--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > is hidden in Hindi documentation. Vedic Al-qaeda? > > > Technological innovation led to what I term "High Tech Unstressing," > playing on the word Maharishi uses to describe complaints or manifestations > of dissatisfaction that are "natural" outcroppings of the meditation > process.40 Simply put, legions of former TMers have taken to the World Wide > Web to "unstress"they point out numerous discrepancies between what they > were initially taught and what they later came to learn. Maharishi's attempt > to put the Veda in the words of Western science and only gradually reveal > ultimate truth (however neatly that coheres with his philosophy of teaching > Advaita and yoga) not only failed to convince most Elite Hindus whom he > attracted, but led to direct accusations of fraud. > > Such charges are exacerbated by current developments, which are openly > lampooned on sites by former TMers. Not content with providing the individual > with a panoply of Vedic tools for mere self-transformation, in 1992 Mahar- > ishi helped create a full-fledged political entity called the Natural Law > Party, which aims to achieve world transformation. Fueling the party > rhetoric are premises about the universe, mankind, and social relations that > have tradition- ally been labeled "Hindu," but which are promoted by the > party in the United States and other Western countries as secularized > "natural law." > > Yet comparing documents written in English and in the Hindi language, the > party rhetoric has a profoundly different flavor when tasted in India. There, > the Indian corollary to the "Natural Law Party"the Ajeya or "unconquerable" > Bharat "India" Partymakes no pretense about its intentions: jettisoning > "alien education, alien medicine, alien defense, alien economics, alien > foreign policy, and alien laws," and urging the success of the > "Indianization of India." The Ajeya Bharat Party's mission is to promote and > create a state grounded in knowledge of the laws of prakriti, the > Hindu concept of materiality or "nature." > > Gurus In America (S U N Y Series in Hindu Studies), ch. 3 "Maharishi Mahesh > Yogi: Beyond the TM Technique by Cynthia Humes (© 2005 State University of > New York)
MMY was a clever fellow, hey he got millions to meditate and changed the World in many ways. Do think he could have done that as a traveling Hindu...I doubt it!