--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > And I have been greatly impressed by Pauls SBS research and > > homepage. Great work. > > I've complimented Paul on this as well. It's clearly > a labor of great love and a terrific resource. > > However, I wonder about the suggestion Paul made on > alt.m.t that Maharishi has deliberately refrained > from making Guru Dev's teaching available to TMers > because MMY is afraid it would make him, MMY, look > bad by comparison. > > I also wonder how much honor it pays to Guru Dev > to use one's professed reverence for the master > as a basis for attacking one of his most devoted > followers, whatever one may think of that follower.
I rarely read AMT and don't wish to dip into a discussion that I am not part of and that probably has a larger context and set of arguments. However, my own observations: MMY from my earliest days of seeing him, 67, and ever since, emphasised NOT reading and seeing other teachers. To my surprise SSRS has made similar points, indicating it can cause confusion. He even says this is the meaning of Jesus's comment "I am the ONLY way" and is applicable to all teachers. If you follow a teacher, they offer an integrated package, internally consistant, that will get you to the "goal". While the parts of each program are internally consistant, they are not inter-program exchangable and consistant. They may conflict. Thus, on an itner-program basis, each component is not necessarily internally consistant and a hodge-podge chinese menu, a la carte menu of practices, drawn across various teachers' offerings, is not productive, for the most part. Or at least not "supported", not tested, and not "guaranteed". MMY once said that the Veda is so vast that any statement could be made that is consistent with the Veda. As will be its opposite. Thus it is not hard to see that taking one angle, an internally consistent system can be created. And taking another angle, a different, but valid system can also be created. Sort of parallel to Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries. Though each of them are "correct", their parts are not interchangable. SBS is a different teacher that MMY. I don't think MMY ever claimed to be teaching everything SBS taught. Indeed he has said he is not. MMY has his own angle of teaching. And SBS did not teach exactly the same package as his teacher Krishanand, I presume. And each disciple of SBS does not teach the same package. The key thing that teachers pass down to their students is the full light of Consciousness. Each student in the full light of Consciousness, and given their propensities and inclinations (perhaps as detailed by jyotish chart), their total training -- from all teachers, their past life experience, the needs and karmas of their students, the needs of the time, etc, derive an integrated, internally consistent, sadhana that fits them and the times in which they teach. It will not be the same as what other fully lit teachers will do, even those who come from the same teacher. Just as SSRS, who honors MMY as his teacher, teaches his own integrated package. Mixing and matching methods from SBS, MMY and SSRS could be a messy and inefficient sadhana. As would mixing and matching methods solely of MMY and SBS. That is why I belive MMY does not talk about all the things SBS did and taught. All of that is NOT MMY's program. And SBS would not mix and match, borowing from MMY if he were (explicitly) teaching today. Each teacher takes their own angle. So to observe that MMY is not teaching all that SBS taught, or is not revealing all things of SBS, does not seem odd or even a constraint. It would be inefficient to mix and match. As to other reasons why teachers focus on their angles, and not other teachers, everyone may have their theories. Paul may have his. You may have yours. Its all fun speculation. While perhaps as useful as gossip, its not a huge sin either, IMO. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
