--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <wayback71@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Feb 13, 2011, at 2:03 PM, feste37 wrote: > > > > > > > > Of course, having said that, Mahesh did admire some > > > > of the most evil people. > > > > > > That's a classical and easy mistake to make. > > > Maharishi did not admire these dictators, he lifted them up > > > so they could leave office without any loss of lives. The > > > "Shah", Marcos, Haile Selassie, Peron - the list is long. > > > > Nabs, you know, if we assume MMY was fully > > enlightened, we don't have to deny that he admired > > those dictators. It's fully consistent with his > > teaching to assume that Nature caused him to admire > > them, that Nature "knew" his lifting them up would > > result in their leaving office with little or no > > violence. > > > > IOW, MMY didn't have to know what he was doing; he > > didn't have to foresee the effects of his actions. > > Nature "knew," and he was just following Nature's > > dictates. > > > > Or to put it another way, the gunas don't just > > control action in the world; they also control > > action inside our heads, what our brain's synapses > > do. > > Actually, I agree with you, Judy. Well put. > > It also means I don't need to agree with or follow the > actions and ideas of someone else who is enlightened. > The gunas may be acting on the brain of the enlightened > person and on my brain, too, and we would come to > different conclusions.
Yes, exactly! > I might think their support of someone like Mugabe is > ridiculous, and that is just perfect for me to feel > that way. It is the only way someone not enlightened > can act and be honest with themselves. Just do what > you think is right. Not follow the ideas of any person > with whom you don't honestly agree. And not bend into > all sorts of contortions trying to find a way to make > it all make sense. So if MMY adored Mugabe, well, > that feeling is right for him. The gunas in the > wisdom of the cosmos made MMY adore him for some > ultimate reason that I have no clue about. But my > dislike is equally valid. So, just because MMY liked > or disliked someone means........not much at all, > really, I guess. His work was in the meditation and > the darshan. Total agreement. > > That's one way of looking at it, anyway. I think it > > makes more sense than to argue that he had ulterior > > motives and was engaging in complicated plotting to > > bring about unexpectedly desirable results. He would > > have been just as surprised as anybody else at what > > Nature had wrought through him.
