From some posts I copied from FFL:
A Swiss friend told me that several years ago she was on a course in
Austria, and Satayand also characterized Hitler as a "great leader".
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <rick@s... wrote:
This is from a Jewish friend who was full-time in the TMO for many years,
including Purusha and International Staff in Vlodrop and elsewhere. He's
now with a different teacher. We've been having a private discussion
about this in recent days and I asked if I could post this. He said I
could but asked
that I not mention his name.
Some time after being on Purusha, I discovered, to my great amazement,
that some German Purusha were wearing swastikas under their ties,
celebrating Hitler's birthday, and generally feeling very bully about
the whole thing. I remembered what Frank Pappentine told me a few
years back during our 6-month course in Arosa (we were good friends
during that course): that Maharishi had met with the Germans in
Seelisberg and told them that the Allies presented Hitler as a great
demon to suppress the German morale, that the facts were different and
that Hitler was, in fact, a good strong leader.
I heard that from Maharishi myself, in Washington DC in 1983, when a
reporter asked him what he thought of Hitler. He said, that Hitler was
actually a good strong leader who unified Germany, it's just too bad
that he did so much indiscriminate killing.
On 07/31/2013 10:57 AM, martyboi wrote:
40 years ago I read a document in the TM center about "The Absolute
Theory of Greatness." In this document various people from history
were mentioned. The premise, as I recall (and I could have this all
wrong, due to time) was that from the perspective of the absolute, a
person's impact on the world (Greatness) is based on how many people
his life affects. Both Hitler and Alexander the great were mentioned.
Nature allows a truly great person to live a very long time (108
years?) I believe Veda Vyasa was mentioned as the greatest. I could
have this all wrong.
Another person wrote:
Yes, I seem to recall seeing such a document myself. In fact it was a
subject of discussion at a teachers meeting with Charlie Lutes who was
in town. I seem to recall that Charlie said Maharishi was told to back
off on that because it would alienate a lot of Jewish supporters.
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On Fri, 1/24/14, anartax...@yahoo.com <anartax...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] We warmly invite you to join us for a weekend
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 24, 2014, 4:48 PM
If Michael J has pointed out things M really
said, this does not reflect on you Buck as a love of truth.
Maharishi did really seem to have a totalitarian mindset, a
top down, there is a king, under whom there are subjects,
subject to the will of the king. If M praised Hitler and you
would desire that it be lied about, either a lie of
commission or a lie omission, why should I or anyone follow
your advice?
Gurus
have warts. If what they have to teach has value, it is not
because of their personal quirks, it is because what they
teach has a value beyond individual concerns. You take what
is of value, but if you push away an individual's dark
side as if it did not exist, that is not realistic, that is
self deception. Hitler's influence on the world was not
very life supporting in the end.
But
there are those pearly teeth on the dead dog in the gutter.
He was not a great artist, but he was a better artist than
Winston Churchill, or Dwight Eisenhower, who also painted,
as well as engineering Hitler's defeat. Maharishi seems
to have appreciated his organising power, his penchant for
order and systems, his top down style of management, which
resembles more the Joseph Stalin school of management rather
than say, Thomas Jefferson's preferences for individual
freedom.
In the
interest of reality, I restored MJ's comments below (and
by the way, taking offense shows a lack of stability, it
means that others could use that characteristic to control
your behaviour by pushing your buttons):
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
<dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:
Om Dear MJ, that is an appalling
blaspheme that you may burn in hell for. As a practicing
conservative
Transcendental Meditation meditator and satisfied customer
of the Maharishi, I am
completely offended by your comments. I am going to delete
your
words from this thread right now to save you from your sin
damaging your spiritual subtle system any further.
Kindly,
and of the Love that is the Natural Law of the Unified
Field,
your Friend,
-Buck
---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...>
wrote:
Comments [restored]
If they promise to show some of the old
black and white videos of Marshy praising Hitler, I'll
go on the course. I would love to see how well we would all
transcend after watching Marshy praise Der Fuhrer and
Mussolini, and Robert Mugabe, and Marcos - p'raps
they'll show the video of Marshy denouncing England as a
scorpion nation, that would be quite fun too - I'd love
to watch that one whilst we have a bit of spotted dick or
drowned baby. That would be lovely.
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To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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