Wouldn't it be great if others would do a little research and post it
here too, instead of wasting time arguing over semantics and playing
childish 'gotcha' games and finking on their old friends. Is there
anyone out there that can hold a yoga pose? LoL!
and On 10/7/2013 8:24 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Poor Richard. He works so hard.
Indian film director Mira Nair (whose titles include the enjoyable
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love and Vanity Fair, with Reese Witherspoon)
began work on a documentary film about the Beatles' 1968 visit to
India. I hope she completes the project as it's a shoo-in to be an
entertaining nostalgia trip.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote:
Yes, householder. That's anyone with worldly responsibilities (male or
female, head of the household or sweeper of the floor), as opposed to
a monk, a recluse who has renounced the world. The Domash essay
touches on that distinction, an important one in TM lore.
As to whether Guru Dev wanted a "simple variant" of what he himself
taught, I don't think we know that. There are all kinds of stories
floating around the movement (and among critics of the movement), and
most of them are probably bogus. I do think it's clear that Guru Dev
didn't teach TM-as-taught-by-Maharishi-Mahesh-Yogi. What isn't clear,
at least to me, is whether Guru Dev had any intentional, specific
input at all into Maharishi's formulation of and decision to teach TM.
My guess is he didn't. The Domash essay carefully avoids raising that
issue.
And, um, I wouldn't take Richard's posts to confirm /anything/.
Seraphita wrote:
"Householder" is the term maybe, rather than housekeeper? The person
in charge rather the person sweeping the floor?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
Thanks for the link authfriend. I can see why MMY would approve that
account!
Richard's posts seem to confirm that Guru Dev most likely did have a
Sri Yantra.
I still think that the tale of Maharishi bumping off his master,
stealing his jewelled Sri Yantra and then heading south to meet with
Indian magicians who teach him how to unlock its secrets would make a
great movie: Maharishi invokes asuras who promise him unlimited wealth
and power - the CGI people are given free rein at this point. The
asuras' acolyte (film-maker Kenneth Anger) is instructed to prepare
the way amongst rock royalty like the Stones and the Beatles . . . and
so it goes. Scorcese would lap this up.
A while back I read Our Spiritual Heritage: An Informal History of the
Masters of the Sankaracharya Tradition by Lynn Nappe (a former TM
teacher) - the story of each of the masters of the Shankaracharya
tradition. The entry for Guru Dev includes an overview of his
meditation advice that is most certainlynot TM. Lynne Nappe glosses
this by saying Guru Dev's own technique was different but he wanted a
simple variant suitable for the "housekeeper". I guess we're all
housekeepers . . . housewives or househusbands.
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