--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > If Guru Dev had lived and saw what a mockery Marshy > made of what Guru Dev taught he would have kicked > Marshy's ass from Delhi to Kashmir and back again.
In all honesty, I've always assumed that the reason Maharishi became so reclusive -- confining himself to his room in Vlodrop and seeing almost no one except over closed-circuit TV for the last years of his life after his heart attack in an attempt to keep living -- was because on some level, being as superstitious as he was, he was terrified that after he died he'd meet Guru Dev again, and have to account for what he'd done in his name. > ________________________________ > From: Dick Mays <dickmays@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 7:23 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Guru Dev and the Revival of Knowledge > > Guru Dev and the Revival of Knowledge > Catalina Island, USA, 10 October, 1961 > > > Maharishi speaks about his divine master Guru Dev, His Divinity Brahmanand > Saraswati, Jagadguru Bhagavan Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Bhadrikashram, > Himalayas > > âAs Shakaracharya, he was found to have the great intellect of the first > Shankaracharya and the heart of Buddha, the loveable, soft heart of Buddha > and the great intellect of Shankara, and that was his personality. He > wouldnât go much in details of the philosophical discussions, but what he > spoke was simple truths of life, but very simple, so piercing they went > straight home to heart. > >  Those were the meetings in open airâ"all the time in open, except in the > rains, open air meetings. We used to have sixteen, twenty, twelve, eight, > twelve big, big mics to cover the range of about 50,000 people, 100,000 > peopleâ"like that, just for his evening discourses. And he would hardly > speak thirty minutes, forty. Forty minutes was the maximum that he went > sometimes. But every word that he spoke was so powerful, was so piercing, was > so convincing. > > First people would see him and would be transformed to all good life. > Whatever remained there, buried in the subconscious, will come out when they > hear his words. > > Very great atheists have just been transformed, not by the logic or not by > the deep exposition of anything great which they did not know before, but the > truth exposed in so simple words and in such great force of life-force, that > they couldnât but only be transformed. The motorcar will pass from there > and he would be speaking, and if the car is not very fast, if the driver > happens to hear some words, immediately heâll put up the break and stop and > listenâ"canât pass on; he has to stop. Such charm was there in his words, > and such great simplicity and depth of thought, and he charmed the child and > the old all alike. It was a pin-drop silence of 50,000, 100,000 people, just > pinâ"drop. >  > Before him used to speak some big, learned Panditsâ"famous, big, learned > Pandits of northern India. They go with Shakaracharya all the time. That is > customary, some famous astrologers in his retinue, some big, famous > professors of Vedant, of Yogaâ"all these, they go along with him. So these > big, big, huge intellectual giants used to speak before him. Some would speak > one hour, some would speak half an hour like that, and there was a marked > difference in what they spoke and what he spoke. > > And for initiations it was, it was, it was an unprecedented gathering to take > initiations from him. Just it was tremendous, tremendous. Those who have seen > those days have been so fortunate, and those who have seen me moving about in > that atmosphere, they know how the grace of Guru Dev has dawned and how when > they hear the stories in these parts, how it is happening, what is happening, > then they say: Oh, it's not surprise, yes, he has received the grace of Guru > Dev. All but his grace and nothing else. > > Except his grace, I donât have anything, and God willing the whole world is > going to enjoy. So we are fortunate, and all of you are very fortunate to > have his grace so far from India, but the fortune is there. Only we have to > share our fortune with all our fellow men, and we have to do our utmost what > we can to bring this meditation to all the people in all the ways possible > for everyone of us. > > This, if I could have some real, good cooperation of all the people who come > in my contact, it would be something. The whole world will become so full > with all sublime essence of human life. Humanity will be changed into > divinity just direct. We have seen his life, so we know what divine could be > in manâs life: just fullness of divinity. That is all the strength that I > have, and that you should fee in yourself. Such great power, such great > wisdom, such great bliss. > That is something about Guru Dev. >
