--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > > On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:55 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > >> > > [...] > >> Yeah, exactly. If individual brains produce individual > >> consciousnesses, you have to do some fairly elaborate > >> acrobatics to speak of Consciousness. MMY was definitely > >> an Idealist (matter is emergent from consciousness) > >> rather than a Materialist (vice-versa). > > > > There's no fracking difference guys! How can you miss this? >(snip) Funny you should make this 'Idealist' and 'Materialist'...
Someone who withdraws from the physical world would be someone like Guru Dev. It seems Maharishi was bringing the knowledge of the true nature of the Self, which he imbibed from Guru Dev., into the vast material world, and wanted to attract physical wealth to his movement... This is how I see it.. R.
