--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > In that room on the video, a few characters stand out but none able to say, > > "This is what we are, for these reasons this is where we are going, and > > this is how we are going to do it." Consistently in less than a paragraph. > > The last part of that last sentence in the video started to be that. > > "That it is based on our spiritual experience, with this that we go > > forward". He was just getting his tongue around it as his part in the > > video ended. > > > > The video is a fascinating picture of TM in time. That is what i see in > > watching it from FF. It will be interesting to see when they pull it down > > from the net. > > > > -Buck > > Maharishi created the TMO Himself, it's His offspring. But from time to time > he would ask almost disbelieving; who wants to work in administration ? As if > He could not believe that someone wanted these positions. > > If you think only for a fraction of a second that the fellows who are running > the Movement today are closest to Maharishi's heart please think again. Only > a few of these souls have a fainth idea of what Maharishi did, and is > continuing to do today for the inhabitants of this planet. > > He alone created Heaven on this Earth. Singlehandedly but based on a cosmic > timing. > > He did not need a TMO, it was created for the evolution of certain > individuals. > > If the TMO is a joke to you I'm pretty sure Maharishi would agree. >
An observation and a question for His Nabbiness: I find it amusing that Maharishi held on to the reins of micromanagement almost to the last day of his life. If you'll recall, only about a month or two before his death he released a statement saying that he was giving up the day to day administration of the TMO and would now be devoting his time to the study of the Vedas (or something like that). He LIVED to micromanage the TMO and I believe this obsession of his contributed to the failure of the Movement. An anecdote that I believe I've shared before here points that out. On my 6 month course (perhaps Barry will remember this) at one point we had a course picture taken. But before it was sent to Maharishi to see, a course participant, Michael Yankaus, who was a designer or artist or something, on his own initiative, did a tracing of everyone in the group photo on a separate piece of paper, numbered each body traced, and then had a legend at the bottom of the name of each person and the country they represented. It was all quite beautiful and ornate...and I think he had it mounted on a canvass, framed, along with the group photo. It was worthy of a Super Bowl Winning Team collectible. Well, when Maharishi saw it, he was over the moon. He thought is was such a great thing that he issued an edict that, from now on, ALL courses would have group photos done like this. Instructions were drawn up and, if I'm not mistaken, Maharishi even had a broshure prepared and printed that had all the rules and instructions for how this was to be done. What struck me was how much time Maharishi devoted to this AND deemed it necessary for his "troops" and course participants to devote to this. Curious, I thought, that someone with a world plan could get diverted so easily and go off on a tangent on something that, relative to what he boldly wanted to accomplish (the spiritual regeneration of ALL mankind!), was of the most trivial value. But I learned that this incident in a way perfectly represented one of Maharishi's great shortcomings: his propensity to micromanage and NOT be able to see the forest for the trees. My question to Nabby (unrelated to the above): how do you feel about Maharishi appointing his blood relatives (e.g. Girish) to positions of importance in the Movement?
