Why are many in cultures so intrigued by people being celibate to be a spiritual master, when they lack experience in feeling the birth of a child, the love of being a parent and its unconditional desire to continue to wish to help that child?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mjackson74" <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > > For years I believed that Maharishi was a lifelong celibate because that is > what I was taught. I was surprised, really amazed when I first heard a TM > teacher say she had heard he was sexually active. I knew her pretty well and > she insisted it was true. When I asked her how she knew she told me her > sister and brother in law, both TM teachers and Governors had assured her it > was true. They had worked on national staff for some years and yet it was not > first hand information. They had gotten it from a reliable source who had > gotten it from the person who had it through direct experience. > > Third hand info was not too impressive at the time. I did run the information > by another TM teacher who knew both myself and the person who told me and > they didnât believe it, nor could they believe that Susie had come to > believe it. > > So the issue was a non-issue for me until I turned up here on FFL. A brief > exchange with Rick made me feel there really might be something to the > allegations so I looked further, reading everything I could from and about > the women involved which made me about fifty percent convinced it was true. > Even though I had come to believe Maharishi was not enlightened, and that he > was extremely fond of making promises in exchange for cash, I still could not > quite come to believe that he had lied about that very fundamental aspect of > his lifestyle. > > What did convince me were the similar stories from the former skin boys like > Mark Landau and Billy Clayton that I came across on the internet, especially > the recent BATGAP video interview with Mark Landau. > > Now that got me to thinking why would M preach celibacy to everyone else if > he was not practicing it himself. And I came up with a couple conclusions. > > First, it was not cool in those days to be a guru and be sexually active, or > perhaps more to the point it wasnât cool to be a guru, be sexually active > and have people in general know that was the case. M had to maintain the > facade that he was celibate to keep people coming to him believing he was a > spiritual master. > > Being a spiritual master and fucking just didnât go together in those days. > This became particularly important when he announced he wanted TM teachers to > dress and behave conservatively so TM would appeal to the âresponsible > members of societyâ meaning older, financially established people who could > and would support M financially. If they had known he was dipping the wick > they would never have supported him. > > In addition I believe he wanted to cut down on the competition. From the > stories his personal secretaries have told, he would often select women from > amongst those on teacher training courses or his staff â" if they were being > sexually active, they would be leery of cheating on their spouses or > boyfriends and celibacy certainly would lead the ladies to be already horny, > thus making it easier for him to get in their pants. >
