--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote:
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> SHARE: Remembering that Maharishi said, "What we have no control over we take
> to be the will of God."
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> The way I read (I had not heard this before) this statement of Maharishi's,
> it proves that he was in a higher state of consciousness. Maharishi, and only
> Maharishi, had this ability to say something--and if you really took it in
> from where he was saying it, and felt its resonances throughout the universe
> itself [and that is indeed what happened if you were sensitive enough], your
> very being told you he was representing reality itself.
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> There is the strict *content* of what Maharishi is saying here. But as soon
> as I read it, *I felt the context of Maharishi and his consciousness* and how
> perfectly, metaphysically, apt his comment was.
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> Not only that: IT STILL SEEMS TRUE TO ME. But Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he was,
> during a stretch of time, infinitely tuned-in to the cosmos--at least he
> could say something like this, and in one's being one sensed that he was, as
> it were, making known the profoundest truth that could be known. "What we
> have no control over we take to be the will of God". How brilliant is this?
> It is said by someone who 'has more context' than anyone whom I have ever
> known.
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> I don't know how many persons (you would have to be an initiator to really
> feel this, I suppose) remember how Maharishi would make some truth become a
> kind of perception in one's life. I think, even now, I can benefit from this
> precept. It actually works for me. Even as I do not believe in a Personal God.
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> But I believe in the empirical truth of Maharishi's words--*I discovered
> their truth at a level I could not have any control over*. That was the
> extraordinariness of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: he wasn't making this stuff up.
> He was reading off reality.
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> One of the most perspicacious things I have ever heard--and only Maharishi
> could have said it. As long as one guards oneself from the mystical aura of
> his authority--and not allow this statement to be any truer than it actually
> is--one can apply this truth in one's life. At least when this situation
> comes up, this remembered perspective could be useful.
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> No one but Maharishi could say this--because it is (or it seems to me it is
> objectively true somehow. "What we have no control over we take to be the
> will of God". Even, then, if it is not literally true, to adopt this frame of
> reference will be beneficial to us. No one refuted--in his presence--a single
> thing Maharishi uttered.
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> TM more or less made us helpless to resist the authority of Maharishi.
> However if you knew Maharishi personally I feel sure you carry within
> yourself something that no other being who has ever existed could put there.
> And I find not just the meaning, but the subtext of this statement of
> Maharishi's to be undeniably 'true'. What initiator's subjectivity could take
> in all of what and who Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was--and simultaneously and
> innocently experience what was flawed about him? For me, that has always been
> the challenge: to do Maharishi total justice (to what he was able to do to
> one's personal consciousness; to what he was inside creation in his glory
> days) while at the same time realizing his terrible weakness.
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> But here, he rules.
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This is a beautiful post Robin, I wanted to tell you this. It strikes a note in
me, certainly. Almost the same as when I was initiating last. I like this
sentence: 'he wasn't making this stuff up. He was reading off reality.' But I
like the whole post.
