all such interactions I saw, I never got the feeling that Maharishi cared very much about reality. He wanted to be told that things were happening exactly as he'd imagined they would happen and had said they would happen. And woe be unto him who told him otherwise.
