Maharishi Mahesh Yogi speaking about Guru Dev
Question about Guru Dev Shankaracharya Swami Brahmanand Saraswati directed to Maharishi Mahesh Yogiin February 1969 at Shankaracharya Nagar, Rishikesh, India: - Inaudible question from woman with heavy accent, perhaps Scandinavian or German. Clearly the question was related to Guru Dev, Shankaracharya Swami Brahmanand Saraswati, and of spreading the teaching of meditation. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi-Oh he must have known! [audience laughter]He never, nnnmmmm, he never said to me. Otherwise quite a lot of time would have been wasted in planning. [audience laughter, slow at first, then uproarious]He saved us from that waste, [audience and MMY still laughing]waste of planning. It just blossomed and blossomed and blossomed and blossomed. Male questioner -Maharshi? MMY -Yes? Male questioner -You have said in the latter years Guru Dev initiated quite a number of people. Was he using the, the EXACT technique that you are using? MMY -[pause]Must be using BETTER techniques [MMY laughing slightly] than I am using. Same male questioner -Was he still using the long mantras and all of that? Female in audience-Huh! MMY -[pauses]It's very difficult for me to find out what he was using. [laughter from audience]Because initiation is all in private ... [he pauses and audience laughs, MMY giggles and laughs too]... And I was never interested who was given what mantra. I was interested in myself. [laughter and giggling]... Full of divine radiance. People don't have to do the mantra and meditation in his presence. [male member laughs]Just ... the transformation was in his air, so full of life ... Out of that fullness I started to teach. [MMY pauses, slight audience laughter] At least by practice people could rise and raise themselves up.*
