--- GOOD STUFF! In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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.
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