On 2/9/2014 10:00 AM, Share Long wrote: > in the Gita Maharishi writes that at a certain point it is between the > devotee and God whether they become one or stay two so that there can > be that flow of devotion. > The key word here is "devotion", Share. Robin's main problem may have been his belief that he could become God with TM practice. I hope this isn't what he was teaching! Apparently Robin got confused about TM and what MMY was about. This is really surprising in Robin's case - apparently he never even read the Bhagavad Gita to the end - the BG is all about Bhakti Yoga.
I'm pretty sure that the BG teaches service and devotion to God Krishna, not that we can become God ourselves using yoga techniques. Patanjali's Yoga is concerned with isolation of the Purusha and the prakriti, not a "union" with the Godhead - Ishvara. If I could become God Krishna, I could have 16,000 wives and make love with a married cow girl named Radha under an Autumn moon. In India you can find people that like to dress up in saris like Radha, so they can copulate with Krishna and do the Rasa Dance with him. This doesn't work out very well in practice - one Swami who used to live down here got convicted of child molestation for thinking he was God Krishna. In fact, this is the kind of thinking that can get people in big trouble. If Robin believed himself to be God for ten years, then he was probably delusional - and delusional about TM as well. Certainly he was mis-informed about Indian Yoga and Vedanta principles. Go figure.
