On Sep 26, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > > Back to the movie. It seems honest to me. He goes through stages of > > mounting concern. He genuinely liked TM. Seeing the initiation day scene > > really brought me back. What magical fun that all was. I wonder if Guru Dev > > would step out of the picture and slay me if I initiated someone again? He > > might use that backwards Nazi symbol as a Chinese throwing star and lop off > > my head. (Sorry easily distracted today for some reason.) Or maybe he might > > try to use that staff on me. I think I could take him if he pulled that. > > Unless he was David feak'n Carridine with that thing, he couldn't swing it > > fast enough to neutralize my mad Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. (Perhaps I shouldn't > > try the puja again until my spontaneous fantasy is not grappling with Guru > > Dev? In my defense it was the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial > > arts weekend, so I watched a lot of man on man action.) I guess he would > > zap me with a laser out of his third eye anyway so the world is still safe > > from me gett'n my Karpora gorum on anytime soon. But my point is that movie > > made me think of it, the scenes are sweet and nostalgic for me. (Like that > > is gunna de-blaspehemize the preceding paragraph!) > > One would wonder what Brahmananda Saraswati would really have thought of > the TM movement? Maybe not what you think.
I think it's clear from both SBS's teachings and his feelings on how the teaching should be propagated that he would have considered Mahesh a rogue and his teaching an aberration. From what I've heard other "non-bought" Shanks say, Swarupananda's words ring very "right on". Remember where he says [SPOILER] at the climax of the movie: "What you have learned from Mahesh Yogi will not bring you spiritual progress." These could have been the very words of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati IMO. I doubt very much SBS would have said anything different from his successor.
