On Nov 7, 2011, at 12:18 PM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote:
Vaj:
> ...it does not come from a real lineal tradition,
> it's something Mahesh made up.
>
What exactly, are the parts by MMY that are different
from those recited by GD? From what I've heard, the
MMY GD puja is standard - I've heard it recited by
at least three sources other than the TMO, such as
at a recent Sri Sri Ravi Shankar yoga camp. Sri Sri
says it's the same as the one recited by GD, the one
recited at the Jyortirmath Peeth in the Himalayas.
Explain how Mahesh used what was to be thrown away to hobble together
the puja:
http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/sources/text/MMY.htm
Right from the very early times, MMY definitely claimed that the
meditation he teaches (TM) was taught to him by Guru Dev [a fact now
known to be false]. A look at page 244 of 'Thirty Years Around the
World' (a TMO publication by Maharishi Vedic University, 1986)
confirms this.
Allegedly on 29th April 1959 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi told journalists:-
'My life truly began 19 years ago at the feet of my master when I
learned the secret of swift and deep meditation, a secret I now
impart to the world.'
In the TM puja there are four lines which refer directly to Guru Dev:
yadvaare nikhilaa nilimpaparishatsiddhiM vidhatte.anisham
shrimat shriilasitaM jagadgurupadaM natvaa.atmatR^iptiM gataaH
lokaaGYaanapayoda paaTanadhuraM shriisha~NkaraM sharmadam
brahmaanandasaraswatiiM guruvaraM dhyaayaami jyotirmayam
which means:-
'At whose door the whole galaxy of gods pray for perfection day and
night.
Adorned by immeasurable glory, preceptor of the whole world, having
bowed down to Him, we gain fulfilment.
Skilled in dispelling the cloud of ignorance of the people, the
gentle emancipator,
Brahmananda Saraswati, the supreme teacher, full of brilliance, on
Him we meditate.'
Maharishi explains who wrote these lines:-
'This was done by us, I didn't compose those lines, because I am not
a Sanskrit scholar, but this was done by a, very, very eminent
Sanskrit poet of Banares, and he was, such a mysterious man, the poet
1. He used to live us, just like us, and a good pandit, and when
some, some pandits, learned people used to come to pay their respects
to Guru Dev, and he would sit like that. And generally it is
traditional, that in the presence of Shankaracharya, pandits gather.
Pandits mean the learned people, highly great intellectuals of the
country. They sit together, and they, try to bring home to
Shankaracharya, each one of them, that he is the greater pandit than
the others. And these dialogues are so highly intellectual and so
very interesting, because they, everyone wants to, to win the grace
of Shankaracharya, apart from his spiritual development for their
material glorification, because a certificate from the
Shankaracharya, of the great learning of the pandits will make him
flourish in his area. So, they, very beautiful, and this pandit he
used to defeat everyone, because he was a born poet, poet. He would
versify anything that he wants to say. In poetry he would speak. And
when in poetry, and so fluent and so high-class, so, high-class
fluent Sanskrit poetry, and others would just sit and listen to him,
what he says.
He was very dear, sweet pandit. He wrote lots of stanzas of Guru Dev,
absolutely and, and this was one of them.
What happened was... this is very interesting.... this great pandit
in his flight of, of the poet, he wrote Guru Dev's life, and he, he
didn't know Guru Dev's life. Because all the time was spent in
loneliness in the jungles, and, nobody would know.
And he said to me, "I am going to write."
And I said "Yes, you write", and this was our agreement that I'll get
it printed, and he wrote, and I enjoyed it so much, but someday it
was to come to Guru Dev for sanction. So, Guru Dev, he enjoyed
hearing the whole thing. It was highly scholarly and very great, and
everything that, that a good poet could put in that, he put it.
And then, when it was finished Guru Dev said, "It's very good, yes."
And when the pandit went out of the room he asked him to take it to
the Ganges, tie it down with a big stone, heavy, put it in the Ganges.
And I, it was a shock to me, I said "But, but there are beautiful
passages in it".
He said, "Don't talk!'
He said, "Nobody should read it, tell him to take it", it is because
he didn't know his life and he said "If you don't put it in the
Ganges I'll ask someone else to do it."
I said, "I'll do it".
We would have used all those beautiful, sen... poetry. These days you
would have enjoyed all. But he wouldn't allow it to remain.
He was absolutely divine, simple and great, very great, he was very
great.'
Note
1. The poet was 'Ashu Kavi', Pandit Veni Madhava Sastri.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi speaking in February / March 1969 in Rishikesh
India
